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(William Thomas), 1822-1907, 1894. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.","text_extract":")g^^£L /^k^, \n\n\n^ \n\n\nPROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL HISTORY \n\n\nOF \n\n\nSUFFOLK COUNTY \n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS \n\n\nIN THREE VOLUMES \n\n\nVOLUME I \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR \n\n\nBY \n\nWILLIAM T. DAVIS \n\n\nfllluatratcD \n\n\nTHE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY \n1894 \n\n\nPREFACE. \n\n\nThe history of the Bench and Bar of Suffolk county contained in \nthis volume includes an introductory chapter and a biographical reg- \nister. The introductory chapter treats of the courts, the laws under \nwhich they were established, of the judges and other persons exercising \njudicial powers, and of the bar. The biographical register contains \nthe names of forty-eight hundred and forty persons, of whom sketches \nare given of about three thousand, while of the remainder such infor- \nmation is furnished as it has been practicable to obtain. \n\nThe aim of the author has been to include in the register every judge \nwhose court has held its sessions within the county, and every lawyer \nwho has either been admitted to its bar or has at any time been one of \nits members, before January 1, 1892. \n\nAn alphabetical arrangement of the register has been found imprac- \nticable, in consequence of the demand of the publishers for copy as the \nwork progressed. An alphabetical index, however, is furnished, \nwhich, it is believed, will remove any objection which might otherwise \nbe raised to the want of such an arrangement. \n\nA few duplicate sketches will be found in the register, which are \nexplained by the acquisition of more ample materials after the earlier \nsketches had been written. The later sketches alone are referred to \nin the index. \n\nBesides numerous printed sources of information, the author is \nindebted for aid to many public officials and gentlemen, to whom it \nwould be ungrateful to omit his thanks. Among these may be men- \ntioned C. B. Tillinghast, assistant librarian of the State Library; John \nWard Dean, librarian, and Walter Kendall Watkins, assistant librarian \n\n\n1 6 PREFACE. \n\nof the New England Historic Genealogical Society; Joseph A. Willard, \nclerk of the Superior Civil Court for Suffolk county; John Noble, clerk \nof the Supreme Judicial Court for said county; William E. Parmenter, \nchief justice of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston; Hon. Charles \nTheodore Russell, Alexander S. Wheeler, esq., and Hon. Francis H. \nUnderwood, members of the Suffolk bar; and James W. Allen, clerk \nin the city register's office of Boston. \n\nHe is aware that errors and omissions may be found in his work, but \nhe trusts that, even with its imperfections, the \" History of the Bench \nand Bar of Suffolk County \" may not prove to have been a useless \nundertaking. \n\nWm. T. Davis. \n\nPlymouth, Mass., \n\nSeptember 1, 1893. \n\n\nThe Bench and Bar. \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. \n\nrHIS chapter is intended to be chiefly introductory to the volume \ncontaining a sketch of the Bench and Bar of Suffolk County. A \ngeneral history of the county will find no place in the narrative. It will \nbe proper, however, to present a statement of the origin and establish- \nment of the Massachusetts settlement as preliminary to the more re- \nstricted examination of the judicial legislation and methods which \nfollowed it. \n\nIn the early part of the seventeenth century the territory one hundred \nmiles wide along the coast of North America, extending from the \nthirty-fourth to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude, was called Vir- \nginia, after Queen Elizabeth, the virgin queen. On the 20th of April, \n1606, this territory was divided by James the First between two com- \npanies which for a time were known as the Northern and Southern Vir- \nginia Companies. It extended approximately from Cape Fear to \nPassamaquoddy Bay. To the Northern Virginia Company a patent \nto lands between the thirty-eighth and forty-fifth degrees was granted, \nand to the Southern Virginia Company a patent to lands between the \nthirty-fourth and forty-first degrees. The first of these grants ex- \ntended from Passamaquoddy Bay to the southeastern corner of Mary- \nland, and the second from Cape Fear to a line running through Port \nChester, on Long Island Sound, and the easterly corner of New Jersey, \non the Hudson River. That portion lying between the thirty-eighth \nand forty- first degrees, which was included in both patents, was to be \nappropriated by that company which should first occupy it, and it was \nprovided that neither company should plant a colony within one hun- \n2 \n\n\nto HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ndred miles of a settlement previously made by the other. The Northern \nVirginia Company was composed of certain knights, gentlemen, mer- \nchants and adventurers of Bristol, Exeter and Plymouth, and the \nSouthern Virginia Company of persons of the same description, in \nLondon. \n\nOn the 13th of November, 1620 (new style), a new charter was granted \nby King James to the Northern Virginia Company. Sir Edwin Sandys, \nthe governor and treasurer of the Southern Virginia Company, having \nincurred the royal displeasure, was forbidden a re-election, and the Earl \nof Southampton, a no less obnoxious person, having been chosen in his \nplace, the king was inclined to show special favor to the Northern Vir- \nginia Company. Under the title of \"The Council established at \nPlymouth in the County of Devon for the planting, ordering, ruling \nand governing of New England in America,\" it was empowered by its \nnew act of incorporation to hold territory extending from sea to sea, \nand in breadth from the fortieth to the forty-eighth degree of north \nlatitude, to make laws, appoint governors and other officers necessary \nfor the establishment of the forms of government. This immense ter- \nritory included all the land between Central New Jersey and the Gulf \nof St. Lawrence on the Atlantic coast, and the northern part of Cali- \nfornia, Oregon and the larger part of Washington on the Pacific, with \na line running through Lake Superior for the northern boundary, and \na line running through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for the \nsouthern. \n\nOn the 30th of December, J622, the Northern Virginia Company, \nunder its new title, granted to Robert Gorges all that part of the main- \nland \" commonly called or known by the name of the Messachusiack,\" \nwhich was described as situated \" upon the northeast side of the bay \ncalled or known by the name of the Messachusett.\" Robert Gorges \nhaving received the grant, was appointed by the Virginia Company, in \n1623, lieutenant general of New England, and arrived with \" passengers \nand families \" in Massachusetts Bay in September of the same year. A \npart of this grant is included within the limits of Suffolk County. The \nclaims under this grant were, however, quieted after a subsequent and \napparently conflicting grant had been made to the Massachusetts Com- \npany. This latter grant was made on the 19th of March, 1627-8, to \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. n \n\nSir John Roswell, Sir John Young-, Thomas Southcoat, John Humphrey, \nJohn Endicott and Simon Whitcomb, including all the land extending \nfrom three miles north of the Merrimac River to three miles south of the \nCharles River, and covered a large part or nearly all of what is now \nSuffolk County. A royal charter was issued in accordance with the \npatent of the Virginia Company, which passed the seals on the 4th of \nMarch, 1628-9, the text of which is as follows: \n\n\" Charles By the Grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland and Ireland, Defender of \nthe Fayth etc., To all to whome these Presents shall come Greeting. Whereas our \nmost deare and royall father Kinge James, of blessed memory, by his Highness' letters \npatents bearing date at Westminster the third day of November in the eighteenth yeare \nof his raigne hath given and graunted unto the Councell established at Plymouth, in the \ncounty of Devon for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of Newe England in \nAmerica, and to their successors and assignes for ever : All that part of America lyeing \nand being in bredth from forty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctiall lyne \nto forty-eight degrees of the saide northerly latitude inclusively, and in length of and \nwithin all the breadth aforesaid throughout the maine landes from sea to sea, together \nalso with all the firme lands, soyles, groundes, havens, portes, rivers, waters, fisheries, \nmynes and myneralls, precious stones, quarries, and all and singular other comodities, \njurisdiccons, royalties, priviledges, franchises, and prehemynences, both within the said \ntract of lande upon the mayne and also within the islandes and seas adjoining; Pro- \nvided alwayes that the said islandes or any the premises by the said letters patents in- \ntended and meant to be graunted were not then actuallie possessed or inhabited by any \nother Christian Prince or state now within the bounds, lymitts or territories of the \nSouthern Colony then before graunted by our said deare father to be planted by divers \nof his loving subjects in the south partes. To Have and to houlde, possess and enjoy all \nand singular the aforesaid continent, landes, territories, islands, hereditaments and pre- \ncincts, seas, waters, fisherys, with all and all manner their comodities, royalties, liberties, \nprehemynences and profitts that should from thenceforth arise from them, with all and \nsingular their appurtenances and every parte and parcell thereof unto the saide Conn- \ncell and their successors and assignes forever. To the sole and proper use, benefitt and \nbehoof of them the said Councell and their successors and assignes forever; to be \nhouldenof our said most deare and royall father, his heirs and successors as of his man- \nnor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent to free and comon socage, and not in \ncapite nor by Knights service, yeildinge and paying therefore to the said late Kinge, his \nheirs and successors, the fifte parte of the oare of gould and silver which should from \ntyme to tyrne and at all tymes thereafter, happen to be found, gotten, had and obtayned \nin, att or within any of the saide landes, lymitts, territories and precincts, or in or \nwithin any parte or parcell thereof, for or in respect of all and all manner of duties, de- \nmands and services whatever to be don, maide or paide to our saide deare father, the \nlate Kinge, his heires and successors, as in and' by the said letters patent (amongst \nsundrie other claims, powers, priviledges and grauntes therein conteyned) more at large \n\n\ni2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nappeareth. And whereas the saide Councell established at Plymouth, in the County of \nDevon, for the plantinge, ruling, ordering and governing of Newe England in America \nhave by their deede indented under their comon seale bearing date the nyneteeth day \nof March last part in the third year of our raigne, given, graunted, bargained, soulde, \nenfeoffed, aliened and confirmed to Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Young, Knightes, \nThomas Southcott, John Humphrey, John Endecott, and Simon Whetcombe, their \nheirs and associates forever, All that part of Newe England in America aforesaid which \nlyes and extendes between a greate river there comonlie called Monomack alias Merrie- \nmaek and a certen other river there called Charles River, being in the bottome of a \ncertayne bay there commonly called Massachusetts alias Mattachusetts alias Massa- \ntusetts bay, and also all and singular those landes and hereditaments whatsoever lying \nwithin the space of three English miles on the south parte of the said Charles River, or \nof any or everie parte thereof: And also all and singular the landes and hereditaments \nwhatsoever lyeing and being within the space of three English myles to the southwarde \nof the southermost parte of the said bay called Massachusetts alias Mattachusetts alias \nMassatusetts bay: and also all those landes and hereditaments whatsoever which lye \nand be within the space of three English myles to the northward of the said river called \nMonomack alias Merrymack, or to the northward of any and every parte thereof : And \nall lands and hereditaments whatsoever lyeing within the lymitts aforesaide north and \nsouth, in latitude and bredth, and in length and longitude, of and within all the bredth \naforesaide throughout the mayne landes there, from the Atlantick and westerne sea and \nocean on the east parte, to the south sea on the west parte, and all landes and groundes, \nplace and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes. rivers, waters, fish- \nings and hereditaments whatsoever, lyeing within the said boundes and lymitts and \nevery parte and parcell thereof ; And also all islandes lyeing in America aforesaid in \nsaid seas or either of them on the westerne or eastern coastes or partes of the saide tracts \nof lande by the said indenture mentioned to be given, graunted, bargained, sould, en- \nfeoffed, aliened and confirmed or any of them : And also all mynes and myneralls as \nwell royall mynes of gould and silver as other mynes and myneralls whatsoever in the \nsaide landes and premises or any part thereof: And all jurisdiccons, rights, royalties, \nliberties, freedomes. ymmunities, priviledges, franchises, preheminences, and comodities \nwhatsoever which they the said Councell established at Plymouth, in the County of \nDevon, for the planting, ruleing, ordering and governing of Newe England in America, \nthen had or might use, exercise or enjoy in and within any parte or parcell thereof. To \nhave and to hould the saide part of Newe England in America, which lyes and extendes \nand is abutted as aforesaide and every parte and parcell thereof; And all the said islandes, \nrivers, portes, havens, waters, fishings, mynes and myneralls, jurisdiccons, franchises, \nroyalties, liberties, priviledges, comodities, hereditaments, and premises whatsoever, \nwith the appurtenances unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas \nSouthcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott and Simon Wbetcombe, their heires and as- \nsigns and their associatts forevermore. To be houlden of us our heires and successors \nas of our mannor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent, in free and common socage \nand not in capite, nor by Knightes service, yeilding and paying therefore unto us our \nheires and successors, the fifte part of the oare of gould and silver, which shall from \n\n\nTHE F . 1UIMUNST CO. i PHIL* . \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. • 13 \n\ntyme to tyme and all tymes hereafter happen to be found, gotten, had and obtained in \nany of the said landes within the said lymitts or in or within any part thereof, for and \nin satisfacon of all manner duties, demands and services whatsoever to be donn, made \nor paid to us, our heires or successors, as in and by the saide recited indenture more at \nlarge maie appeare. Nowe knowe yee, that wee at the humble suite and peticon of the \nsaid Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John \nEndecott and Simon Whetcombe and of others whom they have associated unto them, \nhave for divers good causes and consideraconsus moveing, graunted and confirmed, And \nby these presents of our own especiall grace, certen knowledge and meere mocon, doe \ngraunt and confirme unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas \nSouthcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott and Simon Whetcombe and to their as- \nsociats hereafter named (videlicet) Sir Richard Saltonstall Knight, Isaack Johnson, \nSamuell Aldersey, John Ven, Mathew Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, \nRichard Perry, Richard Bellingham, Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassal], Theophilus \nEaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas \nHutchins, Wdliam Vassall, William Pincheon, and George Foxcrofte, their heires and \nassignes all the said parte of New England in America lyeing and extending beiween \nthe boundes and lymetts in the said recited indenture expressed, and all landes and \ngroundes, place and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes, rivers, \nwaters, mynes, myneralls, jurisdiccons, rights, royalties, liberties, freedomes, immuni- \nties, priviledges, franchises, preheminencies, hereditaments and comodities whatso- \never to them the saide Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas Southcott, John \nHumfrey, John Endecott and Simon Whetcombe, their heires and to their associates by \nthe said recited indenture given, graunted, bargayned, sold, enfeoffed, aliened and con- \nfirmed or menconed or intended thereby to be given, graunted, bargayned, sold, en- \nfeoffed, aliened and confirmed. To have and to hould the saide parte of Newe Eng- \nland in America and other the premises hereby menconed to be graunted and confirmed \nand every parte and parcell thereof with the appurtenances to the said Sir Henry Rose- \nwell, Sir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, \nJohn Endecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuel Aldersey, John Ven, \nMathew Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Belling- \nham, Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas \nAdams, John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William \nPincheon and George Foxcrofte, their heires and assignes forever to their onhe proper \nand absolute use and behoof e for evermore, To be holden of us our heires and success- \nors as of our manner of East Greenwich aforesaid in free and comon socage and not in \ncapite nor by Knights service, and also yeilding and paying therefore to us our heires \nand successors the fifte parte of all oare of gould and silver which from tyme to tyme \nand att all tymes hereafter shalbe there gotten, had or obteyned for all services exacons \nand demaunds whatsoever according to the tenure and reservacon in the said recited \nindenture expressed. And further knowe yee That of our more especiall grace certen \nknowledg and meere mocon Wee have given and graunted, And by theis presents doe \nfor us, our heires and successors give and graunt unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir \nJohn Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John Ende- \n\n\ni4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ncott, Symon Whetcomb, Isaack Johnson, Samuell Aldersey, John Ven, Mathew Cradock, \nGeorge Harwood. Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Bellingham, Nathaniel, \nWright, Samuell Vassall, Theophelus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, John \nBrOwne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William Pincheon and \nGeorge Foxcrofte, their heires and assignes, All that parte of Newe England in Amer- \nica which lyes and extendes betweene a great river there comonlie called Monomack \nriver alias Merrimack river, and a certen other river there called Charles river being \nin the bottome of a certen bay there comonlie called Massachusetts alias Mattachusetts \nalias Massatusetts bay : And also all those landes and hereditaments whatsoever which \nlye and be within the space of three English myles to the northward of the said river \ncalled Monomack alias Merrymack on to the northward of any and every parte thereof \nand all landes and hereditaments whatsoever lyeing within the lymitts aforesaide north \nand south in latitude and bredth and in length and longitude of and within all the \nbredth aforesaide throughout the mayne landes there from the Atlantick and westerne \nsea and ocean on the east parte to the south sea on the west parte ; And all landes and \ngroundes, place and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes. rivers, \nwaters and hereditaments whatsoever lying within the said boundes and lymitts and \nevery parte and parcell thereof, and also all islandes in America aforesaide in the saide \nseas or either of them on the western or eastern coastes or partes of the said tracts of \nlandes hereby menconed to be given and graunted, or any of them, and all mynes and \nmyneralls whatsoever in the said landes and premises or any parte thereof, and free lib- \nertie of fishing in or within any of the rivers or waters within the boundes and lymitts \naforesaid and the seas thereunto adjoining ; And all fishes, royal fishes, whales, balan, \nsturgeons and other fishes of what kinde or nature soever that shall at any tyme here- \nafter be taken in or within the said seas or waters or any of them by the said Sir Henry \nRosewell, Sir John Young, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, \nJohn Endecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuell Aldersey, John Yen, \nMathewe Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Belling- \nham, Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassal!, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas \nAdams, John Browne, Samuell Browne. Thomas Hutchins, William Yassall, William \nPincheon and George Foxcrofte, their heirs and assignes, or by any other person or per- \nsons whatsoever there inhabiting by them or any of them to be appointed to fish there- \nin ; Provided alwayes that if the said landes, islands, or any other the premises herein \nbefore menconed and by these presents intended and meant to be graunted were at the \ntyme of the graunting of the saide former letters patents dated the third day of Novem- \nber in the eighteenth year of our saide deare fathers raigne aforesaid actually possessed \nor inhabited by any other Christain Prince or state or were within the boundes, lymitts \nor territories of that southern colony then before graunted by our said late father to be \nplanted by divers of his loveing subjects in the south partes of America, That then this \npresent graunt shall not extend to any such partes or parcells thereof soe formerly in- \nhabited or lyeing within the boundes of the southern plantacon as aforesaide, but as to \nthose partes or parcells soe possessed or inhabited by such Christian Prince or state, \nor being within the boundes aforesaid shalbe utterly voyd, these presents or anythinge \ntherein conteyned to the contrarie notwithstanding. To Have and to hould, possesse \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. \n\n\n*5 \n\n\nand enjoy the saide partes of Newe England in America which lye extend and are \nabutted as aforesaide and every parte and parcell thereof ; And all the islandes, rivers, \nportes, havens, waters, fishings, fishes, mynes, myneralls, jurisdiccons, franchises, royal- \nties, liberties, priviledges, comodities and premises whatsoever with the appurtenances \nunto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas \nSouthcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuell \nAldersey, John Ven, Mathewe Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard \nPerry, Richard Bellingham. Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus Ea^on, \nThomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, \nWilliam Vassall, William Pincheon and George Foxcrofte, their heires and assignes for- \never to the onlie proper and absolute use and behoofe of the said Sir Henry Rosewell, \nSir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John En- \ndecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuell Aldersey, John Ven, .Mathewe \nCradock, George Harwood, Increase NoAvell, Richard Perry, Richard Bellingham, \nNathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, \nJohn Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William Pincheon \nand George Foxcrofte, their heirs and assigns forevermore. To be holden of us our \nheires and successors as of our mannor of East Greenwich in our countie of Kent \nwithin our realme of England in free and comon socage and not in capite nor by \nKnights service, and also yeilding and paying therefore to us our heirs and succes- \nsors the fifte part onlie of all oare of gould and silver which from tyme to tyme and at \nall tymes hereafter, shalbe gotten, had or obtayned for all services, exaccons and de- \nmaunds whatsoever, Provided alwaies and our expressewill and meanenge is that onlie \none fifte parte of the gould and silver oare above menconed in the whole and noe more \nbe reserved or payable unto us our heires and successors by collour or vertue of these \npresents. The double reservacons or recitals aforesaid or anythinge herein contayned \nnotwithstanding, And foreasmuch as the good and prosperous success of the plantacon of \nthe said partes of Newe England aforesaide intended by the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir \nJohn Younge Sir Richard Saltonstall Thomas Southcott John Humfrey John Endecott \nSimon Whetcombe Isaack Johnson Samuell Aldersey John Ven Mathewe Cradock \nGeorge Harwood Increase Nowell Richard Perry Richard Bellingham Nathaniell \nWright Samuell Vassall Theophilus Eaton Thomas Goffe Thomas Adams John Browne \nSamuell Browne Thomas Hutchins,William Vassall William Pincheon and George Fox- \ncrofte to be speedily set upon cannot but chiefly depend next under the blessing of \nAlmightie God and the support of our royal authoritie upon the good government of the \nsame, To the ende that the affaires buysinesses which from tyme to tyme shall happen \nand arise concerning said landes and the plantacon of the same maie be the better man- \naged and ordered. Wee have further hereby of our especiall grace certen knowledge \nand mere mocon given graunted and confirmed, And for us our heires and successors doe \ngive graunt and confirme unto the trustees and well beloved subjects Sir Henry Rose- \nwell Sir John Younge Sir Richard Saltonstall Thomas Southcott John Humfrey John \nEndecott Simon Whetcombe Isaack Johnson Samuel Aldersey John Ven, Mathewe Crad- \nock George Harwood Increase Nowell Richard Perry Richard Bellingham Nathaniel] \nWright Samuell Vassall Theophilus Eaton Thomas Goffe Thomas Adams John Browne \n\n\n16 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nSamuell Browne Thomas Hutchins William Vassall William Pincheon and George Fox- \ncrofte; And for us our heires and successors wee will and ordeyne That the saide Sir \nHenry Rosewell Sir John Younge Sir Richard Saltonstall Thomas Southcott John \nHumfrey John Endecott Simon Whetcombe Isaack Johnson Samuell Aldersey John \nVen Mathew Cradock George Harvvood Increase Nowell Richard Perry Richard Bell- \ningham Nathaniell Wright Samuell Vassall Theophilus Eaton Thomas Goffe Thomas \nAdams John Browne Samuell Browne Thomas Hutchins William Vassall William \nPincheon and George Foxcrofte and a.11 such others as shall hereafter be admitted and \nmade free of the Company and Society hereafter menconed shall from tyme to tyme \nand at all tymes for ever hereafter be by vertue of these presents one body corporate \nand politque, in fact and name by the name of the Governor and Company of the Matta- \nchusetts Bay in Newe England : And them by the name of the Governor and Com. \npany of the Mattachusetts Bay in Newe England, one bodie politique and corporate in \ndeede fact and name, We doe for us our heires and successors make ordeyne consti- \ntute and confirme by these presents and that by that name they shall have perpetuall \nsuccession, and that by the same name they and their successors- shall and maie be ca- \npeable and enabled as well to implead and to be impleaded and to prosecute demaund \nand aunswere and be aunswered unto on all and singular suites causes quarrels and ac- \ncons of what kind or nature soever, And also to have take possesse acquire and pur- \nchase any landes tenements or hereditaments or any goods or chattells, and the same \nto lease graunt demise alien bargaine sell and dispose of as other our liege people of \nthis our realme of England or any other corporacon or body politique of the same \nmaie lawfullie doe : And further that the said Governor and Companye and their suc- \ncessors maie have forever one comon seale to be used in all causes and occasions of the \nsaid Company and the same seale maie alter change breake and newe make from tyme \nto tyme at their pleasures, And our will and pleasure is, And we do hereby for us our \nheires and successors ordeyne and graunte That from henceforth for ever there shalbe one \nGovernor, one Deputy Governor and eighteen Assistants of the same Company to be \nfrom tyme to tyme constituted elected and chosen out of the freemen of the saide Com- \npany for the tyme being in such manner and forme as hereafter in these presents is ex- \npressed. Which said officers shall applie themselves to take care for the best dispose- \ning and ordering of the generall buysines and affaires of for and concerning the saide \nlandes and premises hereby menconed to be graunted and the plantation thereof and \nthe government of the people there, And for the better execucon of our royal pleasure \nand graunt in their behalf wee doe by these presents for us our heirs and successors \nnominate ordeyne make and constitute our welbeloved the saide Mathewe Cradock to \nbe the first and present Governor of the saide Company and the said Thomas Goffe to \nbe Deputy Governor of the saide Company and the said Sir Richard Saltonstall Isaack \nJohnson, Samuell Aldersey John Ven John Humpfrey John Endecott Simon Whet- \ncombe Increase Nowell Richard Perry Nathaniell Wright Samuell Vassall Theophilus \nEaton Thomas Adams Thomas Hutchins John Browne George Foxcrofte William Vas- \nsall and William Pincheon to be the present assistants of the saide Company to con- \ntinue in the saide severall offices respectivelie for such tyme and in such manner as in \nand by these presents is hereafter declared and appointed, And further we will and by \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. t7 \n\nthese presents for us our heires and successors doe ordayne and graunt, That ihe Gov- \nernor of the said Company for the tyme being or in his absence by occasion of sickness \nor otherwise the Deputie Governor for the tyme being shall have authorise from tyme \nto tyme and upon all occasions to give orders for the assembling of the saide Company \nand calling them together to consult and advise of the businesses and affaires of the \nsaide company ; And that the said Governor for the tyme being shall or maie once \nevery moneth or oftener at their pleasure assemble and houlde and keep a Courte or As- \nsemblie of themselves for the better ordering and directing of their affaires, And that \nany seaven or more persons of the Assistants together with the Governor or Deputie \nGovernor soe assembled shalbe saide taken held and reputed to be and shalbe a full and \nsufficient Courte or Assemblie of the saide Company for the handling ordering and dis- \npatching of all such buysinesses and occurants as shall from tyme to tyme happen touch- \ning or concerning the said Company or plantacon and that there shall or maie beheld \nand kept by the Governor or Deputie Governor of the said Company and seaven or \nmore of the said assistants for the tyme being upon every last Wednesday in Hillary \nEaster, Trinity and Michas terms respectivelie for ever one greate generall and solembe \nAssemblie which four Generall Assemblies shalbe stiled and called the Foure Greate and \nGenerall Courts of the saide Company : In all and every or any of which said Greate \nand Generall Courts soe assembled wee doe for us our heires and successors give and \ngraunte to the said Governor and Company and their successors, That the Governor or \nin his absence the Deputie Governor of the saide Company for the tyme being and such \nof the Assistants and freemen of the saide Company as shalbe present or the greater \nnumber of them soe assembled whereof the Governor or Deputie Governor and six of the \nAssistants at the least to be seaven shall have full power and authoritie to choose nome- \nnate and appointe such and soe many others as they shall thinke fitt, and that shall be \nwilling to accept the same to be free of the said Company and Body and them into \nthe same to admitt and to elect and constitute such officers as they shall think fitt and \nrequisite for the ordering managing and dispatching of the affaires of the saide Gov- \nernor and Company and their successors, And to make lawes and ordinances for the \ngood and welfare of the saide Company, and for the government and ordering of the \nsaid landes and plantacon and the people inhabiting and to inhabitethe same as to them \nfrom tyme to tyme shalbe thought meet, soe as such laws and ordinances be not con- \ntrarie or repugnant to the lawes and statuts of this our realme of England ; And our will \nand pleasure is And we do hereby for us our heires and successors establish and ordeyne \nthat yearely once in the yeare for ever hereafter namely: the last Wednesday in Eas- \nter tearme yearely the Governor Deputy Governor and Assistants of the said Company \nand all other officers of the saide Company shalbe in the Generall Court or Assembly to \nbe held for that day or tyme newly chosen for the yeare ensueing by such greater paite \nof the said Company for the tyme being then and there present as is aforesaide ; And \nyf it shall happen the present Governor Deputy Governor and Assistants by these pres- \nents appointed or such as shall hereafter be newly chosen into their roomes or any of \nthem or any other of the officers to be appointed for the said Company to dye or be re- \nmoved from his or their severall offices or places before the saide generall day of elecon \n(whome we doe hereby declare for any misdemeanor or defect to be removeable by the \n3 \n\n\n;8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nGovernor or Deputie Governor Assistants and Company or such greater parte of them \nin any of the publique Courts to be assembled as aforesaid) That then and in every such \ncase it shall and maie be lawfull to and for the Governor Deputy Governor Assistants \nand Company aforesaide or such greater parte of them soe to be assembled as is afore- \nsaid in any of their assemblies to proceade to a new eleccon of one or more others of \ntheir company in the roome or place, roomes or places of such officers soe dyeing or re- \nmoved according to their discrecons, And ymediately upon and after such eleccon and \neleccons made of such Governor Deputy Governor Assistant or Assistants or any other \nofficers of the saide Company in manner and forme aforesaid the authoritie office and \npower aforesaid given to the former Governor Deputy Governor or other officer or \nofficers soe removed in whose steade and place newe shalbe soe chosen shall as to him \nand them and evene of them cease and determine, Provided also — and our will and \npleasure is That as well such as are by these presents appointed to be the present Gov- \nernor Deputy Governor and Assistants of the said Company as them that shall succeed \nthem, and all other officers to be appointed and chosen as aforesaid — shall before they \nundertake the execucon of their saide offices and places respectivelie take their corporall \noathes for the due and faithfull performance of their duties in their severall offices and \nplaces before such person or persons as are by these presents hereunder appointed to take \nand receive the same: That is to saie the said Mathewe Cradock — who is hereby nom- \nenated and appointed the present Governor of the said Company — shall take the saide \noathes before one or more of the Masters of our Courts of Chauncery for the tyme be- \ning, unto which Master or Masters of the Chauncery Wee doe by these presents give \nfull power and authoritie to take and administer the said oathe to the said Governor \n'accordingly. And after the saide Governor shalbe soe sworne, then the said Deputy \nGovernor and Assistants before by these presents nominated and appointed shall take the \nsaid severall oathes to their offices and places respectivelie belonging before the said \nMathewe Cradock the present Governor soe formerlie sworne as aforesaide. And every \nsuch person as shalbe at the tyme of the annuall eleccon or otherwise upon death or re- \nmovall be appointed to be the newe Governor of the said Company shall take the oathes \nto that place belonging before the Deputy Governor or two of the Assistants of the \nsaid Company at the least for the tyme being, And the newe elected Deputy Governor \nand Assistants and all other officers to be hereafter chosen as aforesaide, from tyme to \ntyme to take the oathes to their places respectively belonging before the Governor of \nthe said Company for the tyme being, Unto which said Governor Deputy Governor \nand Assistants Wee doe by these presents give full power and authoritie to give and \nadminister the said oathes respectively according to any true meaning herein before de- \nclared without any omission or further warrant to be had and obteyned of us our heires \nor successors in that behalf, And wee doe further of our especiall grace certen knowl- \nedge and meere mocon for us our heires and successors give and graunt the said Gov- \nernor and Company and their successors forever by these presents That it shalbe law- \nfull and free from them and their assigns at all and every tyme and tymes hereafter out \nof any ourrealmes or domynions whatsoever to take leade cary and transport for and \ninto their voyages and from and towards the said plantacon in New England \nall such and soe many of our loving subjects or any other strangers that will becom \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CH AFTER. ,9 \n\nour loveing subjects and live under our allegiance as shall willinghe accompanie \nthem in the same voyages and plantacon, and also shipping armour weapons orde- \nnance municon powder shott corne victualls and all manner of clothing implements \nfurniture beastes cattle horses mares merchandizes and all other thinges necessarie \nfor the saide plantacon and for their use and defence, and for trade with the \npeople there and in passing and returning to and fro, any law or statute to \nthe conrtarie hereof in any wise notwithstanding and without payeing or yeild- \ning any custome, on subsedie either inward or outward to as our heires or successors \nfor the same by the space of seaven yeares from the day of the date of these presents, \nProvided that none of the saide persons be such as shalbe hereafter by especiall \nname restrayned by us our heires and successors, And for their further encourage- \nment of our especiall grace and favor wee doe by these presents for us our heires and \nsuccessors yield and graunt to the saide Governor and Company and their successors and \nevery of them their factors and assignes, That they and every of them shalbe free and \nquitt from all taxes subsidies and customes in Newe England for the like space of seven \nyeares and from all taxes and imposicons for the space of twenty and one yeares upon \nall goodes and merchandises at any tyme or tymes hereafter, either upon importacon \nthither or exportacon from thence into our realm of England or into any other our \ndomynions by the saide Governor and Company and their successors their deputies \nfactors and assignes or any of them except only the five pounds per centum due for \ncustome upon all such goodes and merchandises as after the saide seven yeares shalbe \nexpired shalbe brought or imported into our realme of England or any of our do- \nmynions according to the ancient trade of merchants which five pounds per centum onlie \nbeing paide it shall be thenceforth lawful and free for the said adventurers the same \ngoods and merchandises to export and carry out of our said domynions into forrane \nparts without any custome, tax or other duties to be paid to us our heires or successors \nor to any other officers or ministers of us our heires and successors, Provided that the \nsaid goodes and merchandises be shipped out within thirteene moneths after their first \nlanding within any parte of the saide domynions, And wee doe for us our heires and \nsuccessors give and graunte unto the saide Governor and Company and their successors \nThat whensoever or soe often as any custome or subsidie shall growe due or payeable \nunto us our heires or successors according to the lymittacon and appointment aforesaide \nby reason of any goodes wares or merchandises to be shipped out or any returne to be \nmade of any goodes, wares or merchandises unto or from the said portes of Newe England \nhereby menconed to be graunted as aforesaide or any the lands or territoreries afore- \nsaide, That then and soe often and in such case the farmers, customers and officers of our \ncustomes of England and Ireland and everie of them for the tyme being upon request \nmade to them by the said Governor and Company or their successors factors or assignes \nand upon convenient security to be given in that behalf shall give and allowe unto the \nsaid Governor and Company and their successors and to all and everie person and per- \nsons free of that Company as aforesaide six monethes tyme for the payment of the one \nhalf of all such custome and subsidy as shalbe due and payeable unto us our heires and \nsuccessors for the same. For which these our letters patents or the duplicate in the \nenrollment thereof shalbe unto our saide officers a sufficient warrant and discharge. \n\n\n2o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nNevertheless our will and pleasure is That if any of the saide goods wares and mer- \nchandise which be or shalbe at any tyme hereafter landed or exported out of any of \nour realmes aforesaide and shalbe shipped with a purpose not to be carried to the portes \nof Newe England aforesaide but to some other place, That then such payment duty \ncustom imposicon or forfyture shalbe paid or belonge to us our heires fend successors \nfor the said goodes wares and merchandises soe fraudulently sought to be transported \nas yf this our graunte had not been made nor graunted. And Wee doe further will \nAnd by these presents our heires and successors firmely enjoine and comaunde as well \nthe Treasurer Chauncellor and Barons of the Exchequer of us our heires and successors, \nas also all and singular the customers farmers and collectors of the customes subsidies \nand imports and the other officers and ministers of us our heires and successors what- \nsoever for the tyme being, That they and every of them upon the showing forth \nunto them of these letters patents or the duplicate or exemplificacon of the same \nwithout any other writt or warrant whatsoever from us our heires or successors to be \nobteyned on said faith doe and shall make full whole entire and due allow- \nance and cleare discharge unto the saide Governor and Company and their suc- \ncessors oC all customes subsidies imposicons taxes and duties whatsoever that shall \nor maie be claymed by us our heires and successors of or from the said Governor and \nCompany and their successors for or by reason of the said goodes chattells wares mer- \nchandises and premises to be exported out of our saide domynions or any of them into \nany parte of the saide landes or premises hereby menconed to be given graunted and \nconferred on for or by reason of any of the saide goodes chattells wares or merchan- \ndises to be imported from the saide landes and premises hereby menconed to be given \ngraunted or conferred into any of our saide domynions or any parte thereof as aforesaide \nexcepting onlie the saide five poundes per centum hereby reserved and payeable after \nthe expiracon of the saide terme of seaven yeares as aforesaide and not before. And \nthese our letters patents or the enrollment duplicate or exemplificacon of the same \nshalbe forever hereafter from tyme to tyme as well to the Treasurer Chancellor and \nBarons of the Exchequer of us our heires and successors as to all and singular the cus- \ntomers farmer? and collectors of the customes subsidies and imports of us our heires and \nsuccessors and all searchers and others the officers and ministers whatsoever of us our \nheires and successors for the tyme being a sufficient warrant and discharge in this be- \nhalf. And further our will and pleasure is, and wee doe hereby for us our heires and \nsuccessors ordayne declare and graunt to the saide Governor and Company and their \nsuccessors That all and every of the subjects of us our heires or successors which shall \ngoe to and inhabite within the saide landes and premises hereby menconed to be graunted \nand every of their children which shall happen to be born there on the seas in going \nthither or retorneing from thence shall have and enjoy all liberties and immunities of \nfree and naturall subjects within any of the domynions of us our heires or successors to \nall intents construccons and purposes whatsoever as if they and every of them were \nborn within the realme of England. And that the Governor and Deputy Governor of \nthe saide Company for the tyme being or either of them and any two or more of such \nof the saide assistants as shalbe thereunto appointed by the said Governor and Company \nat any of their courts or assemblies to be held as aforesaide shall and maie at all tymes \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 21 \n\nand from tyme to tyme hereafter have full power and authoritie to minister and give \nthe oathe and oathes of supremacie and allegiance or either of them to all and everie \nperson and persons which shall at any tyme or tymes hereafter goe or passe to the \nlandes and premises hereby menconed to be graunted to inhabite the same. And \nwee doe of our further grace certen knowledge and mere mocon give and graunt to the \nsaide Governor and Company and their successors That it shall and maie be lawfull to \nand for the Governor and Deputy Governor and such of the Assistants and Freemen of \nthe saide Company for the tyme being as shalbe assembled in any of theire General \nCourts aforesaid or in any other Courts to be specially sumoned and assembled for that \npurpose or the greater parte of them (whereof the Governor or Deputy Governor and \nsix of the Assistants to be alwaies seaven) from tyme to tyme to make ordaine and es- \ntablish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders lawes statutes andordenances di- \nreccons and instruccons not contrarie to the laws of this onr realme of England as well \nfor setling of the formes and ceremonies of government and magistracy fitt and necessary \nfor the said plantacon and the inhabitants there and for nameing and stiling of all sortes \nof officers both superior and inferior which they shall find needfull for that government \nand plantacon and the distinguishing and setting forth of the severall duties powers and \nlymitts of evry such office and place and the formes of such oathes warrantable by the \nlawes and statutes of this our realme of England as shalbe respectivelie ministered unto \nthem for the execucon of the saide severall offices and places as also for the disposeing \nand ordering of the eleccons of such of the said officers as shalbe annuall and of such \nothers as shalbe to succede in case of death or removeall and ministering the saide oathes \nto the newe elected officers and for imposicons of lawfull fynes, mulcts imprisonment or \nother lawfull correccon according to the course of other corporacons in this our realme of \nEngland and for the directing ruleing and disposeing of all other matters and thinges \nwhereby our saide people inhabitants there maie be so religiously peaceablie and civelly \ngoverned as their good life and orderlie conversacon maie wynn and incite the natives \nof the country to the knowledge and obedience of the onlie true God and Saviour of \nmankinde and the Christian fayth which in our royal intencion and the adventurers free \nprofession is the peacefull ende of this plantacon. Willing ccmmaunding and require- \ning and by these presents for us our heires or successors ordayning and appointing \nThat all such orders lawes statutes and ordinances instruccons and direccons as shalbe soe \nmade by the Governor and Deputie Governor of the saide Company and such of the As- \nsistants and Freemen as aforesaide and published in writeing under their comon seale \nshalbe carefullie and dulie observed kept pformed and putt in execucon according to the \ntrue intent and meaning of the same, And these our letters patents or the duplicate or \nexemplificacion thereof shalbe to all and every such officer superior and inferior from \ntyme to tyme for the putting of the same orders lawes statutes and ordinances instruc- \ncons and direccons in due execucon against us our heires and successors a sufficient war- \nrant and discharge. And wee doe further for us our heires and successors give and \ngraunt to the saide Governor and Company and their successors by these presents \nThat all and everie such chiefe comaunders captaines governors and other officers and \nministers as by the saide orders lawes statutes ordinances instruccons or direccons of the \nsaid Governor and Company for the tyme being shalbe from tyme to tyme hereafter \n\n\n- \n\n\n22 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nymployed either in the government of the said inhabitants and plantacon or on the waye \nby sea thither or from thence according to the natures and lymitts of their offices and \nplaces respectivelie shall from tyme to tyme hereafter forever within the precincts and \npartes of Newe England hereby menconed to be graunted and confermed or on the waie \nby sea thither or from thence have full and absolute power and authoritie to correct \npunishe pardon governe and rule all such the subjects of us our heires and successors as \nshall from tyme to tyme adventur themselves in any voyage thither or from thence or \nthat shall at any tyme hereafter inhabite within the precincts and partes of Newe Eng- \nland aforesaid according to the orders lawes ordinances instruccons and direccons afore- \nsaid not being repugnant to the lawes and statutes of our realme of England as aforesaid, \nAnd wee doe further for us our heires and successors give and graunte to the said Gov- \nernor and Company and their successors by these presents, That it shall and maie be \nlawfull to and for the chiefe comaunders governors and officers of said Company for the \ntime being who shalbe resident in the saide parte of Newe England in America by these \npresents graunted and others there inhabiting by their appointment and direccon from \ntyme to tyme and at all tymes hereafter for their speciall defence and safety to in- \ncounter expulse repell and resist by force of armes as well by sea as by lande and by all \nfitting waies and means whatsoever all such person and persons as shall at any tyme here- \nafter attempt or enterprise the destruccon invasion detriment or annoyaunce to the said \nplantacon or inhabitants; and to take and surprise by all waies and meanes whatsoever \nall and every such person and persons with their shipps armour municon and other goodes \nas shall in hostile manner invade or attempt the defeating of the said plantacon or the \nhurt of the said company and inhabitants. Nevertheles our will and pleasure is and wee \ndoe hereby declare to all Christian Kinges Princes and states that yf any person or per- \nsons which shall hereafter be of the said company or plantacon or any other by lycense \nor appointment of the said Governor and Company for the tyme being shall at any tyme \nor tymes hereafter robb or spoyle by sea or by land or doe any hurt violence or unlawfull \nhostility to an)' of the subjects of us our heires or successors or any of the subjects of any \nPrince or State being then in league and amy tie with us our heires and successors and that \nupon such injury don and upon just complaint of such Prince or State or their sub- \njects, Wee our heires or successors shall make upon proclamacon within any of the \npartes within our realme of England comodious for that purpose, That the person \nor persons haveing comitted any such roberie or spoyle shall within the terme lymytted \nby such a proclamacon make full restitucon or satisfacon of all such injuries don soe \nas the said Princes or others soe cofnplayning maie hould themselves fullie satisfied \nand contented. And that yf the said person or persons haveing cometted such rob- \nberie or spoyle shall not make or cause to be made satisfacon accordingly within such \ntyme so to be lymytted, That then it shall be lawfull for us our heires and successors \nto put the said pson or psons out of our allegeance and protecon : And that it shalbe \nlawfull and free for all Princes to prosecute with hostilitie the said offenders and every \nof them, Their and every of their procurers ayders abettors and comforters in that \nbehalf. Provided also and our express will and pleasure is and wee doe by these \npresents for us our heires and successors ordayne and appoint That these presents shall \nnot in any manner inure or be taken to abridge barr or hinder any of our loveing sub- \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 23 \n\njects whatsoever to use and exercise the trade of fishing- upon that coast of Newe \nEngland in America by these presents menconed to be graunted : But that they and \nevery or any of them shall have full and free power and liberty to continue and use their \nsaid trade of fishing upon the said coast in any the seas thereunto adjoyning or any \narmes of the seas or saltwater rivers where they have byn wont to fish and to build and \nsett up upon the landes by these presents graunted such wharfes stages and worke \nhouses as shalbe necessary for the salting drying keeping and tacking up of their fish to \nbe taken or gotten upon that coast ; and to cutt downe and take such trees and other \nmaterialls there groweing or being as shalbe needfull for that purpose, and for all other \nnecessarie easements helpes and advantage concerning their said trade of fishing there in \nsuch manner and form as they have byn heretofore at any tyme accustomed to doe \nwithout making any wilfu'l waste or spoyle any thing in these presents contayned to \nthe contrarie notwithstanding. And wee doe further for us our heires and successors \nordeyne and graunte to the said Governer and Company and their successors by these \npresents, That these our letters patents shalbe firme good effectuall and availeable in all \nthinges and to all intents and construccons of lawe according to our true meaning herein \nbefore declared, and shalbe construed reputed and adjudged in all cases most favourable \non the behalf and for the benefitt and behoofe of the saide Governor and Company \nand their successors although expresse mencon of the true yearely value or certenty of \nthe premisses or any of them or of any other giftes or grauntes by us or any of \nour progenitors or predecessors to the aforesaid Governor or Company before this time \nmade in these presents or not made or ainy statute act ordinance provision proclamacon \nor restrainte to the contrarie thereof heretofore had made published ordayned or pro- \nvided or any other matter cause or thinge whatsoever to the contrarie thereof in any \nwise notwithstanding. In witness whereof wee have caused these our letters to be \nmade patent. Witness ourself at Westminster the fourth day of March in the fourth \nyeare of our raigne. \n\nPer Breve de Privato Sigilio \n\nWolseley. \n\nPraedictus Matthaeus Cradocke Juratus est de Fide et obedientia Regi et Successori- \nbus suis, et de Debita Executioni Officii Gubernatoris juxta Tenorem Praesentium, 18° \nMartii 1628. Coram me Carolo Cresare Milite in Cancellaria Mro. \n\nChar. Cesar. \n\nThe full text of the above charter is included in this narrative in or- \nder that readers may have a clear understanding of the foundation on \nwhich the judicial system of the Massachusetts colony rested and the \nsource from which authority was derived for its establishment. Doubts \nhave been entertained by some writers whether it was the royal intent \nthat the charter and the corporation authorized by it should ever be \ntransferred from England to America. A no less careful and discrim- \ninating writer than Hutchinson says in his history, \" It is evident from \nthe charter that the original design of it was to constitute a corporation \n\n\n24 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nin England like to that of the East India and other great companies, \nwith powers to settle plantations within the limits of the territory, un- \nder such form of government and magistracy as should be fit and neces- \nsary. The first step in sending out Mr. Endicott, appointing him a \ncouncil, giving him commission, instructions, etc., was agreeable to this \nconstruction of the charter.\" \n\nIt will perhaps be well in order that this reference to Mr. Endicott \nmay be understood, to follow for a time the steps taken by the Massa- \nchusetts Company under the charter. One of the earliest movements \namong the members of the company was the withdrawal of Sir Henry \nRosewell, Sir John Younge and Thomas Southcott, and the assignment \nof their interest to John Winthrop, Isaac Johnson, Mathew Cradock, \nThomas Goffe and Sir Richard Saltonstall, and among the new mem- \nbers of the company when reorganized were Thomas Dudley, Nicholas \nWest, Thomas Sharpe, William Browne and William Colbron. The \nfinancial affairs of the company were at first managed in England, and \nJohn Endicott was sent out to New England with a company in the sum- \nmer of 1628, before the issue of the charter, which did not pass the seals \nuntil the fourth of the following March. Endicott arrived at Salem in the \nship Abigail on the sixth of September, and for a time acted as a quasi \ngovernor of the colony. The colony over which he had authority was \nmerely a band of emigrants sent over by what may be termed the Mas- \nsachusetts Company, acting simply under the grant which they had re- \nceived from the Plymouth Council or Northern Virginia Company and \nbefore the issue of the letters patent from the king. It will be seen there- \nfore that the mission of Endicott throws no light on the intent of the \ncharter, as it was authorized before the charter was issued. After the \nissue of the charter to the company of which Endicott was one and \nto which his small Salem colony was subservient, he was permitted to \nact as local governor until Winthrop arrived with his larger company \nand with the charter from the king. After the issue of the charter, fa- \nvorable letters having been received from Endicott, at a meeting of the \ncompany held on the 28th of July, 1629, Mathew Cradock, the gover- \nnor of the company named in the charter, \" read certain propositions \nconceived by himself,\" giving reasons for transferring the government to \nMassachusetts. At the next meeting of the company held on the 28th \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 25 \n\nof August in the same year the deputy governor put the question as \nfollows : \" As many of you as desire to have the patent and the gov- \nernment of the plantation to be transferred to New England, so as it \nmay be done legally, hold up your hands, so many as will not, hold up \nyour hands.\" The decision of the question is thus entered on the rec- \nords of the company : \" Where by erection of hands it appeared by the \ngeneral consent of the company that the government and patent should \nbe settled in New England, and accordingly an order to be drawn up.'v \nTwo days before the vote was taken, on the 26th of August, the foh \nlowing agreement was executed : \n\n\" Upon due consideration of the State of the Plantation now in hand for New Eng- \nland, wherein we whose names are hereunto subscribed have engaged ourselves, and hav- \ning weighed the greatness of the work in regard of the consequence, God's glory and \nthe Church's good ; as also in regard of the difficulties and discouragements which in \nall probabilities must be forecast upon the prosecution of this business; considering \nwithal that this whole adventure grows upon the joint confidence we have in each \nother's fidelity and resolution herein, so as no man of us would have adventured it with- \nout assurance of the rest ; now for the better encouragement of ourselves and others \nthat shall join with us in this action, and to the end that every man may without \nscruple dispose of his estate and affairs as may best fit his preparation for this voyage: \nit is fully and faithfully agreed amongst us and every one of us doth hereby freely and \nsincerely promise and bind himself in the word of a Christian, and in the presence of \nGod, who is the searcher of all hearts, that we will so really endeavor the prosecution \nof this work, as by God's assistance we will be ready in our persons, and with such ot \nof our several families as are to go with us, and such provision as we are able conven- \niently to furnish ourselves withal, to embark for the said Plantation by the first of March \nnext, at such port or ports of this land as shall be agreed upon by the Company, to the \nend to pass the seas (under God's protection) to inhabit and continue in New England ; \nProvided always, that before the last of September next the whole government together \nwith the patent for the said Plantation, be first, by an order of Court legally transferred \nand established to remain with us and others which shall inhabit upon the said Planta- \ntion ; and provided also, that if any shall be hindered by such just and inevitable let or \nother cause to be allowed by three parts of four of those whose names are hereunto sub \nscribed, then such persons, for such times and during such lets, to be discharged of thi \nbond. And we do further promise, every one for himself, that shall fail to be ready \nthrough his own default by the day appointed, to pay for every day's default the sum \nof £3 to the use of the rest of the company who shall be ready by the same day ami \ntime. \n\nRichard Saltonstall Isaac Johnson John Winthrop \n\nThomas Dudley John Humphrey William Pinchon \n\nWilliam Vassall Thomas Sharpe Kellam Browne \n\nNicholas West Increase Nowell William Colbron. \n\n\n26 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nOn the 20th of October, 1629, at \" a Generall Court holden in Eng- \nland at Mr. Goffe the Deputye's House,\" the records of the company \nstate, Governor Cradock having declared the object of the meeting to \nbe the election of a new governor, deputy governor and assistants on \naccount of the proposed transfer of the government to New England: \n\n\" And now proceeding to the election of a new Governor Deputy and Assistants, \nwhich upon serious deliberation hath been and is conceived to be for the special good \nand advancement of their affairs, and having received extraordinary great commenda- \ntions of Mr. John Winthrop both for his integrity and sufficiency as being one eveiy \nway well fitted and accomplished for the place of Governor, did put in nomination for \nthat place the said Mr. John Winthrop, Sir R. Saltonstall, Mr. Isaac Johnson and Mr. \nJohn Humfrey ; and the said Mr. Winthrop was with a geneial vote and full consent of \nthis court by erection of hands chosen to be Governor for the ensuing year to begin on \nthis present day; who was pleased to accept thereof and thereupon took the oath to \nthat place appertaining. In like manner and with like free and full consent Mr. John \nHumfrey was chosen Deputy Governor and \n\nSir R. Saltonstall Mr. Thomas Sharpe \n\nMr. Isaac Johnson Mr. John Revell \n\nMr. Thomas Dudley Mr. Matt: Cradock \n\nMr. Jo: Endicott Mr. Thomas Goffe \n\nMr. Noell Mr. Aldersey \n\nMr. William Yassall Mr. John Venn \n\nMr. William Pinchon Mr. Nath : Wright \n\nMr. Sam : Sharpe Mr. Theoph : Eaton \n\nMr. Edw : Rossiter Mr. Tho : Adams \n\nwere chosen to be Assistants : which said Deputy and the greatest part of the said As- \nsistants being present took the oaths to their said places appurtaining respectively.\" \n\nThe departure of Winthrop for New England occurred on the 8th of \nApril, 1630, after detentions by unfavorable winds at Cowes and Yar- \nmouth, and he arrived at Salem on the 12th of June. On his arrival of \ncourse the administration of Endicott ceased, the colony of emigrants \nwas merged in the Massachusetts Company, of which it was only a fore- \nrunner and part, and henceforth the government of the Massachusetts \nColony was vested in a governor, deputy governor and assistants living \non the plantation, and with the royal charter in their possession, not \nanswerable to any company officers at home. \n\nThe question may now be resumed as to the power of the company \nto transfer their patent and government to New England. The opinion \nof Hutchinson has already been quoted, and his opinion, as stated by \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 27 \n\nMr. Charles Deane in his paper on the charter in the Memorial History \nof Boston, has been concurred in \" by such historians as Chalmers, Rob- \nertson, Grahame, Hildreth and Young and by the distinguished Judge \nStorey.\" On the other hand Mr. Deane says that \" Dr. Palfrey, the \neminent historian of New England, and the late Professor Joel Parker of \nCambridge are of the opinion that the charter was actually drawn with \na design on the part of the patentees to be used either in England or in \nNew England — there being an absence of any language locating the \ncorporation in England.\" \n\nMr. Deane in the paper referred to fails to express his own opinion \non the mooted question, and his failure is the more to be regretted be- \ncause the almost unerring instinct which he exhibited in the investiga- \ntion of historical points would have given his opinion the form of a ju- \ndicial decision. With a natural hesitation to attempt to decide a ques- \ntion on which leading antiquaries are divided, the writer ventures to \nadd a word in maintenance of the position of Professor Parker that the \ntransfer of the charter and company to New England were in accord- \nance with powers conferred by royal authority. Aside from the silent \nacquiescence of King Charles in the transfer, which of itself affords an \nargument not to be ignored, a careful reading of the text discloses at \nleast two provisions which look dfrectly to the possible administration \nof the government outside of England. With regard to the oaths to be \ntaken by the officers of the company the text of the charter reads as \nfollows : \"That is to say, the said Mathew Cradock who is hereby nom- \ninated and appointed the present Governor of the said Company shall \ntake the said oaths before one or more of the Masters of our Court of \nChancery for the tyme being, unto which Master or Masters we do by \nthese presents give full power and authority to take and administer the \nsaid oaths to the said Governor accordingly. And after the said Gov- \nernor shall be sworne then the said Deputy Governor and Assistants, \nbefore by these presents nominated, shall take the said several oaths to \ntheir offices and places respectively belonging before the said Mathew \nCradock the present Governor so formerly sworn as aforesaid. And \nevery such person as shalbe at the time of the annual election or other- \nwise upon death or removal, be appointed to be the new Governor of \nthe said Company shall take the oaths to that place belonging before \n\n\n28 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthe Deputy Governor or two of the Assistants of the said Company at \nthe least for the time being.\" It is fair to presume that the provision \nfor a different method of taking the oath by Governor Cradock before \na Master in Chancery, from that permitting the oaths of his successors \nto be taken before the deputy governor or two of the assistants was in- \ntended to meet the contingency of a removal of the company to New \nEngland where no master in chancery would be accessible. \n\nAgain the charter provides \" That it shall and may be lawful to and \nfor the chief commanders, governors and officers of said company for \nthe time being who shalbe resident in the said part of New England in \nAmerica by these presents granted and others there inhabiting by their \nappointment and direction from time to time and at all times hereafter \nfor their special defence and safety to encounter, expulse, repel and re- \nsist by force of arms as well by sea as by land and by all fitting ways \nand means whatsoever, all such person and persons as shall at any \ntime hereafter attempt or enterprise the destruction, invasion, detri- \nment or annoyance to the said plantation or inhabitants.\" This pro- \nvision certainly contemplates the residence of the officers of the com- \npany in New England, and it is impossible to understand why, if the \nofficers were authorized to reside on the plantations of the company, \nthey could not by authority have in their possession there the charter \nfrom which they derived all their powers. This provision is only one \nof many to be found in the text manifestly indicating that the charter \ncontemplated the establishment of a company in New England with \nduly chosen officers, and with all the necessary powers to make laws, \nprovide methods of punishment for their infraction, and organize to all \nintents and purposes a government of their own. \n\nIt has also been doubted by some whether the charter contained any \nauthority \" to erect judicatories or courts for the probate of wills or with \nadmiralty jurisdiction ; or to incorporate towns, colleges or schools, all \nwhich powers were exercised, together with the power of inflicting cap- \nital punishment.\" How such a doubt can be seriously entertained it is \ndifficult to understand after reading the provision that the chief com- \nmanders, captains, governors and other officers and ministers shall from \ntime to time have full power and authority to correct, punish, pardon, \ngovern and rule according to laws established by the company. The \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHATTER. 29 \n\npower to punish carries with it the power to establish courts to try per- \nsons accused, and the broad power to govern includes all the powers \nnecessary toestablish and maintain a peaceable and well organized com- \nmonwealth. \n\nBut though the Massachusetts Company had no hesitation in the trans- \nfer of their patent and in the exercise of the powers conferred by it, \nsome years elapsed before they were left in undisturbed possession of \nthe patent and its privileges. Without entering upon a detailed history \nof their annoyances, it is sufficient to say that repeated complaints were \nmade to the home government of what were called usurpations by the \ncompany, and to state the final conclusion of the action of the govern- \nment which these complaints elicited. Though these complaints took \nexception chiefly to the exercise of civil power, it is quite evident that \nthe theological attitude of the colony and its apparently changed rela- \ntions to the established church excited more uneasiness at home than \nany acts of the colony committed under the presumed authority of the \npatent or charter. Repeated demands were made by the Privy Coun- \ncil for the return of the charter to England, and at various times ships \nready to sail for New England were temporarily detained. The Massa- \nchusetts Company turned a deaf ear, however, to these demands, and \nfinally the disorders of the mother country became so serious that the \ncolony in New England was overlooked and permitted to go on in its \ncareer of development and manage its affairs in peace. \n\nThe closing incidents in the long- continued effort to secure the return \nof the charter were a letter to John Winthrop from the Privy Council \nand the response of the Massachusetts General Court, after which the \ninterference of the council in the affairs of the colony ceased under the \npressure of more serious matters at home. With the presentation of \nthis letter and response as parts of this narrative, this sketch of the \ncharter will close. \n\n\" Ai Whitehall, April 4, 1630. \n\n'This day the Lords Commissioners for Foreign Plantations, taking into consideration \nthat the petitions and complaints of his Majesty's subjects, planters and traders in New \nEngland grow more frequent than heretofore, for want of a settled and orderly govern- \nment in those parts, and calling to mind that they had formerly given orders about two \nor three years since to Mr. Cradock, a member of that Plantation to cause the grant or \nletters patent of that Plantation (alleged by him. to be there remaining in the hands of \n\n\n30 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nMr. Winthrop) to be sent over hither, and that notwithstanding the same, the said let- \nters patent were not as yet brought over : and their Lordships being now informed by \nMr. Attorney General that a quo warranto had been by him brought, according to \nformer orders, against the said patent, and the same was proceeded to judgment \nagainst so many as had appeared, and that they which had not appeared were out- \nlawed,— \n\n''Their Lordships, well approving of Mr. Attorney's care and proceeding therein, did \nnow resolve and order that Mr. Mewtis, Clerk of the Council, attendant upon the said \nCommissioners- for Foreign Plantations, should in a letter from himself to Mr. Winthrop, \nenclose and conve)r this order unto him. And their Lordships hereby in his Majesty's \nname, and according to his express will and pleasure, strictly require and enjoine the \nsaid Winthrop, or any other in whose power and custody the said letters patent are, \nthat they fail not to transmit the said patent hither by the return of the ship in which \nthe order is conveyed to them ; it being resolved that in case of any further neglect or \ncontempt by them shown therein, their Lordships will cause a strict course to be taken \nagainst them, and will move his Majesty to reassume into his hands the whole planta- \ntion.\" \n\nThe response was as follows : \n\n' To the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners for Foreign Plantations : \n\n\" The humble petition of the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts in New England of \nthe General Court there assembled, the 6th day of September in the 14th year of the \nreign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles. \n\n\" Whereas it hath pleased your Lordships, by order of the 4th of April last, to require \nour patent to be sent unto you, we do humbly and sincerely profess, that we are ready \nto yield all due obedience to our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty, and to your Lord- \nships under him, and in this mind we left our native country, and according thereunto \nhath been our practice ever since, so as we are much grieved that your Lordships \nshould call in our patent, there being no cause known to us, nor any delinquency or \nfault of ours expressed in the order sent to us for that purpose, our government being \naccording to his Majesty's grant and we are not answerable for any defects in other \nplantations. \n\n\" This is that which his Majesty's subjects here do believe and profess, and therefore \nwe are all humble suitors to your Lordships, that you will be pleased to take into further \nconsideration our condition, and to afford us the liberty of subjects, that we may know \nwhat is laid to our charge; and have leave and time to answer for ourselves before we \nare condemned as a people unworthy of his Majesty's favor or protection ; as for the quo \nwarranto mentioned in the said order, we do assure your Lordships we were never \ncalled to answer it, and if we had, we doubt not but we have a sufficient plea against it. \n\n\" It is not unknown to your Lordships that we came into these remote parts with his \nMajesty's license and encouragement, under his Great Seal of England, and in the con- \nfidence we had of that assurance, we have transferred our families and estates, and \nhere have we built and planted to the great enlargement and securing of his Majesty's \ndominions in these parts, so as if our patent should now be taken from us we shall be \n\n\nCOc* \n\n\n7^ \n\n\n«lV \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 31 \n\nlooked on as runnigados and outlawed, and shall be enforced either to remove to some \nother place, or to return into our native country again; either of which will put us to \nunsupportable extremities, and these evils (among others) will necessarily follow: (1) \nMany thousand souls will be exposed to ruin, being laid open to the injuries of all men. \n(2) If we are forced to desert this place, the rest of the plantation (being too weak to \nsubsist alone) will, for the most part, dissolve and go with us, and then will this whole \ncountry fall into the hands of the French or Dutch, who would speedily embrace such \nan opportunity. (3) If we should lose all our labor and costs, and be deprived of those \nliberties which his Majesty hath granted us, and nothing laid to our charge, nor any \nfailing to be found in us in point of allegiance (which all our countrymen do take no- \ntice of and will justify our faithfulness in this behalf) it will discourage all men here- \nafter from the like undertakings upon confidence of his Majestie's royal grant. Lastly, \nif our patent be taken from us (whereby we suppose we may claim interest in his \nMajesty's favor and protection) the common people here will conceive that his Maj- \nesty hath cast them off, and that, hereby, they are freed from their allegiance and sub- \njection, and therefore will be ready to confederate themselves under a new govern- \nment, for their necessary safety and subsistence, which will be of dangerous example to \nother plantations, and perilous to ourselves of incurring his Majesty's displeasure, \nwhich we would by all means avoid. \n\n\" Upon these considerations we are bold to renew our humble supplications to your \nLordships, that we may be suffered to live here in this wilderness, and that this poor \nplantation, which hath found more favor from God than many others, may not find less \nfavor from your Lordships ; that our liberties should be restrained, when others are en- \nlarged ; that the door should be kept shut unto us, while it stands open to all olher \nplantations ; that men of ability should be debarred from us, while they have encour- \nagement to other colonies. \n\n\" We dare not question your Lordship's proceedings ; we only desire to open our \ngriefs where the remedy is to be expected. If in anything we have offended his Maj- \nesty and your Lordships, we humbly prostrate ourselves at the footstool of supreme \nauthority ; let us be made the objects of his Majesty's clemency, and not cut off, in our \nfirst appeal, from all hope of favor. Thus, with our earnest prayers to the King of \nKings for long life and prosperity to his sacred Majesty and his royal family, and for all \nhonor and welfare to your Lordships, we humbly take leave.\" \n\nThus an end came to the controversy, and Winthrop, in his history of \nNew England, says under date of 1639 : \" We were much afraid this \nyear of a stop in England by reason of the complaints which had been \nsent against us, and the great displeasure which the archbishops and \nothers, the commissioners for plantations, had conceived and uttered \nagainst us, both for these complaints, and also for our not sending home \nour patent. But the Lord wrought for us beyond our expectations ; \nfor the petition, which we returned in answer of the order sent for our \npatent, was read before the Lords and well accepted, as is before ex- \n\n\n32 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\npressed ; and ships came to us from England and divers others ports \nwith great store of people and provisions of all sorts.\" The patent \nnever was returned, and may be seen to-day well preserved in the office \nof the secretary of the Commonwealth in the State House in Boston \n\nIt is not proposed to follow further the general history of the Massa- \nchusetts colony It was provided in the charter that the officers of the \ncompany or colony should consist of a governor, deputy governor, and \neighteen assistants to be chosen annually by a General Court, consist- \ning of said officers and all the freemen of the colony on the last Wednes- \nday in Easter term. Besides the General Court there were to be \nthree others in each year on the last Wednesday in Hilary, Trinity and \n\" Michas.\" In addition to the above, monthly courts were to be held \nby the governor, deputy governor and assistants \" for the better order- \ning and directing of their affairs.\" At the first meeting of the General \nCourt held in Boston on the 19th of October, 1630., for \"the establish- \ninge of the Govm', It was ppounded if it were not the best course that \nthe ffreemen should have the power of chuseing assistants when these \nare to be chosen & the assistants from amongst themselves to chuse a \nGovn1' & Deputy Govn1' whoe wth the assistants should have the power \nof makeing lawes & chuseing officers to execute the same. This was \nfully assented unto by the genall vote of the people & ereccon of \nhands.\" This abrogation of a provision of the charter which made the \nelection of these officers a popular one to the extent that all the freemen \nhad a vote, looks at first like a surrender of popular rights and a trans- \nformation of the pure democracy contemplated in the patent into a gov- \nernment possessing a taint of exclusiveness and of a disregard of the \npeople's will. It is probable that at this meeting the few who had been \nadmitted as freemen were outnumbered by the officers and really had \nno voice in making the change. The limitation of the power of the free- \nmen did not continue long. At a General Court held on the 9th of May, \n1632, after the representation of freemen was more numerous, \"It was \ngenally agreed upon by ereccon of hands, that the Govnr, Deputy Govnr \n& Assistants should be chosen by the whole Court of Govnr, Deputy \nGovnr, Assistants & freemen, and that the Govnr shall alwaies be \nchosen out of the Assistants.\" At a General Court held on the 14th of \nMay, 1634, the records state, \" further it is agreed that none but the \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 3S \n\nGenall Court hath power to chuse and admit freemen. — That none but \nthe Genall Court hath power to make and establishe lawes, nor to elect \nand appoynct officers as Govn1', Deputy Govn1, Assistants, Tresurer, \nSecretary, Capt., Leiutents, Ensigns, or any of like moment, or to re- \nmove such upon misdemeanor, as also to sett out the dutyes and powers \nof the said officers. — That none but the Genall Court hath power to \nrayse motives and taxes, and to dispose of lands, vis., to give and con- \nfirme pprietyes.\" \n\nAt the same court it was also ordered \" that it shalbe lawfull for the \nffreemen of evy plantacon to chuse two or three of each towne before \nevy Genall Court, to conferre of & ppare such publ busines as by them \nshalbe thought fitt to consider of att the next Genall Court, & that such \npsons as shalbe hereafter soe deputed by the freemen of [the] sevali \nplantacons, to deale in their behalfe, in ye publique affayres of the com- \nonwealth, shall have the full power & voyces of all the said ffreemen, \nderyved to them for the makeing & establishing of lawes, graunting of \nlandes, &c, & to deale in all other affaires of the comon wealth wherein \nthe ffreemen have to doe, the matter of eleccon of magistrates & other \nofficers onely excepted, wherein evy freeman is to gyve his own voyce.\" \nThus a general court composed of deputies was authorized for all pur- \nposes except the election of officers. For this election the votes of the \nfreemen were required. A method approaching to a general election \nof freeman in their respective towns became desirable as towns increased \nin number, and it became inconvenient to attend the General Court \nfor the purpose merely of casting a „vote. At a General Court held on \nthe 3d of March, 1635-6, it was consequently ordered \"that the \nGenall Court to be holden in May nexte for eleccon of magistrates, &c.r \nshalbe holden att Boston & that the townes of Ipswch, Newebury, Salem, \nSaugus, Waymothe & Hingham shall have libertie to stay soe many of \ntheir ffreemen att home, for the safety of their towne as they judge \nneedfull, & that the saide ffreemen that are appoyncted by the towne to \nstay at home shall have liberty for this Court to send their voices by \n\npxy.\" \n\nThis partial order seemed to open the way for the enactment of a \ngeneral election law which was passed on the 9th day of March 1636-7.- \nThe record states that \"This Court takeing into serious consideration \n5 \n\n\n34 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthe greate danger and damage that may accrue to the state by all the \nfreemens leaveing their plantations to come to the place of elections, have \ntherefore ordered it that it shalbe free and lawfull for all freemen to send \ntheir votes for elections by proxie the next Generall Court in May & so \nfor hereafter wch shallbe done in this manner ; The deputies wch shallbee \nchosen shall cause the freemen of their towns to bee assembled & then \nto take such freemen's votes as please to send by pxie for every magis- \ntrate & seale them up, severally subscribing the magistrates name on \nthe backside & soe to bring them to the Courte sealed with an open roule \nof the names of the freemen that so send by pxie.\" Thus a House of \nDelegates was established by these several laws and orders, after which \nthe House of Representatives of our day is modeled, and a method of \nconducting elections and making returns thereof was adopted less com- \nplicated than our own, but perhaps as effective and exact. \n\nAs early as 1634 legislation was had concerning judicial proceedings. \nUp to that time the General Court had taken cognizance of offences \nagainst the laws and ordered the infliction of punishment. As early as the \nautumn of 1630 in cases of capital crimes, juries were impaneled, and on \nthe 9th of November in that year at a Court of Assistants consisting of \nthe governor, deputy governor, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Mr. Ludlowe, \nCapt. Endicott, Mr. Coddington, Mr. Pinchon and Mr. Bradstreet, \nWalter Palmer, who had been indicted for manslaughter was tried before \na jury consisting of Mr. Edmond Lockwood, William Rockwell, Chris- \ntopher Conant, William Phelps, William Gallard, John Hoskins, Richard \nMorris, William Balston, William Cheesborough, John Page, John \nBalsh and Lawrence Leach and acquitted. \n\nIn 1634 it was enacted \"that the General Court, consisting ofmagis- \ntates and deputies, is the chief civil power of the Commonwealth ; which \nonly hath power to raise money and taxes upon the whole country and \ndispose of lands viz., to give and confirm proprieties appertaining to and \nimmediately derived from the country; and may act in all affairs of this \nCommonwealth according to such power, both in matters of counsel, \nmaking the laws and matters of judicature, by impeaching and sentenc- \ning any person or persons according to law, and by serving and hear- \ning any complaints orderly presented against any person or court ; and \nit is agreed that this court will not proceed to judgment in any cause, \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 35 \n\ncivil or criminal, before the deputies have taken thisoath following : ' I do \nswear by the most great and dreadful name of the ever living God, that \nin all cases wherein I am to deliver my vote or sentence, against any \ncriminal offence or between parties in any civil case, I will deal up- \nrightly and justly, according to my judgment and conscience ; and I \nwill according to my skill and ability assist in all other publick affairs of \nthis court faithfully and truly according to the duty of my place, when \nI shall be present to attend the service.' \" \n\nWithout attempting to present a list of crimes and offences of which \nthe courts were required at various times in the history of the colony to \ntake cognizance, it may be interesting to learn what were punishable by \ndeath. They were Idolatry in obedience to the passage of Scripture, \nExodus 22:20, Deuteronomy 13:6, 10, and 17:2,6; Witchcraft, \nExodus 22:18, Leviticus 20:27, Deuteronomy 18:10, 11; Blasphemy, \nLeviticus 24:15, 16; Murder, Exodus 21:12, 13, Numbers 35:31; \nMan Slaughter, Leviticus 24:17, Numbers 35:20, 21; Poisoning, \nExodus 21:14; Bestiality, Leviticus 20:15, 16; Sodomy, Leviticus \n20:13 ; Adultery, Leviticus 20:19 and 18:20, Deuteronomy 22:23, \n27 ; Man Stealing, Exodus 21:16 y False Witness, Deuteronomy 19 : 16 \nand 18:16; Rebellion, Numbers 16, Second Samuel 3, same 18, \nsame 20; Cursing and Smiting of Parents by children above sixteen \nyears of age, Exodus 21:17, Leviticus 20:9, Exodus 21:15; Stud \nbornness of children above sixteen years, Deuteronomy 22:20, 21 ; \nRape ; Arson. \n\n* On the 3d of March, 1635-6, the jurisdiction of the General Court was \nrestricted by an enactment concerning inferior courts and courts of \nassistants after which the General Court was chiefly if not solely a court \nof appeal. This enactment provided : \" That there shalbe ffoure Courts \nkept evy quarter 1 att Ipsvvch, to which Newberry shall belonge : 2 att \nSalem to wch Saugus shall belonge ; 3 att New Towne to wch Charlton \n[Charlestown], Concord, Meadford & Waterton shall belonge ; 4th att \nBoston to woh Rocksbury Dorchester Weymothe & Hingham shall \nbelonge,\" and that \"evy of theis Courts shalbe kept by such magis- \ntrates as shalbe dwelling in or neere the saide townes & by such other \npsons of wourth as shall from tyme to tyme be appoynncted by the \nGenall Court soe as noe Court shalbe kept without one magistrate \n\n\n36 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\natt the least, & that none of the magistrates be excluded whoe can and \nwill attend the same: yet the Genall Court shall appoynct wo1' of the \nmagistrates shall specially belonge to evy of the saide Courts. Such \npsons as shalbe joyned as assotiates to the magistrates in the said Court \nshalbe chosen by the Genall Court, out of agreater number of such as \nthe sevall townes shall nominate to them, soe as there may be in evy of \nthe said Courts so many as (with the magistrates) may make fyve in all. \nTheis Courts shall trie all civell causes whereof the debt or dam- \nage shall not exceede £\\o %l all criminall causes not concerneing life \nmember or banishm*. And if any pson shall finde himselfe greived \nwith the sentence of any of the said Courts, he may appeale to the nexte \ngreate quarter Court, pvided that hee putt in sufficient caucon to psent \nhis appeale with effect & to abide the sentence of the magistrates in the \nsaid greate quarter Court, whoe shall see that all such that shall bringe \nany appeale without just cause be exemplaryly punished.\" \n\nThese were called Inferior Courts and the first was to be held the last \nTuesday in June and the others on the last Tuesday in September, [De- \ncember and March respectively. \n\nThe Great Quarter Courts referred to above were established at the \nsame time by an enactment that \" there shalbe foure greate quarter Courts \nkept yearely att Boston by the Govn1 & the rest of the magistrates ; the \nfirst, the first Tuesday in the 4th moneth called June; the second, the \nfirst Tuesday in Septemb'\"; the third the first Tuesday in Decern1'; the \nfourthe the first Tuesday in the ith monethe called Marche.\" \n\nIt was further enacted that \"all accons shalbe tryed att that Court \nto wcb ye Deft belongs \" and that \" all offenders which shalbe in the \nprison att Boston att the tyme of any Court there holden, shalbe tryed \natt that Court, except in the war* of his comitnV hee be reserved to the \ngreate quarter Court. And it shalbe lawfull for the Govn1 or Deputy \nGovn1, or any two magistrates (upon speciall & urgent occacon) to \nappoyncte Courts to be kept upon other dayes than in this order are ap- \npoyncted.\" \n\nThe judicial system of the colony for the time being was completed \nby a further enactment at the same time as follows : \" And whereas the \nmost waightie affaires of this body are nowe, by this present order & \nothers formerly made, brought into such a way & methode as there will \n\n\nm \n\n\nETewYorli \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 37 \n\nnot henceforthe be neede of soe many Genall Courts to be kept as \nformerly it is therefore ordered that hereafter there shalbe onely two \nGenall Courts kept in a yeare vis. that in the third moneth called May for \neleccons, and other affaires & the other the first Wednesday in October for \nmakeing lawes & other publique occacons of the comonwealthe pro- \nvided that the Govn1' may upon urgent occacon call a Genall Courte att \nany other tyme besides the two Courts before menconed. And whereas \nit may fall out that in some of theis Genall Courts to be holden by the \nmagistrates and deputies there may arise some difference of judgment \nin doubtfull cases, it is therefore ordered, that noe lawe order or sen- \ntence shall passe as an act of the Court without the consent of the greatr \npte of the magistrates on the one pte and the great1 number of the \ndeputyes on the other pte ; and fore want of such accorde the cause or \norder shalbe suspended & if either ptee thinke it soe materiall, there \nshall be forthwith a comitte chosen, the one halfe by the magistrates & \nthe other halfe by the Deputyes & the comittee soe chosen to elect an \numpire, whoe together shall have power to heare & determine the cause \nin question.\" \n\nThe last provision concerning the requisite assent to any act of the \nGeneral Court of a majority of the magistrates, by which term was \nmeant the governor, deputy governor and assistants, was a step towards \nan enactment passed in 1644, that the deputies or representatives should \nform one branch of the General Court and the magistrates another, \neach sitting apart and having a negative on the other. Under this \narrangement the governor presided over the assistants, and the office \nol speaker was established as the presiding officer in the House of Dep- \nuties. \n\nThe judicial system of the qplony remained as above described until \n1639, with the following divisions : First, the General Court, composed \nof the governor, deputy governor, assistants and deputies, sitting twice \nin each year ; second, the Court of Assistants, or Gr^at Quarter Courts, \ncomposed of the governor, deputy governor and assistants, sitting at \nBoston four times in the year; and third, the Inferior Courts, kept \nby -magistrates, with associates appointed by the General Court, \nwith the right of appeal from Inferior Courts to the Courts of Assistants, \nand last appeal to the General Court. The magistrates and associates \n\n\n38 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nappointed by the General Court to hold the Inferior Courts were as \nfollows: For Salem and Saugus, John Humphrey and John Endicott, \nmagistrates or assistants, with Captain Turner, Mr. Scruggs and Town- \nsend Bishopp, associates; for Ipswich and Newbury, Thomas Dudley, \nRichard Dummer and Simon Bradstreet, magistrates, with Mr. Salton- \nstall and Mr. Spencer, associates ; for Newtown, Charlestown, Medford \nand Concord, John Haynes, Roger Harlakenden and Increase Nowell, \nmagistrates, with Mr. Beecher and Mr. Peakes, associates; for Boston, \nRoxbury, Dorchester, Weymouth and Hingham, Richard Bellingham \nand William Coddington, magistrates, with Israel Stoughton, William \nHutchinson and William Heath, associates. \n\nIn 1639 the law establishing the Courts of Assistants, or Great Quar- \nter Courts, was amended, and it was ordered \"that there be two Courts \nof Assistants yearly kept in Boston by the governor or deputy gov- \nernor and the rest of the magistrates, on the first Tuesday of the first \nmonth and on the first Tuesday of the seventh month (March and Sep- \ntember), to hear and determine all and only actions of appeal from \ninferior courts, all causes of divorce, all capital and criminal causes \nextending to life, member or banishment. And that justice be not \ndeferred, nor the country needlessly charged, it shall be lawful for the \ngovernor, or in his absence the deputy governor (as they shall judge \nnecessary), to call a Court of Assistants for trial of any malefactor in \ncapital causes.\" \n\nAt the same time, what were called County Courts were established, \nthough no counties had at that time been incorporated or organized. \nThey were merely the old Inferior Courts with a new name and powers \nmore clearly defined. The law concerning them provided that \" there \nshall be County Courts held in the several counties by the magistrates \nliving in the respective counties, or any other magistrate that can attend \nthe same, or by such magistrates as the General Court shall appoint \nfrom time to time, together with such persons of worth, where there \nshall be need, as shall from time to time be appointed by the General \nCourt (at the nomination of the freemen of the county), to be joined in \ncommission with the magistrates so that they may be five in all, three \nwhereof majr keep a court, provided there be one magistrate ; every of \nwhich courts shall have full power to hear and determine all causes,. \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 39 \n\ncivil and criminal, not extending to life, member or banishment (which, \nwith causes of divorce, are reserved to the Court of Assistants), and to \nmake and constitute clerks and other needful officers, and to summon \njuries of inquest and trials out of the towns of the county ; provided \nno jurors shall be warned from Salem to Ipswich, nor from Ipswich to \nSalem.\" \n\nIt was at the same time ordered \" that the governor or deputy gov- \nernor, with any two magistrates, or when the governor and deputy \ngovernor cannot attend it, that any three magistrates shall have power \nupon the request of any stranger, to call a special court to hear and \ndetermine all causes, civil and criminal (triable in any County Court \naccording to the manner of proceeding in County Courts), which shall \narise between such strangers, or wherein any such stranger shall be \nparty ; and all records of such proceedings shall be transmitted to the \nrecords of the Court of Assistants to be entered as trials in other courts, \nwhich shall be at the charge of the party, or condemned, in the case.\" \n\nWith regard to the powers and jurisdiction of the County Courts it \nwas ordered by the General Court on the 13th of November, 1644, \" yt \nye County Courts in ye jurisdiction shall take care yt ye Indians residg \nin ye sevrall sheires shalbe civilized, & they shall have pow1' to take \nordr from time to time to have them instructed in ye knowledge of \nGod.\" \n\nIn addition to the courts already mentioned, a military commission, \nor, as it has been called by Washburn in his judicial history, and others, \na Military Court was established by the General Court on the 4th of \nMarch, 1634—5, by an order which provided \" that the present governor \n(Thomas Dudley), deputy governor (Roger Ludlow), John Winthrop, \nJohn Humphrey, John Haynes, John Endicott, William Coddington, \nWilliam Pinchon, Increase Nowell, Richard Bellingham and Simon \nBradstreet, or the major part of them, who are deputed by this court to \ndispose of all military affairs whatsoever, shall have full power and \nauthority to see all former laws concerneing all military men & muni- \ncons executed, & also shall have full power to ordeyne or remove all \nmilitary officers, & to make and tender to them an oath suitable to their \nplaces, to dispose of all companyes, to make orders for them & to make \nand tender to them and to see that strickt dissipline and traineing be \n\n\n4o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nobserved, and to comand them forth upon any occacon they thinke \nmeete, to make either offensive or defensive warr as also to doe what- \nsoever may be further behoofefull, for the good of this plantacon, in \ncase of any warr that may befall us and also that the aforesaid comis- \nsioners or the major pte of them shall have power to imprison or con- \nfine any that they shall judge to be enemyes to the comonwealth & \nsuch as will not come under comand or restrainte, as they shalbe re- \nquired, & shalbe lawfull for the sd comissioners to putt such persons \nto death. This order to continue till the end of the nexte Generall \nCourt.\" \n\nIt cannot be denied that the appointment of this commission or court \nwas an extraordinary one, and transcended the powers conferred by \nthe charter. That instrument gave the company the power to carry \non a defensive, but not an offensive war, and if this was one of the acts \nreported to the home government as usurpations of power, no other \nconclusion can be reached than that the accusation was well founded. \nThe commission or court was extended from time to time, but was \nfinally allowed to die. \n\nBefore taking up the organization of Suffolk county, to which what \nhas been thus far presented to the reader has been somewhat intro- \nductory, it will be well to furnish a list of those who at various times \noccupied positions which may be considered judicial in their character, \nin connection with the Court of Assistants, from the earliest period of \nthe colony to the erection of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in \n1692. \n\nThe governors were John Endicott, 1629, 1644, 1649, 165 I to 1653, \n1655 to 1664; John Winthrop, 1630 to 1633, 1637 to ^39, 1642 to \n1643, 1646 to 1648; Thomas Dudley, 1634, 1640, 1645, 1650; John \nHaynes, 1635; Henry Vane, 1636; Richard Bellingham, 1641, 1654, \n1665 to 167 1 ; John Leverett, 1672 to 1678 ; Simon Bradstreet, 1679 \nto 1686, 1689 to 1692. From 1686 to 1689 Joseph Dudley and Ed- \nmund Andros had jurisdiction over New England by royal appoint- \nment. \n\nThe deputy governors were: Thomas Dudley, 1629 to 1633, l^37 \nto 1639, 1646 to 1649, ^51, 1652; Roger Ludlow, 1634; Richard \nBellingham, 1635, 1640, 1653, 1655 to 1664; John Winthrop, 1636,. \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 41 \n\n1644, 1645; Jolltl Endicott, 1641 to 1643, 1650, 1654; Francis Wil- \nloughby, 1665 to 1670; John Leverett, 1671, 1672; Samuel Symonds, \n1673 to 1677 ; Simon Bradstreet, 1678 ; Thomas Danforth, 1679 to \n[686, 1689 to 1692. During the administrations of Joseph Dudley and \nEdmund Andros there was no deputy. \n\nThe assistants at various times were as follows: John Winthrop \n1634; Thomas Dudley, 1635-36, 1641-42-43-44-45; Increase Now- \nell, 1630 to 1655 \\ Simon Bradstreet, 1630 to 1675 ; William Pinchon, \n1630 to 1636, 1646 to 1650; John Endicott, 1630 to 1634, 1636 to \n1640, 1645 to 1648: William Coddington, 1630 to 1636; Roger Lud- \nlow, 1630 to 1633 ; Richard Saltonstall, 1630 to 1633 ; Isaac Johnson, \n1630; Thomns Sharp, 1630; William Vassall, 1630; Edward Rossiter, \n1630; John Winthrop, jr. , 1632 to 1639, 1640 to 1649; John Hum- \nphrey, 1632 to 1639-40-41; John Haynes, 1634 to 1636; Richard \nBellingham, 1636 to 1639, 1642 to 1652; Richard Dummer, 1635-36; \nAtherton Hough, 1635 ; Roger Harlakenden, 1636 to 1638 ; Israel \nStoughton, 1637 to 1643 ; Richard Saltonstall, jr., 1637 to J^49 \nThomas Flint, 1642 to 1651, 1653 ; Samuel Symonds, 1643 to T^72 \nWilliam Hibbens, 1643 to 1654; William Pinchon, 1642 to 1650 \nHerbert Pelham, 1645 to 1649; Robert Bridges, 1647 to ^56; Fran- \ncis Willoughby, 1650-51; Edward Gibbons, 1650-51; Thomas Wig- \ngin, 1650 to 1664; John Glover, 1652-53; Daniel Gookin, 1652 to \n1675 ; Daniel Denison, 1653 to 1682 ; Simon Willard, 1654 to 1675 \nHumphrey Atherton, 1654 to 1661 ; Richard Russell, 1659 to 1676 \nThomas Danforth, 1659 to 1678 ; William Hawthorne, 1662 to 1679 \nEleazer Lusher, 1662 to 1672; John Leverett, 1665 to 1670; John \nPinchon, 1665 to 1686; Edward Tyng, 1668 to 1680; William \nStoughton, 167 1 to 1686; Thomas Clarke, 1673 to 1677 ; Joseph Dud- \nley, 1676 to 1683. 1685 ; Peter Bulkley, 1677 to 1684; Nathaniel Sal- \ntonstall, 1679 to 1686; Humphrey Davey, 1679 to 1686; James Rus- \nsell, 1680 to 1686; Samuel Nowell, 1680 to 1686; Peter Tilton, 1680 \nto 1686; John Richards, 1680 to 1686; John Hall, 1680 to 1683; \nBartholomew Gedney, 1680 to 1683 : Thomas Savage, 1680-81 ; Will- \niam Browne, 1680 to 1683; Samuel Appleton, 1681 to 1686; Robert \nPike, 1682 to 1686; Daniel Fisher, 1684; John Woodbridge, 1683-84; \nElisha Cooke, 1684 to !686; William Johnson, 1684 to 1686; John \n6 \n\n\n42 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHawthorne, 1684 to 1686; Elisha Hutchinson, 1684 to 1686; Sam- \nuel Sevvall, 1684 to 1686; Isaac Addington, 1686; John Smith, 1686; \nOliver Purchase, chosen in 1685 and declined. The charter required \nthe annual election of eighteen assistants, but in violation of its provis- \nions the number varied from seven to twelve until, in consequence of a \nletter from the king of July 24, 1678, the number prescribed in the \ncharter was thereafter chosen. \n\nUnder Joseph Dudley, who assumed by royal appointment in 1686 \nthe office of president of New England, with William Stoughton as \ndeputy president, the office of assistant was suspended and the follow- \ning councillors were appointed, viz.: Robert Mason, Fitz John Win- \nthrop, John Pinchon, Peter Bulkley, Edward Randolph, Wait Still Win \nthrop, Richard Wharton, John Usher, Bartholomew Gedney, Jonathan \nTyng, John Hinckes, Edward Tyng, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Simon Brad- \nstreet, Dudley Bradstreet, and Francis Champenon. Under Edmund \nAndros the above persons were reappointed to the council, and the follow- \ning additional persons : Thomas Hinckley, Barnabas Lathrop, William \nBradford, Daniel Smith, John Walley, Nathaniel Clarke, John Cogge- \nshall, Walter Clark, Walter Newberry, John Sanford, John Greene, \nRichard Arnold, John Albro, Francis Nicholson, Robert Treat, John \nAllyn, Samuel Shrimpton, William Browne, Richard Smith, Simon \nLynde, Anthony Brockholst, Frederick Phillips, Jarvis Baxter, Stephen \nVan Courtlandt, John Young, Nicholas Bayard, John Palmer, and John \nSprague. Of the above Nathaniel Saltonstall, Simon Bradstreet, Dud- \nley Bradstreet and Francis Champenon did not accept their appoint- \nments. \n\nThus far no reference has been made to enactments concerning the \ncourts and judiciary after the organization of Suffolk county in 1643 \nThere only remains to complete the record of the earlier period some \naccount of lesser local courts, and of the legislation concerning wills \nand the settlement of estates of persons deceased. It was first provided \nby an order of the General Court, passed on the 9th of September, \n1639, \" That there bee records kept of all wills, administrations & in- \nventories ; as also the dayes of every marriage, birth and death of every \npson within this jurisdiction.\" These records were evidently intended \nto be kept by the clerks of the courts, as the preamble to the above \n\n\nzz^y \n\n\nYY ' \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 43 \n\norder says, \" Whereas, many judgments have been given in our Courts \nwhereof one hundred and ten records are kept of the evidence \nand reasons whereupon the verdict and judgment did pass, the records \nwhereof being duly entered and kept, would be of good use for prece- \ndent to posterity, and a relief to such as shall have just cause to have \ntheir causes reheard and reviewed ; It is therefore by this Court ordered \nand declared that henceforth every judgment with all the evidence be \nrecorded in a book to be kept to posterity.\" Immediately following \nthis preamble as an item is the provision concerning wills above quo- \nted. No further legislation was had before the incorporation of the \ncounty. \n\nWith regard to the lesser local courts it was ordered at a General \nCourt held on the 6th of September, 1638, \" that any magistrate [as- \nsistant] in the towne where hee dwells may heare and determine by his \ndiscretion all causes whearin the debt, or trespas, or damage, etc., doth \nnot exceede 20 s ; & in such towne where no magistrate dwells the Gen- \nerall Court shall from time to time nominate 3 men two whereof shall \nhave like power to heare & determine all such actions under 20 s ; & \nif any of the pties shall find themselves greived with any such end or \nsentence, they may appeale to the next quarter Courte or Courte of \nAssistants, etc. And if any pson shall bring any such action to the \nCourt of Assistants before hee hath endeavored to have it ended at \nhome (as in this order is appointed) hee shall lose his action & pay the \ndefendant costs. If no appeale bee put in the day of the sentence upon \nsuch small actions the magistrate or the said 2 chosen men shall grant \nexecution.\" \n\nSuch, then, was the judicial system at the time ef the incorporation \nof Suffolk county in 1643. First, the General Court, with appellate ju- \nrisdiction from the Court of Assistants ; second, the Court of Assistants, \nwith appellate jurisdiction from the lower courts ; third, the County \nCourts, with the probate of wills included in their jurisdiction ; fourth, \nStranger's Court, and fifth, Magistrate's Court. After the incorporation \nof the county laws were passed, during the colonial life of Massachu- \nsetts, concerning these courts and establishing others, to which reference \nwill be hereafter made. \n\n\n4i HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nAt a meeting of the General Court held in Boston on the ioth of May, \n1643, it was ordered \"that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction \nbe divided into four sheires to wit: \n\nEssex — Salem, Lynn, Enon (VVenham), Ipswich, Rowley, Newbury, \nGloucester and Chochicawick (Andover.) \n\nMiddlesex. — Charleston, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, \nWoburn, Medford, Linn Village (Reading). \n\nSuffolk. — Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Dedham, Braintree, Wey- \nmouth, Hingham, Nantasket (Hull). \n\nNorfolk. — Salisbury, Hampton, Haverhill, Exeter, Dover, Strawberry \nBank (Portsmouth). \n\nThese were the first counties incorporated in Massachusetts, and in \nthe order establishing them, were called \"Sheires,\" or Shires. When \nwhat were called the County Courts were established in 1639 the word \n\" County\" bore a different meaning from that which afterwards and now \nprevails. It meant merely, in the language of Worcester's dictionary, \n\"a civil division of a State for political or judicial purposes.\" In the \napplication of the word to courts, it merely denominated courts to be \nheld and to hold jurisdiction in limited and defined districts. \n\nOf the towns included in Suffolk shire the incorporation (settlement) \nof Boston is reckoned on the 7th of September, 1630 (old style). It was \nincorporated as a city February 23, 1822. Roxbury was incorporated \nas a town September 28, 1630; as a city, March 12, 1846, and annexed \nto Boston June I, 1867; Dorchester as a town, September 7, 1630, \nand annexed to Boston June 4, 1869 ; Dedham as a town, September 8, \n1636 ; Braintree as a town, May 13, 1640 ; Weymouth as a town, Sep- \ntember 2, 1635; Hingham as a town, September 2, 1635, and Nan- \ntasket May 29, 1644, and its name changed to Hull on or before May 26, \n1647. \n\nIt is proper to state that the Norfolk shire, or county, above men- \ntioned, included some towns within the limits of New Hampshire when \nthat territory became a royal province, and that by an act of the Gen- \neral Court, passed February 4, 1679-80, the county was extinguished \nand the Massachusetts towns within its bounds were annexed to Essex \ncounty. \n\nWith regard to Suffolk county, it is not proposed to state the various \nchanges which have taken place in its territorial limits, as no detailed \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 45 \n\ngeneral history of the county would be properly within the scope of \nthis narrative. It is only necessary to say that it now includes Boston, \nincorporated, or settled, as above stated, with its various additions and \nlosses of territory; Chelsea, set off from Boston and incorporated as a \ntown January 10, 1 739, and as a city March 13, 1857 ; Revere, set off \nfrom Chelsea and incorporated as North Chelsea March 10, 1846, and \nits name changed to Revere March 24, 1871 ; and Winthrop, set off from \nNorth Chelsea and incorporated as a town March 27, 1852. \n\nWhen the present Norfolk county was incorporated on the 26th of \nMarch, 1 793, all the towns in Suffolk county, except Boston and Chelsea, \nwere placed in that county. Thus Hingham, and Hull, and Cohasset, \nwhich last had been set off from Hingham and incorporated as a town \nApril 26, 1770, became parts of Norfolk county. Hingham and Hull \nbeing dissatisfied with their new connection, were, at the same session \nof the General Court, exempted from the act of incorporation, and were \nfinally annexed to Plymouth county. Such is the explanation of the \nmystery, so puzzling to many, that Cohasset should be surrounded by \nPlymouth county towns, and yet be a part of Norfolk county. \n\nIn 1647 and !649, after the incorporation of Suffolk county, an act \nwas passed defining and enlarging the jurisdiction of the petty or magis- \ntrate's court, and providing that \"any magistrate in the town where he \ndwells may hear and determine by his discretion (not by jury), accord- \ning to the laws here established, all cases arising in that county wherein \nthe debt, trespass, or damage doth not exceed forty shillings, who may \nsend for parties and witnesses by summons or attachment directed to \nthe marshal or constable, who shall faithfully execute the same. \n\n\" And it is further ordered, that in such towns where no magistrate \ndwells, the Court of Assistants, or County Courts, may, from time to \ntime, upon request of the said towns, signified under the hand of the \nconstable, appoint three of the freemen as commissioners in such cases, \nany two whereof shall have like power to hear and determine all such \ncauses, wherein either party is an inhabitant of that town, who have \nhereby power to send for parties and witnesses, by summons or attach- \nment directed to the constable, as also to adminster oaths to witnesses \nand to give time to the defendant to answer if they see cause ; and if \nthe party summoned refuse to give in his bond or appearance, or \n\n\n46 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nsentenced refuse to give satisfaction where no goods appear in the \nsame town where the party dwells, they may charge the consta- \nble with the party, to carry him before a magistrate, or Shire Court (if \nthen sitting), to be further proceeded with according to law; but the \nsaid commissioners may not commit to prison in any case And where \nthe parties live in several towns, the defendant shall be liable to be sued \nin either town, at the liberty of the plaintiff.\" It was also ordered \" that \nin all small causes as aforesaid, where only one magistrate dwells in the \ntown, and the cause concerns himself, as also in such towns where no \nmagistrate is, and the cause concerns any of the three commissioners, \nthat in such cases the selectmen of the town shall have power to hear \nand determine the same, and also to grant execution for the levying and \ngathering up such damages for the use of the person damnified, as one \nmagistrate or three commissioners may do. And no debt or action \nproper to the cognizance of one magistrate, or the three commissioners \nas aforesaid, shall be received into any County Court, but by appeal \nfrom such magistrate or commissioners, except in cases of defamation \nand battery.\" \n\nIn 165 i it was provided by law \"that there be seven freemen resi- \ndent in Boston annually chosen by the freemen of the said town and \npresented to the Court of Assistants, who hereby have power to author- \nize the seven freemen to be commissioners of the said town, to act in \nthings committed to their trust, as is hereafter expressed ; who shall \nfrom time to time be sworn before the said court, or the Governor, \nDeputy Governor or any two magistrates And this court doth hereby \ngive and grant commission and authority unto the said seven men, or any \nfive of them, or any three of them with one magistrate, to hear and deter- \nmine all civil actions which shall be brought before them not exceeding \nthe sum of ten pounds, arising within the neck of land on which the \ntown is situate, as also on Noddles Island, or betwixt any persons where \nboth parties shall be inhabitants or residents within the said Neck or \nNoddles Island aforesaid, or where either party shall be an inhabitant \nor resident aforesaid ; provided they keep a book of records for the en- \ntry of all causes, evidences, testimonies, sentences and judgments as the \nlaw provides in like cases; which said commissioners are authorized an- \nnually to appoint a clerk of their court and to demand and receive of \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 47 \n\nevery plaintiff in all cases or actions not exceeding forty shillings the \nsum of three shillings four pence ; and for all other actions the sum \noften shillings ; and for all other things the accustomed fees; and the \nsaid commissioners shall from time to time publish their court days, as \nthe three commissioners in towns are bound to. And for the discov- \nery, prevention and punishment of misdemeanors in the town of Boston : \nPower and authority is hereby given and granted to the said commis- \nsioners, and every of them, by warrant under their or his hand, to con- \nvent before them, or any of them, all such persons as shall be complained \nof for such offences or otherwise brought to their cognizance, and to \nhear and determine the same according to the laws here established, as \nany magistrate may do, provided the fines imposed by them do not ex- \nceed forty shillings for one offence.\" It was further provided, in order \nthat breaches of the peace might be more effectually suppressed, that \nall \" marshals and constables, and other inhabitants should aid and as- \nsist the commissioners\" in the performance of their duty, and that none \nshould be appointed commissioner \" but such whose conversation is in- \noffensive and whose fidelity to the country is sufficiently known and ap- \nproved of by the County Court of the shire.\" This court was created \nfor one year, and, as Hutchinson says, in consequence of a growing jeal- \nousy of Boston, was not renewed. The selectmen of towns were also \nauthorized to try offences against their own by-laws where the penalty \ndid not exceed twenty shillings, provided the offence was not a crimi- \nnal one. \n\nIn May, 1685, a Court of Chancery was established by law. It was \nprovided as follows: \" Whereas it is found by experience that in many \ncases and controversies betwixt parties, wherein there is matter of ap- \nparent equity, there hath been no way provided for relief against the \nrigour of the common law, but by application to the General Court; \nwhere by reason of the weighty affairs of the country of more public \nconcernment, particular persons have been delayed to their no small \ntrouble and charge; and also great expense occasioned to the public by \nthe long attendance of so many persons as that court consists of, to \nhear and determine personal causes brought before them. For ease and \nredress whereof it is ordered and enacted by this court, that the magis- \ntrates of each County Court within this jurisdiction, being annually \n\n\n48 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nchosen by the freemen, be and hereby are authorized and empowered \nas a Court of Chancery, upon bill of complaint or information exhibited \nto them, containing matter of apparent equity, to grant summons or pro- \ncess as in other cases is usual, briefly specifying the matter of complaint, \nto require the defendant's appearance at a day and place assigned by the \ncourt to make answer thereunto; and also to grant summons for witnesses \nin behalf of either party, to examine parties and witnesses by interro- \ngations upon oath, proper to the case if the judges see cause to require it ; \nand if any party being legally summoned shall refuse or neglect to make \nhis appearance and answer, the case shall proceed to hearing and issue \nas is provided in cases at common law ; and upon a full hearing and \nconsideration of what shall be pleaded and presented as evidence in any \nsuch case, the court to make their decree and determination according \nto the rule of equity, secundum equum et bonum, and to grant execu- \ntion thereon ; provided always that either party, plaintiff or defendant, \nwho shall find himself aggrieved at the determination of the said County \nCourt, shall have liberty to make his appeal to the magistrates of the \nnext Court of Assistants, giving in security for prosecution and the \nreason of his appeal to the officers of the said County Court, as the law \nprovides in other cases ; where the judges of the former court may have \nliberty to allege and show the grounds and reasons of their determina- \ntion, but shall not vote nor judge in the said Court of Assistants ; and \nthe judgment or decree of the said Court of Assistants shall be a full \nand final issue and determination of all such cases, without any after re- \nview or appeal ; unless upon application made by either party to the \nGeneral Court, the said court shall see meet to order a second hearing \nof the case at the County Court with liberty of appeal as aforesaid, or \nin any arduous and difficult cases to admit a hearing and determination \nby the General Court; and that a suitable oath be drawn up and agreed \nupon to be administered to those who shall be judges; and in all cases \nof this nature brought to the County Court, the party complaining be- \nfore his bill be filed and process granted shall give sufficient security to \nthe clerk of the court to defray the necessary charge and attendance of \nthe court.\" \n\nThough juries were in use as early September, 1630, the first legis- \nlation concerning them appears to have been in 1634, when it was \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 49 \n\nordered \" that the secretary or clerk of every court shall in convenient \ntime before the sitting of the court send warrants to the constables of \nthe several towns of the jurisdiction of the court for jurymen propor- \ntionable to the inhabitants of each town ; and the constable, on the \nreceipt of such warrant, shall give timely notice to the freemen of their \nrespective towns, to choose so many able, discreet men as the warrant \nshall require, which men, so chosen, he shall warn to attend the court \nwhereto they are appointed, and shall make return of the warrant unto \nthe clerk aforesaid.\" Jurymen were allowed four shillings per day, and all \njurors serving at the Court of Assistants at Boston were to be summoned \nout of the counties of Suffolk and Middlesex. On* the 4th of March \n1634-5, ^ was ordered that two grand juries be summoned annually, \"the \none to informe the Courts in March, and the other to informe the court \nin September yearely, of the breaches of any order or other misdemeanor \nthat they shall know or heare to be comitted by any person or persons \nwithin this jurisdiction, or to doe any other service of the comon- \nwealth that they shalbe enjoyned.\" \n\nIt was required by an order passed on the 10th of December, 164.1, \nthat in every town a clerk of the writs should be chosen, approved by \nCounty Courts, authorized \" to grant summons and attachments in \ncivil actions and summons for witnesses, to grant replevins and to \ntake bonds with sufficient security to the party to prosecute the suit.\" \nThey were also required to record all births and deaths of persons in \ntheir towns and for every birth and death they so record they shall be \nallowed three pence; and they shall yearly deliver in to the recorder of \nthe court of the jurisdiction where they live a true transcript thereof, to- \ngether with so many pence as there are births and deaths to be recorded. \nIt was required also that \"every new married man shall likewise bring \na certificate under the hand of the magistrate who married him unto \nthe clerk of the writs, to be by him recorded, who shall be allowed three \npence for the same ; and the said clerk shall deliver as aforesaid unto \nthe recorder a certificate with a penny a name for recording the said \nmarriage.\" \n\nSo far as probate matters are concerned there was no change in the \njurisdiction of the County Court over them during the colonial period, \nexcept during the presidency of Joseph Dudley and the administration \n7 \n\n\n50 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nof Andros. Dudley personally assumed probate jurisdiction, but dele- \ngated it in some counties to probate judges of his own appointment. \nAndros personally directed the settlement of estates exceeding fifty \npounds and delegated others to judges appointed by him. After the \ndeposition of Andrews the old probate methods were resumed and con- \ntinued until the union of the colonies in 1692. \n\nThe executive officer of the court was at first called beadle and after- \nwards during the colonial period marshal. Those who held the office \nwere James Perm, appointed by the court September 25, 1634; Edward \nMichelson, who is mentioned in the records of the court May 27, 1660, \nas having occupied the office many years ; John Greene, chosen May \n27, 168 1, and Samuel Gookin, appointed in 1691. \n\nIn 1642 it was ordered \"that all causes between party and party \nshall first be tried in some inferior court ; and that if the party against \nwhom the judgment shall pass shall have any new evidence, or other \nnew matter to plead, he may desire a new trial in the same court \nupon a bill of review, and if justice shall not be done him upon that \ntrial, he may then come to the General Court for relief.\" In the pre- \nvious year it was ordered that \"in all actions of law it shall be the lib- \nerty of the plaintiff and defendant by mutual consent to choose whether \nthey will be tried by the bench, or by the bench and jury, unless it be \nwhere the law upon just reason hath otherwise determined ; the like \nliberty shall be granted to all persons in any criminal case. And it \nshall be in the liberty of both plaintiff and defendant, and likewise of \nevery delinquent to be judged by a jury, to challenge any of the jurors, \nand if the challenge be found just and reasonable by the bench or the \nrest of the jury, as the challenger shall choose, it shall be allowed him, \nand tales de circumstantibus empaneled in their room.\" \n\nWith regard to witnesses it was enacted in May, 1647, \"that no man \nshall be put to death without the testimony of two or three witnesses or \nthat which is equivalent thereto,\" and \" that any one magistrate or com- \nmissioner authorized thereunto by the General Court may take the testi- \nmony of any person of fourteen years of age, or above, of sound under- \nstanding and reputation, in any case, civil or criminal, and shall keep the \nsame in his own hands till the court, or deliver it to the recorder (clerk), \npublic notary or clerk of the writs, to be recorded, that so nothing may \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 51 \n\nbe altered in it. Provided that when any such witness shall have his \nabode within ten miles of the court, and there living and not disen- \nabled by sickness or other infirmity, the said testimony so taken out of \ncourt shall not be received or made use of in the court, except the \nwitnesses be also present to be further examined upon it, and provided \nalso that in all capital cases all witnesses shall be present wheresoever \nthey dwell.\" And it was further ordered \" that any person summoned \nto appear as a witness in any civil court between party and party, shall \nnot be compelled to travel to any court or place where he is to give his \ntestimony, except he who shall so summon him shall lay down or give \nhim satisfaction for his travel and expenses outward and homeward ; \nand for such time as he shall spend in attendance in such case, when \nhe is at such court or place, the court shall award due recompense. \nAnd it is ordered that two shillings a day shall be accounted due satis- \nfaction to any witness for travel and expenses ; and that when the wit- \nness dwelleth within three miles, and is not at charge to pass over any \nother ferry than betwixt Boston and Charlestown, then one shilling and \nsixpence per diem shall be accounted sufficient; and if any witness, after \nsuch payment or satisfaction, shall fail to appear to give his testimony \nhe shall be liable to pay the parties damages upon an action of the case. \nAnd all witnesses in criminal cases shall have suitable satisfaction paid \nby the treasurer, upon warrant from the court or judge before whom \nthe case is tried. And the charges of witnesses in all cases shall be \nborne by the parties delinquent and shall be added to the fines imposed, \nthat so the treasurer having, upon warrant from the court or other \njudge, satisfied such witnesses, it may be repaid him with the fine, that \nso the witness may be timely satisfied, and the country not damnified.\" \n\nWashburn says that \"verdicts were sometimes rendered that there \nwere strong grounds of suspicion, but not sufficient evidence to convict, \nand upon such verdicts the court gave sentence for what appeared to \nthem, on the trial, the defendant had been guilty of, although neither \ncharged in the indictment nor found by the jury. This may have led \nto the adoption of that part of the oath administered to jurors in crimi- \nnal cases, that if they find the defendant not guilty, they are to say so \nand no more.\" \n\nIt is unnecessary to go further in explaining the condition of judicial \naffairs in the colony before the assumption of office by Joseph Dudley \n\n\n52 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nas president of Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Maine and the \nNarragansett country or the King's Province. The colony charter was \nvacated on the 1 8th of June, 1684, and Dudley received his commission \nMay 15, 1686. He was a member of the colony and an assistant at the \ntime of his appointment. William Stoughton, also an assistant, was \ncommissioned deputy president, and fifteen persons, whose names have \nalready been given in this narrative, were appointed councillors. The \nGovernor and Council were made a Court of Record for the trial of civil \nand criminal matters, and had the authority to establish courts and ap- \npoint judges to preside over them. They set up a Superior Court, \ncomposed of a majority of the councillors, to sit three times a year at \nBoston and \"Courts of Pleas and Sessions of the Peace\" in the several \ncounties. William Stoughton was appointed to preside in the County \nCourts of Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex, with John Richards and Simon \nLynde as assistants. These courts were established July 26, 1686, and \nat the same time the admission of attorneys was regulated and a form \nof oath prescribed to be taken by them. Benjamin Bullivant, a physi- \ncian and apothecary, was appointed attorney-general and Giles Masters, \nAnthony Checkley, Mr. John Watson, Capt. Nathanial Thomas and \nMr. Christopher Webb were admitted and sworn as attorneys. Bullivant \nwas also appointed, November 2, 1686, clerk of the Superior Court, \nDaniel Allen and Thomas Dudley clerks of Suffolk, and John Winch- \ncomb and Nathaniel Page marshals. \n\nThe administration of Dudley was so brief that it is unnecessary to \nsay more of its judicial features. Edmund Andros was commissioned \ngoverncr of New England and arrived in Boston on the 19th of Decem- \nber, 1686. His commission embraced the whole of New England and \nincluded, what the commission of Dudley did not, the Plymouth as \nwell as the Massachusetts Colony. He appointed thirty nine council- \nlors, whose names have already been given, and delegated the powers \nof making and executing the laws to the Governor and Council, subject \nto the approval of the crown. He declared all public lands vested in \nthe king, and required grantees to prove their title. The Governor and \nCouncil were made a Court of Record, and jurisdiction in cases concern- \ning lands and not involving a sum of forty shillings was given to justices \nof the peace. He also established a \" Quarterly Sessions Court,\" held \n\n\nINI ROD UC 'TORY CHAPTER. 53 \n\nby the several justices in their respective counties, and an \" Inferior \nCourt of Common Pleas,\" to be held in each county by a judge assisted \nby two or more justices of the county, with a limitation of jurisdiction \nin Boston to twenty pounds, where the court was to sit once in two \nmonths, and in other counties to ten pounds, where it was to sit an- \nnually. In addition to these the \"Superior Court of Judicature\" was \nestablished, with jurisdiction over all civil and criminal matters in the \ncolony and in which no action could be begun for the recovery of less \nthan ten pounds, unless a question of freehold was involved. This \ncourt was to be held in Boston, Cambridge, Charlestown, Plymouth, \nBristol, Newport, Salem, Ipswich, Portsmouth, Falmouth (Portland), \nNorthampton and Springfield, and Joseph Dudley was appointed its \nchief justice. Besides a Court of Chancery special courts of Oyer and \nTerminer were appointed at various times. Under Andros marshals \nbecame sheriffs. The Superior Court of Judicature had three judges, \nand with Joseph Dudley, the chief justice, were associated William \nStoughton and Peter Bulkley, and afterwards at various times, Samuel \nShrimpton, Simon Lynde, Charles Lidget, John West and John Usher. \nGeorge Farwell was made attorney- general and clerk of the Supreme \nCourt, succeeding Benjamin Bullivant, the incumbent under Dudley, and \nJames Graham succeeded Farwell. James Sherlock was made sheriff. \n\nWhen the news of the English revolution reached New England and \nof the accession of William and Mary, Simon Bradstreet, the last gov- \nernor before the administration of Dudley, resumed his office on the \n1 8th day of April, 1689, a new house of deputies was chosen and the \nadministration of affairs was conducted as before the revocation \nof the charter. The Court of Assistants resumed its sessions in \nDecember and the County Court in Suffolk in July, 1689. Anthony \nCheckley was chosen attorney-general and John Greene marshal- \ngeneral of the colony. No further changes occurred under the colonial \ncharter. A new charter, embracing Massachusetts, Plymouth, Maine, \nNova Scotia, and the intervening territory in one government, by the \nname of the \" Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England,\" \npassed the seals on the 7th of March, 1691, and reached Boston May \n14, 1692. \n\nThe new charter provided that the governor and lieutenant-gover- \nnor and secretary should be appointed by the king, that a board of \n\n\n54 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ntwenty- eight councillors should be chosen by the General Court, and a \nHouse of Representatives should be chosen annually by the people. \n\nLimited space forbids the recital of the full text of the charter, but \nreference to some of its provisions will enable the reader to better un- \nderstand subsequent legislation concerning the judicial affairs of the \nprovince. Its opening paragraphs rehearse the charter issued by James \nthe First to the \" Northern Virginia Company,\" or, as it was afterwards \ncalled, \" the council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon,\" \non the 3d of November, 1606, and the grant or patent of said council \nto the Massachusetts Company on the 19th of March, 1627-8; together \nwith the charter issued by Charles the First to said company on the 4th \nof March, 1628-9, and the revocation and vacation of said charter in the \nterm of Holy Trinity in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Charles the \nSecond. It then declares that in conformity with the wishes of the agents \nof the Massachusetts Company, and for the purpose of bringing the \ncolony of New Plymouth under such a form of government as may put \nthem in a better condition for defence, the colony of \"the Massachusetts \nBay, the colony of New Plymouth, the province of Maine, the territory \ncalled Acadia, or Nova Scotia,\" and all the territory between Nova Scotia \nand Maine, are incorporated into one province by the name of the \"Prov- \nince of the Massachusetts Bay in New England.\" To the inhabitants of \nthe said province was given all that part of New England extending from \nthree miles north of the Merrimac River on the north part, to the Atlantic, \nor Western sea, on the south part, and westward as far as the colonies \nof Rhode Island, Connecticut, and the Narragansett country. \"And, \nalso, all that part and portion of mainland beginning at the entrance of \nPiscataway harbor, and so to pass up the same into the river of Newich- \nwannock, and through the same into the furthest head thereof, and from \nthence northwestward, till one hundred and twenty miles be finished, \nand from Piscataway harbor mouth aforesaid northeastward, along the \nsea coast to Sagadehock, and from the period of one hundred and twen- \nty miles aforesaid to cross overland to the one hundred and twenty \nmiles before reckoned up into the land of Piscataway harbor, through \nNewichwannock river, and also the north half of the Isles of Shoals, to- \ngether with the Isles of Capawock and Nantucket.\" \n\nIt was provided that all estates \" which any person, or persons, or \nbody politic or corporate, towns, villages, colleges or schools,\" hold un- \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 55 \n\nder grants from any General Court, shall continue to be enjoyed by \nthem under their grants. \n\nSo far as the government of the province was concerned, it declared \nthat there should be one governor, one lieutenant-governor, and one \nsecretary to be appointed by the crown, and twenty- eight assistants, or \ncouncillors, to be chosen by the General Court annually. Isaac Ad- \ndington was declared the first secretary, and a provisional board of \ncouncillors was appointed, consisting of Simon Bradstreet, John Rich- \nards, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Wait Winthrop, John Phillips, James Bur- \nrell, Samuel Sewall, Samuel Appleton, Bartholomew Gedney, John \nHathorne, Elisha Hutchinson, Robert Pike, Jonathan Corwin, John \nJolifTe, Adam Winthrop, Richard Middlecot, John Foster, Peter Ser- \ngeant, John Lynde, Samuel Heyman, Stephen Mason, Thomas Hinck- \nley, William Bradford, John Walley, Barnabas Lathrop, Job Alcot, \nSamuel Daniel and Sylvanus Davis. \n\nIt was provided that the governor, and at least seven of the coun- \ncillors, should meet from time to time \"for the ordering and directing \nthe affairs\" of the province, and a General Assembly should be chosen \nconsisting of two representatives, and no more, from each town. To \nthe governor was given the power to adjourn, prorogue and dissolve \nthe General Assembly whenever he might judge it necessary. At least \neighteen of the councillors must be inhabitants of the territory of the \nold Massachusetts colony, four of the New Plymouth colony, three of the \nprovince of Maine, and one an inhabitant of the territory lying between \nthe Sagadehock River and Nova Scotia. \n\nAuthority was given to the governor, with the advice and consent of \nof the council from time to time, to nominate and appoint, \" Judges, \nCommissioners of Oyer and Terminer, Sheriffs, Provosts, Marshals, Jus- \ntices of the Peace, and other officers, to our Council and Courts of Jus- \ntice belonging.\" \n\nIt was also declared, \" for the greater care and encouragement of our \nloving subjects inhabiting our said province or territory of the Massa- \nchusetts Bay, and of such as shall come to inhabit there, we do by these \npresents, for us, our heirs and successors, grant, establish, and ordain, \nthat for ever hereafter there shall be a liberty of conscience allowed in \nthe worship of God to all Christians (except papists) inhabiting, or \nwhich shall inhabit or be resident within our said province or territory.\" \n\n\n56 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nTo the General Court was given the power to erect and establish \njudicatories and courts of record, or other courts, for the hearing, try- \ning and determining \"all manner of crimes, offences, pleas, processes, \nplaints, actions, matters, causes and things whatsoever, arising or hap- \npening within the province,\" and to the Governor and Council \"the \npower to execute or perform all that is necessary for the probate of wills \nand granting administrations.\" \n\nAn appeal could be had from the judgment or sentence of any court \nto the Privy Council within fourteen days, provided the amount in- \nvolved exceeded three hundred pounds sterling. The General Court \nwas authorized to make all manner of reasonable laws, either with pen- \nalties or without, both for the good order of the province and for its \nsupport and defence, but the veto power in elections, as well as in the \nenactment of laws, was conferred on the governor ; and it was further \nprovided, that all orders, laws, statutes, and ordinances, should be trans- \nmitted to the crown for approval, and that in case any of them were \nrejected by the Privy Council within three years, they should become \nvoid. A further provision was added, that \" the exercise of any Ad- \nmiral Court jurisdiction power or authority is reserved, to be from time \nto time erected, granted and exercised by virtue of commissions under \nthe great seal of England, or under the seal of the high admiral, or the \ncommissioners for executing the office of high admiral of England.\" \n\nThe charter was dated October 7, 1691, and, as has been stated, \nreached Boston May 14, 1692, when William Phipps, the first royal \ngovernor, assumed the reins of power, with William Stoughton as lieu- \ntenant-governor. An explanatory charter, chiefly relating to the elec- \ntion of a speaker of the House of Assembly was granted by King George, \ndated August 26, 1726, which contains no reference to the administra- \ntion of justice. On the 8th of June, 1692, the first General Court con- \nvened, but such was the popular excitement concerning the witchcraft \ndelusion, that Governor Phipps, without any authority conferred by the \ncharter, issued commissions bearing date of June 2, 1692, to a Special \nCourt of Oyer and Terminer, consisting of William Stoughton, chief \njustice, and Nathaniel Saltonstall, John Richards, Bartholomew Gedney, \nWait Winthrop, Samuel Sewall and Peter Sergeant, associate judges, \nto take cognizance of crimes in Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex. Mr. Sal- \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY C RAFTER. 57 \n\ntonstall declined the position, and Jonathan Corwin was appointed in \nhis place. Stephen Sewall was made clerk of the court; Thomas New- \nton, their majesties' attorney ; Anthony Checkley, attorney-general; \nand George Corwin, sheriff. Washburn states that the commission to \nCheckley informed him that he was to act in the court \" assigned to \ninquire of, hear and determine for this time, all and all manner of fel- \nonies, witchcraft, crimes and offences how, or by whomsoever done, \ncommitted or perpetrated within the several counties of Suffolk, Essex \nand Middlesex.\" This court sat at various times between the 2d of June \nand the 17th of September, and condemned nineteen persons to be \nhung and one to be pressed to death. As the trials were outside of the \ncourts of Suffolk county, their history does not come within the scope \nof this narrative. It is interesting, however, to note that no lawyer was \nconnected with the court. Stoughton and Sewall were clergymen, Win- \nthrop and Gedney were physicians, Sergeant a gentleman, probably \nwithout a profession, and Richards, and Corwin, and Checkley, the at- \ntorney-general, were merchants. It may not, however, be improper to \ninterpose some defence of a court upon which so much obloquy has been \ncast, as if they were specially infected by a delusion, which seems to \nus in later times so unreasonable and abhorrent The fact is, that a be- \nlief in witchcraft was as universal as the belief that the Bible was the in- \nspired word of God. Theologians, especially, were convinced of its \nexistence, and it is possible that to Stoughton and Sewall, the clergy- \nmen on the bench, the convictions and punishments were due. In the \n1 8th verse of the 22d chapter of Exodus we find the command \" Thou \nshalt not suffer a witch to live.\" In the 27th verse of the 20th chapter \nof Leviticus are these words: \" A man also, or a woman, that hath a \nfamiliar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death; they \nshall stone him with stones ; their blood shall be upon them ;\" and in \nthe 1 8th chapter of Deuteronomy, 10th, nth, and 12th verses, it is \nwritten: \"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh \nhis son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, \nor an observer of times, as an enchanter or a witch ; or a charmer, or a \nconsulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer, for all \nthat do these things are an abomination unto the Lord ; and because of \nthese abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before \n\n8 \n\n\n58 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthee.\" It is not improbable that the victims of delusion were as firm in \ntheir belief as any, and accepted their punishment with a conviction of \nthe righteousness of its infliction. \n\nThe first act relating to the courts was passed by the General Court \nJune 28, and published on the 2d of July. It was as follows : \n\n\" An act for the holding of Courts of Justice. \n\n\" Forasmuch as the orderly regulation and well establishment of Courts \nof Justice is of great concernment, and the public occasions with \nreference to the war, and otherwise being so pressing at this season that \nthis Court cannot now conveniently set longer to advise upon and fully \nsettle the same, but to the intent that justice be not obstructed or \ndelayed, \n\n\" Be it ordained and enacted, by the Governor, Council and Rep- \nresentatives, convened in general assembly, and it is ordained by \nauthority of the same, \n\n\" Sec. 1. That on or before the last Tuesday of July next there be a \ngeneral sessions of the peace held and kept in each respective county \nwithin this province, by the justices of the same county, or three of them \nat least (the first justice of the quorum then present to preside), who \nare hereby empowered to hear and determine all matters relating to the \nconservation of the peace, and whatsoever is by them cognizable ac- \ncording to law, and to grant licenses to such persons within the same \ncounty, being first approved of by the selectmen of each town where \nsuch persons dwell, whom they shall think fit to be employed as inn- \nholders or retailers of wines or strong liquors, and that sessions of the \npeace be successively held, and kept as aforesaid within the several coun \nties at the same times and places as the County Courts or inferior \ncourts of common pleas are hereafter appointed to be kept. \n\n\" And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, \n\n\"Sec. 2. That the County Courts, or inferior courts of common pleas, \nand kept in each respective county by the justices of the same county, \nor three of them at least (the first justice of the quorum then present to \npreside), at the same times and places they have been formerly kept ac- \ncording to law, for the hearing and determining of all civil actions \narising or happening within the same, triable at the common law accord- \ning to former usage; the justices for holding and keeping of the said \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 59 \n\nCourt within the county of Suffolk to be particularly appointed and \ncommissionated by the Governor, with the advice, and consent of the \nCouncil. And that all writs or attachments shall issue out of the clerk's \noffice of the said several courts, signed by the clerk of such court, \ndirected unto the sheriff of the county, his under sheriff or deputy. \nThe jurors to serve at said courts to be chosen according to former \ncustom, by and of the freeholders and other inhabitants, qualified as is \ndirected in their majesties' royal charter. This act to continue until \nother provision be made by the General Court or Assembly.\" \n\nPrior to the passage of the above act it was ordered that all the local \nlaws made by the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, and \nthe government of New Plymouth, not repugnant to the laws of Eng- \nland, \" nor inconsistent with the present constitution and settlement by \ntheir majesties' royal charter, do remain and continue in full force in the \nrespective places for which they were made and used, until the iothday \nof November next, except in cases where other provision is or shall be \nmade by this Court or Assembly; and all persons are required to conform \nthemselves accordingly; and the several justices are hereby empowered \nto the execution of said laws as the the magistrates formerly were.\" \n\nThe act for the holding of courts of justice was disallowed by the \nPrivy Council on the 22d of August, 1695, because a distinction was \nmade in the manner of appointing justices for the county of Suffolk \nand other counties. \n\nOn the 25th of November, 1692, at the second session of the General \nCourt, an act was passed for the establishing of judicatories and courts \nof justice within the province. It provided, \n\n\" Sec. 1. That all manner of debts, trespasses and other matters not \nexceeding the value of forty shillings (wherein the title of land is not \nconcerned) shall and may be heard, tried, adjudged and determined by \nany of their majesties' justices of the peace of this province, with- \nin the respective counties where he resides ; who is hereby empow- \nered upon complaint made, to grant a warrant or summons against the \nparty complained of seven days before the day of trial or hearing, \nthereby requiring him or them to appear and answer the said complaint, \nand in case of non-appearance to issue out a warrant of contempt \ndirected to the constable or other officers, to bring the contemner before \n\n\n60 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nhim, as well to answer the said contempt, as the plaintiff's action, and if \nhe sees cause, to fine the said contemner ; \n\n\" Be it further enacted and ordained by the authority aforesaid, \n\" Sec. 4. That there shall be held and kept in each respective county \nwithin the province, yearly, at the times and places hereafter named and \nexpressed, four courts or quarter sessions of the peace, by justices of \npeace of the same county, who are hereby empowered to hear and de- \ntermine all matters relating to the conservation of the peace, and pun- \nishment of offenders, and whatsoever is by them cognizable according \nto law ; that is to say, for the county of Suffolk at Boston on the first \nTuesdays in March, June, September and December; for the county of \nPlymouth at Plymouth on the third Tuesdays in March, June, Septem- \nber and December; for the county of Essex, at Salem, on the last \nTuesdays in June and December; at Ipswich on the last Tuesday in \n. March, and at Newbury on the last Tuesday in September ; for the \ncounty of Middlesex, at Charlestown on the second Tuesdays in March \nand December, at Cambridge on the second Tuesday in September, and \nat Concord on the second Tuesday of June ; for the county of Barn- \nstable, at Barnstable on the first Tuesdays in April, July, October and \nJanuary; at Bristol for the county of Bristol on the second Tuesdays \nin April, July, October and January ; for the county of York on the \nfirst Tuesday in April and July, and at Wells on the first Tuesdays in \nOctober and January ; and for the county of Hampshire, at Northamp- \nton on the first Tuesdays in March and June ; at Springfield on the last \nTuesdays in September and December; and that there be a general ses- \nsions of the peace held and kept at Edgartown upon the Island of Cap- \nawack alias Martha's Vineyard, and on the Island of Nantucket re- \nspectively, upon tl\\e last Tuesday in March and on the first Tuesday of \nOctober yearly from time to time. \n\n\" And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, \n\" Sec. 5. That at the times and places before mentioned there shall be \nheld and kept in each respective county and islands before named within \nthe province, an inferior court of common pleas, by four of the justices \nof and residing within the same county and islands respectively, to be \nappointed and commissionated thereto, any three of whom to be a \nquorum, for the hearing and determining of all civil actions arising or \n\n\nn » \n\nIkJLO. ' \n\n\nA/Ls \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 61 \n\nhappening within the same, triable at the common law of what nature, \nkind or quality soever. \n\n\" And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, \n\" Sec. 6. That there shall be a Superior Court of Judicature over the \nwhole province, to be held and kept annually at the respective times \nand places hereafter mentioned, by one chief justice and four other \njustices, to be appointed and commissionated for the same, three of \nwhom to be a quorum, who shall have cognizance of all pleas, real, per- \nsonal or mixt, as well in all pleas of the crown and in all matters relat- \ning to the conservation of the peace and punishment of offenders, as in \ncivil causes or actions between party and party, and between their \nmajesties and any of their subjects, whether the same do concern the \nrealty and relate to any right of freehold and inheritance, or whether \nthe same do concern the personalty, and relate to matter of debt, con- \ntract, damage or personal injury, and also in all mixt actions which may \nconcern both realty and personalty ; and after deliberate hearing to \ngive judgment and award execution thereon. The said Superior \nCourt to be held and kept at the times and places within the respective \ncounties following; that is to say, within the county of Suffolk at Bos- \nton on the last Tuesdays of April and October; within the county of \nMiddlesex at Charlestown on the last Tuesdays of July and January ; \nwithin the county of Essex at Salem on the second Tuesday of Novem- \nber, and at Ipswich on the second Tuesday of May ; within the counties \nof Plymouth, Barnstable and Bristol at Plymouth on the last Tuesday \nof February, and at Bristol on the last Tuesday of August. \n\n\" Sec. 7. That the trial of all .civil causes by appeal or writ of error, \nfrom any of the Inferior Courts within the respective counties of York or \nHampshire, the Islands of Capawock alias Martha's Vineyard and Nan- \ntucket shall be in the Superior Court to be held at Boston or Charles- \ntown. \n\n\" And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, \n\"Sec. 14. That there be a high Court of Chancery within the province, \nwho shall have power and authority to hear and determine all matters \nof equity, of what nature, kind or quality soever, and all controversies, \ndisputes and differences arising betwixt co-executors, and other matters \nproper and cognizable to said court, not relievable by common law ; the \n\n\n62 HISTORY OF THE BENCH A NT) BAR. \n\nsaid court to be holden and kept by the governor, or such other as \nhe shall appoint to be chancellor, assisted with eight or more of the \ncouncil, who may appoint all necessary officers to the said court; which \nsaid court shall sit, and be held at such times and places as the gover- \nnor or chancellor for the time being shall from time to time appoint ; \nprovided nevertheless, that the justices in any of the courts aforesaid, \nwhere the forfeiture of any penal bond is found, shall be and hereby are \nempowered to chancer the same unto the just debt and damages.\" \n\nThis act also was disallowed by the Privy Council on the 22d of Aug- \nust, 1695, because the provision of the act that either party not being \nsatisfied with the judgment of any of the courts in personal actions not \nexceeding ^300 may appeal to His Majesty in council, seemed to ex- \nclude the right of appeal in real actions. \n\nOn the 9th of November, 1692, an act was passed providing \n\" whereas at the session of this court in June last, an act was passed \nentitled ' an act for continuing the local laws, to stand in force till Nov- \nember the ioth, 1692, it is ordained and enacted.' That the said act \nand every part of it be and hereby is revived and continued in full force, \nto all intents and purposes from and after the said tenth day of No- \nvember, and shall so continue until the General Assembly shall take \nfurther order.\" \n\nOn the 1 ith of December, 1693, an act was passed in addition to the \n\" Act for establishing of Judicatories and Courts of Justice within the \nprovince, which, among other things pertaining to forms and rules of \ncourts changed the time for holding the court of quarter sessions, and the \nInferior Court of Common Pleas in Boston to the first Tuesdays in July, \nOctober, January and April, and provided that there be a Court of Judi- \ncature, Court of Assize and general gaol delivery held at Kittery in the \nCounty of York, on Wednesday before the second Tuesday in May, \nand at Springfield on the last Tuesday in June. This act was also dis- \nallowed by the Privy Council on the ioth of December, 1696, because \nthe act to which it was in addition had been disallowed. \n\nAn act was also passed December 5, 1693, providing for a new estab- \nlishment and regulation of the chancery, but as this act was mainly \namendatory of the act establishing judicatories, passed November 25, \n1692, it was disallowed because that act had been. \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 63 \n\nr \n\nThe next act passed concerning the courts was enacted February 15^ \n1693-4, and provided that the Superior Court should be held at differ- \nent times from those specified in the original act, but did not affect \nSuffolk county, and another act of a similar character was passed March \n2 in the same year. \n\nVarious other acts were passed at various times concerning modes of \nproceeding in the courts, and on the 3d of October, 1696, an act \"was \npassed, of which the following are the preamble and first section : \n\" Whereas, his majestie's pleasure hath been signified for the repealing \nand making void an act made and passed by the Great and General \nCourt or assembly, anno one thousand six hundred ninety- two, in the \nfourth year of the reign of his present majesty, and the late Queen \nMary, his royal consort of blessed memory, entitled 'An act for the es- \ntablishing of judicatories and courts of justice within this province,' also \nfor the repealing and making void one other act, entitled ' An act for \nthe establishing of precedents and forms of writs and processes, with \nthe particular reasons of his majestie's disallowance of said acts, for the \ninformation and direction of the General Assembly and the amendments \nand considerations necessary for the supply thereof; and, whereas, it is \nabsolutely necessary that speedy provision be made, that his majestie's \nsubjects may not suffer for the want of due course of justice, \n\n\" Be it enacted, etc. : \n\n\" Sec. 1. That the before mentioned act, entitled 'An act for the estab- \nlishing of judicatories and courts of justice within this province,' and all \nand singular the paragraphs, articles, clauses and sentences thereof (ex- \ncept the paragraph for constituting a Court of Chancery, and such other \narticles, clauses and sentences in said act as have been heretofore re- \npealed, altered or otherwise provided for, in and by any other act or \nacts of the General Assembly of this province, or which in and by the \npresent act shall be altered, otherwise provided for, or declared to be \nnull and void), be and hereby are revived and continued, to abide and \nremain in full force and virtue until the end of the first session of the \nGeneral Assembly, to be begun and held upon the last Wednesday of the \nmonth of May next, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred \nninety-seven, and no longer ; provided, nevertheless, that the words \n(and no other) in the section or paragraph of the said act providing for \n\n\n64 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nliberty of appeal unto his majesty or council, be and hereby are declared \nvoid and of no effect.\" \n\nThis act was also disallowed by the Privy Council on the 24th of No- \nvember, 1698, notwithstanding the objectionable part of the act, which \nhad been previously disallowed, was removed, and no other reason was \ngiven for its disallowance, than the fact that the act which it revived had \nbeen disallowed. It, however, answered a purpose. The Superior \nCourt of Judicature and the Inferior Court of Common Pleas had been \nestablished under the law which had been disallowed or repealed by \norder of the Privy Council, and judges of both courts had been ap- \npointed. As soon as the knowledge of the disallowance came to the \nGeneral Court the establishment of the courts and the commissions of \nthe judges would be invalid, and consequently the passage of this act \nor some other was necessary to keep them alive. Before the disal- \nlowance of this revival act, which did not take place until November 24, \n1698, another act was passed on the 19th of June for the establishment \nof courts very similar to the original act of 1692, with the name of the \nQuarter Sessions of the Peace changed to a Court of General Sessions of \nthe Peace and the omission of the provision for the Chancery Court. \nThis act was also disallowed November 24, 1698, because the provision \n\" among other things that all matters and issues in fact shall be tried by \na jury of twelve men was contrary to the intention of an act of parlia- \nment entitled An act for preventing frauds and regulating abuses in \nthe plantation trade by which it was provided that all causes relating \nto the breach of the acts of trade may, at the pleasure of the officer or \ninformer, be tried in the Court of Admiralty, to be held in any of his \nMajesty's Plantations, respectively where such offence shall be com- \nmitted ; because the method of trial in such courts of Admiralty is not \nby juries of twelve men, as by the forementioned act for establishing of \nof courts is directed.\" \n\nFinally, at the session of the General Court, which began on the 31st \nof May, 1699, three acts were passed establishing courts which were \napproved by the Privy Council, and were published on the 27th of \nJune. \n\nThe first established a Court of General Sessions of the Peace, to be \nheld by the justices of the peace in each county with a jurisdiction over \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 65 \n\nmatters relating to the conservation of the peace and the punishment of \noffenders. The court in Suffolk county was to beheld in Boston on the \nfirst Tuesdays in July, October, January and April. At a convenient \ntime before the sitting of the court the clerk of the peace in each county \nwas required to issue warrants to the constables of the several towns, \ndirecting them to assemble the freemen to choose such a number of men \nfor jurors as the warrants might specify. An appeal from this court \nmight be taken to the Superior Court of Judicature. \n\nThe second act established an Inferior Court of Common Pleas to be \nheld in each county by four persons to be appointed as justices of the \ncourt and who shall have cognizance of all civil actions within the \ncounty triable at common law. The court for Suffolk was to be held in \nBoston on the first Tuesdays in July, October, January and April. All \nprocesses and writs for any suit were to issue out of the office of the \nclerk of the court in his majesty's name, under the seal of the court \nand directed to the sheriff, or in cases involving a, sum less than ten \npounds to a constable, and the jurors were to be summoned under the \ndirection of the clerk of the court in the same manner as that described \nfor jurors of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace. \n\nThe third court established was a Superior Court of Judicature, Court \nof Assize and General Gaol Delivery for the whole province, to be held \nat specified times and places by one chief justice and four associate jus- \ntices to be appointed for the same, any three of whom might be a \nquorum, with cognizance of all pleas, real, personal or mixed, as well all \npleas of the crown and all matters relating to the conservation of the \npeace and punishment of offenders, as civil causes or actions, and also \nall mixed actions which concern both realty and personalty brought be- \nfore them by appeal, review, writ of error or otherwise; and generally \nof all other matters as fully as the Court of King's Bench, Common Pleas \nand Exchequer ought to have. The court for the county of Suffolk was \nto be held at Boston on the first Tuesdays in November and May, and \nthe jurors were to be summoned under the direction of the clerk in the \nmanner already described. \n\nAn act was passed June 20, 170 1-2, providing that attorneys prac- \nticing in the courts shall be under oath administered by the clerk in \nopen court as follows : \n9 \n\n\n66 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\"You shall do no falsehood, nor consent to any to be done in the \ncourt, and if you know of any to be done you shall give knowledge \nthereof to the justices of the court, or some of them, that it may be re- \nformed. You shall not wittingly and willingly promote, sue or procure \nto be sued any false or unlawful suit, nor give aid or consent to the \nsame. You shall delay no man for lucre or malice, but you shall use \nyourself in the office of an attorney within the court to the best of your \nlearning and discretion, and with all good fidelity as well to the courts \nas to your clients.\" The same act provided that the fee to be allowed \nfor an attorney in the Superior Court of Judicature should be twelve \nshillings, and in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas ten shillings. \n\nThe judges of the Superior Court of Judicature, which continued \nduring the whole of the provincial period and until February 20, \n1 78 1, were as follows: \n\nChief Justices. — William Stoughton, appointed 1692; Isaac Addington, appointed, \n1703; Wait Winthrop, appointed 1708; Samuel Sew all, appointed 1718; Benjamin \nLynde, appointed 1728; Paul Dudley, appointed 1745; Stephen Sewall, appointed \n1752; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed 1760; Benjamin Lynde jr., appointed 1771; \nPeter Oliver, appointed 1772; John Adams, appointed 1776; William Gushing, ap- \npointed 1777. \n\nAssociate Justices. — Thomas Danforth, appointed 1692; Wait Winthrop, appointed \n1692; John Richards, appointed 1692; Samuel Sewall, appointed 1692; Elisha Cooke, \nappointed 1695; John Walley, appointed 1700; John Saffin, appointed 1701; Isaac \nAddington, appointed 1702; John Hathorne, appointed 1702; John Leverett, appointed \n1702; Jonathan Curwin, appointed 1708; Benjamin Lynde, appointed 1712; Nathaniel \nThomas, appointed 1712; Addington Davenport, appointed 1715; Edmund Quincy, \nappointed 1718; Paul Dudley, appointed 1718; John Gushing, appointed 1728; Jona- \nthan Remington, appointed 1733; Richard Saltonstall, appointed 1736; Thomas Graves \nappointed 1738; Stephen Sewall, appointed 1739; Nathaniel Hubbard, appointed 1745; \nBenjamin Lynde, jr., appointed 1745; John Cushing, appointed 1747; Chambers Rus- \nsel, appointed 1752; Peter Oliver, appointed 1756; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed \n1760; Edmund Trowbridge, appointed 1767; Foster Hutchinson, appointed 1771; \nNathaniel Ropes, appointed 1772 ; William Brown, appointed 1774 ; William Cushing, \nappointed 1775; Nathaniel P. Sargeant, appointed 1775; William Reed, appointed 1775; \nJames Warren, appointed 1776; Robert Treat Paine, appointed 1775; Jedediah Foster, \nappointed 1776; James Sullivan, appointed 1776; David Sewall, appointed 1777. \n\nOf these, Stoughton, Winthrop, Richards, Samuel Sewall, Cooke, \nSaffin, Addington, Benjamin Lynde, Davenport, Quincy, Paul Dudley, \nBenjamin Lynde, jr., Thomas Hutchinson, and Foster Hutchinson were \n\n\n^^z^ \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHATTER. 67 \n\nSuffolk county men at the time of their appointment, and Peter Oliver \nwas a native of Boston, but at the time of his appointment a resident of \nMiddleboro. It is not proposed herein to make special allusion to these \nor others of the bench and bar in this chapter, as all will have a place in \nthe biographical register contained in this volume. Of the above list of \njudges John Adams and James Warren never took their seats. \n\nThe last session of the Superior Court under the charter was held in \nSeptember, 1774. The first session under the Revolutionary regime \nwas held in Essex county in June, 1776. While the British held Bos- \nton the General Court passed an act in February, 1776, providing that \nDedham should be the shire of Suffolk county, and that the courts for \nthat county should be held in Dedham and Braintree. The first Suffolk \ncounty court under that act was held in Braintree in September, 1776, \nand the first court in Boston after the siege was held in February, 1777. \n\nBesides the standing justices of the Superior Court ot Judicature, \nspecial justices were appointed to act when the standing justices were \nparties in interest. The following list of special justices is presumed to \nbe full and correct : \n\nPerm Townsend, appointed October 24, 1712; Nathaniel Norden, appointed October \n24, 1712; John Burrill, appointed October 24, 1712; Addington Davenport, appointed \nSeptember 16, 1715; John Clark, appointed January 7, 1718; Thomas Fitch, appointed \nJanuary 7, 1718 ; John Clark, appointed June 27, 1719 ; Thomas Fitch, appointed June \n27, 1719; Jonah Wolcott, appointed December 15, 1720; John Cushing, appointed \nSeptember 6, 1723; John Clark, September 6, 1723; Jonathan Remington, appointed \nSeptember 6, 1723; Thomas Fitch, appointed December 10, 1725; JobAlmy, appointed \nSeptember 1, 1726 ; Elisha Cooke, appointed February 23, 1726-7 ; Jonathan Remington, \nappointed February 23, 1726-7; Isaac Winslow, appointed June 19, 1727; John Cush- \ning, appointed June 19, 1727; Nathaniel Byiield, appointed June 27, 1727; Thomas \nFitch, appointed June 27, 1727; Jonathan Remington, appointed June 27, 1727; \nNathaniel Byfield, appointed December 12, 1728 ; Thomas Fitch, appointed December \n12, 1728; Thomas Fitch, appointed December 12, 1728; Theophilus Burrill, appointed \nDecember 12, 1728; Jonathan Remington, appointed December 12, 1728; Nathaniel \nByfield, appointed December 19, 1728 ; Adam Winthrop, appointed December 19, 1728 ; \nNathaniel Byfield, appointed January 11, 1732-3 ; Adam Winthrop, appointed June 22, \n1733; Thomas Cushing, appointed June 22, 1733; Ezekiel Lewis, appointed June 22, \n1733; Theophilus Burrill, appointed April 19,1735; Joseph Wilder, appointed April \n]!», 1735; Samuel Thaxter, appointed June 27, 1735; Thomas Berry, appointed June \n27, 1735; Benjamin Prescott, appointed June 27,1735; Thomas Greaves, appointed \nFebruary 10, 1736-7; Job Ahny, appointed October 25, 1737; Thomas Greaves, ap- \npointed November 10, 1737: Benjamin Prescott, appointed November 10, 1737; Seth \n\n\n68 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliams, appointed August 12, 1738 ; Benjamin Marston, appointed August 12, 1738; \nWilliam Ward, appointed August 19, 1738; Seth Williams, appointed March 2 1738-9 ; \nWilliam Ward, appointed March 2, 1738-9; Edwaid Hutchinson, appointed May 2, \n1739; Joseph Wilder, appointed May 2, 1739; Stephen Sewall, appointed May 2, 1739; \nEbenezer Burrill, appointed June 15, 1839 ; Thomas Berry, appointed January 24, \n1739-40; Benjamin Marston, appointed January 24, 17.19-40; Edward Hutchinson, \nappointed April 18, 174:] ; Nathaniel Hubbard, appointed April 18, 1743 ; Edward Hutch- \ninson, appointed November 3, 1743; Nathaniel Hubbard, appointed November 3, 1743; \nJohn Gushing, appointed October 23, 1744 ; Sylvanus Bourne, appointed October 23, 1744; \nJohn Cashing, appointed August 19, 1747 ; Sylvanus Bourne, appointed August 19, 1747 ; \nJoseph Pynchon, appointed August 19, 1747 ; John Greenleaf, appointed April 6, 1748; \nEzekiel Cheever, appointed January 11, 1748-9 : Charles Russell, appointed January \n11, 1748-9; John Jeffries, appointed March 2,1748-9; William Brattle, appointed \nMarch 2, 1748-9; Thomas Hubbard, appointed March 2, 1748-9; Joseph Sawyer, ap- \npointed June 19, 1749 ; Nathaniel Sparhawk, appointed June 19, 1749 ; Ezekiel \nCheever, appointed August 12, 1749; Joseph Richards, appointed August 12, 1749; \nCharles Russell, appointed February 23, 1749-50; Simon Frost, appointed February 23, \n1749-50 ; Samuel Danforth, appointed August 24, 1753 ; Ezekiel Cheever, appointed \nAugust 24, 1753 ; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed September 20, 1754 ; Thomas Hutchin- \nson, appointed February 21, 1755; William Brattle, appointed June 26, 1755; Andrew \nOliver, appointed February 13, 175G; William Brattle, appointed February 13, 1756; \nJohn Chandler, appointed February 20, 1756; Andrew Oliver, appointed February 20, \n1756; Benjamin Lincoln, appointed August 1, 1758; Samuel White, appointed August \n1, 1758; Timothy Ruggles, appointed February 23, 1762 ; Samuel Danforth, appointed \nAngust 19, 1762; Nathaniel Ropes, appointed September 7, 1762 ; Nathaniel Ropes, \nappointed August 30, 1770; Jedediah Foster, appointed September 17, 1770; Timothy \nPain, appointed February 14, 1771 ; Joseph Lee, appointed February 17, 1773 ; Will- \niam Browne, appointed February \"17, 1773; Joseph Lee, appointed March 4, 1773; \nWilliam Browne, appointed March 4, 1773. \n\nThere were also commissioners of Oyer and Terminer appointed by \nthe Governor and Council to try special cases in accordance with author- \nity given in the province charter as follows: \" And we do further grant \nand ordain that it shall and may be lawful for the said Governor with \nthe advice and consent of the Council or Assistants from time to time to \nnominate and appoint Judges, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, \nSheriffs, Provosts, Marshals, Justices of the Peace and other officers to \nour Council and Courts of Justice belonging.\" \n\nIt may be that Governor Phipps considered this authority sufficient \nfor his appointment of the witchcraft court in 1692 and that the judges \nsitting in that court should be called Commissioners of Oyer and Term- \niner. The following list will show who these commissioners were at \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 69 \n\ndifferent periods and the purpose for which they were appointed. The \nwitchcraft judges are included in the list: \n\nWilliam Stoughton, John Richards, Wait Winthrop, Bartholomew Gedney, Samuel \nSewall, Jonathan Curwin, Peter Sergeant; appointed June 2, 1892, to take cognizance \nof all dimes in Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex (witchcraft). \n\nFrancis Hooke, Charles Frost, Samuel Wheelwright, Thomas Newton ; appointed \nOctober 22, 1692, to try murderers in the county of York. \n\nThomas Danforth, Wait Winthrop, Elisha Cooke, Samuel Sewall; appointed Decem- \nber 22, 1698, to try Jacob Smith. \n\nJohnHathorne, William Browne, Jonathan Curwin, Benjamin Browne, John Higgin- \nson ; appointed November 23, 1705, to try an Indian in Salem. \n\nJohn Gardner, James Coffin, Thomas Mayhew, Benjamin Skiffe, William Gayer; ap- \npointed June 15, 1704, to try an Indian in Nantucket. \n\nJoseph Hammond, Ichabod Plaisted, John Plaisted, William Pepperell, John Wheel- \nwright, John Hill, Lewis Bane, or any four of them; appointed November 8, 1707, to \ntry Joseph Gunnison for murder. \n\nWait Winthrop, Samuel Sewall, John Hathorne, Jonathan Curwin, Elisha Hutchin- \nson; appointed March 7, 1711. \n\nNathaniel Thomas, John Otis, James Warren, John Gorham ; appointed June 5, 1713, \nto try two Indians for capital crimes. \n\nSamuel Partridge, John Pynchon, John Parsons, John Stoddard ; appointed Decem- \nber 3, 1718, to try at Northampton Ovid Ruchbrock for counterfeiting bills of credit of \nthe province. \n\nJohn dishing, Sylvanus Bourne, Zacheus Mayhew, Enoch Coffin, John Otis ; ap- \npointed June 23, 1743, to try an Indian at Nantucket. \n\nJohn Cushing, Sylvanus Bourne, Zacheus Mayhew, Enoch Coffin, John Otis; ap- \npointed August 9. 1716, for a trial at Nantucket. \n\nAs the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts is practically a con- \ntinuation of the Superior Court of Judicature of the province, it will be \nproper to explain its origin and follow its career to the present day. It \nhas been stated that the last appointment to the Superior Court of Judi- \ncature was made in 1777. In that year the Council and House of Rep- \nresentatives met in convention and adopted a form of constitution \"for \nthe State of Massachusetts Bay,\" which was submitted to the people and \nrejected. On the 20th of February, 1779, the General Court passed a \nresolve calling on the qualified voters to give in their votes on the ques- \ntion : Whether they chose to have a new constitution made and whether \nthey will empower their representatives to vote for calling a State con- \nvention for that purpose. Both of these questions having been carried \nin the affirmative, a constitutional convention was held in Cambridge \n\n\n7o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\non the ist of September, 1779, in accordance with a resolve of the Gen- \neneral Court passed on the 17th of June. This convention, of which \nJames Bowdoin was president, and Samuel Barrett secretary, adjourned \non the 1 1 th of November to meet in Boston on the 5th of January, 1780. \nOn the 2d of March a resolution was passed to submit the constitution, \nwhich had been framed, to the people, and the convention adjourned to \nmeet in the Brattle Street Church in Boston on the 7th of June. At \nthe adjourned meeting the votes were counted and on the 15th of June \nthe convention resolved \" That the people of the State of Massachusetts \nBay have accepted the Constitution as it stands, in the printed form sub- \nmitted to their revision.\" \n\nArticle 9th of the constitution provided that \" To the end there may \nbe no failure of justice or danger arise to the Commonwealth from a \nchange of the form of Government, all officers, civil and military, hold- \ning commissions under the Government and people of Massachusetts \nBay in New England, and all other officers of the said Government and \npeople, at the time this constitution shall take effect, shall have, hold, \nuse, exercise and enjoy all the powers and authority, to them granted \nor committed, until other persons shall be appointed in their stead; and \nall courts of law shall proceed in the execution of the business in their \nrespective departments ; and all the executive and legislative officers, \nbodies and powers shall continue in full force, in the enjoyment and \nexercise of all their trusts, employments and authority ; until the Gen- \neneral Court and the supreme and executive officers under this consti- \ntution are designated and invested with their respective trusts, powers \nand authority.\" \n\nIn other parts of the constitution the court is made to assume its new \nname of Supreme Judicial Court, and thus the old court was perpetuated \nwith a new title, but with the same jurisdiction, officers and authority. \nA confirmation of the continuance of the old court was declared in the \nfollowing act passed by the General Court on the 20th of February, \n1 78 1 , entitled: \"An act empowering the Supreme Judicial Court to \ntake cognizance of matters heretofore cognizable by the late Superior \nCourt. \n\n\" Whereas by the laws heretofore made by the General Assembly of \nthe late province, colony and State of Massachusetts Bay, a Superior \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 71 \n\nCourt of Judicature, Court of Assize, and General Gaol Delivery was \nconstituted, and sundry powers and authorities are given to the same \ncourt by particular laws; And whereas by the constitution and frame \nof government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the style and \n\nfc> * \n\ntitle of the same court is now the Supreme Judicial Court of the Com- \nmonwealth of Massachusetts ; And the constitution aforesaid having \nprovided that the laws heretofore made and adopted, should continue \nand be in force until they shall be altered or repealed by the legislature ; \nwhence some doubts may arise whether the Supreme Judicial Court \nshall have cognizance of those matters which by particular laws were \nexpressly made cognizable by the Superior Court of Judicature, Court \nof Assize, and General Gaol Delivery: \n\n\"Sec. 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- \nsentatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same, \nthat the court which hath been, or shall be hereafter appointed and \ncommissioned according to the constitution as the Supreme Judicial \nCourt of the Commonwealth, shall have cognizance of all such matters, \nas have heretofore happened, or that shall hereafter happen, as by par- \nticular laws were made cognizable by the late Superior Court of Judica- \nture, Court of Assize, and General Gaol Delivery, unless, where the \nconstitution and frame of government hath provided otherwise.\" \n\nOn the 3d of July, 1782, an act was passed by the General Court \nentitled \" An act establishing a Supreme Judicial Court within the \nCommonwealth,\" which provided that there should be one chief justice \nand four associates, the whole or any three of them to have cognizance \nof \" pleas real, personal or mixed, and of all civil actions between party \nand party and between the Commonwealth and any of the subjects \nthereof, whether the same do concern the realty, and relate to right of \nfreehold, inheritance or possession ; whether the same do concern the \npersonalty and relate to any matter of debt, contract, damages or per- \nsonal injury; and also mixed actions which do concern the realty and \npersonalty brought legally before the same court by appeal, review, writ \nof error or otherwise ; . . . and shall take cognizance of all capital \nand other offences and misdemeanors whatsoever of a public nature, \ntending either to a breach of the peace, or the oppression of the subject, \nor raising of faction, controversy or debate, to any manner of mis- \n\n\n72 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ngovernment ; and of every crime whatsoever that is against the public \ngood.\" \n\nThe act further gave the court power to establish such rules respect- \ning the admission of attorneys and the creation of barristers-at-law as \nit thought expedient, and appoint a clerk or clerks to record its proceed- \nings. A subsequent act, passed March 12, 1784, gave to the Supreme \nJudicial Court appellate jurisprudence in all matters determined by \njudges of probate in their respective counties, and an act passed March \n16, 1786, conferred upon it jurisdiction in all questions of divorce and \nalimony. On the 27th of February, 1790, the salary of the chief jus- \ntice was fixed at ^370 and that of the associates at ^350, \"without \nthe addition of any fee or perquisite whatever.\" The number of asso- \nciates was increased to six in the year 1800 and the State outside of \nSuffolk county was divided into two circuits, the east including Essex \ncounty and Maine, and the west including all the remainder. In 1805 \nthe number of associates was reduced to four and so remained until \n1852, when one was added. In 1873 the number was increased to six \nand has so remained up to the present time. The salaries of the court \nas fixed by chapter 104 of the laws of 1892 are $7,500 and $500 for \ntravel for the chief justice, and $6,500 and 500 for travel for each asso- \nciate. \n\nThe jurisdiction of the court has been changed at various times, the \nmost recent changes having been the transfer of jurisdiction \" in mat- \nters of divorce to the Superior Court in 1887, the transfer of jurisdiction \nin capital trials to the same court in 1891, and the gift of concurrent \njurisdiction to that court in 1 89 1 in matters relating to telegraph and \ntelephone wires, relating to the abuse of towns of corporate powers, re- \nlating to the construction, alteration, maintenance and use of buildings, \nand relating to the control of street railways.\" \n\nThe following persons have occupied seats on the bench of the Su- \npreme Judicial Court by appointment since the adoption of the State \nconstitution : \n\nChief Justices. — Nathaniel Peaselee Sargent, appointed 1790 ; died 1791. Francis \nDana, appointed 1791; resigned 1806. Theophilus Parsons, appointed 1806; died \n1813. Samuel Sewall, appointed 1814; died 1814. Isaac Parker, appointed 1814; \ndied 1830. Lemuel Shaw, appointed 1830; resigned 1860. George Tyler Bigelow, \nappointed 1860; resigned 1868. Reuben Atwater Chapman, appointed 1868; died \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 73 \n\n» \n\n1873. Horace Gray, appointed 1873; resigned 1882. Marcus Morton, appointed 1S82; \nresigned 1890. Walbridge Abner Field, appointed 1890. \n\nJustices. — Increase Sumner, appointed 1782; resigned 1789. Francis Dana, appointed \n1785; made chief 1791. Robert TreatPaine, appointed 1790; resigned 1804. Nathan \nCushing, appointed 1790; resigned 1800. Thomas Dawes, appointed 1792; resigned \n1802. Theophilus Bradbury, appointed 1797; removed 1803. Samuel Sew all, ap- \npointed 1800; made chief 1814. Simeon Strong, appointed 1801; died 1805. George \nThacher, appointed 1801 ; resigned 1824. Theodore Sedgwick, appointed 1802 ; died \n1813. Isaac Parker, appointed 1806; made chief 1814. Charles Jackson, appointed \n1813; resigned 1823. Daniel Dewey, appointed 1814; died 1814. Samuel Putnam, \nappointed 1814; resigned 1842. Samuel Sumner Wilde, appointed 1815; resigned \n1850. Levi Lincoln, appointed 1824; resigned 1825. Marcus Morton, appointed 1825;. \nresigned 1840. Charles Augustus Dewey, appointed 1837 ; died 1866. Samuel Hub- \nbard, appointed 1842; died 1847. Charles Edward Forbes, appointed 1848; resigned \n1848. Theron Metcalf, appointed 1848; resigned 1865. Richard Fletcher, appointed \n1848; resigned 1853. George Tyler Bigelow, appointed 1850; made chief 1860. Caleb \nCushing, appointed 1852; resigned 1853. Benjamin Franklin Thomas, appointed 1853; \nresigned 1859. Pliny Merrick, appointed 1853 ; resigned 1864. Ebenezer Rockwood \nHoar, appointed 1859; resigned 1869. Reuben Atwater Chapman, appointed 1860 ; \nmade chief 1868. Horace Gray, jr., appointed 1864; made chief 1873. James Deni- \nson Colt, appointed 1865; resigned 18C6. Dwight Foster, appointed 1866; resigned \n1869. John Wells, appointed 1866; died 1875. James Denison Colt, appointed 1868; \ndied 1881. Seth Ames, appointed 1869; resigned 1881. Marcus Morton, appointed \n1869; made chief 1882. William C. Endicott, appointed 1873; resigned 1882. Charles \nDevens, jr., appointed 1873; resigned 1877. Otis Phillips Lord, appointed 1875; re- \nsigned 1882. Augustus Lord Soule, appointed 1877 ; resigned 1881. Walbridge Abner \nField, appointed 1881; made chief 1890. Charles Devens, jr., appointed 1881; died \n1891. William Allen, appointed 1881; died 1891. Charles Allen, appointed 1882. \nWaldo Colburn, appointed 1882 ; died 1885. Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., appointed \n1882. William Sewall Gardner, appointed 1885; resigned 1887. Marcus Perrin \nKnowlton, appointed 1887. James Madison Morton, appointed 1890. John Lathrop, \nappointed 1891. James Madison Barker, appointed 1891. \n\nIt has been stated above that the act establishing the Supreme Judicial \nCourt, passed July 3, 1782, gave the court authority to regulate the \nadmission of attorneys and the creation of barristers- at-law. The law \npassed November 4, 1705, already quoted, prescribing the oath to be \ntaken by attorneys, appears until recent times to have furnished the \nonly necessary regulation. No definite term of study seems to have \nbeen required as a qualification for admission to the bar. It is probable \nthat so far as barristers were concerned, something like the custom in \nEngland prevailed. There, barristers before admission to plead at the \n10 \n\n\n74 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nbar must have resided three years in one of the inns of court, if a gradu- \nate at Cambridge or Oxford, and five years if not. These inns were \nthe Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn. \nIn Massachusetts the rule seems to have required a practice at one \nperiod of three, at another of four, and still another of seven years in \nthe inferior courts. \n\nBefore the act was passed establishing the Supreme Judicial Court \nthe following entry was made in the records of the Superior Court of \nJudicature : \n\n\" Suffolk, ss. : Superior Court of Judicature at Boston, third Tuesday of February, \n1781, present, William Gushing, Nathaniel P. Sargeant. David Sewall and James Sulli- \nvan; and now at this term the following rule is made by the court and ordered to be \n■entered, viz.: Whereas, learning and literary accomplishments are necessary as well to \npromote the happiness as to preserve the freedom of the people, and the learning of the \nlaw when duly encouraged and lightly directed being as well peculiarly subservient to \nthe great, and good purpose aforesaid, as promotive of public and private justice; and \nthe court being at all times ready to bestow peculiar marks of approbation upon the \ngentlemen of the bar, who, by a close application to the study of the science they pro- \nfess, by a mode of conduct which gives a conviction of the rectitude of their minds, and \na fairness of practice that does honor to the profession of the law, shall distinguish \nthemselves as men of science, honor and integiit}^ : Do order that no gentleman shall \nbe called to the degree of Barrister until he shall merit the same, by his conspicuous \nbearing, ability and honesty; and that the Court will, of their own mere motion call to \nthe Bar such persons as shall render themselves worthy as aforesaid ; and that the man- \nner of calling to the Bar shall be as follows: The gentleman who shall be a candidate \nshall stand within the bar, the Chief Justice, or in his absence the senior Justice, shall, \nin the name of the Court, repeat to him the qualifications necessary for a Barrister at \nLaw ; shall let him know that it is a conviction in the mind of the Court of his being \npossessed of these qualifications that induces them to confer the honor upon him ; and \n-shall solemnly charge him so to conduct himself as to be of singular service to his coun- \ntry by exerting his abilities for the defence of her constitutional freedom; and so to de- \nmean himself as to do honor to the Court and Bar.\" \n\nThe Supreme Judicial Court made the following entry in its records: \n\n\" Suffolk, ss. : At the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston the last Tuesday of Au- \ngust, 1783, present, William Cushing, Chief Justice, and Nathaniel P. Sargeant, David \nSewall and Increase Sumner, Justices, ordered that Barristers be called to the Bar by \nspecial writ to be ordered by the Court, and to be in the following form : \n\n'' Commonwealth of Massachusetts. \n\"To A B Esq., of , Greeting: We well knowing your ability, learning and in- \ntegrity, command you that you appear before our Justices of our Supreme Judicial \nCourt, next to be holden at , in and for our couuty of , on the Tuesday of \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 75 \n\n, then and there in onr said Court to take upon you the state and degree of a Bar- \nrister at Law. Hereof fail not. Witness , Esq., our Chief Justice at Boston, the \n\njay 0f F jo the year of our Independence, . By order of the Court. \n\n, Clerk. \n\n\"Which writ shall be faiily engrossed on parchment and delivered twenty days be- \nfore the session of the s;ime Court by the Sheriff of the same county to the person to \nwhom directed, and being produced in Court by the Barrister and there read by the \nClerk and proper certificate thereon made shall be redelivered and kept as a voucher of \nhis being legally called to the Bar; and the Barristers shall take rank according to the \noate of their respective writs.\" \n\nIt is believed that no barristers were called after 1789, and in 1806 \nthe Supreme Judicial Court adopted the following rule by which ap- \nparently counsellors were substituted for barristers : \n\n\"Suffolk, ss. At the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston for the counties of Suffolk \nand Nantucket the second Tuesday of March, 1806, present Francis Dana, Chief Jus- \ntice; Theodore Sedgwick, George Thatcher and Isaac Parker, Justices, ordered: First,, \nno attorney shall do the business of a counsellor unless he shall have been made or ad- \nmitted as such 1 y the Court. Second, all attornej^s of this Court who have been ad- \nmitted three years before the sitting of this Court shall be and hereby are made \ncounsellors and are entitled to all the rights and privileges of such. Third, no attorney \nor counsellor shall hereafter be admitted without a previous examination.\" \n\nIn 1 836 the distinction between counsellor and attorney was abolished. \nIt is difficult to say how early the barrister occupied a position in our \ncourts. It is known,, however, that in 1768 there were twenty-five in\\ \nMassachusetts. Of these eleven were in Suffolk, Richard Dana, Benjamin' \nKent, James Otis, jr., Samuel Fitch, William Read, Samuel Swift.Benjamin \nGridley, Samuel Quincy, Robert Auchmuty, and Andrew Cazneau, of \nBoston, and Jonathan Adams, of Braintree; five were in Essex, Daniel \nFarnham and John Lowell, of Neuburyport, William Pynchon, of Salem, \nJohn Chipman, of Marblehead, and Nathaniel Peaselee Sargeant, of \nHaverhill; one was in Middlesex, Jonathan Sewall ; two in Worcester, \nJames Putnam, of Worcester, and Abel Willard, of Lancaster; \nthree in Bristol, Samuel White and Robert Treat Paine, ofTaunton, and \nDaniel Leonard, of Norton ; two in Plymouth, James Hovey and Pelham \nWinslow, of Plymouth, and one in Hampshire, John Worthington of \nSpringfield. After that date the following barristers were called : \nJoseph Hawley, of Northampton, David Sewall, of York, Moses Bliss, \nof Springfield, Zephaniah Leonard, of Taunton, Theodore Bradbury, cf \n\n\n76 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nFalmouth (Portland), David Weyer, of Falmouth, Mark Hopkins, of \nGreat Barrington, Simeon Strong, of Amherst, John Sullivan, of \nDurham, Daniel Oliver, of Hardwick, Frances Dana, of Cambridge, \nSampson Salter Blowers, of Boston, Daniel Bliss, of Concord, Samuel \nPorter, of Salem, Joshua Upham, of Brookfield, Shearjashub Bourne, \nof Barnstable, James Sullivan, of Biddeford, Jeremiah D. Rogers, of \nLittleton, Oaks Angier, of Bridgewater, John Sprague, of Lancaster, \nCaleb Strong, of Northampton, Elisha Porter, of Hadley, Theodore \nSedgwick, of Sheffield, Benjamin Hichborn, of Boston, Theophilus \nParsons, of Nevvburyport, Jonathan Bliss, of Springfield, William Tudor, \nPerez Morton and William Wetmore of Boston, and Levi Lincoln, \nof Worcester. No barristers were called after 1789 and the fifty-five \nwhose names are given above are believed by the writer to be all ever \ncalled to the bar in Massachusetts. \n\nThe reports of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massa- \nchusetts are contained in one hundred and fifty-four volumes. Ephraim \nWilliams as reporter edited one volume including decisions from the \nSeptember term, 1804, m Berkshire to the June term, 1805, in Lincoln. \nDudley Atkins Tyng, the next reporter, edited sixteen volumes, cover- \ning the period from the March term, 1806, in Suffolk to the Suffolk \nMarch term, 1822. Octavius Pickering, who succeeded Tyng, edited \ntwenty-four volumes beginning with the Berkshire September term, \n1822, and ending with decisions in Essex in 1839. Theron Metcalf, the \nsuccessor of Pickering, covered with twelve volumes the period \nfrom the Suffolk and Nantucket March term in 1840 to the Hampden, \nHampshire and Franklin September term in 1847. Luther Stearns \nCushing reported twelve volumes from the Suffolk and Nantucket term \nof 1848, to the Suffolk term of November, 1853. Horace Gray, jr., in \nsixteen volumes covered the period from the Suffolk and Nantucket \nterm of 1854 to the Suffolk term of November, i860. Charles Allen \nin fourteen volumes reported the decisions from January, 1861, to the \nSuffolk term in January, 1867. Albert G. Browne reported in thirteen \nvolumes from the Berkshire September term of 1867 to the Suffolk \nMarch term of 1872. Albert G.Browne, jr., and John C. Gray, jr., \nedited jointly two volumes with decisions from the Suffolk March \nterm in 1872 to the Suffolk March term of 1873. Albert G. Browne, \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 77 \n\njr., again, alone, reported three volumes from the Worcester September \nterm 1873, to the Norfolk January term 1874. John Lathrop edited \nthirty volumes with decisions from the Berkshire September term 1874 \nto June, 1887. William V. Kellen followed with volumes containing \ndecisions ending with November, 1891. \n\nThe Inferior Court of Common Pleas, as has been stated, was finally \nestablished by the act published June 27, 1699, to be held in each \ncounty by four judges appointed for the same. The jurisdiction of this \ncourt has been already described in the laws which were at various times \ndisallowed by the Privy Council, and need not be repeated. The \ncourt went into operation after the original disallowed act was passed in \n1692, and as the disallowance only acted as a repeal, the court was kept \nalive by subsequent acts until the final approval of the act of 1699. \n\nThe judges of the court for Suffolk county at various times were as \nfollows : \n\nElisha Hutchinson, appointed December 7, 1692; John Foster, appointed December 7, \n1692; Peter Sergeant, appointed December 7, 1692; Isaac Addington, appointed De- \ncember 7, 1692; Jeremiah Dummer, appointed July 2, 1702; Penn Townsend, appoint- \ned August 14, 1702; Thomas Palmer, appointed June 11, 1711; Edward Lynde, ap- \npointed December 9, 1715 ; Adam Winthrop, appointed December 9, 1715; William \nDudley, appointed December 26, 1727; Nathaniel Byfield, appointed December 29, \n1731 ; Elisha Cooke, appointed December 29, 1731 ; Anthony Stoddard, appointed \nJanuary 21, 1733; Edward Hutchinson, appointed October 27, 1740; Eliakim Hutch- \ninson, appointed December 31, 1741; Edward Winslow, appointed October 20, 1743; \nSamuel Watts, appointed April 6. 1748 ; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed April 3, 1752 ; \nSamuel Welles, appointed January 8, 1755; Foster Hutchinson, appointed April 1, \n1758; William Reed, appointed May 9, 1770; Nathaniel Hatch, appointed January 10, \n1771 ; Joseph Green, appointed July 3, 1772; Thomas Hutchinson, jr., appointed De- \ncember 31, 1772; Benjamin Gridley, appointed May, 1775; Samuel Dexter, appointed \nOctober 31, 1775; John Hill, appointed October 31, 1775 ; Samuel Niles, appointed Oc- \ntober 31, 1775; Samuel Pemberton, appointed October 31, 1775; Thomas Cushing, ap- \npointed February 8, 1776. \n\nThis completes the lists of judges who served prior to the law passed \n\nJuly 3, 1782, establishing the Court of Common Pleas. \n\nThe special justices during the same period were : \n\nSamuel Checkley, appointed December 18, 1725; Anthony Stoddard, appointed De- \ncember 18, 1725; Francis Fulham, appointed February 3, 1731-2; Thomas Greaves, ap- \npointed February 3, 1731-2 ; Hugh Hall, appointed February 3, 1731-2; Josiah Quin- \n<:y, appointed December 31, 1734 ; Samuel Danforth, appointed February 21, 1734-5 • \n\n\n78 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nFrancis Foxcroft, appointed February 21, 1734-5; John Quincy, appointed April 6, \n1748; James Minot, appointed April 6, 1748; Benjamin Lincoln, appointed January 24, \n1770; Joseph Williams, appointed January 24, 1770; Thomas Cushing, appointed Oc- \ntober 31, 1775 ; Joseph Palmer, appointed October 31, 1775; Richard Cranch, appointed \n1780; Joseph Gardner, appointed 1780; Edmund Quincy, appointed 1780. \n\nThe chief justices during the same period were: Elisha Hutchinson, \nPenn Townsend, Thomas Palmer, Adam Winthrop, Edward Hutchin- \nson, Nathaniel Byfield, Eliakim Hutchinson, Samuel Dexter and \nThomas Cushing. \n\nThe new law, passed July 3, 1782, after the adoption of the constitu- \ntion, changed the name of the court to \" Court of Common Pleas,\" and \nprovided that it should be kept in each county by four judges, appoint- \ned from within the county, who should have cognizance of all civil ac- \ntions of the value of more than forty shillings, with the right of appeal \nfor all parties to the next Supreme Judicial Court held within the same \ncounty. It bore the same relation to its predecessor, the Inferior Court \nof Common Pleas, that the Supreme Judicial Court, when established, \nbore to the Superior Court of Judicature. \n\nThe judges of the court, which continued until June 21, 181 1, were \nthe following: \n\nOliver Wendell, appointed February 6, 1783, standing justice ; William Heath, ap- \npointed January 28, 1785, special justice; Suthell Hubbard, appointed January 28, 1785, \nspecial justice; Samuel Barrett, appointed April 26, 1787, special justice ; Samuel Bar- \nrett, appointed July 15, 1788, standing justice; Thomas Crafts, appointed August 6, \n1788, special justice; Thomas Crafts, appointed July 9, 1793, standing justice ; Wil- \nliam Dennison, appointed 1798, 'standing justice; George Richards Minot, ap- \npointed January 9, 1799, standing justice ; Samuel Cooper, appointed January 9, 1799, \nspecial justice; William Sherburne, appointed January 9, 1799, special justice ; Shear- \njashub Bourne, appointed June 18, 1800, standing justice. ^m **'\" 'M„~ni \n\nIn the year 1800 the law provided that there should be one chief \njustice and three justices, and the court so continued through the period \nof its existence with the following appointments to its bench: \n\nGeorge R. Minot, appointed 1800, chief justice; Shearjashub Bourne, appointed \nJune 18, 1801, chief justice; Samuel Cooper, appointed January 7, 1802, special jus- \ntice; William Wetmore, appointed February 17, 1806, special justice ; William Wet- \nmore, appointed May 26, 1806, chief justice ; Joseph Ward, appointed July 2, 1807, spe- \ncial justice; John Phillips, appointed August 29, 1809, special justice ; Robert Gardner \nappointed March 15, 1811, special justice. \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 79 \n\nOn the 2 1st of June, 181 1, it was enacted that the Commonwealth, \nexcept Nantucket and Dukes county, should be divided into six cir- \ncuits as follows: the middle circuit composed of Suffolk, Essex and \nMiddlesex counties ; the western circuit composed of Worcester, Hamp- \nshire and Berkshire counties; the southern circuit composed of Nor- \nfolk, Plymouth, Bristol and Barnstable counties ; the first eastern cir- \ncuit composed of York, Cumberland and Oxford counties; the second \neastern circuit composed of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset counties; \nand the third eastern circuit composed of Hancock and Washington \ncounties. \n\nIt also provided that \"There shall be held and kept in each county, \nin the several circuits aforesaid, at such times and places as are now by \nlaw appointed for holding the Courts of Common Pleas in the several \ncounties, a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, to consist of one chief jus- \ntice and two associate justices, each of whom shall be an inhabitant of \nthe Commonwealth ; and any two of them shall be a court \nwith original jurisdiction of all civil actions . . (excepting only \nsuch actions, wherein the Supreme Judicial Court or where justices \nof the peace now have original jurisdiction) ; and shall also have ju- \nrisdiction of all such offences, crimes and misdemeanors, as before the \npassage of this act were cognizable by the respective Courts cf Com- \nmon Pleas.\" They also had appellate jurisdiction in the case 6f sen- \ntences or judgments of a justice of the peace. It was further pro- \nvided \" that all actions, suits, matters and things which may be pend- \ning in the several Courts of Common Pleas on the second of Decern- \nber (181 1), and all writs, executions, warrants, recognizances and proc- \nesses returnable to\" the Common Pleas Court shall be returnable to \nthe Circuit Court of Common Pleas. \n\nThe judges of this court appointed in the middle circuit of which \nSuffolk county formed a part were : \n\nSamuel Dana, chief justice, of Groton ; William Wetmore, associate, of Boston ; \nStephen Minot, associate, of Haverhill. \n\nSuffolk county, by an act passed February 26, 18 14, was taken \nout of the circuit and was given a court of its own, which will be \nmentioned hereafter. \n\nThe first session of the Circuit Court was held at Cambridge, on the \n16th of December, 181 1, and its last session at Concord on the nth of \n\n\n80 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nJune, 1 82 1. On the 14th of February, 1821, an act was passed estab- \nlishing the late Court of Common Pleas, as a substitute for the Circuit \nCourt of Common Pleas, to take effect from and after the first day of \nAugust in that year. It provided for the appointment of four justices, \none of whom should be commissioned chief justice, with practically the \nsame jurisdiction which had been conferred on its predecessor, the In- \nferior Court of Common Pleas and Circuit Court of Common Pleas, ex- \ncept that it was a court of the Commonwealth and not limited to any \ncounty or circuit. The court continued in existence until abolished by \nthe act passed April 5, 1859, establishing the present Superior Court. \nOn the first of March the number of associate justices was increased to \nfour, on the 1 8th of March, 1845, to six, and on the 24th of May, 1851, \nto seven. \n\nThe judges of the court at various times were as follows: \n\nChief Justices.— Artemas Ward, appointed 1821 ; resigned 1839. John Mason Wil- \nliams, appointed 1839; resigned 1844. Daniel Wells, appointed 1844; died 1854. \nEdward Mellen, appointed 1854; court abolished 1859. \n\nAssociate Justices. — Solomon Strong, appointed 1821 ; resigned 1842. John Mason \nWilliams, appointed 1821 ; chief justice 1839. Samuel Howe, appointed 1821; died 1828. \nDavid Cummins, appointed 1828 ; resigned 1844. Charles Henry Warren, appointed \n1839 ; resigned 1844. Charles Allen, appointed 1842; resigned 1844. Pliny Merrick, \nappointed 1843; resigned 1848. Joshua Holyoke Ward, appointed 1844 ; died 1848. \nEmory Washburn, appointed 1844; resigned 1S47. Luther Stearns Gushing, appointed \n1844 ; resigned 1848. Harrison Gray Otis Colby, appointed 1845 ; resigned 1847 ; \nCharles Edward Forbes, appointed 1847 ; Supreme Court 1848. Edward Mellen, \nappointed 1847; chief justice 1854. George Tyler Bigelow, appointed 1848; \nSupreme Court, 1850. Jonathan Coggswell Perkins, appointed 1848; court abolished \n1859. Horatio Byington, appointed 1848; died 1856. Thomas Hopkinson, appointed \n1848; resigned 1849. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, appointed 1849; resigned 1853. \nPliny Merrick, appointed 1850 ; Supreme Court 1854. Henry Walker Bishop, appoint- \ned 1851 ; court abolished 1859. George Nixon Briggs, appointed 1853 ; court abolished \n1859. George Partridge Sanger, appointed 1854; court abolished 1859. Henry Mor- \nris, appointed 1855; court abolished 1859. David Aiken, appointed 1856; court abol- \nished 1859. \n\nThe Superior Court was established April 5, 1859, as the successor \nof the Court of Common Pleas and with practically the same jurisdic- \ntion, with one chief justice and ten associate justices. The number of \nassociates was increased to eleven May 19, 1875, to thirteen Febru- \nary 27, 1888, and to fifteen May 6, 1892. The judges of this court \nup to the present time, August, 1892, have been as follows: \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 81 \n\nChief Justices. — Charles Allen, appointed 1859; resigned 1867. Seth Ames, ap- \npointed 18G7; Supreme Court 1869. Lincoln Flagg Brigham, appointed 1869; resigned \n1890. Albert Mason, appointed 1890; incumbent. \n\nAssociate Justices. — Julius Rockwell, appointed 1859; resigned 1886. Otis Phillips \nLord, appointed 1859; Supreme Court 1875. Marcus Morton, jr., appointed 1859; Su- \npreme Court 1869. Seth Ames, appointed 1859; chief justice 1867. Ezra Wilkinson, \nappointed 1859 ; died 1882. Henry Vose, appointed 1859 ; died 1869. Thomas Rus- \nsell, appointed 1859; resigned 1867. John Phelps Putnam, appointed 1859; died \n1882. Lincoln Flagg Brigham, appointed 1859; chief justice 1869. Chester Isham \nReed, appointed 1867 ; resigned 1871. Charles Devens, jr., appointed 1867; Supreme \nCourt 1873. Henry Austin Scudder, appointed 1869; resigned 1872. Francis Hen- \nshaw Dewey, appointed 1869; resigned 1881. Robert Carter Pitman, appointed 1869: \ndied 1891. John William Bacon, appointed 1871; died 1888. William Allen, ap- \npointed 1872; Supreme Court 1881. Peleg Emory Aldrich, appointed 1873 ; incum- \nbent. Waldo Colburn, appointed 1875 ; Supreme Court 1882. Win. Sewall Gardner,, \nappointed 1875; Supreme Court 1885. Hamilton Barclay Staples, appointed 1881; \ndied 1891. Marcus Perrin Knowlton, appointed 1881; Supreme Court 1887. Caleb \nBlodgett, appointed 18S2; incumbent. Albert Mason, appointed 1882; chief justice \n1890. James Madison Barker, appointed 18t2; Supreme Court 1891. Charles Pei kins \nThompson, appointed 1885; incumbent. John Wilkes Hammond, appointed 1886; \nincumbent. Justin Dewey, appointed 1886 ; incumbent. Edgar Jay Sherman, ap- \npointed 1887 ; incumbent. John Lathrop, appointed 1888; Supreme Court 1891. James \nRobert Dunbar, appointed 1888; incumbent. Robert Roberts Bishop, appointed 1888; \nincumbent. Daniel Webster Bond, appointed 1890; incumbent. Henry King Braiey, \nappointed 1891 ; incumbent. John Hopkins, appointed 1891; incumbent. Elisha Burr \nMaynard, appointed 1891 ; incumbent. Franklin Goodridge Fessenden, appointed 1891 ; \nincumbent. John W. Corcoran, appointed 1891; incumbent. James B. Richardson. \n1891 ; incumbent. \n\nAmong the most important changes in the jurisdiction of this court \nhave been the following recent ones : By chapter 332 of the laws of \n1887 exclusive jurisdiction was given to it \"in all cases of divorce and \nnullity or validity of marriage.\" By chapter 379 of the laws of 1891 it \nwas given jurisdiction in capital crimes, and by chapter 293 of the same \nyear, jurisdiction in matters relating to telegraph and telephone wires \ngiven to the Supreme Court by chapter 27 of the public statutes, in \nmatters relating to the abuse by towns of corporate powers given to \nthe Supreme Court by the same chapter, relating to the construction, \nalteration, maintenance and use of buildings, given to the Supreme \nCourt by chapter 104 of the public statutes and relating to the control \nof street railroads, riven to the same court by chapter 1 13. The salaries \nof the chief justices of the Supreme Judicial Court and the Superior \n11 \n\n\n82 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nCourt are $7,500 and $500 for travel for the former, and $6,500 and \n$500 for travel for the latter; and for the associate justices, $7,000 and \n$500 for travel for those of the former, and $6,000 and $500 for travel \nfor those of the latter. \n\nThe law establishing the Superior Court abolished not only the Com- \nmon Pleas Court, but also the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk \nand the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, whose functions and \npowers it assumed as well as those of the Court of Common Pleas. These \ntwo courts will be referred to hereafter. \n\nThe Court of General Sessions of the Peace was the third court es- \ntablished June 27, 1699. The act establishing it provided that it should \nbe held in each county by the justices of the peace of the same county, \nwho were empowered to hear and determine all matters relating to the \nconservation of the peace. The court for Suffolk was to be held on the \nfirst Tuesdays in July, October, January and April. This court con- \ntinued without material change until June 19, 1 807, its powers having \nbeen renewed after the adoption of the constitution by an act passed \nJuly 3, 1782. By an act passed at the above date, June 19, 1807, it \nwas provided ihat this court should be held in the several counties by \none chief justice and four associates for Suffolk, six for Essex, six for \nMiddlesex, six for Hampshire, four for Berkshire, four for Norfolk, four \nfor Plymouth, four for Bristol, two for Barnstable, two for the county of \nDukes county, two for Nantucket, four for York, four for Cumberland, \nfour for Oxford, four for Lincoln, six for Kennebec, six for Hancock, \nand two for Washington. These justices were to act as the General \nCourt of Sessions, instead of justices of the peace, and to have and per- \nform all the duties of the old court. On the 19th of June, 1809, the \njurisdiction of the General Court of Sessions of the Peace was trans- \nferred to the Court of Common Pleas. Up to that time the judges in \nSuffolk county had been : \n\nWilliam Dennison, appointed September 28, 1807, chief justice ; David Tilden, ap- \npointed September 28, 1807, associate ; Russell Sturgis, appointed September 28, 1807, \nassociate ; Samuel Clap, appointed September 28, 1807, associate. \n\nOn the 25th of June, 181 1, an act was passed providing \" that from \nand after the first day of September next, an act made and passed on \nthe nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 83 \n\nhundred and nine, entitled 'An act to transfer the powers and duties of \nthe Court of Sessions to the Courts of Common Pleas, and for other \npurposes,' be and the same is hereby repealed,\" and that said General \nCourt of Sessions should be revived. After the revival, on the 30th of \nAugust, 181 1, William Dennison was again appointed chief justice and \nDavid Tilden and Russell Sturgis associates. Discretion was given to \nthe governor to appoint one chief justice, anc not more than four nor \nless than two associates in any county. \n\nOn the 28th of February, 18 14, still another act was passed repealing \nthe act of revival of the General Court of Sessions, except so far as Suf- \nfolk, Nantucket and the county of Dukes county were concerned, and \ntransferring their jurisdiction to the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, \nwhich had been established on the 21st of June, 181 1. By this act the \ngovernor was authorized to appoint two persons in each county to be \nsession justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in their respective \ncounties, and to sit with the justices of the Circuit Court in tne adminis- \ntration of all matters within their county over which the Courts of Ses- \nsions had jurisdiction. The administration of county affairs was con- \nducted by the Circuit Court of Common Pleas until February 20, 18 19, \nwhen the act which transferred the powers of the Court of Sessions to \nthat court was repealed, and it was provided by law that the Court of \nSessions in each county should beheld by a chief justice and two asso- \nciates. The Court of Sessions for Suffolk county continued until Feb- \nruary 23, 1822, when it was abolished by an \" act to regulate the ad- \nministration of justice within the county of Suffolk and for other pur- \nposes.\" In addition to those already mentioned as judges at various \ntimes in the changing conditions of the court in Suffolk county, were \nJosiah Batchelder, appointed July 2, 1808; Benjamin Homans, ap- \npointed May 18, 1812; William Little and Edward Jones, appointed \nMay 25, 1812; William Smith, appointed January 20, 1814, and Ben- \njamin Rand, appointed May 25, 1 819. \n\nThe Courts of Justices of the Peace have been handed down from the \nearliest days of the province and were first established by the act for \nthe establishing of judicatories and courts of justice within the province, \npassed November 25, 1692, and disallowed by the Privy Council Au- \ngust 22, 1695. They were again established by an act passed June 18. \n\n\n84 H J STORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n1697, and afterwards confirmed by repeated legislation. Their civil and \ncriminal powers were so similar to those of justices of the Common- \nwealth, that it is not proposed to set them forth more fully than they \nhave already been in an earlier part of this narrative. \n\nThe Boston Court of Common Pleas was established by an act passed \nFebruary 26, 1814. At that time Suffolk county was a part of the mid- \ndle circuit. The act provided that after the 28th of March, 18 14, a \nCourt of Common Pleas should be held at Boston for the county of \nSuffolk on the first Tuesdays of January, March, May, July, September \nand November, to be called \" the Boston Court of Common Pleas.\" It \nwas to have one judge with a jurisdiction over all causes of a civil nat- \nure which had been cognizable by the Circuit Court of Common Pleas. \nIt was also to have original and concurrent jurisdiction in all civil ac- \ntions in the county of Suffolk under the sum of twenty dollars, and to \nhold a court to be called the Town Court for the summary trial without \njury of all such actions on Wednesday of every week. The clerk of \nsaid court was to be called \" Recorder\" and have power to hold the \ncourt in case of the death or absence of the judge. This court continued \nuntil it was abolished by the act establishing a Common Pleas Court for \nthe Commonwealth February 14, 182 1 . The judges of this court at \nvarious times were as follows : \n\nHarrison Gray Otis, appointed March 16, 1814; William Minot, appointed March 2, \n1818; William Prescott, appointed April 21, 1818; Artemas Ward, appointed May 11, \n1819. \n\n\"An act to establish a Municipal Court in the Town of Boston \" was \npassed March 4, 1800. The following are some of its provisions : \"That \nthere shall be holden within and for the Town of Boston, on the first \nMonday of every month, by such learned, able and discreet person as \nthe governor shall appoint and commission pursuant to the constitu- \ntion, a court of justice by the name of the Municipal Court for the Town \nof Boston ; that said court shall have full power to adjourn from day to \nday and shall have cognizance of all crimes and offences committed \nwithin the town of Boston, which are now cognizable in the Court of \nGeneral Sessions of the Peace ; and cognizance of all crimes and of- \nfences against the By-Laws of the said Town ; of frauds, deceits, mo- \nnopolies, forestalling, regrating, thefts aud nuisances.\" \n\n\n•^ \n\n\n% \n\n\nV \n\n\n^-c^>-^ ^sc~ii^/ \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 85 \n\nThe court was presided over by one judge until March 1, 1843, when \nit was provided by law that the judges of the Common Pleas Court \nshould be ex-officio the judges of the Municipal Court. When the Su- \nperior Court of the county of Suffolk was established by an act passed \nMay 21, 1855, the powers of the judges of the Common Pleas Court in \nrelation to the Municipal Court were transferred to the new court, and \nwhen the Superior Court was established, April 5, 1859, the Municipal \nCourt was finally abolished. The judges of this court at various times \nwere : \n\nGeorge Richards Minot appointed 1800; Thomas Dawes, jr., appointed 1802; Josiah \nQuincy, appointed January 16, 1822; Peter O. Thacher, appointed May 14. 1823. \n\nOn the 2istof May, 1855, an act was passed to establish the \"Su- \nperior Court of the County of Suffolk,\" which provided for the appoint- \nment of four justices, one of whom should be chief justice, with juris- \ndiction \" in all cases, and in the same manner, and to the same extent, \nin which the Court of Common Pleas now has jurisdiction in said county, \nwhether original and exclusive, concurrent or appellate; and they shall \nalso have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases in which the Court of Com- \nmon Pleas now has concurrent jurisdiction with the Supreme Judicial \nCourt in said county, wherein the damages demanded or the property \nclaimed shall not exceed in amount or value the sum of fifteen hundred \ndollars; and no action in which the said Superior Court may have juris- \ndiction under this act shall be brought in the Supreme Judicial Court in \nthe county of Suffolk, except the damages therein demanded, or the \nproperty claimed, shall exceed in amount or value the sum of fifteen \nhundred dollars, and when the plaintiff, or some one in his behalf, shall \nbefore service of the writ, make oath or affirmation before some justice \nof the peace, that the matter sought to be recovered actually exceeds in \namount or value the said sum.\" \n\nThe act provided for six terms per year in Boston, and at any term \nto suit public convenience, two sessions might be held. The city of \nBoston was to pay the expenses of the court, the justices were to be \nex-officio justices of the Municipal Court, the terms of the Common \nPleas Court in the county of Suffolk were abolished and \"judges of \nthe said Superior Court and of the Court of Common Pleas might inter- \nchange services, and hold mutual consultations in matters of law and as \n\n\n86 HISTORy OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nto rules of practice.\" This court was also abolished by the act estab- \nlishing the present Superior Court passed April 5, 1859. The judges \nof this court were as follows : \n\nAlbert H. Nelson, chief justice, appointed October 13, 1855, resigned 1858; Josiah \nG. Abbot, appointed October 13, 1855, resigned 1858; Stephen O. Nash, appointed Oc- \ntober 13, 1855. court abolished 1859; Charles P. Huntington, appointed October 13, \n1855, court abolished 1859 ; Manns Morton, jr., appointed March 14, 1858, vice Abbot; \nCharles Allen, chief justice, appointed March 19, 1858, court abolished 1859. \n\nA Police Court was established in Boston by an act passed February \n23, 1822, the most important provisions of which for the purposes of \nthis narrative were as follows: \"That the town of Chelsea shall con- \ntinue to be a part of the county of Suffolk, for all purposes relating to \nthe administration of justice, as though this act had not been passed, \nexcepting that the town of Chelsea shall not be liable to taxation for \nany county purposes, until the legislature shall otherwise order; and \nexcepting also as hereinafter provided, concerning the jurisdiction of \njustices of the peace. That the Court of Common Pleas in the county \nof Suffolk shall have jurisdiction in all matters and things, which in re- \nlation to the town of Chelsea, or the inhabitants thereof, were cogniz- \nable by the Court of Sessions in the county ol Suffolk before the passing \nof this act. \n\n\" That there shall be and hereby is established within and for the \ncity of Boston, a Police Court to consist of three learned, able and dis- \ncreet persons to be appointed and commissioned by the governor pur- \nsuant to the constitution, and the session justice shall preside in said \ncourt; and a court shall be held daily at nine of the clock A. M. and at \nthree of the clock P. M., by some one or more of said justices, and at \nany other terms when necessary to take cognizance of all crimes, of- \nfences and misdemeanors, whereof justices of the peace may take \ncognizance by law, and of all offences which may be cognizable by one \nor more of said justices, according to the by-laws, rules and regulations \nwhich may be established by the proper authority of the city of \nBoston. \n\n\" That a court shall be held by one or more of said justices on two \nseveral days in each week, and as much oftener as may be necessary, to \nbe called and styled the Justice's Court for the county of Suffolk ; which \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 87 \n\ncourt shall have original, exclusive jurisdiction and cognizance of all \ncivil suits and actions, which before, and until the passing of this act, \nmight by law be heard, tried and determined before any justice of the \npeace within and for the county of Suffolk; and an appeal shall be al- \nlowed from all judgments in said justice's court in like manner as ap- \npeals are now allowed by law, from judgments of justices of the peace \nin civil actions in the said county of Suffolk.\" \n\nThe final provision of the act was \"that it shall be of no force or \neffect unless a certain act establishing the city of Boston,\" passed at \nthe present session, shall be accepted by the inhabitants of the town \nof Boston pursuant to the provision therein made. \n\nThe Police Court and the Justice's Court described in the above act \nremained distinct, one exercising criminal and the other civil jurisdiction, \nwith the same judges for both, until i860 when it was enacted in the \ngeneral statutes that \"all cases and proceedings pending in or return- \nable to the Justice's Court for the county of Suffolk, and the records \nand jurisdiction of said court are transferred to the Police Court.\" \nThe judges who served at various times in this court were : \n\nBenjamin Whitman, appointed June 10, 1822, senior justice ; William Simmons, ap- \npointed June 10, 1822 ; Henry Orne, appointed June 10, 1822 ; John G-. Rogers, ap- \npointed August 10, 1831 ; James C. Merrill, appointed February 19, 1834; Abel Cushing, \nappointed June 30, 1843 ; Thomas Russell, appointed February 26, 1852 ; Sebeus C. \nMaine, appointed November 3, 1858; George D. Wells, appointed May 31, 1859; Ed- \nwin Wright, appointed July 9, 1861 ; Mellen Chamberlain, appointed June 28, 1861, \nspecial justice. \n\nThe Police Court was abolished by an act passed May 29, 1866, es- \ntablishing the Present Municipal Court of the city of Boston. That \nact provided that \" there shall be established a court to be called the \nMunicipal Court of the city of Boston, which shall have the same \npowers and jurisdiction in all actions and proceedings at law, whether \ncivil or criminal as the Police Court of the city of Boston now has, ex- \ncept as hereinafter provided \" — that \" all cases pending at the time this \nact shall take full effect, whether civil or criminal, in the Police Court of \nthe city of Boston, shall be transferred to and have day in the proper \nday and term of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston ; and all \nwrits, processes, complaints, petitions and proceedings whatever which \nare made returnable or to be entered in said Police Court, shall be \n\n\n88 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nreturnable to, entered and have day in the proper day and term of \nsaid Municipal Court, that there shall be appointed, commissioned and \nqualified, agreeably to the constitution, . . three suitable persons as \njustices of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, one of whom \nshall be appointed, commissioned and qualified as chief justice thereof, \none or more of whom shall hold a court for criminal business daily, ex- \ncept Sundays or legal holidays, in the forenoon at nine o'clock, and in \nthe afternoon except on Saturday at three o'clock, or some hour there- \nafter, and a court for civil business weekly, each term of which shall \nbegin on Saturday. \n\nBy chapter 41 of the laws of 1882 the number of associate justices \nwas increased to three and by chapter 419 of the laws of 1888 to four. \nThe judges of the court have been the following : \n\nJohn W. Bacon, appointed July 2, 186G, chief justice; Francis W. Hurd, appointed \nJuly 2, I860, associate ; Mellen Chamberlain, appointed June 29, 1866, associate; Mellen \nChamberlain, appointed December 1, 1871, chief justice ; Joseph M. Churchill, appointed \nMarch 3, 1871, associate; William E. Parmenter, appointed December 12, 1871, asso- \nciate; John Wilder May, appointed October 12, 1878, chief justice; William E. Par- \nmenter, appointed January 24, 1883, chief justice; W. J. Forsaith, appointed January \n23, 1872, special; W. J. Forsaith, appointed March 8, 1882, associate; Matthew J. \nMcCafferty, appointed January 24, 1883, associate; George Z. Adams, appointed July \n11, 1882, special ; John H. Hardy, appointed June 3, 1885, associate; Benjamin R. Curtis, \nappointed April 28, 1886, associate ; Frederick D. Ely, appointed October 10, 1888, asso- \nciate; John H. Burke, appointed February 11, 1891, associate. \n\nWithin the present limits of Suffolk county there are the following \nMunicipal, Police and District Courts: \n\n1. The Municipal Court of the city of Boston, the establishment of \nwhich has been already stated with a jurisdiction including wards 6, 7, \n8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, and the following judges: William E. Par- \nmenter, chief justice, William J. Forsaith, John H. Hardy, Frederick D. \nEly and John H. Burke, associate justices, and George Z. Adams, spe- \ncial justice. \n\n2. The Municipal Court of South Boston was established May 26, \n1874, and now has a jurisdiction including wards 13, 14, 15, with the \nfollowing judges: Robert I. Burbank, justice, and Joseph D. Fallon \nand Charles J. Noyes, special justices. \n\n3. The Municipal Court of the Charlestown District was originally \nestablished as the Police Court of the city of Charlestown, April 4, 1862, \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 89 \n\nbut assumed its present name pursuant to the act uniting Charlestown \nwith Boston passed May 14, 1873. It has jurisdiction over wards 3, 4, \n5, with the following judges : Henry W. Bragg, justice, and Joseph H. \nCotton and Simon Davis, special justices. \n\n4. The Municipal Court of the Highland District was established by \nan act passed June 1, 1867, uniting Roxbury with Boston, under the \nname of the Municipal Court of the Southern District of the city ot \nBoston, and acquired its present title pursuant to an act passed May 26, \n1874. It has jurisdiction over wards 19, 20, 21, 22, and the following \n\njudges: Solomon A. Bolstor, justice, and George R. Wheelock and \nWalter S. Frost, special justices. \n\n5. The Municipal Court of the Dorchester District was established \nJune 10, 1870. It has jurisdiction in ward 29 and the following \njudges: Joseph R. Churchill, justice, and George M. Reed, and George \nA. Fisher, special justices. \n\n6. The Municipal Court of the Brighton District was established May \n26, 1874. It has jurisdiction in ward 25, and the following judges: \nHenry Baldwin, justice, and James H. Rice and Charles A. Barnard, \nspecial justices. \n\n7. The Municipal Court of the West Roxbury District was established' \nMay 26, 1874. It has jurisdiction in Ward 23, and the following judges: \nJames M. F. Howard, justice, and George R. Fowler and Henry Aus- \ntin, special justices. \n\n8. The Police Court of Chelsea was established February 27, 1855. \nIt originally included Chelsea, North Chelsea (Revere), and Winthrop \nin its jurisdiction, but in 1886 Winthrop was added to the jurisdiction \nof the District Court of East Boston. The judges of the court are \nAlbert D. Bosson, justice, and William H. Hart and Frank E. Fitz, \nspecial justices. \n\n9. The East Boston District Court was established as the Municipal \nCourt of the East Boston District, May 26, 1874, and was re-established \nunder its present na^ie by an act passed February 16, 1886. Its juris- \ndiction extends over Wards 1 and 2, and the town of Winthrop, which \nuntil the organization of this court was included within the jurisdiction \nof the police court of Chelsea. Its judges are William H. H. Emmons, \njustice, and James L. Walsh and Albert E. Clary, special justices. \n\n12 \n\n\n9o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nIt will be proper here to state that by an act passed May 3, 1850, \nChelsea, North Chelsea (Revere), and Winthrop, parts of Suffolk county, \nwere placed under the jurisdiction of the county commissioners of Mid- \ndlesex. Suffolk county, of course, has no commisioners. \n\nIn the city of Boston the board of aldermen have all the powers and \nduties of county commissioners, except in relation to trials by jury and \nrecovery of damages in such trials, in cases of laying out and discon- \ntinuing highways, and appeals from assessors for abatement of taxes. \n\nIt has been stated in an earlier part of this narrative that under the \ncolonial charter matters relating to the probate of wills and the admin- \nistration of estates of deceased persons were within the jurisdiction of \nthe county court. This jurisdiction was disturbed during the brief ad- \nministrations of Dudley and Andros, but after the overthrow of Andros \nthe old method was resumed and continued until the province charter \nwent into operation. By that charter probate affairs were placed in the \nhands of the Governor and Council, who claimed and exercised the right \nto appoint judges and registers of probate in the various counties. The \nfollowing is believed to be a correct list of persons holding these offices \nin Suffolk county by appointment under the provincial charter, and \nuntil the first law was passed relating to probate affairs after the adop- \ntion of the constitution : \n\nJudges of Probate. — William Stoughton, appointed June 18, 1692 ; Elisha Cooke, Aug- \ngust 8, 1701 ; Isaac Addington, November 19, 1702 ; Samuel Sewall, December 9, 1715 ; \nJoseph Willard, December 19, 1728; Joseph Willard, November 5, 1741; Edward \nHutchinson, February 12, 1745-6; Thomas Hutchinson, April 3, 1752; Thomas Hutch- \ninson. November 5, 1761: Foster Hutchinson, August 3, 1769; Thomas Cushing, 1775: \nOliver Wendell, November 16, 1780. \n\nRegisters of Probate. — Isaac Addington, appointed June 18, 1692; Paul Dudley, No- \nvember 19, 1702; Joseph Marion, December 19, 1715; JohnBoydell; Benjamin Rolfe, \nOctober 19, 1722, (Boydell absent) ; John Boydell, December 19, 1728 ; John Boydell, \nDecember 15, 1732; Andrew Belcher, December 21, 1739; Andrew Belcher, Novem- \nber 5, 1741; John Payne, July 14, 1749, (Belcher absent) ; John Shirley, January 25, \n1751; John Payne, September 20, 1754, (Shirley absent); John Payne, January 11, \n, (Shirley absent); John Payne, March 28, 1755; John Cotton, March 28, 1755; \nWilliam Cooper, 1759; John Cotton, 1759; William Cooper, 1761; John Cotton, 1761; \nWilliam Cooper, October 30, 1776. \n\nOn the 1 2th of March, 1784, an \" Act for establishing Courts of Pro- \nbate \" was passed, providing that a court shall be held in the several \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. \n\n\n9' \n\n\ncounties, and that a judge and register shall be appointed in each \ncounty ; that the Supreme Judicial Court shall be the Supreme Court \nof Probate with appellate jurisdiction of all matters determinable by the \nprobate judges. \n\nUnder this act and until 1838, when the offices of judges and regis- \nters of probate and insolvency were created, the following officers ad- \nministered the affairs of the court: \n\nJudges of Probate. — Oliver Wendell, appointed November 16, 1780, (held over) ; \nJames Sullivan, May 27, 1788; Thomas Dawes, February 19, 1790; George Richards \nMinot, February 1, 1792 ; Thomas Dawes, jr., January 26, 1802; Joseph Hall, Septem- \nber 6, 1825; John Heard, March 15, 1836; Willard Phillips, May 3, 1839; Edward \nGreeley Loring December 17, 1847; John P. Putnam, March 27, 1858. \n\nRegisters of Probate. — William Cooper, appointed October 30, 1776, (held over); \nPerkins Nichols, November 19, 1799; John Heard, May 26, 1806; David Everett, \nOctober 22, 1811; John Heard, June 20, 1812; Oliver B. Peabody, March 15, 1836; \nHoratio M. Willis, February 8, 1842; Thomas Gill, April 1, 1852; Horatio M. Willis, \nJuly 1, 1853 ; William C. Browne, February 28, 1855. \n\nAn amendment to the constitution, ratified by the people on the 23d \nof May, 1858, provided that at the annual election and in every fifth \nyear thereafter, the register of probate of each county should be chosen \nby the people. Pursuant to this amendment William C. Browne, then \nholding the office, was chosen register. In 1856 a Court of Insolvency \nwas established by law in each county, and Isaac Ames was appointed, \nJune 16, 1856, judge of insolvency for Suffolk county and Charles W. \nStorey, register. In 1858 the offices of judge and register of probate \nand those of judge and register of insolvency were abolished and the \noffices of judge and register of probate and insolvency were created. \nIn the same year it was provided that the register of probate and in- \nsolvency should be chosen by the people in that year and every fifth \nyear thereafter. Isaac Ames was appointed judge of probate and in- \nsolvency May 11, 1858, and at the election in November William C \nBrowne, the former register of probate, was chosen register. The suc- \ncessor of Judge Ames was John W. McKim, the present incumbent, \nwho was appointed March 27, 1877. Mr. Browne was rechosen for five \nyears in 1863, and was succeeded by William S. King, who was chosen \nin November, 1870. At the death of Col. King, Patrick R. Guiney suc- \nceeded to the office, and after his death, which occurred March 21,. \n\n\n9 2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n1877, Elijah George, the present incumbent, was appointed register and \nsubsequently chosen by the people. \n\nIn the history of the office of judge of probate of Suffolk county an \nevent occurred, to which it may be interesting to refer. Edward Greeley \nLoring, who held the office from 1847 to 1858, was removed upon the ad- \ndress of the two Houses of the Legislature on the ground that holding \nthe office of judge of probate was incompatible with holding the office \nof United States commissioner, both of which had been held by him \nsome years. As United States commissioner he had heard an appli- \ncation for the rendition to his alleged master of Anthony Burns, a fugi- \ntive slave, who was arrested May 26, 1854, and rendered judgment in \naccordance with the application. This act aroused the indignation of the \npeople to such an extent that his removal from office was demanded. \nIlis removal was attempted at various times by the Legislature on the \nground that he had violated the provisions of the 13th section of the \n459th chapter of the laws of 1855, which declared \" that no person who \nholds any office under the laws of the United States which qualifies him \nto issue any warrant or other process, or to grant any certificate under \nthe acts of Congress passed in 1793 and 1850, or to serve the same, shall \nat the same time hold any office of honor, trust or emolument under the \nlaws of the Commonwealth.\" Resolves in favor of his removal on this \nground had been several times reported by a special committee and had \nfailed either to pass the Legislature, or, if passed, to receive the approval \nof the governor, and the chief argument against the resolves was the \nclaim that the law of 1855 was unconstitutional. \n\nIn 1858 a renewed attempt was made, and the writer of this narrative, \nthen a member of the Senate, was made chairman of the committee to \nwhom the petitions for removal were referred. The late Joseph M. \nChurchill, of Dorchester, was chairman on the part of the House, in \nwhich branch the petitions had been presented, and he was requested by \nthe committee to draft a report in favor of the passage of an address. \nThe writer, believing that a removal would never be accomplished on \nthe grounds that had been successfully attacked either by the Legisla- \nture or the executive, and also believing that the report of Mr. Churchill \nwould repeat those grounds and thus be defeated, determined to write a \nreport with reasons for removal which would not only avoid all questions \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 93 \n\nof constitutionality, but would commend themselves also to the minds \nof men whose anti-slavery sentiments were not especially strong. \n\nAt the next meeting of the committee, after the House chairman had \nread his report, the writer asked permission to read his own, and after \nits reading it was at once accepted by a majority of the committee. In \norder that a record may be here made of the final controlling reasons \nfor a legislative act which has been misunderstood, the peport is made a \npart of this narrative as follows: \n\n\" House of Representatives, March 9, 1858. \n\n\"The joint special committee to whom were referred the several pe- \ntitions for the removal of Edward Greeley Loring from the office of \njudge of probate for the county of Suffolk have considered the same and \nreport. \n\n\"The constitution provides that 'all judicial officers duly appointed, \ncommissioned and sworn shall hold their offices during good behavior \nexcepting such concerning whom there is a different provision made in \nthe constitution ; provided nevertheless the governor with the consent \nof the council may remove them upon the address of both houses of the \nLegislature.' The exercise of this right in the hands of the governor \nand council and the branches of the Legislature is unrestricted. Any \nreasons, unless they may be such as are based on misconduct and mal- \nadministration in office which may seem sufficient, will justify removal \nby address. \n\n\"In the year 1840 Edward Greeley Loring was appointed commis- \nsioner of the United States to take bail and affidavits pursuant to the \nacts of Congress passed in 18 12 and 18 17. In 1846 he was appointed \njudge of probate for the county of Suffolk. At that time under the \nact of Congress of 1793 jurisdiction in all cases of the extradition of \nfugitives from service or labor was vested in any magistrate of a county, \ncity or town corporate. The duties imposed on a commissioner in 1840, \nthough enlarged by acts of Congress subsequently, were of such a char- \nacter that perhaps no valid reason existed why the offices of judge of \nprobate and commissioner of the United States should not be held, \nand their separate functions discharged by one and the same person. \n\n\" But by the act of Congress passed in 1850 the jurisdiction in ques- \ntion was transferred to the commissioners of the United States, and in \n\n\n94 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthe language of that act Edward Greeley Loring as one of the commis- \nsioners was ' required to exercise and discharge all the powers and \nduties conferred by this act.' This transfer increased the duties and \nresponsibility of the commissioners and so changed their character that \nthe holding of that office became in the opinion of your committee in- \ncompatible with the holding of the office of judge of probate ; that a \nfaithful discharge of the duties of the one became inconsistent with the \nproper discharge in all cases of the duties of the other. \n\n\" A single illustration will suggest the conflict which might arise in \nthe exercise of the powers and duties imposed by the two offices. A \nslave mother dies in Massachusetts and her children are brought before \nthe Court of Probate for the appointment of a guardian. The judge of \nprobate by the laws of Massachusetts is for the time their protector and \nfriend, and while the hearing is pending the same judge in the capacity \nof commissioner is called upon to issue a warrant for their seizure as the \nproperty of a southern slave owner. \n\n\" Again the constitution provides that ' the judges of probate of wills \nand for granting letters of administration shall hold their courts at such \nplace or places or fixed days as the convenience of the people shall re- \nquire, and the Legislature shall from time to time hereafter appoint such \ntimes and places.' These times and places have been fixed by the Leg- \nislature agreeable to the wants and convenience of the people. \n\n\" It must be apparent that the assumption or occupation by any judge \nof probate of any office whose duties might interfere with the discharge \nof his probate duties at the times and places thus constitutionally pre- \nscribed is improper, and after due notice is a sufficient cause of removal. \nIt cannot be denied that a judicial officer under the laws of the United \nStates whose duties are compulsory upon the incumbent may be in- \ncompatible with a judicial office under the laws of Massachusetts whose \nduties are no less compulsory. Now no limit is to be presumed to the \namount of duties which a commissioner maybe called upon to perform. \nIf the discharge of the duties of commissioners were voluntary under \nthe act of 1850, tfce mere occupation of the office might be unobjection- \nable, but in the language of Judge Loring in his protest in 1855 'the \nduty of commissioners of the Circuit Court of the United States under \nthe law of 1850, is imperative upon them,' and 'an application made \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 95 \n\npursuant to law to any one commissioner fixes that duty on him and \nafter such application he can neither decline it nor evade it.' It is clear \nthen that even if such applications were rare, they might be made at \nthe very time fixed by the law for the performance of his probate duties, \nand if numerous they might prevent their performance altogether. The \nfact that during the trial of Anthony Burns such a conflict existed as \ncompelled Judge Loring in the discharge of duties as commissioner to \nadjourn the Court of Probate and postpone its business, sufficiently con- \nfirms the incompatibility in question. \n\n\" But the duties of commissioners in connection with the extradition \nof fugitive slaves are not the only duties which might conflict with the \nproper discharge of the duties of judge of probate. Pursuant to several \nacts of Congress passed subsequently to the appointment of Judge Lor- \ning as commissioner in 1840, he is liable to be called to act in cases of \nextradition of fugitives from foreign countries, and issue warrants and \nhold preliminary examinations in cases of revolts, mutiny and affrays \non shipboard, and a great variety of crimes and offences committed on \nsea and land within the jurisdiction of the United States. These duties \nenlarging from year to year aid still further in constituting the office of \nUnited States commissioner such an office as cannot with propriety be \nheld by a judicial officer under the laws of Massachusetts. When we \nadd to this interference of official duties their opposite and conflicting \nnatures the incompatibility is the more manifest. \n\n\" This incompatibility has been long since recognized by the laws of \nthe Commonwealth and by the members of successive legislatures. The \nlaw of 1843, though applicable to magistrates of this Commonwealth in \nthe performance of the duties imposed upon them by the act of Con- \ngress of 1793, was clearly indicative of the determination of the people \nof Massachusetts that no magistrate in judicial office should participate \nin the extradition of slaves The sentiment and spirit of that law are \nas clearly violated whether that participation is had by a magistrate of \nMassachusetts as such acting under the law of 1793, or by a commis- \nsioner of the United States acting under the law of 1850, who is at the \nsame time a judicial officer under the laws ot the Commonwealth. In con- \nformity with the spirit of this law the Legislature declared by resolves in \n1850 ' that the sentiments of the people of Massachusetts as expressed \n\n\n96 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nin their legal enactments in relation to the delivering up of fugitive slaves \nremain unchanged' and ' that the people of Massachusetts in the main- \ntenance of these their well-known and invincible principles expect that \ntheir officers and representatives will adhere to them at all times, on all \noccasions, and under all circumstances.' \n\n\" The law of 1855 in a more positive manner recognizes the same \nprinciple and applies it to the condition of things existing in conse- \nquence of the law of Congress passed in 1850. In direct contraven- \ntion of the terms and spirit of this law, Judge Loring now holds the two- \noffices of judge of probate and United States commissioner. Indeed, \nthe whole current of sentiment and law in Massachusetts during the last \nfifteen years has enunciated the principle that no officers of this Com- \nmonwealth shall engage in the extradition of slaves, or occupy any of- \nfice among whose dutie- such extradition may be counted. The same \ndoctrine has been endorsed and confirmed by the address of two Legis- \nlatures to the governor of the Commonwealth for the removal of the \njudge who has disregarded and violated it. \n\n\" For these reasons, in the opinion of the committee, the Legislature \nis called upon to address the governor to remove Edward Greeley Lor- \ning from the office of judge of probate for the county of Suffolk. They \ndo not feel obliged to base their grounds for his removal upon the law \nof 1855, and, indeed, to establish the entire validity of these grounds, \nin their opinion it is not necessary to regard that law, except so far as it \nis declaratory of the sentiment of the people. If that law is constitu- \ntional, it is sufficient to say that its violation is a valid reason for the \naddress. If it is unconstitutional, they hold that the principle so long \nacknowledged which dictated its enactment, is also abundant cause and \njustification. \n\n\"Ample notice has been given to Judge Loring of the wishes of the \npeople as expressed through their representatives, and ample time af- \nforded him to respect and yield to them. While judge of probate he \nstill holds the office of United States commissioner in defiance of the \nsentiment of the Commonwealth, and his removal by address is the only \nremedy which the constitution recognizes or provides. \n\n'Your committee therefore respectfully recommends that the accom- \npanying address be sent to the governor, requesting him with the consent \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 97 \n\nof the Council to remove Edward Greeley Loring from the office of \njudge of probate for the county of Suffolk. \n\n\" And your committee further recommends that a joint committee \nconsisting of two on the part of the Senate and five on the part of the \nHouse be appointed to present said address to the governor.\" \n\nThe address was adopted by the Legislature and presented by the \nwriter as chairman of the committee appointed for the purpose, to Na- \nthaniel P. Banks, then governor, who with the advice and consent of the \nCouncil promptly caused the removal. \n\nThe committee reporting the address to the Legislature consisted of \nWm. T. Davis and Joseph W. Cornell, on the part of the Senate, and \nJoseph M. Churchill, Dexter F. Parker, George Stevens, W. F. Arnold, \nand William Page, on the part of the House. Mr. Page made a minor- \nity report in opposition to the address, and Messrs. Churchill, Parker, \nArnold, and Cornell reported that while they concurred in the report \nthey favored the removal for the additional reason \" that the said Ed- \nward Greeley Loring in violation of the provisions of the 13th section \nof chapter 489 of the acts of 1855, holds the office of judge of probate \nfor the county of Suffolk, and also the office of United States commis \nsioner with power to issue process and grant certificates under the act \nof Congress approved September 18, A. D. 1850, known as the fugitive \nslave act.\" \n\nIt is not proposed to include in this narrative sketches of the United \nStates courts sitting within the county of Suffolk, but some reference to \nadmiralty affairs before the adoption of the constitution may be appro- \npriate. Under the colony charter the Court of Assistants held admi- \nralty jurisdiction, and under a law passed by the General Court in 1673, \nwere authorized to hear and try cases without a jury. Under the prov- \nince charter the crown reserved the power of establishing admiralty \ncourts and appointing their officers. The words of the charter are : \n\" Provided alwaies and it is hereby declared that nothing herein shall \nextend or be taken to Erect or grant or allow the Exercise of any Ad- \nmirall Court Jurisdiccon Power or Authority, but that the same shall be \nand is hereby reserved to Us and Our Successors and shall from time to \ntime be Erected Granted and exercised by vertue of Commissions to be \nyssued under the Great Seale of England or under the Seale of the High \n\n\n98 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nAdmirall or the Commissioners for executing the Office of High Ad- \nmirall of England.\" \n\nThe admiralty judges under the province charter having jurisdiction \nin Massachusetts were Adam Winthrop, appointed in 1699; William \nAtwood, appointed in 1701; Roger Mompesson, appointed in 1703 ; \nNathaniel Byfield, appointed in 1703 ; John Menzies, appointed in 17 15 ; \nRobert Auchmuty, appointed in 1728; Nathaniel Byfield, appointed in \n1728 ;. Robert Auchmuty, appointed in 1 73 1 ; Chambers Russell, ap- \npointed in 1747; Robert Auchmuty, jr., appointed in 1767, who held \noffice until the Revolution. At a later date during the Revolution there \nappears to have been a Maritime Court, divided into three districts, of \nwhich Timothy Pickering was judge of the Middle District, Nathan dish- \ning of the Southern, and Timothy Langdon of the Northern. The wri- \nter has not been able to learn much concerning this court, nor does \nhe consider it necessary to investigate it for the purposes of this narra- \ntive. \n\nWith some reference to the attorney-generals who have served the \nprovince and State, to the sheriffs, and county attorneys of the county \nof Suffolk, all of whom are intimately associated with the judicial sys- \ntem and to the court-houses in use at various times, this sketch of the \ncourts will close ; and it will be only necessary before bringing this \nchapter to an end to allude to the condition and character of the Suffolk \nbar at different periods of its history. \n\nThe first attorney-general appears to have been Benjamin Bullivant, \nwho received a reappointment to that office in 1686, and was succeeded \nby George Farwell, who served until June 20, 1688. During the re- \nmaining time of the administration of Andros', James Graham held the \noffice, and was succeeded by Anthony Checkley, June 14, 1689. Checkley \nwas reappointed under the province charter by Governor Phipps, Oc- \ntober 28, 1692. Paul Dudley was appointed July 4, 1702, and in the \nopinion of Judge Washburn, Thomas Newton succeeded Dudley in \n1718, and served until May 28, 1 72 1. The successors of Newton un- \nder the province charter were John Overing, 1722; John Read, 1723; \nJohn Overing, 1728 ; John Read, 1733; William Brattle, 1736; John \nOvering, 1739; Jeremiah Gridley, 1742; John Overing, 1743; James \nOtis, 1748; Edmund Trowbridge, 1749; Jonathan Sewall, 1767, the \nlast attorney- general under the charter. \n\n\n. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 99 \n\nThe office of solicitor- general was created in 1767, and given to Jona- \nthan Sewall before his appointment as attorney- general, and when he \nwas appointed to that office in the same year, Samuel Quincy was ap- \npointed solicitor-general, who held the office until the Revolution. \nWhen the office of solicitor- general was revived, Daniel Davis was ap- \npointed in 1808 and continued in office until June 1, 1832, when the \noffice was abolished by an act passed March 14, 1832. \n\nSince the adoption of the constitution the following persons have held \nthe office of attorney- general : \n\nRobert Treat Paine, appointed during the Revolution and held over; James Sullivan, \nFebruary 12, 1790; Barnabas Bidwell, June 15, 1807; Perez Morton, September 7, \n1810; James T. Austin, May 24, L832 (office abolished in 1843); John Henry Clifford, \n1849 (office revived) ; Ruf us Choate, January 22,1853; John Henry Clifford, May 20, \n1854; Stephen Henry Phillips, chosen 1858; Dwight Foster, 1861; Chester I. Reed, \n1864 (resigned); Charles Allen, 18(37 ; Charles R. Train, 1872; George Marston, \n1879; Edgar J. Sherman, 1883 (resigt ed) ; Andrew J. Waterman, 1887; Albert E. \nPillsbury, 1891 (incumbent). \n\nDuring the colonial period there was no officer bearing the title of \nsheriff until the time of Andros, when James Sherlock acted in that ca- \npacity and officiated in the Superior Court of Judicature in 1688, over \nwhich Joseph Dudley presided as chief justice, with William Stoughton \nand Peter Bulkley as associates. The following persons have served as \nsheriff of Suffolk county under the province charter and under the con- \nstitution : \n\nSamuel Gookin, appointed May 27, 1692; Giles Dyer, October 23, 1702; William \nDudley, August 27, 1713; William Payne, February 19, 1714-15; William Dudley, \nMarch 2, 1714-15 ; William Payne, December 9, 1715 ; Edward VVinslow, December \n12, 1728; Benjamin Pollard, October 20, 1743; Stephen Greenleaf, January 3, 1757; \nWilliam Greenleaf, 1775; Joseph Henderson, December 14, 1780; Jeremiah Allen, \nApril 14, 1791; Samuel Bradford, June 16, 1800; Joseph Hall, October 13, 1818; \nCharles Pmckney Sumner, September 6, 1825 (resigned) ; Joseph Eveleth, April 11, \n1839; Henry Crocker, February!, 1852 (resigned); Joseph Eveleth, May 21, 1853; \nJohn M Clark, February 28, 1855; John B. O'Brien, chosen 1883 (incumbent) \n\nThe office of county attorney, or as at various times it has been called, \nattorney of the State, Commonwealth attorney, and district attorney, \nwas established in 1807, and that year James T. Austin was appointed \nattorney of the State In 181 1 he was reappointed as county attorney, \nand served until 1830. On the 5th of July in that year Samuel Dunn \n\n\ntoo HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nParker was appointed county attorney, and served until 1852. On the \n4th of February in that year, John C. Park was appointed Common- \nwealth attorney, and, served until the 30th of September, 1853, when \nGeorge Partridge Sanger was appointed. George W. Cooley was ap- \npointed to succeed Mr. Sanger September 5, 1854, and served until the \n26th of February, 1861, when Joseph H. Bradley was appointed dis- \ntrict attorney. Mr. Bradley declined, and George Partridge Sanger was \nappointed March 21, 1861. John Wilder May succeeded May 18, 1869, \nand Oliver Stevens, the present incumbent, in 1875. \n\nA few words concerning the buildings in which the courts have been \nheld at various times in Boston will not be inappropriate. Thomas \nLechford, writing in 1640, said that the General Court and the Great \nQuarter Courts were held in the Meeting House. At that time the \nMeeting House stood on the site of Joy's building on Washington \nstreet, in front of Young's Hotel. It had previously stood on the site \nof Brazier's building on State street. Between these two sites Capt. \nRobert Keayne lived, on the corner of Washington and State streets, \nand the market place was on the site of the 'old State House. Captain \nKeayne died in 1656, leaving to the town of Boston ^300 \" for a town \nhouse, a conduit and a market place, with some convenient room or \ntwo for the courts to meet in both summer and winter, and so for the \ntownsmen and commissioners in the same building or the like and a \nconvenient room for a library and a gallery or some other handsome \nroom for the elders to meet in ; also a room for an armory.\" A wooden \nbuilding was consequently erected and finished in 1658 on the old market \nplace set on twenty-one pillars, leaving an open space on the ground \nfor a market place and room above for town purposes. The General \nCourt allowed to Boston one single country rate, provided the courts \ncould be held in this building In 1667 it was repaired at a cost of \n£680, one-half of which was paid by the country, one- quarter by the \ncounty, and one- quarter by the town. \n\nIn 171 1 it was burned, and a new building constructed of brick in \nI712-I3i one- half of the cost being paid by the province and one- halt \nby the county and town. In 1747 it was again partially burned, but \nthe walls of the present old State House are supposed to be the same \nerected in 17 13. In 1773 a new court house was built of brick in \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. ioi \n\ni \n\nCourt street, on the site now occupied by the northerly end of the stone \nbuilding recently abandoned by the courts. \n\nIn 1810 a court house was built on School street on the site of the \npresent city hall and occupied until the stone building in Court square \nwas completed in December, 1836. The old Municipal Court continued \nto be held in the brick building on Court street until June 20, 1822, \nwhen it was removed to Leverett street, thence to the School street \nbuilding in 1 83 1, and to the Court street building in 1837. The Police \nCourt was held in Leverett street from the time of its establishment in \n1822 to 1837, when it removed to the Court street building. \n\nThe United States Courts were held in the School street building \nuntil rooms were furnished in the Court square house, and later for \na term in Bowdoin square until the Masonic Temple was bought by \nthe United States and fitted for their use. \n\nThere was practically no bar in Suffolk county during the colonial \nperiod. It is probable that John Winthrop, Richard Bellingham, John \nHumphrey, Herbert Pelham, Simon Bradstreet and Thomas Lechford \nhad been educated as lawyers in England, but of these Pelham and \nLechford returned home after a few years' residence, and the others \nwere chiefly occupied as magistrates and not as attorneys. The skill \nwith which the colony laws were drafted shows these few men to have \nbeen learned and able. Edward Randolph, the secretary of the Massa- \nchusetts colony under President Dudley, wrote home to England in \nJanuary, 1687-8: \" I have wrote you of the want we have of two or three \nhonest attorneys (if any such thing in nature), we have but two ; one \nis West's creature, came with him from New York and drives all before \nhim. He also takes extravagant fees, and for want of more the country \ncannot avoid coming to him, so that we had better be quite without \nthem, than not to have more.\" \n\nThe Mr. West referred to in the letter of Randolph was John West, \nwho came from New York and was appointed deputy secretary under \nRandolph, who was secretary under Andros. He was a practitioner in \nthe courts, but, probably, not an educated lawyer. He managed as \ndeputy secretary to deceive and financially prey upon his chief, and it \nis quite possible that he is one of the attorneys referred to in the above \nletter. He made himself so unpopular that when the Revolution of \n\n\nio2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n1688 came on he was arrested with Andros and with him sent to Eng- \nland. The other attorney was probably George Farwell, who also came \nfrom New York and was made attorney general by Andros. He also \nwas arrested with Andros at the Revolution and sent to England in \nFebruary, 168$. \n\nAnother of the attorneys in the early colonial days was Thomas Mor- \nton, of Merry Mount, who came from England in 1625, and returned in \n1628. He was probably an educated lawyer and styled himself \" of \nClifford's Inn, Gentleman.\" He returned to Massachusetts in 1643, was \narrested for misconduct and after a year's imprisonment was released on \nthe ground of age and insanity. \n\nThe real practitioners in the courts, however, under the colonial char- \nter were not lawyers. Mr. Joseph Willard, the late clerk of the courts, \nstated in an address before the Worcester bar in 1829, that among the \nleading practitioners were John Coggan, a merchant ; Amos Richard- \nson, a tailor; John Watson, a merchant; and Benjamin Bullivant, an \napothecary and perhaps physician. In fact, the business of practicing \nin the courts was looked upon as so objectionable that a law was passed \nin 1662 excluding every one \" who was a usual and common attorney \nin an Inferior Court from a s^at in the house of deputies.\" \n\nIt was largely the custom for parties to manage their own suits, and \nlitigation with its consequent burden upon the machinery of the courts \nbecame so easy and trials so tedious that the General Court ordered in \n1656 \"that when any plaintiff or defendant shall plead by himself or his \nattorney for a longer time than one hour, the part)' that is sentenced or \ncondemned shall pay twenty shillings for every hour so pleading more \nthan the common fees appointed by the court for the entrance of actions, \nto be added to the execution for the use of the country.\" \n\nUnder Andros the courts were authorized to make rules for the reg- \nulation of court proceedings, and a table of court fees was established, \nwhich is here copied from Washburn's Judicial History of Massachusetts, \nas follows : \n\n\"For commissioners of small causes, attachments or summons, Is. \n\nSubpoena for witnesses, 3'1. \n\nEntry, 3s 4*1. \n\nFiling papers, each paper, 2'1. \n\n\n- \n\n\n^ \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHATTER. 103 \n\nJudgment, 6'1. \n\nConfessing judgment, Is. \n\nExecution, 2s. \n\nMarshal's fees on every verdict, Is. \n\nEach justice per diem paid out of the fines, 5 s. \n\nIn civil actions, entry, 5 s. \n\nJury on verdict not less than 6s 6d. \n\nEntering and approving bonds, 2s. \n\nSuperior Court jury, verdict not less than 6s 6'1. \n\nEntry of action, 10s. \n\nConfessing judgment, 2 s. \n\nAdditional entry fee if over ,£20, 10 s. \n\nEntry of judgment, 2 s. \n\nMarshal's fee in every verdict, rs. \n\nGovernor and council, entry of appeals, 2 s 6''. \n\nEntry of actions, £ 1.\" \n\nOne of the earliest well educated lawyers in Massachusetts was Ben- \njamin Lynde, senior. He graduated at Harvard in 1686, and in 1692 \nwent to London, where he became a student at law in the Middle Tem- \nple, and was called to the bar in 1697. As ^s stated elsewhere in this \nnarrative, he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature \nin 1712, and was the first trained lawyer on the bench of that court. \n\nIn the early days of the province attorneys were recognized as offi- \ncers of the court, and in 1701 the law was passed prescribing a form of \noath to be administered to them on their admission to the bar. By a \nlaw passed in 1708, parties were prohibited from employing more than \ntwo attorneys, and no attorney was permitted to refuse his services pro- \nvided he were tendered the legal fee. \n\nUnder the provincial charter the office of court practitioner became \nmore respected as the men holding it became more numerous and bet- \nter educated. The ministers, and merchants, and doctors on the bench \nof the Superior Court, without business experience and with little states- \nmanlike skill, gradually gave place to more educated men and in many \ninstances to such as were trained in the law. The increasing volume of \nmercantile transactions called for wiser counsel and a profounder knowl- \nedge of law, to aid and advise and plead the cause of those who were \n\n\nio4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nengaged in them. It is interesting to observe the gradual evolution of \nthe profession of the law from a condition of obscurity and almost con- \ntempt to a field in which the ablest men entered for the exercise and \ndisplay of their powers. Coggan, and Richardson, and Watson, and \nBullivant, and Checkley, and their comrades in the courts had left the \nlegal arena, and such men as Newton, and Read, and Davenport, and \nGridley, took their places, and as the Revolution approached still abler \nmen appeared upon the scene. \n\nMr. George Dexter, in the course of some exceedingly interesting re- \nmarks made by him at the November meeting of the Massachusetts \nHistorical Society in 1881, concerning the bar in the earlier part \nof the last century, says: \"There seems to have been no regu- \nlar time of study prescribed for admission to the bar. The earliest \nreference I have found to this matter, is an entry in the diary of Judge \nLynde, under date of August 4, 17 18 ; ' My dear Benjamin went to his \nuncle, Colo. S. Brown, for three years.' This was presumably for the \npurpose of preparing for his profession, but the father, having himself \nreceived a special legal education, may have required more than the \nordinary professional training for his son. John Adams, who was ad- \nmitted an attorney November 2, 1758, had studied with Mr. Putnam, \nof Worcester, very little more than two years, and had taught a school \nthere at the same time that he pursued his legal studies.\" Judge \nWashburn expresses the opinion that the requirement of three years \nstudy was adopted a short time before the Revolution, on the recom- \nmendation of the Essex bar. This, however, can hardly be true, as the \norder of barristers undoubtedly existed in the province as early as 1761, \nand the three years study seems connected with the establishment of \nthat order. John Adams writes in his diary of 1761, that, \"brother \nSamuel Quincy and I were sworn before the Supreme Court,\" and Jo- \nsiah Quincy, jr., speaks of Adams and Quincy being called by the court \nin 1 76 1, to be barristers at law. In order to become barristers, the re- \nquirements were three years preliminary study, two years practice in \nthe Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and two years subsequent practice \nin the Superior Court. \n\nIt has been stated in an earlier part of this narrative that the term \nbarrister was abolished in 1806, and counsellors were for the first time \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 105 \n\nrecognized. At the March term of the Supreme Judicial Court for \nSuffolk county in that year, the following rules were adopted and may \nbe found in the second volume of the Massachusetts Reports. \n\nRegula GrENERALIS. \n\nOrdered by the court' that hereafter no motion for a new trial shall be sustained \nwhere the party moving it shall be entitled to a review of right, unless the right of re- \nview shall be relinquished on record, excepting when the verdict shall have been given \nagainst the direction of the court in matters of law. \n\nRegulae GrENERALES. \n\n1. No attorney shall do the business of counsellor, unless he shall have been made \nor admitted as such by the court. \n\n2. All attorneys of the court who have been admitted three years before the sitting \nof the court, shall be and are hereby made counsellors, and are entitled to all the rights \nand privileges of such. \n\n3. No attorney or counsellor shall hereafter be admitted without a previous exam- \nination. \n\n4. The court will from time to time appoint from the barristers and counsellors a \ncompetent number of examiners, any two or more of whom shall examine all candi- \ndates for admission to practice as counsellors or attorneys at their expense; and when- \never a candidate shall upon examination be by them deemed duly qualified, they shall \ngive a certificate in the form following : * * *. \n\n5. If after an examination, the examiners shall refuse such a certificate as aforesaidr \nthey shall be required to give a certificate of their refusal, and the candidate may ap- \npeal from the decision of the examiners to a justice of the court, who will thereupon \nexamine him, and either confiim or reverse the decision of the examiners; and in case \nof reversal the candidate may apply to the court for admission. \n\n6. If upon'an examination such certificate shall be refused, it shall be conclusive, un- \nless there be an appeal es aforesaid, so that no ether examiners shall thereafter be ap- \npealed to without the express permission and direction of the court. \n\n7. No examiner shall undertake to examine any candidate who was in whole, or in \npart instructed by him in his office. \n\n8. The following described persons shall be candidates for examination and admis- \nsion to the bar as attorneys, that is to say — firstly, all who have been heretofore admit- \nted as attorneys in any Court of Common Pleas in the Commonwealth, and who at \nthe time they shall apply for examination, shall be in regular practice therein ; and \nsecond, all such as have, besides a good school education, devoted seven years at^ the \nleast to literary acquisition, and three years thereof at the least in the office, and under \nthe instruction of a barrister or counsellor practicing in the court. \n\n9. Before the examiners shall proceed to examine any person for admission as an at- \ntorney who has not been admitted at a Court of Common Pleas, it shall be certified to \nthem by a counsellor or barrister, or by counsellors or barristers, that the candidate has \n\n14 \n\n\n106 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nbeen in the office and under the instruction of a counsellor or barrister, for the term of \nthree years at the least. \n\n10. The certificate, as well of barristers and counsellors, as to attorneys, or the certifi- \ncate of the examiners as to attorneys and counsellors, shall be returned to the clerk and \nby him recorded. \n\n11. Any person who has been admitted as an attorney, and as such practiced two \nyears, may be a candidate for admission as a candidate and examined therefor. \n\n12. Every counsellor may practice as an attorney. \n\n13. Whenever an action shall hereafter be entered in court, the attorney or attor- \nneys for the plaintiff or appellant shall become such of record, and within the first two \ndays the attorney or attorneys for the defendant or appellee shall cause themselves to \nbecome such of record. \n\n14. In all cases where parties do not appear in their proper persons, after the first \nday there shall be an attorney or attorneys of record for the defendant or appellee, and \nnone for the plaintiff or appellant, the defendant or appellee on motion shall have \niudgment as on a discontinuance ; and whenever after the first two days there shall be \nan attorney or attorneys on record for the plaintiff or appellant, and none for the de- \nfendant or appellee, the plaintiff or appellant shall on motion have judgment accord- \ning to the nature of the case. \n\n15. Hereafter the court will not hear any argument against on a question of law \narising on special pleadings, as special verdict, case stated, or motion in arrest of judg- \nment, unless the material papers shall have been copied and delivered to the judge \nrespectively at or before the commencement of the term. \n\n16. All who are now attorneys of the court shall be allowed to advocate causes on \nissue of fact for the term of three years from the time they were admitted as attorneys \nrespectively, although they were not counsellors.\" \n\nThe examiners appointed pursuant to the above order were The- \nophilus Parsons, Christopher Gore, Samuel Dexter, Harrison Gray- \nOtis, William Sullivan and Charles Jackson. \n\nAt the September term, 1806, in Berkshire, the court amended the \nabove rules by adding, \" that any person who shall have received an \neducation comprising equal advantages with that expressed in the 8th \nrule of the court, adopted at the March term, although varying in the \nmode or circumstances, may be examined for admission as an attorney, \non obtaining a license therefor from the court or a judge; and if ap- \nproved by two examiners shall receive a certificate from them conform- \nable in substance to the 4th rule.\" \n\nAt the March term, 1807, in Suffolk, the rules were still further \namended by the order \" that all gentlemen proposed by the bar for \nadmission as attorneys of the court, before the establishment of the \nrules regulating the admission of attorneys published in March, 1806, \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. \n\n\nJ07 \n\n\nmay be admitted as attorneys of the court in the same manner as they \nmight have been before the establishment of the said rules; and after \nadmission they shall be considered as attorneys of this court from the \ntime at which they were proposed for admission, and before the pub- \nlication of the said rules, and this rule is to extend to all attorneys who \nhave been heretofore admitted attorneys of the court, having been pro- \nposed for admission before the publication of the said rules.\" \n\nAt the March term in Suffolk, in 18 10, the court repealed the Reg- \nulae Generales of 1806, with their amendments, and adopted the follow- \ning substitute : \n\n1. That any person may be admitted an attorney of this court who shall have had' \na liberal education and regular degree at some public college, and shall afterwards \nhave commenced and pursued the study of the law in the office, and under the instruc- \ntion of some counsellor of the court for three years; and shall afterwards have been ad- \nmitted an attorney of the Court of Common Pleas for the county in which such coun- \nsellor with whom he lias studied the law as aforesaid shall dwell ; having first been \nrecommended by the bar of the said county to the Common Pleas as having a good \nmoral character, and as suitably qualified for such admission ; and shall afterwards have- \npracticed law with fidelity and ability in some Court of Common Pleas within the State- \nfor the term of two years, and shall then be recommended by the bar for admission as \nan attorney of this court, when holden for the county in which the person so rec- \nommended shall dwell. \n\n2. Any person not having a liberal education and a regular degree as aforesaid, who \nshall have commenced and pursued the study of the law in the office of some coun- \nsellor as aforesaid for the term of five years, shall be considered as having a qualifica- \ntion for admission equivalent to the having had a liberal education, and a regular de- \ngree as aforesaid. \n\n3. Any person having a liberal education and a regular degree as aforesaid, who \nshall afterwards have commenced and pursued the study of the law in any other State. \nin the ojnce of an attorney of the highest judicial court of such State for one year at \nthe least, and afterwards shall pursue the study of the law in the office of some coun- \nsellor of this court for the term of two years, shall be considered as having a qualifica- \ntion for admission, equivalent to the having commenced and pursued the study of the- \nlaw for three years in the office and under the instruction of some counsellor of this \ncourt. \n\n4. Any person not having had a liberal education and a regular degree as aforesaiil, \nwho shall have commenced and pursued the study of the law in any other State, in the \noffice of an attorney of the highest judicial court of such State, for the term of two \nyears at the least, and shall afterwards have pursued the study of the law with soil \ncounsellor of this court for the term of three years, shall be considered as having a qual- \nification for admission equivalent to the having had a liberal education and a regular- \ndegree as aforesaid, and to the having pursued the study of the law for three years im \nthe office »f some counsellor of this court. \n\n\n108 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n5. The bar shall not recommend for admission as an attorney any person, either to \n;iny Court of Common Pleas or to this court, unless he be qualified for such admission, \nagreeably to the provisions of these rules. But the bar may recommend for admission \nas an attorney to the Common Pleas any person now duly qualified by the rules here- \nby repealed for examination and admission as an attorney of this court ; and further the \nbar may also recommend to the Court of Common Pleas, for admission as an attorney \nthereof, any person who before the establishment of these rules had commenced, and \nis now pursuing the stud}r of the law with some counsellor of this court, when such \nperson would by virtue of the rules hereby repealed, be qualified for examination and \nadmission as an attorney of this court. \n\n6. If the bar of any court shall unreasonably refuse to recommend either to this \ncourt, or to any Court of Common Pleas, for admission as attorney, any person suit- \nably qualified for such admission ; or if after the recommendation of the bar, the Com- \nmon Pleas shall unreasonably refuse to admit as an attorney the person so recommend- \ned, such person submitting to an examination by one of the justices of this court, pro- \nducing to him sufficient evidence of his good moral character, may be admitted as an \nattorney of this court on the certificate of such justice that he is duly qualified there- \nfor, and has pursued the study of the law agreeably to the provisions of the rules. \n\n7. Any person who shall have been admitted an attorney of the highest judicial \ncourt of any other State in which he shall dwell, and afterwards shall become an in- \nhabitant of this State, may be admitted an attorney or counsellor of this court, subject \nto the discretion of the justice thereof, after due inquiry and information concerning \nhis moral character and professional qualification. \n\n8. Any person who now is, or who shall be, an attorney of this court, having prac- \nticed law therein with fidelity and ability as an attorney thereof for two years, may \nbe admitted a counsellor of this court, when holden for the county in which such at- \ntorney shall dwell, on the recommendation of the bar of such county, or without such \nrecommendation, if it be unreasonably refused ; unless such person was admitted an \nattorney of this court because he had been unreasonably refused admission as an attor- \nney of the Court of Common Pleas; in which case he shall not be recommended nor \nadmitted as a counsellor of this court until he has practiced law as an attorney thereof \nfor the term of four years. \n\n9. All issues in law and in fact, and all questions of law arising on writs of error, \ncertiorari and mandamus, or special verdicts, or motions for new trials and in arrest \nof judgment, shall be argued only by the counsellors of this court. And the counsel- \nlors of this court may also practice as attorneys.\" \n\nIn 1836 it was provided by law that any citizen of the Common- \nwealth'or any alien who had expressed his .intention pursuant to law \nto become a citizen, of twenty-one years of age, of good moral charac- \nter might become an attorney after three years study, and on the recom- \nmendation of an attorney be examined for admission. In 1876 it was \nprovided that the same person could be admitted only on examination, \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 109 \n\nand in 1891 a law was passed providing that \"any person who has \nbeen or shall hereafter be removed from practice as an attorney by the \nSupreme Judicial, or Superior Court of the Commonwealth for deceit, \nmalpractice, or other gross misdemeanor, and who shall continue to \npractice law or receive any fee for his services as attorney or counsel- \nlor at law rendered after such removal, or who shall hold himself out \nor represent or advertise himself as an attorney or counsellor at law, \nand every person not regularly admitted to practice as an attorney or \ncounsellor at law in accordance with chapter 159 of the Public Statutes, \nwho shall represent himself to be an attorney or counsellor at law or \nlegally qualified to practice in the courts of the Commonwealth by \nmeans of a sign, business card, letter head or otherwise, shall be pun- \nished for each offence by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or \nby imprisonment not exceeding six months, and upon a second or any \nsubsequent conviction by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by \nimprisonment not exceeding one year.\" \n\nDuring the existence of the old Bar Association which was formed \nin 1770 the rules of the association regulated admissions to the bar. \nThe date of the formation and dissolution of the first Suffolk Bar Asso- \nciation is unknown. Indeed its existence is only inferred from a \nvote passed at the first meeting of the association above referred to, \n\" that the secretary wait on Judge Auchmuty and request of him the \nrecords of a former society of the bar in the county, and invite him to \nmeet with this society in the future if he sees fit.\" Judge Auchmuty \nwas attorney general from 1761 to 1767 and probably the first associa- \ntion was dissolved between these dates, \n\nThe second association was formed on the evening of Wednesday, \nJanuary 3, 1770, at the Bunch of Grapes tavern on the corner of \nState and Kilby streets, kept at that time by Mr. Ingersoll and after- \nwards by John Marston. The gentlemen present were Benjamin Kent, \nJames Otis, Samuel Fitch, William Reed, Samuel Swift, Samuel Quincy, \nJohn Adams, Andrew Casneau, and Daniel Leonard, all of whom were \nbarristers, and Francis Dana, Josiah Quincy and Sampson Salter Blow- \ners, attorneys, and it was voted \" that the barristers and attorneys at the \nSuperior Court, belonging to this and the neighboring towns will form \nthemselves into a society or law club, to meet at Mr. Ingersoll's on the \n\n\nno HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nevening of the first Wednesday of every month for the year ensuing.\" \nBenjamin Kent, as the oldest barrister, presided and John Adams was \nchosen secretary. At the meeting on the first Wednesday in October, \n1770, it was voted that \" Francis Dana, Josiah Quincy and Sampson \nSalter Blowers be recommended to the Superior Court to be admitted \nas barristers, they having studied and practiced the usual time.\" On \nthe 21st of November it was voted that Samuel Sewall, who produced \na certificate from the clerk of the Inferior Court that he was admitted \nas attorney in that court on the first Tuesday in January, 1767, be rec- \nommended for admission as attorney to the Superior Court. \n\nAt the meeting held on the 26 of January, 1771 , it was voted \" that \nwhenever the defendant's counsel shall point out to the plaintiff's any \ndefect in his writ or declaration, he shall have liberty to amend upon \npayment of six shillings before plea pleaded. But if he will put the de- \nfendant's counsel to plead and the writ or declaration is adjudged in- \nsufficient, he shall then pay eighteen shillings for the amendment in \ncase the amendment is allowed him by the court, and the defendant \nshall choose costs instead of an imparlance. This rule to extend only \nto such defect in writs and declarations as shall be owing to mistake or \ninadvertence, or other fault of the counsel who drew the writ, or his \nclerk.\" \n\nIt was agreed at a meeting held February 6, 1771, among other \nmatters, \" that we will not take any young gentleman to study with us \nwithout previously having the consent of the bar of this county ; that \nwe will not recommend any persons, to be admitted to the Superior \nCourt as attorneys who have not studied with some barrister three \nyears at least, nor as attorneys in the Superior Court who have not \nstudied as aforesaid and been admitted at the Inferior Court two years \nat least, nor recommend them as barristers till they have been through \nthe preceding degrees and been attorneys at the Superior Court two \nyears at least, except those gentlemen who are already admitted in this \ncounty as attorneys at Superior and Inferior Courts, and that they \nmust be subject to the rule so far as is yet to come.\" To this agree- \nment it was added \" that the consent of the bar shall not be taken but \nat a general meeting of the bar for the county, and shall not be given \nto any young gentleman who has not had an education at college, or a \nliberal education equivalent in the judgment of the bar.\" \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. tii \n\nAt the July meeting, 1772, Benjamin Hichborn, William Tudor, and \nJonathan Williams Austin were recommended to be sworn as attor- \nneys. One of the rules of the association was that no member should \nreceive a student in his office without the consent of the bar. Among \nthose entered in various offices according to the records of the associa- \ntion were Thomas Edwards in the office of Josiah Quincy, 1772; Jon- \nathan Williams in the office of John Adams, 1773; Edward Hill in the \noffice of Mr. Adams, 1773 ; John Trumbull in the office of Mr. Adams, \n1774; Nathaniel Brattle in the office of Mr. Blowers, 1774; Nathan \nRice and John Thaxter in the office of Mr. Adams, 1774; Joshua \nThomas and Jonathan Mason in the office of Josiah Quincy, 1774; \nHenry Goodwin in the office of William Tudor, 1778; Rufus Emory in \nthe office of John Lowell, 1778 ; Fisher Ames in the office of William \nTudor, 1778; George Richards Minot in the office of William Tudor, \n1780; Peter Clarke in the office of Increase Sumner, 1780; William \nHunter Torrens in the office of John Lowell, 1781 ; Edward Sohier in \nthe office of John Lowell, 1781 ; Joseph Hall in the office of Benjamin \nHichborn, 1781 ; Edward Wendell in the office of John Lowell, 1781 ; \nDavid Leonard Barnes in the office of James Sullivan, 1782; Edward \nGray in the office of James Sullivan, 1783 ; John Brown Cotting in the \noffice of John Lowell, 1783 ; Samuel Quincy, jr., in the office of Chris- \ntopher Gore, 1783 ; Harrison Gray Otis in the office of John Lowell \n17%Z\\ John Rowe in the office of Mr. Tudor, 1783; Richard Brook \nRoberts in the office of Mr. Hichborn, 1783 ; Samuel Cooper Johon- \nnot in the office of Mr. Sullivan, 1784 ; William Hill in the office of Mr. \nGore; Fortesque Vernon in the office of Mr. Hichborn, 1784; John \nMerrick in the office of Thomas Dawes, 1784; John Lowell, jr., and \nS. Borland in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1786 ; James Sullivan, jr., in the \noffice of Mr. Sullivan, 1786 ; Thomas Russell in the office of Mr. Lowell, \n1786; Isaac Parker in the office of Mr. Tudor, 1787 ; William Cranch in \nthe office of Thomas Dawes, 1787; Samuel Andrews in the office of Mr. \nHichborn, 1788; William Lyman in the office of Mr. Sullivan, 1788; \nNathaniel Higginson in the office of William Wetmore, 1788 ; Phineas \nBruce in the office of Mr. Hichborn, 1788 ; Bossenger Foster in the of- \nfice of Mr. Parsons, 1788; Edward Clarke in the office of Mr. Lowell, \n1789; John Lathrop in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1789; Robert Paine in \n\n\nii2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nin the office of Mr. Paine, 1789; Josiah Quincy in the office of Mr. Tu- \ndor, 1790; Nathaniel Fisher in the office of Mr. Robbins, 1790; Eben- \nezer Gay in the office of Mr. Gore, 1790; James Prescott, jr., in the of- \nfice of James Sullivan, 1790; Samuel Haven in the office of Mr. Ames, \n1790; William Sullivan in the office of James Sullivan, 1792; John \nWilliams in the office of Mr. Otis, 1792 ; John Ward Gurley in the of- \nfice of Mr. Lowell, 1796, provided his literary qualifications are found \nsatisfactory on examination by Messrs. Minot, Otis and Quincy, he not \nhaving received a college education ; Samuel A. Dorr in the office of \nJudge Sullivan, 1797; John Heard and Benjamin Wood in the office of \nJohn Davis ; Holder Slocum, jr., in the office of George Richards Minot ; \nNicholas Emery in the office of Samuel Livermore, 1798; Charles \nPinckney Sumner in the office of Judge Minot, 1798 ; Richard Sullivan \nin the office of William Sullivan, 1798; Humphrey Devereux in the of- \nfice of Mr. Lowell, 1798; Thomas Paine and Thomas O. Selfridge in \nthe office of Mr. Paine, 1799 ; Artemas Sawyer in the office of Mr. Gay, \n1799; William Hyslop Sumner in the office of John Davis, 1799; Henry \nCabot in the office of Mr. Amory, 1800; Nathaniel Sparhawk in the \noffice of George Blake ; Charles Lowell in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1800; \nLuther Richardson in the office of Mr. Paine, 1801 ; David I. Greene \nand Mr. Skinner in the office of William Sullivan, 1800; George Sulli- \nvan in the office of James Sullivan, 1800 ; Warren Dutton in the office \nof Mr. Lowell, 1800; Alpheus Baker in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1801 ; \nSamuel Mather Crocker in the office of Mr. Gray, 1801 ; Lemuel Shaw \nin the office of Mr. (David) Everett, 1 801 ; John Knapp and Thomas \nWelsh in the office of John Davis, 1801 ; Arthur M. Walter, Benjamin \nWells and William Smith Shaw in the office of Mr. Otis, 1801 ; John \nCodman and James Elliott in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1802 ; Timothy \nFuller in the office of Charles Paine, 1802; Timothy Boutelle in the of- \nfice of Mr. Gay, 1802 ; David Bradley in the office of Mr. Heard, 1802 ; \nAaron Emmes in the office of Mr. Everett, 1802 ; James T. Austin in \nthe office of William Sullivan, 1802 ; William Minot in the office of Jo- \nseph Hall, 1803. \n\nIn the case of Holder Slocum, jr., which was referred to Messrs. Ed- \nwards, Davis and Gray, in order that he might be examined as to his \nliterary qualifications, he not having received a collegiate education, the \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 113 \n\ncommittee reported \"that they find Mr. Slocum has so far attended to \nthe Latin language that a moderate degree of attention and practice will \nprobably enable him to render it sufficiently familiar for the purposes of \nhis intended profession. He has paid no attention to the Greek, and \nhas not been sufficiently instructed, in the opinion of your committee, in \nlogic, metaphysics and mathematics. He has read some approved wri- \nters in history, and has attended considerably to the French language. \n\n\" It is the opinion of the committee that on his remaining in an office \nthree years from the present time, with an attention for part of the time, \nunder the direction of his instructors, to history and metaphysics, and oc- \ncasionally to the Latin language, it will be proper, at the expiration of \nthat period, if he continues the assiduity and attention which he has \nhitherto manifested, to allow of his admission to the bai.\" \n\nOthers recommended to be sworn as attorneys besides those already \nmentioned were Josiah Quincy, 1772; Nathaniel Coffin, 1773; Increase \nSumner, Benjamin Hichborn, William Tudor, Jonathan William Austin, \nJohn Bulkley, Perez Morton, 1774; Christopher Gore, Samuel Dag- \nget, 1778; Jonathan Mason, 1779; Royal Tyler, Thomas Dawes, James \nHughes, 1780; Benjamin Lincoln, Jonathan Fay, Fisher Ames, Rufus \nAmory, George R. Minot, 1 78 r ; David Leonard Barnes, 1783 ; Thomas \nEdwards, John Thaxter, Joseph Hall, Edward Sohier, Edward Walker, \n1784; Edward Gray, 1785; Samuel Quincy, John Rowe, Harrison \nGray Otis, 1786; Fortescue Vernon, Thomas Williams, 1787; John \nMerrick, Joseph Bartlett, Thomas Crafts, 1788; John Lowell, jr., Isaac \nParker, William L\\ man, Samuel Andrews, Joseph Blake, 1789; Phineas \nBruce, William Cranch, 1790; James Prescott, jr., 1 791 ; George Blake, \nRobert Paine, 1792; John Callender, Josiah Quincy, Francis Blake, \nJoseph Rowe, 1793; William Sullivan, John Williams, 1795; Isaac \nStory, 1796; William Thurston, 1797 ; Ezekiel Bacon, Samuel A. Dorr, \nJohn Heard, Foster Waterman, 1798 ; Charles Davis, Charles Cushing, \nJotham Bender, John W. Gurley, 1799; Holder Slocum, jr., Richard \nSullivan, Humphrey Devereux, Nathaniel Sparhawk, Artemas Sawyer, \nThomas Paine, 1801 ; Arthur M. Walter, 1802 ; Warren Dutton, Aaron \nH. Putnam, Israel Munroe, Benjamin Wells, John Knapp, 1803 ; Thomas \nWelsh, jr., George Sullivan, 1804. \n15 \n\n\nii4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nAmong the votes passed by the association were the following : \n\n\" That in all cases when a gentleman shall be proposed as a student, \nwho has not had a college education, he shall always undergo an ex- \namination by a committee appointed by the bar previous to his admis- \nsion as a student.\" \n\n\"That all students of colleges out of the State be not admissible to \nthe bar, until they shall have studied one year longer than those edu- \ncated at Harvard University.\" \n\n\" That no student be recommended to the Court of Common Pleas \nfor admission without having studied within the county one year at least \nof his time.\" \n\n\" That the sum to be paid by a student at law to his instructors shall \nbe one hundred pounds lawful money at least.\" \n\nThe above matter relating to the old Bar Association is taken from \nthe \"Record Book\" of the association in the possession of the Massa- \nchusetts Historical Society, which readers may find more fully described \nin the nineteenth volume of the proceedings of the society. The entries \nclose with 1805, but the writer has reason to believe that the associa- \ntion continued until 1836, when the enactments in the revised statutes \nseemed to render its existence no longer necessary. \n\nAfter the dissolution of the old association, no other was formed in \nSuffolk county until 1875. On the 20th of October in that year, Joseph \nA. Willard, clerk of the Superior Court, was requested by Sidney Bart- \nlett, William Gaston, Henry W. Paine, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Jo- \nsiah G. Abbott, Edward D. Sohier, and thirty-one others, to call a \nmeeting of the signers to consider the formation of a bar association. \nA meeting was held in the first session Superior Court- room on the \n20th of February, 1 876, at which Sidney Bartlett presided, and Albert \nE. Pillsbury acted as secretary. A committee consisting of the pres- \nident and secretary, together with Charles Theodore Russell, Walbridge \nA. Field, Seth J. Thomas, and John D. Long, was chosen to report a \nplan of organization. On the 27th of May a constitution was adopted, \nand on the 10th of June the following officers were chosen: President, \nSidney Bartlett; vice-presidents, Henry W. Paine, William Gaston, \nWilliam G. Russell; treasurer, Richard Olney ; secretary, Albert E. \nPillsbury; executive committee, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Horace \n\n\n]Z^Cn^oliZ€ \n\n\nINTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. i.5 \n\nC. Hutchins, Gustavus A. Somerby, Robert M. Morse, jr , Henry M. \nRogers; judicial committee, Richard H. Dana, jr., Charles R. Train, \nSeth J. Thomas, George O. Shattuck, Walbridge A. Field, Robert D. \nSmith, Thomas L. Livermore, J. Lewis Stackpole, Samuel A. R. Ab- \nbott, Moses Williams, jr. \n\nThe constitution provided for a council, consisting of the president, \nvice- president, treasurer, and secretary, ex- officio, and twenty- one others, \ndivided into classes of seven each, one of which was to be chosen an- \nnually for a term of three years, who were to have the sole and entire \nmanagement of the association and of its income and property, and in \n1885 the number of vice-presidents was reduced to one, and the execu- \ntive committee and judicial committee were abolished. The present of- \nficers are: President, John Lowell; vice-president, Richard Olney ; \ntreasurer, C. P. Greenough ; secretary, Robert Grant; council, William \nG. Russell, George O. Shattuck, Augustus Russ, Solomon Lincoln, \nCausten Browne, Moses Williams, chosen in 1 891 ; Henry W. Putnam, \nHenry M. Rogers, A. Lawrence Lowell, Joseph B. Warner, Charles T. \nGallagher, Frederick Dodge, chosen in 1890; Lewis S. Dabney, Albert \nE. Pillsbury, John C. Ropes, Moorfield Storey, Samuel Hoar, Clement \nK. Fay, Edward W. Hutchins, chosen in 1889. \n\nWith this slight reference to the present Bar Association, this intro- \nductory chapter must close. The writer is aware of the inadequacy of \nhis treatment of the subject to which it relates, but he trusts that the \nlimited space at his command will be considered at least a partial ex- \ncuse. \n\n\nBiographical Register \n\n\nOF THE \n\n\nBENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nCHARLES L. ABBOTT, son of Levi and Harriet E. Abbott, was bom in Boston, \nOctober 6, 1856, and educated at its public schools. He prosecuted his law stud- \nies with Josiah W. Hubbard, a member of the Suffolk Bar, and was admitted to the bar \nin Boston in 1SS0. He married, January 15, 1891, Anna E. Pierce, and lives in Ar- \nlington. \n\nThomas Coffin Amory was the son of Jonathan and Mehitable (Sullivan) Amory, of \nBoston, and was born in that city October 16, 1812. His mother was a daughter of \nGovernor James Sullivan. He attended the Round Hill School at Northampton, and \nwas fitted for college in Boston by Charles Chauncey Emerson and Louis Stackpole. \nHe graduated at Harvard in 1830 and after studying law with his uncle, William Sul- \nivan, was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, 1834. He was a member of the \nBoston Common Council from 1836 to 1841, an alderman at various times, and a rep- \nresentative in 1859. He published a memoir of James Sullivan in 1858, \" The Military \nServices and-Public Life of General John Sullivan\" in 1868, and at various times \" The \nTransfer of Erin, or the Acquisition of Ireland by England,\" the \" Life of Admiral \nCoffin,\" the '' Siege of Newport,\" and numerous pamphlets and poems. He died in \nBoston August 20, 1889. \n\nThomas Johnston Homer was born in Roxbury before it was annexed to Boston, \nand is the son of Thomas Johnston and Mary Elizabeth (Fisher) Homer. He was fitted \nfor college at the Roxbury Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He \nstudied law at the Dane Law School in Cambridge, and in the office of Arthur Lincoln \nand William S. Hall, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county in Jan- \nuary, 1883. He lives unmarried in Roxbury, and is one of the examining counsel of \nthe Conveyancer's Title Insurance Company. \n\nAdin Ballou Underwood was born in Milford, Mass., May 19, 1828. His ancestors \ncame to this country before 1637 and lived in Hingham, from whence subsequently \nthey removed to Watertown. His father was Orison Underwood, who was brigadier- \ngeneral of the militia, and his mother was Miss Hannah Bond Cheney. He attended \nthe University Grammar School, Providence, R. I., and graduated from Brown Univer- \nsity in 1849, standing with James B. Angel, now president of Ann Arbor University, \n\n\nn8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nat the head of his class. He studied law with Hon. Charles R. Train at Framingham, \nand afterwards with Hon. Benjamin F. Thomas of Worcester, and subsequently at the \nLaw School of Harvard University, which he left to go abroad and study in the uni- \nversities of Berlin and Heidelberg. He was admitted to the bar October 10. 1853, in \nthe Supreme Judicial Court at Worcester, Mass., and began the practice of law :n his \nnative town of Milford. Soon after this he took as his partner, H. B. Staples, after- \nwards judge on the Superior Bench. In 1856 he left Milford and formed a partnership \nat Boston with Charles R. Train with whom he practiced law until the breaking out of \nthe war. He was married June 5, 1856, at Newton, to Miss Jane L., daughter of \nJoseph and Hannah T. Walker. On April 29, 1861, he aided in the enlistment of a \nregiment of Massachusetts Volunteers and in the following month received a commis- \nsion as captain in the Second Regiment then being raised by George H. Gordon at \nBrook Farm. In July, 1862, he became major in the 33d Massachusetts Regiment and \nin July of the same j^ear was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. After the resignation \nof Colonel Maggi, in April, 1863, he was commissioned as colonel of this regiment and \nwas in command at the battle of Gettysburg. Joining the army of the Cumberland \nwith his regiment, he took part in the battle of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, \nOctober 28, 1863, and in a desperate charge up the mountain was badly wounded in \nhis right thigh. General Hooker, in his official report of this battle, says: \"Colonel \nUnderwood was desperately wounded. If only in recognition of his meritorious serv- \nices, his many martial virtues and great personal worth, it would be a great satisfaction \nto me to have this officer advanced to the grade of brigadier-general. \" The recommend- \nation of General Hooker was immediately complied with and he was commissioned \nas brigadier-general of volunteers, November 6, 1863. His wounds, which made him \na cripple for life, were slow in healing, but upon his recovery he again went into active \nservice and was present at the grand review in Washington when the army was dis- \nbanded. Upon his resignation from the army in 1865, he was breveted major-general \n\" for meritorious service during the war,\" and on his return to Boston, in 1866, was \nappointed surveyor of that port, which position he held continuously until August, \n1886. From 1856, when he began the practice of law in Boston, unt'l 1886, he was a \nresident of Newton, but upon leaving the custom house, he removed his residence to \nBoston and resumed the practice of law, associating with him his son, William Orison \nUnderwood. About a year and a half after this, upon January 14, 1888, he died at his \nhome in Boston, at the age of fifty-nine years and seven months, leaving a widow, \none son and two daughters. General Underwood spent a large part of his time in \nliterary pursuits, gave occasional addresses upon the war and was the author of the his- \ntory of the 33d Massachusetts Regiment. He was a prominent Freemason, was de- \npartment commander of the Grand Army of the State of Massachusetts in 1873. \nDuring Governor William Claflin's term of office he was chief of staff. While a resi- \ndent of Newton he served in the town government as chairman of the School Com- \nmittee, was a warden of Grace Church and was one of the original trustees of the \nPublic Library. \n\nJohn Lewis Ratks, the son of Lewis B. and Louisa D. Bates, was born in North \nEaston, Mass., September 18, 1859. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. ng \n\n\nBoston Golloge, and the Boston University Law School. He graduated from the last \nin 1885 and in September of that year was admitted to the bar in Boston. He has been \nin 1891 and 1892 a member of the Boston Common Council and makes East Boston his \nplace of residence. He married at Jamestown, N. Y., July 12, 1887, Clara Elizabeth \nSmith. \n\nCharles Clarence Barton, son of Pliny L. and Mary A. Barton, was born in Salis- \nbury, Conn., September 14, 1844. He was educated at the Amenia University, \nAmenia, N. Y., Trinity College, and the Boston University Law School. He was \nadmitted to the bar in Middlesex county in April, 1873, and lives in Newton, in which \nplace he has been president of the Common Council and School Board. He married \nEmma C. Drew in Boston, August 24, 1870. \n\nFrancis Bassett, son of William and Betsey (Howes) Bassett, was born in that part \nof Yarmouth, Mass., which is now Dennis, September 9, 1786. He was fitted for col- \nlege at the Sandwich Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law \nwith Luther Lawrence and Timothy Bigelow and was admitted to the Common Pleas bar \nSeptember 28, 1813, and the Supreme Court bar March 6, 1816. He was a representative \nfrom Boston in 1818, '19, '20, '24, '28, '29 and an overseer of Harvard College from 1853 \nto 1863. He was appointed in 1830 clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the \nsecond circuit and of the United States District Court. In 1845 he resigned and trav- \neled in Europe. He married, December 8, 1858, Francis (Cutter) Langdon, widow of \nWoodbury Langdon, of Portsmouth, N. H., and daughter of Jacob and Miriam (Cross) \nCutter, of that city. He died in Boston, May 25, 1875. \n\nWilliam Brigham, son of Charles and Susanna (Baylis) Brigham, was born in Graf- \nton, Mass., September 26, 1806. He was fitted for college at Leicester Academy in a \nsingle year, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. After graduation he read law in \nBoston with George Morey, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1832, and \nsoon had a sufficient amount of professional employment. He was a representative \nfrom Boston in 1834, 1835, 1836, 1841, 1849, and 1866. In 1856 he was a member of \nthe Republican Convention at Philadelphia, and on the 29th of April, 1835, he delivered \nthe centennial address at Grafton, which was published. In 1836 he was selected by \nGovernor Everett to compile and edit the laws of Plymouth Colony, published in the \nsame year. For many years before his death he lived in the summer season in the old \nhomestead at Grafton, and devoted himself with much zeal to agricultural pursuits. \nSeveral of his addresses before agricultural societies have been published. He married, \nJune 11, 1840, Margaret Austin Brooks, daughter of Isaac and Mercy (Tufts) Brooks, \nof Charlestown. His children are William Tufts, born May 24, 1841 (H. C. 1862) ; \nCharles Brooks, born January 17, 1845 (H. C. 1866); Edward Austin, born February \n23, 1846; Mary Brooks, born December 26, 1851; Arthur Austin, born June 8, 1857. \nHe died in Boston, July 9, 1869. In 1853 he was chosen a member of the Massa- \nchusetts Historical Society, and was one of the most useful and valuable members of \nthat body. His knowledge of the early history of Massachusetts was accurate and \nextensive. A lecture by him, delivered January 19, 1869, on the colony of New Ply- \n\n\ni2o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nmouth and its relations to Massachusetts, — one of a course before the Lowell Institute, \nbv members of the Historical Society, and published in a volume called \" Massachusetts \nami its Early History,\" — is highly creditable both to his research and insight. Mr. \nBi igham had a huge practice, was a sound lawyer, a safe adviser, and enjoyed in a high \ndecree the confidence and attachment of his clients. \n\nGeorge Minot, son of Stephen and Rebecca (Trask) Minot, was born in Haverhill, \nJanuary 5, 1817. His father was judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, county \nattorney of Essex, and died in 1861. He fitted for college at the Haverhill Academy \nand the Phillips Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 183G. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in the office of Rufus Choate and was admitted to the bar in \nBoston, April 15, 1839. He was solicitor of the Roston and Maine Railroad Company, \nthe editor of a \"Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachu- \nsetts,\" associate editor and editor of the United States Statutes at. large, associate re- \nporter of the decisions of Levi Woodbury in the first circuit of the United States Court, \nand editor of nine volumes of English Admiralty Reports. He married first in 1844, \nEmily P., widow of Dr. Richard Ogle, of Demerara, and daughter of Dr Gallup, formerly \nof Woodstock, Conn.; and second, November 21, 1853, Elizabeth, daughter of Judge \nThomas Dawes. He died in Reading, Mass., April 16, 1858. \n\nWilliam Henry Miller, son of William and Annie Miller, was born in York county, \nMe., January 20, 1834. He was educated at Limerick Academy, in Maine, and \nstudied law with I. S. Kimball, at Sanford, Me. He was admitted to the bar of York \ncounty about 1866, and in Middlesex county, Mass., about 1868. Pie married at San- \nford in 1868, Emily M. Kimball, and resides in Melrose. \n\nJohn W. McKim was born in Roston, November 25, 1S22. He graduated at Union \nCollege, and after studying law in the office of Dent & Grammer in Washington, began \npractice in that city. He was a member of the Washington City Council in 1850. He \nafterwards moved to Ohio and was at one time district attorney of Defiance county in \nthat State. In the war he was captain and brevet-major, and for a time stationed in \nRoston in the quartermaster's department. He was admitted to the bar in Roston, \nApril 8, 1807, and in 1870 and 1871 was a representative. In 1874 he was appointed \nby Governor Talbot judge of the Municipal Court in the West Roxbury district, and in \nMarch, 1877, was appointed judge of Probate and Insolvency for Suffolk county, which \noffice he now holds. \n\nHorace Mann was born in Franklin, Mass., May 4, 1796, and died in Yellow Springs, \n0., August 2, 1859. He graduated at Brown University in 1819, and after studying \nlaw at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., was admitted to the bar in 1823, and in the \nSuffolk county Supreme Judicial Court January 13, 1826. He began practice in Dedham, \nand was a representative from that town from 1828 to 1833. In the latter year he \nmoved to Boston, and represented Suffolk county in the Senate from 1834 to 1837, the \nlast two years officiating as its president. From 1837 to 1848 he was secretary of the \nMassachusetts Board of Education. In 1848 he was chosen representative to Congress \n\n\n■ AR. \n\n\n■ \n\nin \n\n\n- \n- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \\ix \n\nas the successor of John Quincy Adams, and served until 1S52, when he was chosen \npresident of Antioch College, which office he filled until his death. \n\nCharles Russell Lowell, born October 30, 1807, was the eldest son of Rev. Dr. \nCharles Lowell (H. C. 1800). His mother was Harriet Brackett Spence, daughter of \nKeith Spence and Mary Wail], of Portsmouth, N. H. After graduating at Harvard in \n1826, he studied law at the law school in Northampton, and in the office of Mr. Charles \nOr. Loring in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar at the October term of 1829. \nIn about four years he abandoned the legal profession, and went into business. Prov- \ning unsuccessful in this, he found employment in the Boston Athenreum, where he \npassed the last eighteen years of his life, and where his services were greatly prized. \nHe died of apoplexy, while on a visit to Washington, D. O, June 23, 1870. He \nmarried, April 18, 1832, Anna Cabot, daughter of the late Patrick T. Jackson, of \nBoston. They had four children, viz., Charles Russell Lowell, jr. (H. C. 1854), dis- \ntinguished as a scholar in college, and afterwards the renowned cavalry officer in the \nwar of the Rebellion ; James Jackson Lowell (H. C. 1858), and the first scholar in his \nclass, and an officer who died nobly in the service of his country; and two daughters. \n\nThornton Kirkland Lothrop, a descendant from Rev. John Lothrop, who came from \nEngland in 163-1, and settled first in Sc'tuate, and afterwards in Barnstable, is the \nson of Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, LL.D., of Boston, and Mary Lyman (Buckminster) \nLothrop, was born in Dover, N. H., June 3. 1830. He was fitted for college at the \nBoston Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 20, 1853. He was a \nrepresentative in 1859, and assistant United States district attorney from April, 1861, \nto July, 1865, and was a member of the State Board of Health in 1886 and 1887. He \nmarried, April 30, 1866, Anna M., daughter of Samuel and Ann (Sturgis) Hooper, and \nresides in Boston. \n\n• Edward P. Loring, son of Ira and Betsey Loring, was born in Norridgewock, \nMass., March 2, 1837. After graduating at Bowdoin College, he studied law m the \noffice of Stephen D. Lindsey of Norridgewock and at the Albany Law School, and was \nadmitted to the bar in Somerset county, Me., in April, 1861, and in Suffolk county, \nMass., April 14, 1868. In Fitchburg, where he has his residence, he has been clerk and \nspecial justice of the Police Court and was a representative from 1872 to 1874. He \nwas a member of the Senate in 1883 and 1884, and is now with an office in Boston \nacting as controller of county accounts by appointment of the governor. He married \nin Waterville, Me., July 15, 1868, Hannah M. Stark \n\nIsaac Newton Lewis, son of William and Judith M. (Whittemore) Lewis, was born \nin Walpole, Mass., December 25, 1848. There were then no free high schools, and in \nhis town no opportunities to obtain any thing beyond a common school education. \nAfter teaching a year in a private high and classical school, he entered the Eliot High \nSchool, in Boston, assisting the head master in the preparation of young men for col- \nlege, and entered Harvard College in the class of 1873, and graduated with the degree \nof A. B. On graduation he went abroad for further study and recreation, visiting \n1G \n\n\n122 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nGreat Britain, France and Germany, and returning taught in high school and academy, \ntill entering the Boston University Law School, he was graduated with an LL. B. in \n1876. He had, on examination, been admitted to the Suffolk bar at Boston on January \n31, preceding. A-gain he went abroad, and on his return, on examination, received \nthe deo-ree of A.M. from the Boston University, the first person on whom this degree \nwas ever conferred by that institution. In 1876 he opened an office in Boston, and \nhas continued it to the present time. He was one of the original members of the Nor- \nfolk Bar Association, and besides contributing to magazines and the press, is the author \nof several books from .\"In Memonam,\" while in Harvard, to \"Pleasant Hours in Sun- \nny Lands,'- written after his return from a tour around the world in 1888. \n\nJohn Lathrop, son of John P. and Maria M. Lathrop, was bom in Boston, February \n8, 1835. He graduated at Burlington College, New Jersey, in 1853, and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1855. After further pursuing his studies in the office of Charles G., \nFrancis C, and Caleb William Loring in Boston, he was admitted to the bar of Suf- \nfolk in 1856, and to the bar of the U. S. Supreme Court in 1872. In the war of 1861 \nhe was captain in the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts regiment in 1862 and 1863, was reporter \nof the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1874 to 188S, associate justice of \nSuperior Court from 1888 to 1891, and was appointed associate justice of the Supreme \nJudicial Court, January 28, 1891. which position he now holds. Besides his general \npractice, he has been a lecturer at the Harvard and Boston Law Schools, and the ed- \nitor of several law books, and a contributor to various legal periodicals. He married \nin Boston, June 24, 1875, Eliza D., daughter of Richard G. Parker, and resides in \nBoston. \n\nWilliam Bradbury Kingsbury, son of Aaron Kingsbury, was born in Roxbury, \nDecember 14, 1806. He fitted for college at Mr. Greene's school, Jamaica Plain, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1827. After a short time spent in reading law, he en- \ntered into commercial life in Boston, in the firm of Kendall & Kingsbury, on Liver- \npool Wharf, and is thought by the editor to have never been admitted to the bar. In \n1831 he married his cousin, Frances F. Fenner, of Providence, R.I. The firm of Ken- \ndall & Kingsbury was unfortunate in business, and was dissolved in 1836. He was \nafterwards employed in managing trusts, and became treasurer of the Roxbury Gas \nCompany, which office he retained till his death. He was also alderman of Roxbury \nin 1846. He died at Roxbury, April 6, 1872. \n\n1'kkscott Keyes, son of John S. and Martha L. (Prescott) Keyes, was born in Con- \ncord, Mass., March 26, 1858. He fitted for college at the Concord High School and \nwith a private tutor, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law in the Har- \nvard Law School and in the office of Charles R. Train, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in June, 1882. He has held the office of chairman of the Selectmen, and other \noffices in Concord, where he lives, and was married July 6, 1881, to Alice Reynolds, of \nConcord. \n\nAlbert II. Hopkins, son of Henry S. and Phoebe E. Hopkins, was born in Foster, \nR. I., November 10, 1845, and educated at public and private schools. He was ad- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 123 \n\nmitted to the bar in Suffolk, January 30, 1875, and the Minnesota District Court, March \n26, 1880, He was for a number of years a member of the Massachusetts Republican \nState Committee and two years chairman of the Committee of Ward Fifteen, in Boston. \nHe married, August 8, 1879, Emily L. Randolph, of Providence, R. I., and resides in \nthe Allston district of Boston. \n\nGeorge M. Hobbs, son of William and Maria (Miller) Hobbs, was born in Waltham, \nApril 11, ls-jy, and after attending the public schools entered Harvard and graduated \nin 1850. After leaving college he was a private tutor in Upper Marlborough, Md., \nand taught school in Alexandria, Va. After a short period in the Harvard Law \nSchool he was admitted to the bar in Suffolk, March 6, 1857, and became an associate \nwith Edward Avery, of Boston, in business. He was a representative in 1868, has \nbeen a member of the School Boards of Roxbury and Boston twenty-three years, two \nyears the president of the Boston board and two years a member of the Board of Water \nCommissioners. In connection with Mr. Avery, his partner, he has published a work- \non \" Bankruptcy.\" He married, October 26, 1859, Annie M. Morrill. \n\nDavid Blakely Hoar, son of John Emory and Ann Borodale (Blakely) Hoar, was \nborn in Pawlet, Vt., August 19, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied \nlaw with Alfred Hemenway and James P. Farley and at the Harvard Law School, and \nwas admitted to the bar in Suffolk in May, 1879. His place of residence is Brookline. \n\nEbenezer Rockwood Hoar, son of Samuel and Sarah (Sherman) Hoar, was born in \nConcord, Mass., February 21, 1816. He received his early education at the Concord \nAcademy and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He studied law with his father, with \nEmory Washburn, of Worcester, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to \nthe bar in Worcester, September 3, 1839. He was a justice of the Court of Common \nPleas from 18-19 to 1853, a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1859 to 1869, \nattorney-general of the United States under President Grant, a member of the joint \nhigh commission which made the treaty of Washington with Great Britain, and has \nbeen State senator, representative in Congress, regent of the Smithsonian Institution, \nfellow of Harvard College and member and president of the Board of Overseers. \nAmong the important cases in which he has been counsel has been the \" Andover \ncase,\" in which he was of counsel for the \" Visitors.\" He married at Concord, Novem- \nber 26, 1840, Caroline Downes Brooks, of that town, and he has always made Concord \nhis place of residence. \n\nCalvin P. Hinds was born in Barre, September 1, 1817, and died in Boston, April \n18, 1892. He studied law in the office of Fisher A. Kingsbury, of Weymouth, and was \nadmitted to the bar at Dedham in 1844. He was a member of the Boston Common \nCouncil in 1853 and 1854, and a representative in 1856. \n\nWilliam Allen Hayes, son of John Lord and Caroline Sarah (Ladd) Hayes, was \nborn in Portsmouth, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1866. He studied law with \nGeorge Partridge Sanger, at the Harvard Law School, from which he received the de- \ngree of LL.B., and in the offices of Abbott & Jones and others, and was admitted \n\n\ni24 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nto the bar in Boston, August 16, 1868. He was assistant United States district at- \ntorney under George P. Sanger. His residence is in Cambridge. \n\nCharles Pelham Greenougii, son of William Whitwell and Catherine Scollay (Cur- \ntis) Greenough, was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 29, 1844. He was fitted for col- \nlege at the Boston Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1864. He attended the \nHarvard Law School and pursued his law studies further in the office of Ropes & Gray, \nin Boston. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in December, 1869, and has been \nsecretary, treasurer and member of the council of the Suffolk Bar Association. He has \nbeen counsel for the Boston Gas Light Company and other large corporations. He has \npublished an edition of \"Story on Agency \" and a '' Digest of Gas Cases.\" He married \nin Boston, June 11, 1874, Mary, daughter of Judge Henry Vose and resides in Brook- \nline. \n\nEbenezer Gay, son of Ebenezer and Mary Allyne (Otis) Gay, of Hingham, was bom \nin that town March 27, 1818. He received his education at the Derby Academy and \nWillard School in Hingham, and studied law with his father, in the Harvard Law \nSchool and in the office of William Brigham in Boston. He was admitted to the bar \nin Boston, April 14, 1840, and was in the State Senate in 1862. He married in Worces- \nter, in 1852, Ellen Blake Blood, and lives in Boston. \n\nThomas Flatley was born in Ireland and died in Boston February 25, 1892, at the \nage of forty-one years. He was educated at a private classical school and the Queen's \nUniversity, and came to America a young man to engage in mercantile pursuits. He \nentered, however, the university at Georgetown, D. C, from which he graduated, and \nthen taught for a time at Worcester College. After a visit to Europe he studied law in \nWashington and served as private tutor in the families of General Erving, General \nVincent, and Senator Carpenter. He then came to Boston and entered the practice of \nlaw, making Maiden his residence. He was appointed deputy collector under Mr. \nSaltonstall, the collector of Boston. \n\nJohn Minot Fiske, son of John Minot and Eliza Maria (Winn) Fiske, was burn in \nBoston, August 17, 1834. He fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy and grad- \nuated at Yale in 1856. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of \nSeth J. Thomas, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 23, 1858. He was a mem- \nber of the Boston Common Council in 1862-3. He was appointed deputy naval officer \nunder Amos Tuck in the Boston custom house. In November, 1863, he was appointed \ndeputy collector by John Z. Goodrich, collector, and on the 1st of June, 1864, married \nat Stockbridge, Isabella Landon, a daughter of Mr. Goodrich. He is still deputy col- \nlector and resides at Cambridge. \n\nJoseph James Feelv, son of James and Catherine Feely, was born in Boston, May 7, \n1862, and educated at the public schools of Walpole, Mass., and at the Boston Latin \nSchool. He took a three years' course in the Boston University Law School and was \nadmitted to the bar in Boston in 1884. Living in Norwood, he is also a member of \nthe Norfolk Bar Association. He has been a member of the School Board of Norwood \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 125 \n\nand is now assistant district attorney for the southeastern district of Massachusetts, \nincluding Norfolk and Plymouth counties. \n\nRichard Sullivan Fay, son of Samuel Phillips Prescott and Harriet (Howard) \nFay, was born in Cambridge June 16, 1806. He was fitted for college by Rev. Mr. Put- \nnam, of Andover, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He studied law with his father and \nat the law school at Northampton, and after his admission to the bar was associated \nin practice at different times with Jonathan Chapman and Franklin Dexter. ' After a \nvisit to Europe in 1835, he abandoned law and devoted himself to the management \nand care of manufacturing corporations, indulging himself in the recreation of agri- \nculture. He married, May 30, 1832, Catherine, daughter of Dudley L. Pickman, of \nSalem, and died in Liverpool, England, July 6, 1865. \n\nAlexander Hill Everett, son of Rev. Oliver Everett, was born in Boston, March \n19, 1790, and died in Canton, China, June 29, 1847. He was fitted for college at \nPhillips Exeter Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1806. He studied law with \nJohn Quincy Adams and was admitted to the bar in Boston in March, 1815. While \na law student he went in 1809 to St. Petersburg as attache under John Quincy Adams, \nminister to Russia, and resided there three years. In 1811 he went to England, and in \n\n1812 returned home. At the close of the war after his admission to the bar he spent a \nyear at the Netherlands as secretary of legation under William Eustis, of Massa- \nchusetts, the American minister. He succeeded Mr. Eustis in 1818 with the rank of \ncharge d'affaires and remained at the Netherlands until 1824. In 1825 he was ap- \npointed minister to Spain and was accompanied by Washington Irving as his attache. \nReturning from Spain in 1829 he was for a time proprietor and editor of the North \nAmerican Review, ar»d from 1830 to 1835 was a member of the lower branch of the \nLegislature. In 1840 he was sent on a confidential mission to Cuba, and in 1845 United \nStates commissioner to China, holding office until his death. Mr. Everett's literary \ncareer was too prolific to trace. Besides contributing largely to magazines and peri- \nodicals he published in 1821 \" Europe, etc.\" ; in 1822 \" New Ideas on Population, etc.\" ; \nin 1827 \" America, etc.\" ; in 1845 a volume of essays, and in the same year a volume of \npoems and memories of Joseph Warren and Patrick Henry as contributions to Sparks's \nAmerican Biography. \n\nGeorge B. English, son of Thomas and Penelope (Bethune) English, was born in \nCambridge, March 7, 1787, and died in Washington, September 20, 1828. He graduated \nat Harvard in 1807 and was admitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1811. He aban- \ndoned practice and devoted himself for a time to the study of theology, publishing in \n\n1813 \"The grounds of Christianity examined \" and a response to his critics entitled \n'; Five Smooth Stones out of the Brook.\" He was afterwards a newspaper editor, \nlieutenant of marines in the United States service and an officer of artillery under \nIsmail Pacha in Egypt. In 1827 he returned to Washington and remained there until \nhis death. \n\nJohn Harvard Ellis, son of George E. and Elizabeth Bruce (Eager) Ellis, was born \nin Charlestown, January 9, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1862. He studied law \n\n\ni26 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nat the Harvard Law School and in ^L \n\n\n*^C^t^z>^ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 133 \n\nStates Court for the Western District of Wisconsin in November, 1881, and in Boston, \nFebruary 23, 1882. He married in Dover, N. H., October 6, 1884, Nellie K. Hoity. \n\nGerard Bement, son of Samuel and Sarah Emerson (Kent) Bement, was born in \nLowell, July 17, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex in 1882. He married \nKatherine B. Pfaff in Boston, January 12, 1.887. \n\nSamuel Walker McCall, son of Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall, was born in \nEast Providence, Penn., February 28, 1851, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1874. He \nstudied law in the office of Staples & Golding, in Worcester, where he was admitted to \nthe bar. He came to Boston in 1876, and in 1888-89 was editor of the Boston Daily \nAdvertiser, and a member of the House of Representatives. He married Ella Esther, \ndaughter of Sumner S. Thompson, in Lyndonville, Vt, May 23, 1881, and lives in \nWinchester. \n\nLeonard Augustus Jones, son of Augustus Appleton and Mary Partridge Jones, was \nborn in Templeton, Mass., January 13, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1855, having \nfitted at the Lawrence Academy in Groton. He studied law with Caleb W. Loring in \nBoston, and graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to \nthe bar in Boston, February 1, 1858. Previous to his study of the law he taught in the \nHigh School in St. Louis one year. In his early practice in Boston he was a partner \nof John Lathrop, now a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and of Edwin Hale Ab- \nbott. He has been a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, the North American Review, \nthe Christian Examiner, the Monthly Law Reporter, the Southern Law Revieiv, the Cen- \ntral Law Journal and the American Law Review, of the last of which he has been one \nof the editors. He has published the following legal works : Two volumes of *' Mort- \ngages of Real Property,\" one volume of \"Mortgages of Personal Property,\" one vol- \nume of \" Corporate Bonds and Mortgages,\" one volume of \" Pledges, including Collat- \neral Securities,\" two volumes of \"Liens, Common Law, Statutory, Equitable and Mar- \nitime,\" one volume of \"Forms in Conveyancing,\" and one volume of \"Index to Legal \nPeriodical Literature,\" and has edited Volumes IX and XXI of \" Myer's Federal De- \ncisions.\" In 1891 he was appointed Commissioner for Massachusetts on uniform laws \nbetween the States. He married Josephine, daughter of 'Artemas Lee, at Templeton, \nDecember 14, 1867, and lives in Boston. \n\nRoger Wolcott, son of J. Huntington Wolcott, was born in Boston, July 13, 1847, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1870. He is a descendant of Roger Wolcott, who, in 1745, \ncommanded the New England forces in the capture of Louisburg, and who was one of \nthe signers of the Declaration of Independence. After his admission to the bar he served \nin the Boston Common Council in 1877, '78, '79, and from 1882 to 1884 was a member of \nthe Massachusetts House of Representatives, and is an overseer of Harvard College. \nAt present he is the candidate of the Republican party of Massachusetts for lieutenant- \ngovernor. \n\nJoseph Lyman, son of Joseph and Anne Jean (Robbins) Lyman, was born in North- \nhampton, Mass., August 17, 1812, and was fitted for college at the Round Hill School in \nthat town. He graduated at Harvard in 1830, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in \nOctober, 1833. He gave up the law and after studying engineering was engaged in im- \n\n\n134 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nportant mining and railroad operations, which severe injuries, the result of an accident, \nobliged him to abandon for literary pursuits. He married Susan Bulfinch, daughter of \nJoseph Coolidge, of Boston, and died at Jamaica Plain, near Boston, August 14, 1871. \n\nSamuel Parkman Shaw, son of Robert G. Shaw, was born in Boston, November 19r \n1813, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. After completing his law studies he re- \nmoved to Parkman, Me., and subsequently to Waterville and Portland. In 1863 he \nremoved to Cambridge, and died in Paris, France, December 7, 1869. He married \nHannah Buck in 1841. \n\nCharles Jackson, son of Charles and Fanny (Cabot) Jackson, was born in Boston, \nMarch 4, 1815. He fitted for college at the schools of Daniel Greenleaf Ingraham and \nWilliam Wells, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He studied law with Charles G. \nLoring in Boston and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1836. He however \nabandoned the profession and after studying engineering turned his attention to the \nmanufacture of iron and called himself an iron master. He married Susan C, daugh- \nter of Dr. James Jackson, of Boston, February 16, 1842, and died in Boston July 30, \n1871. \n\nIsaac Chauncey Wyman, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Ingalls) Wyman, was born in \nMarblehead, January 31, 1830, and graduated at Princeton College in 1848. He grad- \nuated at the Harvard Law School in 1850 and concluded his law studies in the offices of \nBenjamin F. Hallett and Charles Grandison Thomas in Boston and was admitted to \nthe bar in Boston, June 6, 1851. He has been many years president of the Marblehead \nNational Bank and Savings Bank, and lives in Salem, unmarried, with his law office in \nBoston. \n\nHenry Augustus Wyman, son of Henry A. and Fanny F. Wyman, was born in \nSkowhegan, Me., February 3, 1861, and was educated in the schools of that town. He \nstudied law in the office of Edward H. Bennett, in Boston, and in the law school of the \nBoston University, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1885. He has \nbeen second assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts, first assistant United States \nattorney, and lecturer on criminal law in the Boston University Law School. He mar- \nried Anne C. Southworth at West Stoughton, February 13, 1891, and resides in Bos- \nton. \n\nAlphonzo Adelbert Wyman, son of Oliver C. and Caroline Mitchell (Chandler) \nWyman, was born in West Acton, Mass., January 29, 1862. He was fitted for college \nat Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 1883. He studied law with \nHenry W. Paine and W. W. Vaughan, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- \nton in July, 1885. He has been engaged on Gould & Tucker's Notes on the United \nStates Revised Statutes. He married Laura Aldrich in West Acton, July 28, 1886, \nand resides in that town. \n\nThomas F. Nutter, son of Ichabod and Sarah (Copeland) Nutter, was born m Hallo- \nwell, Me., March 6, 1823, and was educated at the Hallowell High School. He studied \nlaw with his brother, Charles C. Nutter, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in \nBoston, December 31, 1851. He married Adelaide Read at Portland, Me., February,. \n18, 1862, and lives in Boston. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 135 \n\nCharles Coffin Pitts, son of Coffin and Louisa Pitts, was born in Boston, June 7, \n1865, and was educated at the North Easton High School. He studied law at the Bos- \nton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, August 2, 1887, \nand to the Circuit Court of the United States, December 21, 1891. His residence is in \nBoston. \n\nGeorge Baxter Upham, was born in Claremont, N. H., April 9, 1855, and graduated \nat Cornell University. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted \nto the bar in Boston, February 8, 1877, and has made a specialty of corporation law. \nHis residence is in Boston. \n\nWilliam Orison Underwood, son of Adin Ballou and Jane L. (Walker) Underwood \nwas born in Newton, Mass., May 5, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He \nstudied law in the office of Hyde, Dickinson & Howe, in the Boston University Law \nSchool, and the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1886. \nHe has been a lecturer in Harvard College. He married Bessie Shoemaker in Phila- \ndelphia, November 18, 1886, and lives in Lynn. \n\nFrancis Henry Underwood, was born in Enfield, January 12, 1825, and was educated \npartly at Amherst. He taught school in Kentucky, studied law, and was admitted to \nthe bar. He returned to Massachusetts in 1850 and was closely indentified with the \nanti-slavery movement. He was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate in 1852, and sub- \nsequently, after eleven years' service as clerk of the Superior, Court in Boston, he re- \nsigned to engage in literary pursuits. He was thirteen years a member of the School \nBoard, and in 1885 was appointed consul at Glasgow, from whose University he received \nthe degree of LL.D. in 1888. \n\nStephen H. Tyng, son of Dudley Atkins and Catherine M. (Stevens) Tyng, was \nborn in Hoboken, N. J., August 2, 1851, and was educated at Kenyon College and the \nUniversity of Michigan. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was \nadmitted to the bar in Middlesex, in September, 1875. Besides his active business in \nthe courts he has made frequent contributions to the press. He married Lizzie Wal- \nworth in Boston, September 8, 1880, and lives in Lexington. \n\nCharles L. B. Whitney was born in Springfield, Mass., October 21, 1850, and fitted \nfor college in the High School of that city. He graduated at Harvard in 1871 and after \na year's study at Leipsic, in Germany, studied law in the office of Jewell, Field & Shep- \nard, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1876 and was admitted \nto the bar in Boston, May 11, 1877. Soon after his admission he became a partner of \nWilliam Gaston, and so continued until the condition of his health compelled him to \nabandon legal work. He married, in 1882, Lottie J. Byam, daughter of E. G. Byam, \nof Charlestown, and died at his residence in Brookline, September 14, 1892. \n\nLewis W. Howes, son of Samuel and Sarah (Abbot) Howes, was born in Sidney, \nMe., where he spent his boyhood and youth attending the public schools and in occu- \npation on a farm, and finally at the University at Kent's Hill in Maine. He then went \nto Belfast where he studied law with his uncles, Nehemiah and Howard B. Abbot, and \nwas admitted to the Waldo County Bar, and to a partnership with his uncle Nehemiah. \n\n\n136 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHe afterwards moved to Rockland and held the office of county attorney of Knox \ncounty eight or nine years, until he moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar, May 25, 1867. He married, first, Clementine E., daughter of Rev. John \nAllen, and second, in June, 1887, Delia A. Varney, of Boston, where he now lives. \n\nWilliam Tudor was born in Boston, March 28, 1750, fitted for college at the public \nschools, and under Master Lovell, graduating at Harvard in 1769. He studied law with \nJohn Adams in Boston, and was admitted to practice in the Inferior Court of Common \nPleas, July 27, 1772. At a meeting of the Suffolk bar, on the 26th of July, 1774, it \nwas voted to recommend him for admission to the Superior Court. He served on the \nstaff of Washington as judge advocate, with the rank of colonel, served in both \nbranches of the Massachusetts General Court, and 1809-10 was secretary of the Com- \nmonwealth. Among the students in his office at various times were Henry Goodwin, \nFisher Ames, George Richards Minot and John Rowe. He married Delia Jarvis, March \n\n5, 1778, and lived in Boston, where he died, July 8, 1819. A memoir of Mr. Tudor \nmay be found in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of which he \nwas one of the founders. \n\nHenry James Tudor, son of the above, was born in Boston, April 8, 1791, and died \nin that city, Nov. 27, 1864. He was fitted for college by Rev. John S. J. Gardiner, of \nBoston, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law with James Savage and \nCharles Jackson and was admitted to practice in the Common Pleas Court in Boston, \nin April, 1816. He married Fannie H, daughter of William Foster, of Boston, August \n\n6, 1844. \n\nGeorge Julian Tufts, son of Henry and Clarissa H. Tufts, was born in Eden, Mt. \nDesert Island, Me., and was educated at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at \nTuft's College in 1874. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was \nadmitted to the bar in Boston, December 27, 1875. He has been engaged as counsel \nin many important cases, among which may be mentioned Westcott vs. N. Y. &N. E. \nR. R., reported in 152 Massachusetts Reports; Commonwealth vs. Conners and others, \nconductors of Met. Railroad Company, indicted for issuing counterfeit horse car tick- \nets, and Commonwealth vs. Abby A. Conner, christian scientist, charged with man- \nslaughter. He married Isabella L. Parker in Medford, September 3, 1876, and lives in \nthe Roxbury district of Boston. \n\nJohn Moore Tuohat was educated at the Boston University and admitted to the \nbar in 1881, in Boston, where he now lives. \n\nWilliam Dall Turner, son of John B. and Ellen A. Turner, was born in Brookline, \nMass., November 15, 1863. and was fitted for college at the Adams Academy at Quincy, \nMass. He graduated at Harvard in 1884, and after studying law at the Harvard Law \nSchool, was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1886. After admission he went to Pa- \nlatka, Florida, and practiced law there one year with Sumner C. Chandler, now of New \nYork, and then returned to Boston, where he has since lived and practiced. In March, \n1890, he was appointed solicitor for the Metropolitan Sewage Commissioners in a case \ninvolving the constitutionality of the statute under which they were appointed, reported \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. I3r \n\nin 153 Massachusetts Reports; and later he was counsel for heirs-at-law in Greece in \nthe case of the will of Photius Fisk. He lives in Boston and has interested himself in \nintroducing the Torrens or Australian system of registration of titles to land. \n\nWilliam H. H. Tuttle graduated at Williams College and studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School, and in the office of Chandler, Ware & Hudson. He was admitted to \nthe bar in Middlesex in October, 1877, and was a member of the Massachusetts House \nof Representatives in 1890-91. His home is in Arlington. \n\nCharles HiTcncocK Tyler, son of Joseph R. and Abbie L. Tyler, was born in Cam- \nbridge, October 11, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 188G. He studied law at the \nBoston University Law School and in the office of Shattuck &; Munroe, and was ad- \nmitted to the bar in Boston, January 1, 1889. He lives in Winchester. \n\nRoyall Tyler was born in Boston, July 18. 1757, and died in Brattleboro, Vt.r \nAugust 16, 1826. He studied law with John Adams and was admitted to practice in \nthe Inferior Court of Common Pleas in 1780. He served with General Benjamin Lin- \ncoln in Shay's Rebellion and in 1790 settled in Guilford, Vt., where he became, in 1794r \na justice of the Supreme Court, and in 1800, chief justice. He was a voluminous writer \nas well as lawyer and judge. \n\nDudley Atkins Tyng, son of Dudley Atkins, was born in that part of Newbury \nwhich is now Newburyport, September 3, 1760, and died in Newburyport, August 1, \n1829. He was educated at Dummer Academy under Master Moody and graduated at \nHarvard in 1781, receiving a degree of LL. D. in 1823. In 1780, while in college, he \nwas selected with John Davis, of Plymouth, to assist Dr. Williams in observing, on \nPenobscot Bay, an eclipse of the sun. After leaving college he was private tutor in the \nfamily of Mrs. Selden, in Virginia, and while there studied law with Judge Mercer \nand wae admitted to the bar in Virginia. In 1784 he returned to Massachusetts and \nwas admitted to the bar in Essex and afterwards had an office in Boston. He changed \nhis name to Tyng, as the inheritor of the estate of James Tyng, of Tyngsboro, Mass. \nHe was collector of Newburyport for a time and in 1805 was appointed reporter of \nthe decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. His reports are con- \ntained in the volumes two to seventeen inclusive of the Massachusetts Reports and cover \nthe period from the March term in Suffolk in 1806 to the March term in Suffolk in 1822. \nHe was the father of Rev. Stephen Higginson Tyng, rector of St. George's Church in \nNew York more than thirty years. \n\nDavid Wyer, a native of Charlestown, graduated at Harvard in 1758, studied law \nwith James Otis in Boston, where he was admitted to the bar in 1762. The maiden \nname of his wife was Russell. \n\nEdwin Wright, son of Jesse Wright, of Lebanon, Conn., was born March 7, 1821, \nand graduated at Yale in 1844. After leaving college he came to Boston and was mas- \nter of the Eliot Grammar School from 1845 to 1848. He was admitted to the bar in \nBoston, and in 1857 and 1867 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- \nsentatives. On the 9th of July, 1861, he was appointed special justice of the Boston \nPolice Court, and January 7, 1862, a justice of the same court. In 1877-9 he was \n18 \n\n\n138 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nlecturer in the Boston University Law School, on medical jurisprudence, and married, \nOctober 29, 1850, Helen Maria, daughter of Paul and Almira (James) Curtis, of Boston, \nwhere he now resides. \n\nCarroll Davidson Wright was born in Dunbarton, N. H., July 25, 1840, and \nwas educated at Washington, Alstead and Chester, Vt. He studied law with Will- \niam P. Wheeler, of Keene, N. H., and with Worthington & Willey in Boston. Early \nin the war he enlisted in Company C, Fourteenth N. H. Regiment, of which he became \ncolonel in December, 1864. He resigned in 1865 and was admitted to the bar in New \nHampshire in the same year. He afterwards moved to Boston and was in the Massa- \nchusetts Senate in 1871-2, and chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor from 1873 to \n1888. In 1880 he was the Massachusetts supervisor of the United States census, and \nin 1885 was appointed to investigate the public records of towns, parishes, counties and \n■courts. In the same year he was made first commissioner of the Bureau of Labor in \nthe Department of the Interior at Washington. In 1876 he was presidential elector on \nthe Republican ticket and in 1875 and 1885 had charge of the Massachusetts State \ncensus. He was a lecturer in the Lowell Institute in 1879 on labor questions, and in \n1881 university lecturer at Harvard on the factory system. He received the degree of \nA. M. from Tufts College in 1883. \n\nErastus Worthington was born in Belchertown, Mass., October 8, 1779, and died \nat Dedham, June 27, 1842, He graduated at Williams College in 1804 and was ad- \nmitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1807. He moved to Dedham, where he prac- \nticed law from 1809 to 1825, was a representative from that town in 1814-15, and \nwrote the history of Dedham from its settlement in 1635 to May, 1827, the year of its \npublication. \n\nAlbert Parker Worthen, son of Samuel K. and Sarah F. Worthen, was born in \nBridgewater, N. H., September 8, 1861, and was educated at the New Hampshire In- \nstitution. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and was admitted to \nthe bar in Boston in 1885. He lives unmarried in Weymouth, Mass. \n\nThomas Tyson Woodruff, son of Isaac O. and Arethusa H. Woodrouff, was born in \nQuincy, 111., January 7, 1839, and was educated at St. Paul's College at Palmyra, Mo. \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, \nAugust 13, 1886. His home is in Boston, and he is unmarried. \n\nE. H. Woodman was born in Gilmanton, N. H., July 6, 1847. and was educated at \ntho Gilmanton Academy and at Boscawen. He graduated at the Boston University \nLaw School in 1873, and was admitted to the bar. He went to Concord, N. H., in \n1878, and was the mayor of that city in 1882 and several succeeding years. He was a \nmember of the New Hampshire Legislature, treasurer of the Peterboro and Hillsboro, \nand the Franklin and Tilton Railroads, clerk of the Concord and Claremont Railroad, \ntreasurer of the Concord Gas Light Company, and president of the Mechanics' National \nBank. He died at Concord, March 21, 1892. \n\nJoshua Upham was born in Brookfield, November 14, 1741, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1763. He practiced law in New York and Boston, and moving to New Bruns- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 139 \n\nwick became judge of the Supreme Court of that province. He was the father of the \nlate Charles W. Upham, of Salem. He died in London in 1808. \n\nEugene Charles Upton, son of Charles and Anna C. Upton, was born in Gardner \nMass., August 23, 1859. He was fitted for college at the Gardner High School, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law in Boston with Oren S. Knapp and \nHeman W. Chaplin, and was admitted to the bar there January 25, 1885. He married \nAlice M. Hyde at Gardner, September 3, 1884, and has his home in Maiden. \n\nEdward Preston Usher, son of Roland Green and Caroline Mudge Usher, was \nborn in Lynn, Mass., November 19, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He \ngraduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1880, and was admitted to the bar in \nEssex county in 1879. He is, or has been president of the Grafton and Upton Rail- \nroad, of the Milford and Hopedale Street Railroad, and of the Hopedale Electric Car \nCo., and is the author of a book on \" Sales of Personal Property.\" He married Adela \nL. Payson, and lives in Grafton, Mass. \n\nSherman Leland Whipple, son of Solomon Mason and Henrietta (Hersey) Whipple, \nwas born in New London, N. H., March 4, 1862, and was educated at the Colby Acad- \nemy, New London, and at Yale, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at Con- \ncord, N. H., and graduated from the Yale College Law School in 1884. He was- \nadmitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1884, in New Hampshire in August, 1884, and in \nBoston in 1885. He resides in Brookline. \n\nStephen Blake Wood, son of William T. and Sophia M. Wood, was born in West \nCambridge, Mass., April 5, 1854, and was educated at the Arlington High School and \nHarvard College, from which he graduated in 1879. He studied law with Charles \nAllen and Jabez Fox, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 22, 1882. He mar- \nried Amy Louise Blandy, June 27, 1885, and lives in Arlington. \n\nJohn H. Ponce, son of Phillip and Margaret Ponce, wras born in Cambridge, Novem- \nber 1, 1857, and was educated at the public schools of that city and at the College of \nthe Holy Cross, in Worcester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and Bos- \nton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex, March 18, 1881. \nHe has been a member of the Common Council in Cambridge, where he lives and \nwhere he married Nellie L. Kelley, July 7, 1885. He has been attorney for nine years \nof the Cambridge Co-operative Bank. \n\nThomas Butler Pope, son of Lemuel and Sally Belknap (Russell) Pope, was born in \nBoston, January 22, 1814, and died in Roxbury, January 15, 1862. His father was \nmany years president of the Boston Insurance Company. He was fitted for college at \nthe Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in the office of Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the \nbar in Boston in 1836, and for a time was associated in business with Charles Henry \nParker. He married, June 3, 1846, Gertrude, daughter of John Binney, of Boston. \n\nGeorge Doane Porter, son of Jonathan and Catherine (Gray) Porter, was born in \nMedford, Mass., June 21, 1831. He was fitted for college by his father, and graduated \n\n\ni4o HISTORY OF 7 HE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nat Harvard in 1851. He studied law with William Brigham and was admitted to the \nbar in Boston in June, 1854. He practiced in both Boston and Medford for a time and \nafterwards in Medford alone. He married Lucretia A. Holland August 8, 1860. \n\nNahum Mitchell, son of Gushing and Jennet (Orr) Mitchell, was born in East Bridge- \nwater, February 12, 17G9, and died in Plymouth, August 1, 1853. He fitted for college \nwith Beza Hay ward, of Bridgewater, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. During his \ncollege course he taught school in Weston and afterwards in Bridgewater and Plymouth. \nHe studied law in Plymouth with Joshua Thomas, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- \nton. He practiced in East Bridgewater, and among his students were Ezekiel Whit- \nman, afterwards chief justice of the Supreme Court of Maine, and Elijah Hayward, \nafterwards justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He was representative from 1798 to \n1803 and in 1809 and 1812, senator in 1813, member of the Council from 1814 to 1820, \nState treasurer from 1822 to 1827, member of Congress from 1803 to 1805, one of the \ncommission in 1800 to establish the Massachusetts and Rhode Island line, and in 1823 \nto establish the Massachusetts and Connecticut line. From 1811 to 1821 he was judge \nof the Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit and the last two years its chief \njustice. He published in 1840 a history of Bridgewater, and was the author of the \nBridgewater Collection of Music, which has run through thirty editions. He married \nin 1794, Nabby, daughter of Sylvanus Lazell, of Bridgewater. \n\nWilliam Howard Mitchell, son of Azor and Sarah Jane (Shaw) Mitchell, was born \nin North Yarmouth, Me., August 14, 1861, and was educated at the Wesleyan Univer- \nsity at Middletown. Conn., from which he graduated in 1885. He studied law with Ed- \nwin L. Dyer, of Portland, Me., and at the Boston University Law School, graduating \nin 1887, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in August, 1887. He married Har- \nriet Louise Orcutt at Melrose, Mass., October 2, 1889, and makes Melrose his home. \n\nWalter Samuel Pinkham, son of George F. and Ellen J. Pinkham, was born in Cam- \nbridge, Mass., August 21, 1865, and fitted for college at the Adams Academy at Qumcy, \nMass., for Harvard, where he graduated in 1887. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1890. His home is in Wollas- \nton, a part of Quincy. \n\nChristopher G. Plunkett was born in Boston, August 29, 1859, and was educated \nin the public schools of Medford, to which town his father moved with his family after \nhis return from the war. He studied law in the office of John F. Colby in Boston, and \nin the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Novem- \nber, 1881. He has been auditor of the town of Medford. \n\nRosewell Bigelow Lawrence, son of Daniel Warren and Mary Ellen (Wiley) Law- \nrence, was born in Medford, Mass., January 31, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Stearns & Butler, in Bos- \nton, where he was admitted to the bar in February, 1882. He lives in Medford. \n\nWilliam Baxter Lawrence, son of Samuel Crocker and Carrie R. Lawrence, was \nborn in Charlestown, Mass., November 15, 1856, and fitted for college at the Boston Latin \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 141 \n\nSchool and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School \nand after graduating, in 1882, traveled in Europe and was admitted to the bar in Boston \nin 1883. He was a selectman of Medford in 1889-90, representative in the Legislature \n1891-92, grand master of the Grand Council R. & S. Masters of Massachusetts 1891-92, \nis past D. D. grand master of Grand Lodge, F. & A. Masons, of Massachusetts, past \nmaster of Mt. Hermon Lodge, F. & A. Masons, past H. P. of Mystic R. A. Chapter, \nand trustee of the Medford Savings Bank. He married Alice May, daughter of J. \nHenry Sears, in Dorchester, October 2, 1883, and lives in Medford. \n\nJohn Patrick Leahy, son of John and Mary E. Leahy, was born in Boston, March \n13, 1861. He was educated under private instruction, in the public schools and in the \nBoston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1884. \nHe married Josie C. Wilkinson at Boston, July 27, 1889, and lives in the Dorchester \ndistrict of Boston. He has been engaged to some extent in lecturing and in writing \nfor newspapers and magazines. \n\nJoseph Lee, son of Henry and Elizabeth Perkins (Cabot) Lee, was born in Brook- \nline, Mass., March 8, 1862. He graduated at Harvard in 1883, was a student in the \nHarvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in December, 1887. Besides his law \npractice he has engaged somewhat in literary pursuits in connection with newspapers \nand magazines. His residence is in Brookline. \n\nWilliam H. Leonard, son of Hartford P. and Lucy A. Leonard, was born at Man- \nhattan, Kans., Nov. 10, 1860, and after graduating at Amherst, studied law in the Bos- \nton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1884. He \nmarried Charlotte A. Richardson at Raynham, Mass., May 5, 1886, and lives in Brain- \ntree, Mass. \n\nGeorge V. Leverett, son of Daniel and Charlotte Leverett, was born in Charlestown, \nMass., in 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He graduated also at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1869, and finished his law studies in the office of Chandler, Thayer & \nHudson, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, December 23, 1871. He is the official \nattorney of the American Bell Telephone Company. He married Mary E. L. Tebbetts \nat Cambridge in 1888, and now lives in that city. \n\nJohn Woodbury, son of John P. and Sarah E. (Silsbee) Woodbury, was born in \nLynn, Mass., January 26, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and in the office of Shattuck & Munroe of Boston, and* was \nadmitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1884. He married Jennie R. Churchill in Boston, \nFebruary 18, 1885, and lives in Lynn. \n\nLevi Woodbury was born in Francestown, N. H., December 22, 1789, and died at \nPortsmouth, N. H., September 4, 1851. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1809, and \nstudied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the bar in \nFrancestown in 1812, where he practiced until 1816. In 1817 he became judge of the \nSupreme Court of New Hampshire. In 1819 he moved to Portsmouth, and in 1823-4 \nwas governor of his native State. He was speaker of the New Hampshire House of \nRepresentatives in 1825, and chosen United States senator, serving from 1825 to 1831, \n\n\ni42 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nwhen he was appointed by Andrew Jackson secretary of the navy. Under Van Buren \nhe served as secretary of the treasury, and was again chosen United States senator, \nserving from 1841 to 1845, when he was appointed justice of the United States Supreme \nCourt, and remained on the bench until his death. \n\nA. Nathan Williams, son of James G. and Sarah N. Williams, was born in Bowdoin- \nham, Me., October 26, 1857, and was educated in the Maine public schools and at St. \nCharles College in Maryland. He studied law with Charles W. Larrabe in Bath, Me., \nand was admitted to the bar in Bath, August 23, 1883, to the bar of the United States \nSupreme Court, January 10, 1889, and to the Suffolk bar, June 3, 1890. He lives in \nBoston. \n\nWilliam Gordon Stearns, son of Asahel and Frances Wentworth Stearns, was born \nin Chelmsford, Mass., November 22. 1804. He graduated at Harvard in 1824, and \nstudied law in the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1827. He was admitted to the \nbar in Boston in March, 1830, and in 1834 became partner of Theophilus Parsons. In \n1844 he was appointed steward of Harvard College and remained in office twenty-six \nyears. He died January 31, 1872. \n\nJohn Glidden Stetson, son of Joseph and Margaret Stetson, was born in Newcastle, \nMe., February 28, 1833, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1854. He graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1860, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 31, 1860. \nHe practiced in Portland from June, 1860, to February, 1864. He was appointed clerk \nof the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District, October 1, 1866, and has \nbeen clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit since its \norganization, June 16, 1891. He has been also United States Commissioner for the \nDistrict of Massachusetts since October 15, 1872. He has heard nearly all the cases re- \nferred to a Master in Chancery by the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts \nDistrict, from 1873 to 1883, and a large number since. His reports as Master have been \nprepared with great care and many of them are in print. He married Delia H. Libby, \nin Portland, Me., January 26, 1865, and lives in Boston. \n\nCharles Godfrey Stevens, son of Godfrey and Hannah (Poole) Stevens, was born \nin Claremont, N. H, September 16, 1821, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1840. He \nwas admitted to the bar in Boston, October 23, 1845, was a member of the Massachu- \nsetts Convention for the revision of the Constitution in 1853, a member of the Senate \nin 1862, draft commissioner for Worcester in 1862-3, and made president of the First \nNational Bank of Clinton in 1864, and appointed in 1874 judge of the Second Wor- \ncester District Court. He married Laura A., daughter of Eli and Hepzibah (Floyd) \nRussell. \n\nHazard Stevens, son of Isaac I. and Margaret L. Stevens, was born in Newport, R. \nI., June 9, 1842, and received his early education at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at \nChauncey Hall School, Boston. He graduated at Harvard. He studied law with \nEdward Evans in Olympia, W. T., and was admitted to the bar in Olympia in 1872, \nand in Boston, March 13, 1875. He was, during the war, private, lieutenant and ad- \njutant of the 79th New York Volunteers, in September and October, 1861, and after- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 143 \n\nwards captain, major, assistant adjutant-general, brevet lieutenant-colonel, colonel and \nbrigadier-general. He was collector of internal revenue for Washington Territory from \n1867 to 1871. After coming to Boston he was representative from the Dorchester \ndistrict in 1885-86. His residence is in Dorchester. \n\nOliver Stevens, son of Isaac and Hannah (Cummings) Stevens, was born in North \nAndover, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1848. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool and in the office of H. H. Fuller in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in \n1850, and is now district attorney of Suffolk county. He married Catherine Stevens \nat North Andover in 1855, and lives in Boston. \n\nOliver Crocker Stevens, son of Calvin and Sophia Tappan (Crocker) Stevens, was \nborn in Boston, June 3, 1855, and was educated at the Dwight and Latin Schools in \nBoston, and Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1876. He studied law with \nAlbert E. Pillsbury in Boston, and at the Boston University Law School, from which \nhe received the degree of LL. B. in 1879. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, \nJuly 8, 1879, to the United States Circuit Court, July 26, 1880, and to the United \nStates Supreme Court, March 4, 1884. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of \nBowdoin College. He married Julia Burnett, daughter of John Gregory and Ann \nEliza (Brainard) Smith, of St. Albans, Vt., and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Burnham Stevens, son of William F. and Mary J. G. (Burnham) Stevens, \nwas born in Stoneham, Mass., March 23, 1843, and fitted at Phillips Academy, Ando- \nver, for Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1865. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in the office of Sweetser & Gardner in Boston, and was ad- \nmitted to the bar in Boston, July 3, 1867. He was district attorney for the Northern \nDistrict of Massachusetts from 1880 to 1890, and is president of the Stoneham Five \nCent Savings Bank. He has written a historical sketch of Stoneham, and lives in that \ntown. He married A. Josie Hill, October 20, 1868, and Mary W. Green, September \n30, 1873. \n\nCaleb Morton Stimson, son of Samuel and Susanna Stimson, was born in Newton, \nMass., April 13, 1804.- He fitted at the Milton Academy for Harvard, where he grad- \nuated in 1824. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Lemuel \nShaw in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, April 1, 1828. He lived in \nNewton and died at Newton Lower Falls, July 6, 1860. \n\nFrederick Jesdp Stimson, son of Edward S. and Sarah Tufts (Richardson) Stimson, \nwas born in Dedham, Mass., July 20, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He stud- \nied law with Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1879, \nto the New York Supreme Court in June, 1886, and later to the United States Circuit \nCourts. He has been assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts, was appointed by \nMayor Grace of New York, in 1887, on a committee to revise the New York constitution, \nand in 1891, by Governor Russell of Massachusetts, on the commission on the unification \nof laws. He has published \" American Statute Law '' and \" Stimson's Law Glossary,\" \netc. He lives in Dedham. \n\n\ni44 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam Mauran Stockbridge, son of John C. and Mary T. N. Stockbridge, was \nborn in Boston, July 9, 1856, and studied law at the Boston University Law School and \nin the office of B. F. Brooks, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, \n1882. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. \n\nJames Alden Stockwell, son of Albert Samuel and Fannie E. (Bryant) Stockwell, \nwas born in Stoneham, September 16, 1860, and was educated at the Wilbraham Acad- \nemy and Boston University, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1888. \n\nCharles B. Stone, son of Bradley and Clarisa Hosmer Stone, was born in West Ac- \nton, Mass., July 17, 1818. He studied law in New York and Boston, and was admit- \nted to the bar in Boston in 1890. He has been a selectman and member of the School \nBoard in West Acton, where he resides. He married Marietta C. Wetherbee at Box- \nboro. Mass., December 25, 1870, and Isabella D. Lewis at Stow, Mass., May 18, 1881, \nand lives in West Acton. \n\nFrederic Mather Stone, son of Joshua C. and Elizabeth (Hathaway) Stone, was \n\nborn in Brookline, Mass., October 19, 1861, and fitted at the Friends' Academy in New \n\nBedford for Harvard, where he graduated in 1882. He studied law at the Harvard \n\nLaw School and was admitted to the bar in Chicago in February, 1886, and in Boston \n\nn 1887. He lives in Boston. \n\nGeorge Fisher Stone, son of Warren Fay and Mary (Williams) Stone, was born in \nGroton, Mass., December 25, 1850, and studied law with George Stevens in Lowell, \nand was admitted to the Middlesex bar in February, 1874. He practiced four years in \nHudson, had an office in Boston in 1876, moved to Bradford, Penn., and was superin- \ntendent of schools there prior toJ888, after which he spent three years in Pittsburg and \nHarrisburg and in North Carolina. In 1891 he moved to Olympia, Wash. He married \nEmma Cecilia Branch, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (Hosmer) Aldrich, of Groton, \nMass. \n\nWilliam Stoughton was born in Dorchester in 1631 or 1632, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1650. He was first a clergyman in 1671, a magistrate or assistant from 1671 \nto 1676, an agent of the Massachusetts colony to England in 1677, chief justice of the \nSuperior Court from 1692 to 1701, a member of the Council from 1693 to 1701, lieuten- \nant-governor from 1692 to 1701. He was at various times a selectman of Dorchester, \nand died there July 7, 1701. He was never married. \n\nAlmon A. Strout, son of Elisha and Mary Strout, was born in Lemington, York \ncounty, Me., and was educated in the public schools and at the Bridgton and Fryburg \nAcademies. He studied law with Joel Eastman, of New Hampshire, and with Howard \n& Strout in Portland, and was admitted to the bar in Portland in April, 1859, and later \nbecame a member of the Suffolk bar. Before moving to Boston he was a member of \nthe Maine Legislature. He married Mary R. Sumner at Grand Rapids, Mich., Decem- \nber 23, 1862, and lives in Boston. \n\nMichal J. Sdghrue, son of John and Julia Sughrue, was born in Nashua, N. H.» \nAugust 27, 1857, and was educated at the Boston public schools and the Boston Uni- \n\n\n^^< \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. I45 \n\nversity. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to \nthe bar in Boston in 1888. He has been assistant district attorney for Suffolk, and lives \nin the Dorchester district of Boston. \n\nCornelius P. Sullivan was born in Boston, April 22, 1861. He was educated at the \nQuincy Grammar School, the English High and Latin School, and graduated from the \nHarvard Law School in 1885, and the same year was admitted to the bar in Boston. \n\nJames Sullivan, son of John and Margery (Brown) Sullivan, was born in Berwick, \nMe., April 22, 1744, and was educated chiefly by his father. He studied law with his \nbrother John at Durham, N. H., and before 1782 was a member of the Suffolk bar. \nBefore coming to Boston he practiced ten years in Biddeford. He was a member of \nProvincial Congress from Biddeford in 1774-5, and a member of the General Court in \n1775-6. On the 20th of March, 1776, he was appointed a justice in the Superior Court \nof Judicature and resigned in 1782. In 1778 he moved from Biddeford to Groton, and \nin 1779 was a delegate from Groton to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. \nIn 1782 he was a delegate to Continental Congress, in 1787 a member of the Executive \nCouncil, in 1788 judge of probate, in 1790 attorney-general, in 1807 he was chosen gov- \nernor, and died while in office in Boston, December 10, 1808. \n\nGeorge Sullivan, son of James and Mehitable (Odiorne) Sullivan, was born in Boston, \nFebruary 22, 1783, and died at Pau, France, December 14, 1866. He attended the \nBoston Latin School, studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in Boston \nin July, 1804. He was secretary of James Bowdoin, minister to Spain. He practiced \nlaw in Boston and was a member of the State Senate. He moved to New York and \ncontinued in practice there. He married, January 26, 1809, Sarah, daughter of Thomas \nL. Winthrop and had two sons, George R. J. and James, both of whom took the name \nof Bowdoin in accordance with the will of Sarah, daughter of William and niece of \nJames Bowdoin. \n\nJeremiah J. Sullivan, son of John and Mary (Donohue) Sullivan, was born in Water- \ntown, Mass., September 16, 1850, and fitted at the public schools for Harvard, where \nhe graduated in 1872. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of \nGeorge S. Hale, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 27, 1874. He \nhas been a selectman, member of the School Board and Board of Health in Watertown, \nwhere he lives. \n\nRichard Sullivan, son of James and Mehitable (Odiorne) Sullivan, was born in Gro- \nton, July 17, 1779, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard where he gradu- \nated in 1798. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in Boston in \n1801. He was senator from Suffolk in 1815 to '17, a member from Brookline of the \nState Convention of 1820, a member of the Executive Council in 1820-21 and was the \ncandidate of the Federal party in 1823 for lieutenant-governor with Harrison Gray \nOtis for governor, and was defeated. He was an overseer of Harvard from 1821 to \n1852. He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Sever) Russell, of Boston, \nMay 22, 1804, and died in Cambridge, December 11, 1861. \n19 \n\n\n146 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nRichard Sullivan, son of Jeremiah 0. and Joanna (Morrison) Sullivan, was born in \nDurham, Conn., February 24, 1856, and came with his father, an infant, to Boston. \nHe attended the Comins Grammar School in Roxbury, the Boston College, and grad- \nuated from the Boston University Law School in 1882. He was admitted to the bar \nin 1S83. He also studied at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles T. \n■& Thomas H. Russell in Boston. He was a member of the Boston Common Council \nin 1887, '88, '89, '90 and twice the Democratic candidate for the presidency of the \nboard. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. \n\nThomas Francis Strange, son of Pierce and Anne Strange, was born in Manchester. \nN. II., December 24, 1859. In his infancy his parents moved to Boston where he was \neducated in the public schools, and graduated at the Boston University Law School, \nwith the degree of LL. B., in 1883, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in the same \nyear. He began practice with the law firm of Gargan, Adams & Swasey, and in Octo- \nber, 1884, opened an office alone. He has been commissioner of insolvency by both ap- \npointment and election, a member of the Boston School Board and an active member of \nthe Democratic party in State and city politics. He resides in Boston. \n\nAnthony C. Daly was born in Boston, October 4, 1853, and was educated in the pub- \nlic schools. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in April, 1875, was a representative \nin 1878, and moved to the west. \n\nRichard Dana, son of Daniel, who was son of Richard, the ancestor who settled in \nCambridge in 1640, was born in Cambridge, July 7, 1699, and died in Cambridge, May \n17, 1772. He graduated at Harvard in 1718 and began practice in Marblehead, con- \ntinuing it in Charletsown and Boston. He married a sister of Judge Edmund Trow- \nbridge. \n\nFrancis Dana, son of Richard, was born in Charlestown, June 13, 1743. He grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1762, and after studying law with Edmund Trowbridge was ad- \nmitted to the bar in 1767, and practiced in Boston. He was a delegate to the Provin- \ncial Congress in 1774, and in 1776 a member of the Executive Council. In the same \nyear he was a delegate to the Continental Congress, and again in 1778. He was sec- \nretary to John Adams, appointed in 1779 to negotiate peace, and in 1781 was ap- \npointed minister to St. Petersburg where he remained two years. In 1783 he returned \nto Boston and was chosen, in 1784, a delegate to Congress. On the 18th of January, \n1785, he was appointed by Governor Hancock judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, \nand on the 29th of November, 1791, was appointed chief justice. He retired from the \nBench in 1806 and died in Cambridge, April 25, 1811. \n\nRichard H. Dana, son of Francis Dana, was born in Cambridge, November 15, 1787, \nand died in Boston, February 2, 1879. Entering Harvard College in the class of 1808, \nhe did not finish his course but received a degree fifty-eight years later, in 1866. and a \ndegree of LL. D. from Williams College, in 1867. He studied law in the office of his \ncousin, Francis Dana Channing in Boston, and in the office of Robert Goodloe Harper, \nof Baltimore, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1811. He practiced \nfor a time in Sutton, but finalljT settled in Cambridge and through life devoted himself \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. i4r \n\nchiefly to literature. He was a frequent contributor to the North American Review \nand published his first poem, \" The Dying Raven,\" about 1S25. His first volume of \npoems was published in 1827, and in 1S56 a revised edition of his poetical and prose \nwritings was issued. At an earlier date, in 1839-40, he delivered a course of lectures \non Shakespeare, in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. He was the father of Richard \nH. Dana, jr., and Edmund Trowbridge Dana. \n\nRichard H. Dana, jr., son of Richard H. Dana, was born in Cambridge, August 1, \n1815, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. His \"Two Years before the Mast\" was pub- \nlished in 1840, and had a very large circulation. He studied law with Joseph Story \nand was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1840. In 1841 he published \"The Sea- \nman's Friend,\" and later, \" To Cuba and Back.\" His contributions to reviews and other \nperiodicals were numerous. In 1859-60 he went round the world, and in 1866 re- \nceived from Harvard the degree of LL. D. In 1866 he published a new edition of \nWheaton's \"International Law,\" and about that time was a lecturer on international \nlaw at the Harvard Law School. In 1876 he was nominated by President Grant min- \nister to England, but his nomination was not confirmed. He was at one time United \nStates district attorney for Massachusetts District. He went to Europe in 1878, and \ndied in Rome, January 7, 1882. \n\nEdmund Trowbridge Dana, son of Richard H. Dana, was born in Cambridge, August \n29, 1818, and died in Cambridge, May 18, 1869. He graduated at the University of \nVermont in 1839. and at the Harvard Law School in 1841. He began practice with \nhis brother, Richard H. Dana, jr., went to Europe where he continued his studies, giving \nspecial attention to Roman civil law. In 1854 he received a degree from the Univer- \nsity of Heidleberg, and returned home in 1856 and continued in practice until his \ndeath. \n\nRichard H. Dana 3d, son of Richard H., jr., and Sarah (Watson) Dana, was born in \nCambridge, January 3, 1851, and received his early education in the public schools of \nCambridge, and at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H. He graduated at Harvard in \n1874, and at the Harvard Law School in 1877, and after a time spent in the office of \nBrooks, Ball & Storey in Boston, was admitted to the bar there in November, 1877. \nHe has been interested in the purity of elections, and has contributed many articles to- \nmagazines and newspapers, chiefly on the civil service, the Australian Ballot Law, and \nElection Expenses Law. He married Edith, daughter of Henry W. Longfellow, the \npoet, at Cambridge, January 10, 1878. \n\nSamuel Dana, son of William and Mary (Green) Dana, was born in that part of Cam- \nbridge which is now the Brighton District of Boston, January 14, 1738-9, and gradu- \nated at Harvard in 1755. He studied divinity, and June 3, 1761, was settled as the \nminister of Groton. On account of his loyal sentiments on the approach of the Revo- \nlution he was dismissed, and moved to Amherst, N. H., where he studied law with \nJoshua Atherton, and was admitted to the bar of Hillsboro county in New Hampshire \nin 1781 and at a later date in Suffolk county, Mass. In 1785 he was appointed register \nof probate for Middlesex, afterwards judge of probate, and resigned December 21, 1792. \n\n\n148 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nIn 1793 he was a member of the Senate. His name is on the roll of admission to the \nbar of Suffolk by the Supreme Court without date. He died at Amherst, April 2, 1798. \n\nEdwin H. Darling, son of Timothy and Lucy Darling, was born in Calais, Me., Jan- \nuary 28, 1838, and was educated in Nassau, N. P., and New York and at Williams Col- \nlege. He studied law with George F. Shipley, of Portland, and with Doolittle, Davis \n& Crittenden in New York, and was admitted to the bar in New York in April, 1861, \nand in Boston, January, 5 1872. He is or has been a member of the Boston School \nBoard. He married Georgie A. Smith, at New Market, N. H, February 7, 1882, and \nlives in Boston. \n\nGeorge A. Dary, son of George L. and Rebekah G. Dary, was born in Taunton, \nMass., November 30, 1842, and was educated at the Taunton High School. He studied \nlaw with Samuel E. Sewall in Boston, and was admitted to the bar there December 14, \n1872. He married Susan Elizabeth, daughter of Erastus S. Tuttle, and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Nathaniel Davenport, son of William J. and Almira (Howard) Davenport, \nwas born in Boylston. Mass., November 3, 1856, and was early educated in the public \nschools of that town. He studied law in the Law School of the University of Michigan \nand in the office of James T. Joslin, of Hudson, Mass., and Edward F. Johnson, of Marl- \nboro, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex, June 30, 1883. He has been \nclerk of the Police Court of Marlboro, was a representative in 1885-86, and senator in \n1889-90. He married Lizzie M. Kendall at Boylston, January 1, 1887, and makes \nMarlboro his home, with an office in Boston. \n\nCharles Francis Davis, son of Francis W. and Anna Finney (Houlton) Davis, was \nborn in Boston, September 6, 1830, and died in Boston, October 16, 1867. In early life \nhe spent ten years in Antwerp, and studied law with Edward F. Hodges in Boston. \nHe was as one time alderman in Boston, and a member of the Executive Council. \n\nCharles Thornton Davis, son of Charles A. and Mary (Thornton) Davis, was born in \nConcord, N. H, January 12, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hopkins & Bacon, of Worcester, and \nwas admitted to the bar in Worcester, December 31, 1886. He married Frances P. An- \nderson at Portland, Me., September 12, 1888, and lives in Boston. \n\nHasbrouck Davis, son of John and Elizabeth (Bancroft) Davis, was born in Worces- \nter, April 19, 1827, and graduated at Williams College in 1845. He first studied divin- \nity and was settled in Watertown over the Unitarian parish in that town. He after- \nwards studied law and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 9, 1854, and went \nto Chicago in 1855. During the war he passed through the several grades, and was \nbrevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He was drowned at sea on his way to Europe in \nthe steamship Cambria, October 19, 1870. \n\nEverett Allen Davis, son of Lewis W. and Sarah Nickerson Davis, was born in \nPawtucket, R. I., October 11, 1857, and was educated at Columbia College, and studied \nlaw in the law school connected with that institution, and in the office of Judge Daly, \nof New York, and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1878, and in Boston, \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. i49 \n\nFebruary 2, 1887. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives \nin 1884-85 and 1890. He married Georgiana Whiting in Tisbury, Mass., December 26 \n1878, and lives in Boston. \n\nJames Clarke Davis, son of George T. and Harriet T. (Russell) Davis, was born in \nGreenfield, Mass., January 19, 1838, and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Har- \nvard, where he graduated in 1858. He studied law in Greenfield with Davis & Allen, \nand in the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston January 16, \n1861. He was assistant attorney-general under Charles Allen, and member of the \nBoston School Board from 1882 to 1887. He married Alice W. Paine, at Worcester, \nJune 3, 1873, and resides at Jamaica Plain. \n\nJohn Davis, son of Thomas and Mercy (Hedge) Davis, was born in Plymouth, Mass., \nJanuary 25, 1761, and died in Boston, January 14, 1847. He graduated at Harvard in \n1781, and in 1788 was the youngest member of the convention which adopted the con- \nstitution. He was a member of both House and Senate in Massachusetts, and in 1795 \nwas appointed by Washington comptroller of the currency. He was afterwards United \nStates attorney, and in 1801 was appointed by John Adams judge of the United States \nDistrict Court, which position he held forty years. In 1802 he received the degree of \nLL. D. from Dartmouth, and in 1842 the same degree from Harvard. He was presi- \ndent of the Massachusetts Historical Society from 1818 to 1835, and many years a \nmember of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosoph- \nical Society. He was the author of many published works, of which his edition of \nMorton's New England Memorial, with elaborate notes, and the Pilgrim ode, \" Sons of \nRenowned Sires,\" are the best known. He married in 1786 Ellen, daughter of William \nWatson, of Plymouth. \n\nSimon Davis, son of Silas and Mercy E. Davis, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Sep- \ntember 25, 1854, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law in the Harvard \nLaw School and in the office of George V. Leverett, of Boston, and was admitted to \nthe bar in Boston in May, 1880. He is a member of the Boston School Board and \nspecial justice of the Municipal Court in the Charlestown District of Boston. He mar- \nried Helen M. Goldthwait at Boston, November 12, 1884, and lives in Boston. \n\nStanton Day, son of J. S. and E. P. (Young) Day, was born in Downeville, Cal., \nand was educated in Chauncey Hall School, Boston, and at Harvard, where he gradu- \nated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Edward \nW. Cate, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1885. He lives in Brook- \nline, Mass. \n\nThomas Kemper Davis, son of Isaac P. and Susan (Jackson) Davis, was born in Bos- \nton. June 20, 1808, and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He studied law with Daniel \nWebster and was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, 1830. He was a man of \nsuperior scholastic attainments, and entered the profession with the promise of a bril- \nliant career. An unfortunate accident, however, inflicted injuries on his brain which \nprecluded further advancement. After a number of ryears in retirement he died in \nBoston, October 13, 1853. \n\n\n150 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam Davis, son of Nathaniel Morton and Harriet Lazell (Mitchell) Davis, was \nborn in Plymouth, Mass., May 12, 1818. He fitted at the Boston Latin School for Har- \nvard, from which he graduated in 1837. He studied law with his father in Plymouth \nand at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 18, \n1841. He settled in Plymouth where he became active as a Whig politician, and chair- \nman of the Board of Selectmen. He was also at one time president of the Pilgrim So- \nciety. He married Helen, daughter of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell in Plymouth \nin 1850, and died in Boston, February 19, 1853. \n\nWilliam Nye Davis, son of John Watson and Susan Holden (Tallman) Davis, was \nborn in Boston, December 2, 1830, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he \ngraduated in 1851. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of \nShattuck Hartwell and Wm. H. Gardiner, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in \nMarch, 1855. He married Mary C, daughter of William Howard Gardiner in Boston, \nMarch 24, 1856, and died in Nice, February 24, 1863. \n\nGeorge Thomas Davis, at one time a member of the Suffolk bar, but more especially \nassociated with Greenfield and the Franklin county bar, the son of Wendell and Caro- \nline (Smith) Davis, was born in Sandwich, Mass., January 12, 1810, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1829. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Dan- \niel Wells and James C. Alvord in Greenfield. Benjamin R. Curtis and David Aiken were \nstudents at the same time in the office. After his admission to the bar he began prac- \ntice in Taunton in 1832, but in 1833 removed to Greenfield, where he became associated \nin business with his former instructors with a firm name of Wells, Alvord & Davis. \nMr. Wells was appointed to the Common Pleas bench, and Mr. Alvord died in 1839, and \nMr. Davis afterwards, until his retirement from business in 1865, had various associates. \nAmong these were Charles Devens, late judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, Charles \nAllen, a judge at present on the same bench, Wendell Thornton Davis, a brother, James \nC. Davis, his son, David Aikin, and Samuel 0. Lamb. Mr. Davis rose rapidly to a lead- \nership of the bar in the river counties of Massachusetts. He was distinguished not \nalone for his legal abilities, but also for his remarkable conversational powers. Thack- \neray on his visit to America, meeting him for the first time at a private dinner, laid \ndown his knife and fork and paid tribute in exclamations of wonder at the brilliancy of \nhis conversation. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1839-40, in 1861 \na representative and represented the Franklin district in Congress from 1851 to 1853. \nHe married Harriet T., daughter of Nathaniel P. Russell, of Boston, October 16, 1834, \nand Mrs. Abba I. Little, of Portland, and daughter of Daniel Chamberlain, of Boston, \nApril 26, 1865. He died in Portland, June 17, 1877. \n\nWilliam Thomas Davis, son of William and Joanna (White)Davis, was born in Plym- \nouth, Mass., March 3, 1822, and was fitted by Isaac N. Stoddard, teacher of the Plym- \nouth High School, for Harvard, where he graduated in 1842. After studying medi- \ncine for a time he studied law in the office of his brother, Charles G. Davis in Boston, \nand at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, November 9, \n1849. He retained an office and lived in Boston until 1853, when he returned to Plym- \nouth and became largely associated with its interests. He has served six years on the \n\n\nI \n\n\nrm \n\n\nLnn^L^L^ \n\n\nlAcC \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. I5I \n\nSchool Board of Plymouth, been chosen seventeen times as selectman, declining twice and \nserving as chairman eleven years, and has presided as moderator at more than seventy \nmeetings of the town. In 1858 and 1859 he was State senator, has been president of \nthe Plymouth Bank, Plymouth Gas Company, Old Colony Insurance Company, direc- \ntor of the Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad Company, and president of the Pilgrim So- \nciety. He was presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1872, and a delegate to \nthe Republican National Convention at Cincinnati in 1876. He is the author of \"Ancient \nLandmarks of Plymouth,\" of a ''History of Plymouth,\" the editor of two volumes of \nthe Plymouth town records with notes, and has contributed to county histories, histor- \nies of Newburyport, Newbury, Marshfield, Plympton, and many other towns, as well \nas sketches of the bench and bar of Plymouth, Essex and Middlesex counties. He mar- \nried Abby Burr, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Coffin (Goodwin) Hedge in Plymouth, \nNovomber 19, 1849, and makes Plymouth his home. \n\nAndrew Cunningham Davison, son of Henry and Mary Davison, was born in Boston, \nJune 5, 1789, and graduated at Harvard in 1815. He studied law with George Blake \nand was admitted to the bar in Boston. From 1818 to 1828 he was assistant teache \nin the Adams School in Boston. He died in Lexington, January 27, 1856. \n\nDelavan Calvin Delano, son of Eber Carpenter and Betsy Delano, was born in \nHanover, N. H., February 1, 1869, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1884. He \nstudied law in the office of William H. Coltonat Lebanon, N. H., and Wilbur H. Pow- \ners, of Boston, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1887, in which \nyear in June he was admitted to the bar in Boston. He lives unmarried in West \nSomerville. \n\nLouis Emil Denfield, son of Frank and Margaret Denfield, was born in Westboro, \nMass., September 26, 1854, and graduated at Amherst in 1878. He studied law with \nA. G. Biscoe in Westboro, Mass., and was admitted to the Worcester county bar in \nApril, 1881. He was town clerk of Webster, Mass., two years, assessor in Westboro \nthree years, and member of the School Board in the same town six years. He married \nEtta May Kelly in Westboro, where he now lives, October 26, 1887, and practices in \nBoston. \n\nWilliam Willis, son of Benjamin and Mary (McKinstry) Willis, was born in Haver- \nhill, Mass., August 31, 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law with \nPeter 0. Thacher in Boston, and was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas, January \n8, 1817, and to the Supreme Court, January, 1819. He practiced in Boston until April, \n1819, when he moved to Portland and continued there alone in business until 1835, \nwhen he formed a partnership with William Pitt Fessenden which continued twenty \nyears. In 1855 he was in the Maine Senate, in 1859 Mayor of Portland, in 1860 presi- \ndential elector, and in 1867 received the degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin. He devoted \nmuch time to historical pursuits, and was the author of a history of Portland and many \nother publications. He married Julia, daughter of Ezekiel Whiteman, of Portland, Sep- \ntember 1, 1823, and died in Portland, February 17, 1870. \n\nArnold A. Rand, son of Edward Sprague and Elizabeth Arnold Rand, was born in \nBoston, March 25, 1837, and was educated at the school of Epes S. Dixwell in Boston, \n\n\n152 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nin Vevay and in Paris. He studied law in the office of his father and at the Boston Uni- \nversity Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 6, 1874. He was \ncommissioned, October 30, 1861, second lieutenant of the First Massachusetts Cavalry, \nand was afterwards captain and assistant adjutant-general, lieutenant-colonel of the \nFourth Massachusetts Cavalry, and in 1864, colonel. In 1885, with N. J. Bradlee, he \nformed the Massachusetts Title Insurance Co. of which he is vice-president and mana- \nger. He married, in 1877, Annie Eliza Brownell of New Bedford, and lives in Boston. \n\nHenry Harrison Sprague, son of George and Nancy (Knight) Sprague, was born in \nAthol, Mass., August 1, 1841, and received his early education at the Athol High School \nand at the Chauncey Hall School in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1864 and \nwent to Champlain, N. Y\"., as a private tutor. In 1865 he entered the Harvard Law \nSchool and was at the same time a proctor of the college. In 1890 he was chosen a \nmember of the Board of Overseers of the college. In the fall of 1866 he entered the \nlaw office of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith in Boston, and February 25, 1868, \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was chosen in 1873 to the Common Council of Bos- \nton and served in 1874, 1875 and 1876, and in 1875 and 1876 was one of the trustees of \nthe City Hospital on the part of the Council. In 1878 he was chosen one of the trustees at \nlarge and continued as such until the incorporation of the City Hospital in 1880, when \nhe was appointed a trustee by the mayor. He has since held this position by successive \nreappointments, and since 1878 has also acted as secretary of the board. He was a \nmember of the House of Representatives from Boston in 1881, 1882 and 1883. He \nwas elected a member of the Massachusetts Senate for the Fifth Suffolk District for \nthe year 1888, and drafted and introduced the new ballot act. He was elected again \nin 1889 and in 1890, and in 1890 was elected president of the Senate. He was again \nelected to that body for the year 1891, and was a second time its presiding officer. In \n1884 he was a member of the executive committee of the Municipal Reform Associa- \ntion, and senior counsel of the association for the purpose of securing the passage by \nthe Legislature of 1885 of the amendments to the charter of the city of Boston, by \nwhich the executive authority of the city was vested in the mayor. In 1867, in con- \nnection with a few others, he brought about a return to new and active operations of \nthe Boston Young Men's Christian Union, and has since continued as a member of the \nBoard of Government, acting as secretary from 1867 to 1879, and since 1879 as vice- \npresident of the society. In 1880 he engaged with others in the organization of the \nBoston Civil Service Reform Association, and served on the executive committee of \nthat body until the year 1889, when he was elected president of the association, which \noffice he still holds. He was for many years a manager of the Temporary Home for \nthe Destitute, or Gwynne Home, and was one of the \" Committee of Fifty '' on the \nMuseum of Fine Arts. He has been since 1879 one of the trustees of the Boston \nLying-in Hospital, and recently has served upon the executive committee of the board. \nHe has been since 1883 secretary of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, is s \nmember of the Massachusetts Historic Genealogical Society, the Bostonian Society, \nthe Bar Association and the Harvard Law School Association, and a member of the \ngeneral committee of the Citizens' Association of Boston. He is also one of the trustees \nappointed to hold the buildings recently purchased and improved for the Women's Ed- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. iS3 \n\nucational and Industrial Union, and acts as treasurer of the trustees. In 1884 he pub- \nlished a treatise entitled, \"Women Under the Law of Massachusetts; their Rights \nPrivileges and Disabilities,\" and in 1890 he published a pamphlet entitled, \"City Gov- \nernment in Boston ; Its Rise and Development.\" He resides in Boston. \n\nJoseph Fernald Wiggin, son of Joshua and Dorothy Wiggin, was born in Exeter N. \nH., March 30, 1838, and was educated in the public schools and at Phillips Exeter Acad- \nemy. He studied law with W. W. Stickney, of Exeter, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the bar of Rockingham county, N. H, in October, 1862, \nand to the Suffolk bar November 4, 1891. He was judge of probate for Rockingham \ncounty from 1871 to 1876 ; one of the commissioners in 1877 to revise the general laws \nof New Hampshire; moved to Maiden, Mass., in 1880, where he was a member of the \nSchool Board from 18S5 to 1887, mayor from 1888 to 1891, and city solicitor in 1892. \nHe married Ruth H. Hollis, at Milton, Mass., July 6, 1888, and lives in Maiden. \n\nEdward Wigglesworth was born in Boston, January 14, 1804, and died there Octo- \nber 14, 1876. He graduated at Harvard in 1822, and studied law with William Pres- \ncott, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1S25, and was ad- \nmitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston in October, 1825, and to the Supreme \nJudicial Court, January 10, 1828. After practicing a short time he entered his father's \ncounting room, and devoted himself to business, relieved by an active interest in lit- \nerary and charitable pursuits. He was a descendant of Michael Wigglesworth, who \nwas born in England in 1631, and died in Maiden, Mass., in 1705. \n\nSamuel Sumner Wilde was born in Taunton, February 5, 1771, and died in Boston, \nJune 22, 1855, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1789. He studied law in Taunton with \nJudge Paddleford, and was admitted to the bar in 1792, probably in Boston, as his \nname is on the roll of admissions by the Supreme Court in Suffolk before 1807. He \nbegan practice in Waldoboro, Me., but moved in 1794 to Warren, Me., and in 1799 to \nHallowell. In 1815 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and in \n1820, when Maine was set off as a State, he moved to Newburyport, and in 1831 to \nBoston, where the remainder of his life was spent. He was a member of the Hartford \nConvention, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, twice a presidential \nelector, and in 1844 a member of the Executive Council. He received the degree of \nLL.D. from Bowdoin in 1817, Harvard in 1841, and Dartmouth in 1849. He resigned \nhis seat on the bench in 1850 at the age of seventy- nine. He married Eunice, daughter \nof David Cobb, of Taunton. \n\nJoseph Willard, son of Rev. Joseph and Mary (Sheafe) Willard, was born in Cam- \nbridge, March 14, 1798, and died in Boston, May 12, 1865. He fitted for college at \nPhillips Exeter Academy under Mark Newman, and at Wm. Jennison's private classical \nand mercantile school, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He studied law with Charles \nHumphrey Atherton in Amherst, N. H., and was admitted to the bar in 1819. Prac- \nticing first in Waltham and Lancaster, he moved to Boston in 1829. In 1839 he was \nappointed joint clerk with George C. Wilde of the Supreme Judicial and Common Pleas \ncourts, and in 1856 clerk of the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk. Upon the \n20 \n\n\ni54 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\norganization of the Superior Court for the Commonwealth, he was appointed clerk and \nso continued until his death. He was the author of a history of Lancaster and the Life \nof Simon Willard. He married Susanna Hicklin, daughter of Capt. Isaiah Lewis, Feb- \nruary 24, 1830. \n\nJames Thomas Joslin, son of Elias and Elizabeth (Stearns) Joslin, was born in \nLeominster, Mass., June 23, 1834, and was educated at the Leominster public schools \nand the Lawrence Academy at Groton. He read law with Charles H. Merriam in \nLeominster and Nathaniel Wood and Goldsmith F. Bailey in Fitchburg, and was ad- \nmitted to the bar at Fitchburg in June, 1859. He was in the Leominster School Board \nin 1856-7. He began the practice of law in North Marlboro', near Hudson, in August, \nI860, and was postmaster in that town in 1863-4; he was grand master I. O. 0. F., \nin Massachusetts, in 1880, and in 1866 council for petitioners for the incorporation of \nthe town of Hudson. He married, at Leominster, October 14, 1861, Annie Catherine \nBurrage, and lives in Hudson. \n\nPaul Willard, son of Paul and Martha (Haskell) Willard, was born in Lancaster, \nMass., and died in Charlestown, March 18, 1856. He fitted for College at Westford \nAcademy and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law in Worcester with Cal- \nvin Willard and was admitted to the bar in 1821. He began practice in Charlestown \nand in September, 1822, was appointed postmaster of that town, and in 1823 was cho- \nsen clerk of the Massachusetts Senate and was the incumbent of that office until 1829. \nHe is believed to have had at one time an office in Boston and for that reason is in- \ncluded in this register. \n\n\n'&' \n\n\nAaron Hobart Latham, son of Eliab and Susan Adams Latham, was born in East \nBridgewater, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool and in the office of Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe, of Boston, and was admitted \nto the bar of Plymouth county March 4, 1879. He has been a member of the School \nBoard in Brookline, where he lives. He married Minnie G. Bearce at North Livermore, \nMe., September 20, 1882. \n\nThomas E. Grover, son of Thomas and Roana Grover, was born in Mansfield, Mass., \nFebruary 9, 1847, and was educated at private schools. He studied law with Ellis \nAmes, of Canton, and was admitted to the bar in Taunton, September 7, 1889. He \nhas been engaged in editorial newspaper work, and was trial justice for several years, \nlie married Frances L. Williams at Canton, Mass., September 17, 1871, and while prac- \nticing in Boston resides in Canton. \n\nLoren Erskink Griswold, son of Daniel C. and Adelaide E. (Griswold) Griswold, \nwas born in Boston, January 3, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1886. \n\nJames Russell Reed, son of James and Mary J. (Magee) Reed, was born in Boston, \nJanuary 4, 1851. He was educated at the Phillips School, Latin School and at Harvard \nCollege, from which he graduated in 1871. He studied law in the Harvard Law \nSchool and in the offices in Boston of Edmund H. Bennett and T. L. Livermore and \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 155 \n\nwas admitted to the bar in Boston, July 5, 1876. He has been chairman of the School \nCommittee of Lexington, and assistant district attorney. He married Eleanor Frances \nPrescott at Boston, February 16, 1S92, and has a house in Boston and one in Burling- \nton, Mass. \n\nSamuel Willard Reed, son of Samuel and Caroline Reed, was born in Weymouth, \nMass., December 31, 1849, and was educated in the public schools of that town. He \nstudied law with Charles A. Reed, of Taunton, and was admitted to the bar in Taunton, \nSeptember 29, 1873. He has been on the School Board of Weymouth, and secretary of \nthe Weymouth Historical Society. \n\nWilliam G-ardner Reed, son of Isaac and Lydia E. (McDonald) Reed, was born in \nWaldoboro, Me., May 4, 1858, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1882. He studied law in \nthe Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, \n1885. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1888, and of the Board of \nAldermen in 1889-90. He married Mary Lorine Hagar at Richmond, Me., October 18, \n1882, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. \n\nFletcher Ladd, son of William Spencer and Mira Barnes Fletcher Ladd, was born in \nLancaster, N. H., December 21, 1862, and fitted at Phillips Academy, Andover, for Dart- \nmouth College, from which he graduated in 1884, and also studied at the Heidelberg \nUniversity in Germany. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law \nSchool, from which he graduated in 1890, and was admitted to the bar in Concord, N. \nH, in March, 1889. He lives in Cambridge. \n\nNathaniel Watson Ladd, son of Daniel and Lucy Ann Ladd. was born in Deny, \nN. H, January 7, 1848, and was educated at the Pinkerton Academy and in the Dart- \nmouth College class of 1873. He studied law in Boston in the office of Abbott, Jones \n& McFarlane, and at the Boston University Law School in the class of 1875, and was \nadmitted to the bar in Boston, November 8, 1875. He was a member of the Boston \nCommon Council in 1886-87, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Represent- \natives in 1890-91. His residence is in Boston. \n\nElias Merwin, son of Rev. Samuel and Sarah (Clark) Merwin, was born at New \nHaven, Conn., April 25, 1825. He received his early education at a boarding school in \nWhite Plains, N. Y., and at thirteen entered Wesleyan University, and graduated in \n1841. He studied law in Lenox in the office of Henry Walker Bishop, and at the \nHarvard Law School. After leaving the law school he went to Pittsfield and was ad- \nmitted to the Berkshire bar in 1843. In 1851 he came to Boston and was associated \nwith Benjamin R. Curtis until the appointment of Mr. Curtis to the United States Su- \npreme Bench. The business of Mr. Merwin was chiefly in the Supreme and Circuit \nCourts, in both of which he was counsel in many important cases. Among these may \nbe mentioned the suit of Abbott vs. the Essex Company, which he argued before the \nUnited States Supreme Court at the age of thirty. In 1854 he was appointed Profes- \nsor of Equity in the Boston University Law School. He married Anne, daughter of \nDr. H. H. Childs, of Pittsfield, December 23, 1847, and died in Boston, March 27, 1891. \n\n\n156 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nNinian C. Betton, son of Samuel and Ann (Ramsay) Betton, was born in New \nBoston, N. H., January 10, 1787, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1814. He studied \nlaw with Daniel Webster in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston October \n7, 1817, and to the Middlesex bar in November, 1819. He was at one time State \nrepresentative and member of the Boston Common Council. He married Wealthy \nJohnson, daughter of Silas and Mary (Thornton) Betton, in January, 1821. His wife \nwas his cousin and granddaughter of Dr. Matthias Thornton, a signer of the Declar- \nation, chief justice of the Common Pleas Court and justice of the Supreme Court of \nNew Hampshire. Mr. Betton died in Boston November 19, 1856. \n\nGeorge E. Betton, son of Ninian C. and Wealthy Johnson (Betton) Betton, was \nborn in Hanover, N. H., November 28, 1821, and was educated at Dartmouth. He \nstudied law in Boston with his father, and was admitted to the bar in Boston October \n6, 184(i. He is chiefly engaged in patent cases. He is unmarried and lives in \nBoston. \n\n[ames L. English, son of Thomas and Penelope (Bethune) English, was born in \nthat part of Cambridge which is now Brighton, November*), 1806. He was educated \nat the school of George Ripley in Waltham, and at Harvard, where he graduated in \nL827. After leaving college he was for a time private secretary of William H. Pres- \ncott, the historian, and studied law with Judge William Prescott. He was admitted \nto the bar in Suffolk in 1830, and in Middlesex in October, 1833, and was many years \na partner of William Howard Gardiner. After admission to the bar he lived in Boston \ntill 1*63, then in Cambridge till 1868, and then at Jamaica Plain, where he died \nFebruary 9, 1883. He married, September 13, 1841, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of \nDavid Steele of Goffstown, X. H. \n\nJames S. English, son of James L. and Elizabeth (Steele) English, was born in \nBoston March 6, 1844, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He studied law with his \nfather, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, where he now lives, September 11, \n1870. \n\nPatrick H. Cooney, son of Lawrence and Catherine Cooney, wras born in Stock- \nbridge, Mass., December 20, 1845, and was educated at the Natick High School and \nthe West Newton English and Classical School. He studied law with John W. Bacon, \nof Natick, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, November 24, 1868. He lives un- \nmarried in Natick. \n\nFrancis O. Dork was born in Boston September 21, 1805, and fitted at the Boston \nLatin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1825. After graduation he taught \na private school in Plymouth two years, and was admitted to the liar in Boston in \nApril, 1S30. He began practice in Boston, soon moved to Pittsfield, thence in 1833 \nto Troy, and finally to New York, where he continued in practice until 1856, when \nhe moved to Fort Madison, ( ). In i871 lie returned to Troy and continued in practice \nuntil 1886. He died at Lansingburg, N. Y., in March, 1892. \n\nJosiah W. Hubbard was born in Springfield, Vt., and studied law at the Harvard \nLaw School and in the offices of Governor Colby of Newport, N. H., and O. P. Chan- \ndler of Woodstock, Yt. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in December, 1850, \nand for a time was associated in business with Isaac Story. He continued in prac- \ntice in Boston until his vacation in the summer of 1892, when he died in his native \ntown on the Kith of September, in that year. \n\n\n/ I n /^J £ /i<-rvi A-^ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. iS7 \n\nFrederick Augustus Farley was born in Boston June 25, 1800, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1818. He studied law and was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas \nCourt October 19, 1821, and to the Supreme Court in 1824. After practicing law a \nyear or two in Boston he entered the Harvard Theological School, from which he \ngraduated in 1818. In 1818 he was settled over one of the Unitarian churches in Provi- \ndence,R. I., immediately after leavingthe Divinity school, and in 1841 was installed over \nthe Church of Our Saviour in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he remained twenty-two years. \nAfter his retirement from clerical service he engaged in literary work and was the \nauthor of \" Unitarianism in the United States,\" \" Unitarianism Denned\" and a \n\"History of the Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair of 1864.\" He married \nJane Sigourney in Boston in 1830. \n\nSamuel W. Clifford, son of Samuel W. and Mary A. Clifford, was born in Boston \nJuly 29, 1845. He received his early education at the Boston Latin School and from \nDr. E. R. Humphreys as a private tutor, and graduated at Trinity College, Hart- \nford, Conn., in 1868. He studied law with Robert S. Hart, Mount Kisco, N. Y., and \nwas admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, N. Y. , in December, 1869, in Boston in October, \nINTO, to the United States Supreme Court May 3, 1878, and to the United States \nCircuit Court, Mass. Dist. , December 2, 1878. Among the important cases in which \nhe has been counsel may be mentioned the Commonwealth vs. Thomas R. Smith for \nmurder in 1886. He married Myra A. Fiske, of Cleveland, O., August 10, 1889, and \n.lives in Boston. \n\nSamuel Adams Dork, son of Ebenezer Dorr, was born in Medfield, July 1, 1775, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1795. He studied law with James Sullivan, and at a meet- \ning of the Suffolk bar July 9, 1798, on motion of William Sullivan, it was voted to \nrecommend him for admission to the Court of Common Pleas, and he was admitted \naccordingly. He abandoned the law and engaged in business, and died in Boston \nFebruary 25, 1855. \n\nWilliam Henry Clifford, son of Nathan and Hannah (Ayer) Clifford, was born in \nNewfield, Me., in 1839, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1858. He studied law \nwith George F. Shepley in Portland, and with Benjamin R. Curtis in Boston, and \nwas admitted to the bar in Portland and Boston. He has been United States com- \nmissioner in the Maine district, and is the author of four volumes of Clifford's Reports \nfor the First United States Circuit. He married Ellen E. Brown at Portland in 1866, \nand practices in Portland where he resides, and also in Boston. \n\nWilliam Choate, son of Frederick W. Choate, was born in Beverly and graduated \nat Harvard in 1881. He read law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in \nBoston in 1885. In 1SS8 he became associated with William F. Dana in Boston un- \nder the firm name of Choate & Dana. He was several years a member of the \nBeverly School Board, and the founder of the Beverly Co-operative Bank. While on \nhis way to the Bermudas he was taken sick in New York and died at St. Luke's \nHospital, in that city, in the early part of February, 1892. \n\nAsaph Churchill, a descendant of John Churchill, who settled in Plymouth in \n1643, and a son of Zebidee and Sarah (Cushman) Churchill, was born in Middleboro, \nMass., May 5, 1765, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. He studied law in Boston \nwith John Davis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793. He was a member of \n\n\ni58 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthe Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1810 to 1812. He married Mary, \ndaughter of Dr. Edward and Mehitable (Blodgett) Gardner, of Charlestown, and died \nin Milton June 30, 1841. \n\nAsaph Churchill, son of the above, was born in Milton April 20, 1814, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1831. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the bar in Norfolk county in 1834. He was a member \nof the Senate from Norfolk county in 1857. He married first Mary Buckminster, \ndaughter of Darius and Harriet (Buckminster) Brewer in Dorchester, May 1, 1838, \nand second, June 2, 1862, Mary Anne Ware, of Milton. He died in Milton, November \n29, 1892. \n\nJoseph Green Cogswell, son of Francis and Anstiss (Manning) Cogswell, was born \nin Ipswich, Mass., September 27, 1786. He was fitted for college at the Atkinson \nAcademy, N. H., and at Exeter, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1806. He \nstudied law in Dedham and Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Jan- \nuary, 1812. He removed to Belfast, Me., and in 1813 was appointed Latin tutor at \nHarvard, where he remained two years. From 1821 to 1823 he was instructor in \nmineralogy at Harvard, and librarian, and from 1823 to 1834 was associated with \nGeorge Bancroft in the management of the Round Hill School at Northampton. \nFrom 1834 to 1836 he was principal of a Seminary in Raleigh, N. C, and in 1854 was \nappointed librarian of the Astor Library in New York, which position he held until \n1863, when he removed to Cambridge, and there died November 26, 1871. He mar- \nried Mary, daughter of Governor John T. Gilman, of New Hampshire, April 17, 1812. \n\nFrancis Augustus Brooks, son of Aaron and Abby Bradshaw (Morgan) Brooks, \nwas born in Petersham, Mass., May 23, 1824. He fitted for college at the Leicester \nAcademy and graduated at Harvard in 1842, the youngest member of his class. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of his father in Petersham, \nand of Aylwin & Paine in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester \ncounty in 1845. He remained in Petersham until 1848, when he removed to Boston \nand soon entered upon an active and lucrative practice. He has been president of \nthe Vermont and Canada and the Nashua and Lowell Railroads, and has been of \ncounsel in important railroad suits, among which are those with the Vermont \nCentral Railroad in Vermont, and the Boston and Lowell Railroad, which, after \nten years' litigation in the Massachusetts and United States Courts, are still \nunfinished. Together with his legal pursuits he studies and investigates the \nvarious questions which from time to time occupy the public mind, and has \nfound time to elaborate and publish his views. In 1890 he published a pam- \nphlet, entitled \"Political and Financial Errors of our Recent Monetary Legis- \nlation,\" and in L891 another in criticism of the Legal Tender decisions of the Su- \npreme Court. His contributions to the daily journals have been numerous, and those \nespecially on the Force Bill have attracted attention. As a lawyer he is keen, skill- \nful and persistent, and as a writer, clear, forcible and convincing. He married at \nGroton, Mass., September 14, 1847, Frances, daughter of Caleb and Clarissa (Var- \nnum) Butler. Aaron Brooks, the father of Mr. Brooks, was a graduate of Brown \nUniversity in 1817, a leading lawyer of Worcester county, and a representative to \nthe General Court in 1834-35. Mr. Butler, the father of Mrs. Brooks, was a gradu- \nate at Dartmouth in 1800, a lawyer hy profession, principal of the Groton Academy \neleven years, postmaster thirteen years, and the author of a history of Groton. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. i59 \n\nAlbert D. Bosson, son of George C. and Mary Jane (Hood) Bosson, was born in \nChelsea, November 8, 1853. He was fitted for college at the Chelsea High School \nand at Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated at Brown University in 1.S75. He \nstudied law in Boston in the office of Brooks, Ball & Storey and at the Boston Uni- \nversity Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 18, L878. He was \nspecial justice of the Chelsea Police Court from 1882 until he was appointed justice in \nSeptember, 1892. He was mayor of Chelsea in 1891 and has been, or is now, presi- \ndent of the County Savings Bank of Chelsea, vice-president of the Winnisimmet Na- \ntional Bank, and treasurer of the Gloucester Street Railway Company. He married \nat Chelsea, where he lives, Alice Lavinia, daughter of C. A. Campbell, May 18, 1887. \n\nJohn McLean Bethune was born in Boston September 12, 1815, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1832. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1835, and died in Boston \nin February, 1873. \n\nJosiah Henry Benton, jr., son of Josiah Henry and Martha Ellen (Danforth) Ben- \nton, was born in Addison, Vt, August 4, 1843. He was educated at the academy in \nBradford, Vt. , and at the Literary and Scientific institution of New London, N. H. \nDuring the war of 1861 he served in the Twelfth Vermont Regiment of Volunteers. \nHe studied law with Roswell Farnham, of Bradford, Vt., and at the Albany Law \nSchool, from which he graduated in 1866. He was admitted to the bar in Albany, \nMay 5, 1866, and afterwards in Massachusetts. He was assistant clerk and clerk of \nthe New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1868 to 1871, and has been di- \nrector of the Northern Railroad in New Hampshire from 1878 to the present time. He \nhas been general counsel of the Old Colony Railroad since 1878 and connected with \nall the important railroad litigation in New Hampshire for the past ten years ; also \ncounsel for the Western Union Telegraph Company in its suits against the Bell Tele- \nphone Company, and engaged in other important corporation suits. He has made \nconstitutional arguments before the Supreme Court of New Hampshire on the char- \nacter and limitations of the Executive Veto Power, and before the governor of \nMassachusetts on the question of what constitutes a fugitive from justice under the \nextradition clause of the United States Constitution. During the last six years he \nhas lectured in the Boston University Law School on ' ' Corporation and Railroad \nLaw,\" and is the author of pamphlets on \" Inequality of Tax Valuation in Massa- \nchusetts,\" the \" British Post-office,\" \" Points in Vermont History,\" and \"The Veto \nPower — What is it ?\" He married Mary Elizabeth Abbot at Concord, N. H., Sep- \ntember 3, 1875, and lives in Boston. \n\nArthur James McLeod, son of James B. and Ann (Smith) McLeod, was born in \nBrookfield, Queen's county, Nova Scotia, and was educated atGoreham College. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- \nton in May of that year. He has been commissioner of the Supreme Court of Nova \nScotia and is engaged in Boston, where he lives, in general practice. He married in \nNova Scotia, Eunice Waterman. \n\nArthur F. Means, son of John W. and Sophia Ronmey (Wells) Means, was born \nin Boston September 17, 1857, and studied law at the Boston University Law School \nand in the office of Charles T. Gallagher. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in \nSeptember, 1879. He was in the Boston Common Council in 1881, representative in \n\n\n160 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nL882 3, and is president of the Alumni of the Boston University Law School. He is \nengaged in equity, insolvency and general practice. He married Katie A. Snow, \nApril 13, 1**1, in Boston, where he resides. \n\nJohn McKinstry Merriam, son of Adolphus and Caroline (McKinstry) Merriam, \nwas born in Southbridge, Mass., September 20, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in \n1886. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of George F. \nHoar, of Worcester, and in that of Shattuck & Munroe, of Boston, and was admit- \nted to the bar in Boston in July, 1890. He has been clerk of the committee of the \nUnited States Senate on Privileges and Elections. He married Annie Chapman \nDavenport, February 4, 1888, and has his home in South Framingham. \n\nPliny Merrick, son of Pliny and Ruth (Cutter) Merrick, was born in Brookfield, \nAugust 2, 1704. He fitted for college at Leicester andMonson academies and gradu- \nated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law with Levi Lincoln in Worcester, and was \nadmitted to the Worcester county bar in September, 1817. He practiced in Swan- \nsea and in Taunton, where he was a partner of Marcus Morton, senior, and in 1824 \nwent to Worcester and was district attorney there until 1843. He was appointed in \n1850 judge on the bench of the Common Pleas Court, and in 1853 an associate justice \non the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court. While on the bench he removed to \nBoston, and in 1804 resigned his seat. In 1853 he received the degree of LL.D. \nfrom Harvard and was an overseer of that college from 1852 to 1856. He was senior \ncounsel, with Edward D. Sohier his junior, for John W. Webster, in his trial for \nmurder. He married Mary Rebecca, daughter of Isaiah Thomas, and died in Boston \nFebruary 1, 1867. \n\nJ wiks Cushing Merrill, son of Rev. Giles and Lucy (Cushing) Merrill, was born \nin Haverhill, Mass., September 27, 1784, and fitted for college with his father and at \nPhillips Exeter Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1807, and studied law with \nJohn Varnum, of Haverhill, and was admitted to the bar of Essex county, at Salem, \nin September, 1812, and to the Suffolk county bar in March, 1815. He occupied a \nprominent position many years as a lawyer in Boston and was appointed, February \n19, 1834, justice of the Boston Police Court, a position which he resigned in 1852. He \nwas a member of the Senate and House of Representatives at various times, a mem- \nber of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a Greek scholar of high attainments. \nlie married November 28, 1820, Anna, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall, of \nHaverhill, and died in Boston, October 4, 1853. \n\nMood's Merrill, son of Winthrop and Martha (Noyes) Merrill, was born in Camp- \nton, X. II., June 27, 1836, and was educated at the public schools and at the Thet- \nford, Vt., Academy. He studied law with William Minot in Boston, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1863. He was a member of the Massachusetts \nHouse of Representatives from 1869 to 1871, a senator in 1873-4, a member of the \nBoston school board from 1868 to 1874, and president of the Highland Street Railway \nfrom 1872 to 1887, when it was consolidated with the West End Railway. He was \ncounsel for John Moran, indicted for murder in 1867. He married Martha M. Bur- \ngess in Boston in 1869, and lives in the Highland District of Boston. \n\nXi in mi \\n Thomas Merritt, Jr., son of Nehemiah Thomas and Mary E. Merritt, \nwas born August 21, 1859, and was educated at the Boston Latin School. He studied \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 161 \n\nlaw in the office of his brother, William F. Merritt of Boston, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar June 13, 1881. He has been clerk of the Municipal Court of the 1 >or- \nchester District of Boston, where he lives unmarried, since May 1, 1885. \n\nWilliam Frederick Merritt, son of Nehemiah Thomas and Mary E. Merritt, was \nborn in Belfast, Me., January 10, 1853. He was educated in the public schools of \nBoston and Belfast and at the University of Vermont. He studied law in Boston with \nHorace G. Hutchins, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Jul}- 6, 1874. He is un- \nmarried and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. \n\nHenry Clifford Meserve, son of Joseph M. and Martha C. Meserve, was born in \nAugusta, Me. , April 6, 1858, and was educated at Tufts College, from which he grad- \nuated in 1881. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and in Boston \nwith Henry W. Paine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1884. He is, \nor has been, assistant clerk of the Supreme Court in Suffolk county, and lives unmar- \nried in the Roxbury District of Boston. \n\nJoshua Howard Millett, son of Rev. Joshua and Sophronia (Howard) Millett, was \nborn in Cherryfield, Me., March 17, 1842, and was educated at Waterville College, \nnow Colby University, Me. He studied law with Isaac F. Redford and William A. \nHerrick in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar December 15, L870. \nHe became a member of the firm of Redfield, Herrick & Millett, and so continued \nuntil the death of Judge Redfield in 1876. In Maiden, where he resides, he has \nbeen a member of the School Board, trustee of the Public Library, representative to \nthe General Court in 1884-85, and president, since 1875, of the Crosby Steam Gauge \nand Valve Company in Boston. He married in 1867 at Dorchester, Rosina Maria \nTredick. \n\nArthur N. Milliken, son of Ebenezer C. and Charlotte J. Milliken, was born in \nBoston February 8, 1858, and fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, graduat- \ning at Amherst in 1880. He studied law in the Boston University Law School in the \nclass of 1883, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April of that year. He married \nMabel M. Marsh June 9, 1888, in Boston, where he now lives. \n\nThomas Letchford, with the exception of Thomas Morton, was the first trained \nlawyer in Massachusetts. He came from England in 1637, and after four years' res- \nidence returned in 1641, and became a member of Clements Inn. On his return he \npublished a book called \"Plain Dealing, or News from New England,\" which con- \ntains much interesting matter concerning the condition of the colony at the time of \nhis visit. It is now a rare work only found on the shelves of a few libraries and bibli- \nographers. \n\nThomas Morton came to New England in 1625, but was sent back by the few col- \nonists then here in 1628. He returned in 1643, but owing to his misconduct he was \nobliged to retire beyond the limits of the Massachusetts colony, and finally died at \nAcomenticus, old and partially insane. \n\nJohn Winthrop was born at Groton, England, January 22, 1588, and was the son \nof Adam and Anne (Browne) Winthrop. He spent two years at Trinity College, and \nmarried April 26, 1605, Mary, daughter of John Forth, of Great Stambridge, who, \nafter the birth of six children and eleven years of married life, left him a widower. \nA second wife died a year and a half after marriage, and in 1618 he married for a \n21 \n\n\n1 62 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthird wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John Tyndal, of Great Maplested. He was \n\nmany vtars in the profession of law, and in 1682 was admitted to the Inner Tem- \nple. It is unnecessary to trace the career of a man of whom so much has been said \nand written. It is sufficient to say that his place in this register is due to the fact that \nfrom 1630 to 1633, and in the years Kv>7, '38, '39, '42, '4:!, '46, '47, '48 he was the \ngovernor of the Massachusetts Colony, in 1636, '44, '45 deputy governor, and that in \n1634, '35, '40, '41 he was one of the assistants, and thus connected with the judiciary \nof the colony. He died in Boston March 26, 1649. \n\nfoHN Winthrop, jr., son of the above, was born in Groton Manor, on February 12, \n1606. He was educated at Bury St. Edmund's School and Trinity College, Dublin \nand entered the Inner Temple in 1628. He came to Massachusetts in 1631 and was \none of the assistants of the Colony from 1632 to 1649 inclusive. In 1650 he moved to \nConnecticut and in 1657 was made governor of that Colony, holding the office con- \ntinuously, excepting one year, until his death, which occurred in Boston while there \non public business, April 5, 1676. He married Martha, daughter of Thomas Fones, \nof London, in 1631, and in 1635, Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Reade, of Wickford, \nEngland. \n\nWait Still Winthrop, son of John Winthrop, the governor of Connecticut and \ngrandson of John the governor of Massachusetts, was born in Boston February 27, \n1642, and went with his father to Connecticut in 1650, returning in 1687, and was ap- \npointed judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature December 23, 1692, and chief jus- \ntice in 1701, resigning the same year to become an agent of the province. In 1708 he \nwas again appointed chief justice, and died in Boston November 7, 1717. \n\nRobert Charles Winthrop, son of Thomas Lindall and Elizabeth Bowdoin (Tem- \nple) Winthrop, was born in Boston, May 12, 1809, and graduated at Harvard in 182s. \nHe studied law with Daniel Webster and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Octo- \nber, 1831. He was in his early career a member of the Massachusetts House of Rep- \nresentatives six years, three of which he was speaker, and ten years a member of \nthe United States House of Representatives, two of which he was speaker. In 1850 \nhe was United States Senator by appointment to fill a vacancy. Until his recent \nresignation he was many years president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He \nis one of the counsellors of the George Peabody benefaction, and since his retirement \nfrom active political life has enhanced a reputation, already brilliantly won, by ora- \ntions and addresses, which on various public occasions he has been called on to de- \nliver. Among them the most notable have been his Pilgrim Anniversary oration at \nPlymouth, December 21, 1870, the Boston Centennial oration, July 4, 1876, the Corn- \nwallis oration at Yorktown in 1881, and his oration at the dedication of the Washing- \nton Monument in Washington. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in \n1855 and from Bowdoin in 1849, and from Cambridge, England, in 1874. He mar- \nried first March 12, 1832, Eliza Cabot Blanchard, second, November 6, 1849, Laura \n(Derby) Wells, daughter of John Derby and widow of Arnold Wells, and third Adele \n(Granger) Thayer, daughter of Francis Granger, of Canandaigua, N. Y., and widow \nof John E. Thayer of Boston. \n\nAdam Winthrop, son of Adam and great-grandson of Gov. John Winthrop, was \nborn in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1694. He was a delegate from Boston \nin the ( ieneral Court and was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas \nDecember '29, 1 715, holding the office until 1741. He died October 2, 1743. \n\n\nl^fct^ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 163 \n\nThomas Dudley was born in Northampton, England, in 1576, and came to New \nEngland in 1630 as deputy governor of the Colony, and continued in that office until \n\n1634, when he was governor, and held that position also in 1640-1645 and L650. In \n1637, '38, '39, '46, '47, '48, '51, '52 he was again deputy governor, and assistant in \n\n1635, '36, '41, -42, '43, '44, and died July 31, 1653. \n\nJohn Haynes was born in Essex, England, and settled in Cambridge in 1633. In \n\n1634 and 1636 he was an assistant and in 1635 governor. In 1636 he removed to \nConnecticut and was repeatedly chosen governor of that Colony. He died at Hart- \nford, Conn., March 1, 1654. \n\nHenry Vane, son of Sir Henry Vane, was born in Hadlow, England, in 1612. In \n\n1635 he came to Massachusetts. In 1636 he was governor of the Colony and in 1637 \nreturned to England, where he was a member of Parliament in 1640. After the \ndeath of Cromwell he was again a member, and on the restoration was tried for \ntreason and beheaded June 14, 1662. \n\nRichard Bellingham, a lawyer by profession, was born in England in 1592, and \ncame to Massachusetts in 1634. He was deputy governor in 1635, Kilo, 1653 and 1655 \nto 1664, and governor in 1641, 1654, and 1665 to 1672, and assistant in 1636-39, 1642- \n52. He died December 7, 1672. \n\nJohn Endicott was born in Dorchester, England, in 1590. He came to Salem in \n1628 as local governor and surrendered his position and authority to Winthrop on his \narrival with the charter of the Colony in 1630. He was governor in 1629, 1644, 1649, \n1651, 1655; deputy governor in 1641-43, 1650 and 1654, and assistant in 1630-34, \n1636-40, 1645-48, and died March 15, 1655. \n\nJohn Leverett, son of Thomas Leverett, was born in England in 1016, and came \nto Boston in 1633. He was employed in a military capacity for a time, was speaker \nof the House of Deputies and major general of the Colony. He was governor of the \nColony from 1673 to 1678; deputy governor in 1671-72, and assistant in 1665-70. He \ndied March 16, 1679. \n\nSimon Bradstreet was born in Horbling, England, in 1603, and received a part of \nhis education at Emanuel College, Cambridge. He came to Massachusetts in 1630. \nHe married in England a daughter of Governor Dudley, and for a second wife a \ndaughter of Emanuel Downing. He lived in Ipswich, Andover, Boston, and finally \nSalem, where he died in 1697. He was governor from 1679 to 1692, exclusive of the \nperiod covered by the administration of Dudley and Andros, secretary in L630, and \nassistant from 1630 to 167s. \n\nAlfred Hemenway, son of Fisher and Elizabeth J. Hemenway, was born in Hop- \nkinton, Mass., and graduated at Vale College in 1861. He studied law at the Harvard \nLaw School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 13, 1863. He has been offi \na seat on the Supreme Bench by both Governor Ames and Governor Brackett, but \nhe declined it. He is associated in business with ex-Governor John D. Long. He \nmarried at Detroit, Mich., October 14, 1871, Myra L. MeLanathan, and lives in \nBoston. \n\nJohn Herbert, son of Samuel and L. Maria (Darling) Herbert, was born in W \nworth, N. H., November 2, 1849. He was fitted for college at the English High \nSchool in Boston and graduated at Dartmouth in 1871. He studied law in Rummy, \n\n\n164 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nX. H., with his father, and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth, N. H., in 1875, and \nin 1879 or 1880 to the Suffolk bar. He is, or has been, president of the Appleton \nAcademy Association, secretary and first vice-president of the Mystic Valley Club, \ntreasurer and director of the Citizen Publishing- Company, president of the 15. F. \nCowdrey Company, director of the Merchants Co-operative Bank and of the Globe \nInvestment Company. He has been the editor of 'Tin- Dartmouth and a frequent \ncontributor to the daily journals. He married Alice C: Guy at Peacham, Vt., August \n1, 1872, and lives at Somerville. \n\nRobert F. Herrick, son of Frederick C. and Josephine C. Herrick, was born in \nMedford, Mass., August 8, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1890. He studied law \nin the Boston University Law School and in the offices of J. B. Richardson and \nGeorge L. Huntress, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. His \nresidence is in Boston. \n\nHenry Edson Hersey, son of Stephen and Maria (Lincoln) Hersey, was born in \nHingham, May 28, 1830, and fitted at the Derby Academy for Harvard, where he \ngraduated in 1850. He studied law in Charlestown, N. H., with Edmund Lambert \ndishing and in Boston with Peleg W. Chandler and John P. Putnam, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1854. He practiced in Boston and Hingham. \nHe married, March 20, 1856, Catharine, daughter of Colonel H. H. Sylvester, of \nCharlestown, N. H., and died in Hingham, February 24, 1863. \n\nIra Charles Hersey, son of David and Eliza Fitz Hersey, was born in Foxboro', \nMass., March 17, 1859. He was educated at the public schools and graduated at \nBrown University. He studied law in the office of Frederick D. Ely and at the Bos- \nton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1886. \nHis home is in Foxboro'. \n\nFrancis Snow Hesseltine, son of Peter Hale and Sarah Snow Hesseltine, was born \nin Bangor, Me., December 10, 1833, and educated at Waterville Academy and at \nWaterville College, now Colby University. He studied law with Judge Fox in Port- \nland, Me., and was admitted to the bar in Augusta in October, 1865. After admis- \nsion he moved to Savannah, Ga. , where he practiced law and was register in \nbankruptcy until 1870, when he was, admitted to the bar in Massachusetts, and \nopened an office in Boston. He was married in Waterville, Me., in 1861, and lives \nin Melrose. \n\nJohn Joseph Higgins, son of Michael and Sabina (Patten) Higgins, was born in \nBoston May 17, 1865, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law \nwith Oilman Marston and E. G. Eastman, of Exeter, N. H., and graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1890. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 18, 1890, \nand lives in Somerville. \n\nRichard Hildreth, son of Rev. Hosea and Sarah (McLeod) Hildreth, was born in \nDeerfield, Mass., June 28, 1807, and was fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Har- \nvard, where he graduated in 1826. He studied law with Theophilus Parsons, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1830. He began practice in Newbury- \nport and moved to Boston, where from July, 1832, to October, 1834, he was the editor \nof the Boston Atlas, and its correspondent from May, 1836, to November, 1839. In \n1840 he went to Demerara, and in 1849 and the three succeeding years his history of \n\n\nBiographical register. ^5 \n\n\nthe United States was issued from the press. He was afterwards connected with the \nNew York Tribune, and in 1861 was appointed consul at Trieste, a position which \nhe held until his death, which occurred in Florence, Italy, July 11, 1865. IK- married \nCaroline Neagus, of Deerfield, June 7, 1844. \n\nDavid Armstrong Hincks, son of E. Franklin and Martha J. Hincks, was born in \nMansfield, Mass., June 8, 1857, and was educated at the public schools. He read \nlaw in the office of E. F. Johnson, of Marlboro', Mass., and at the Boston University \nLaw School, from which he graduated in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1885. He is unmarried and lives in Somerville. \n\nGeorge Clarendon Hodges, son of Edward Fuller and Anne Frances (Hammatt) \nHodges, was born in Boston October 14, 1N57, and fitted at the Boston Latin School \nfor Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He studied law in New York with Lvarts, \nSouthmayd & Choate and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in February, 1883. His residence is in Lincoln. \n\nGeorge Foster Hodges, son of Almon Danforth and Martha (Comstock) Hodges, \nwas born in Providence R. I., January 12, 1837, and graduated at Harvard in 1855. \nHe studied law with Peleg W. Chandler and at the Harvard Law School. He en- \nlisted for three months in the Charlestown City Guards at the opening of the war of \n1861, and was afterwards adjutant of the Eighteenth (three years) Massachusetts \nRegiment. He died unmarried at Hall's Hill, near Washington, January 30, 1862. \n\nMoses Holbrook, son of Oren and AVillebe Holbrook, was born at Stratford, X. \nH., November 17, 1844, and was educated at the Lancaster, N. H., Academy. He \nread law with Henry W. Bragg in Charlestown, Mass., and at the Law School of the \nUniversity of Michigan, and was admitted totne Middlesex county bar in June, 1871. \nHe married at Boston in 1874 Emma C. Talpy, and lives in Maiden. \n\nFrank G. Holcombe, son of Franklin and Mary (Gibbons) Holcombe, was born in \nSouthwick, Mass., December 26, 1852, and was educated at the public schools, at \nWilbraham Academy and Wesleyan University. He studied law in the office of \nWhitney cV- Dunbar, of Westfield, Mass., and at the Boston University Law School, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He married Inez Maynard \nDecember 25, 1879, at Northboro', Mass., and lives in Winchester. \n\nWillie Perkins Holcombe, son of Walter C. and Abigail J. (Perkins) Holcombe, \nwas born in Sunderland, Vt, August 19, 1861, and was fitted at the Westfield High \nSchool for Amherst, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law with Leonard & \nWells in Springfield, Mass., and in the Boston University Law School, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886; he lives in Boston. \n\nHenry Ware Holland, son of Frederic May and Harriet (Newcomb) Holland, was \nborn in Rochester, N. Y., March 20, 1844. He was educated by a tutor and at a pri- \nvate school, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices \nof George S. Hale, Albert G. Browne and William E. Parmenter, and was admitted \nto the bar in Boston February 12, 1869. Mr. Holland has been on the editorial \nstaff of the Boston Daily Advertiser, the Boston Transcript and Outing, one o\\ \nthe editors of \"Bennett's and Holland's Digest,\" contributor to the New York \nNation, and was the author of \"William Dawes.\" He is unmarried, and lives in \nBoston. \n\n\n1 66 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nElmer Parker Howe, son of Archelaus and M. H. Janette (Brigham) Howe, was \nborn in Westboro November 1, 1851, and was educated in the Worcester Polytechnic \nSchool, class of 1871, and at Yale College, class of 1876. He read law with Hillard, \nII vde & Dickinson in Boston and at the Boston University Law School, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1878; he was associated with the firm of \nHyde, Dickinson & Howe until 1849. He makes patent law a specialty. \n\nWilliam Everett Hutchins, son of William and Mary Stearns Hutchins, was born \nin Cambridge, Mass., January 13, 1858, and fitted at the piiblic schools for Harvard, \nwhere he graduated in 1879. He read law in Boston with William Gaston and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He has been a member of the Cambridge \ncity government, was married in 1882 and lives in North Cambridge. \n\nFreedom Hutchinson, son of Edwin F. and Elizabeth Ann (Flint) Hutchinson, was \nborn in Milan, N. H., August 6, 1847, and was educated at the Nichols Latin School \nand Bates College, Lewiston, Me. He read law with Hutchinson & Savage in Lewis- \nton and was admitted to the bar in Auburn, Me., in April, 1876, and in Boston, May \n9, 1876. He married Abbie Laighton Butler in Boston, February 15, 1886, and lives \nin Boston. \n\nFred Jotham Hutchinson, son of Jotham P. and A. Elizabeth Hutchinson, was \nborn November 27, 1856, and fitted at the Nashua High School for Dartmouth, where \nhe graduated in 1876. He studied law with N. B. Bryant and C. W. Bartlett in Boston, \nand at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June \n28, 1882. He has taken an active interest in military affairs and is an officer in the \nAncient and Honorable Artillery Company. He married E. Gertrude Denison in Bos- \nton, June 28, 1884, and lives in Hyde Park. \n\nEben Hutchinson, son of Eben and Lois W. (Williams) Hutchinson, was born in \nAthens, Me., August 2, 1841, and was educated at the academies in Somerset, Bloom- \nfield and Waterville, Me. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the \nbar in Maine in 1862. He enlisted as private in the Twenty-fourth Maine Volunteers \nin the civil war and was promoted through the several grades to the rank of lieutenant- \ncolonel. In 1866 he moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the bar on the 9th \nof October of that year, and afterwards settled in Chelsea. In 1874 he was appointed \nspecial justice of the Chelsea Police Court, and November 6, 1880, standing justice, \nwhich position he resigned in 1892. In 1875 and four succeeding years he was city \nsolicitor, representative in 1878, and senator in 1879-80. He married in Skowhegan, \nMe., November 11, 1863, Rachel W., daughter of Edward C. and Maty R. (Hum- \nphrey) Lane, who died in February, 1880. He married second, August 20, 1882, Abbie \nA. Lane. \n\nJohn Sylvester Holmes, son of Rev. Sylvester and Esther (Holmes) Holmes, was \nborn in New Bedford in 1822. He studied theology at Andover in 1846, and after- \nwards law, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1848. He abandoned prac- \ntice in the last years of his life on account of failing health and died in Boston, May \n13, 1892. \n\nNathaniel Holmes, son of Samuel and Mary Annan Holmes, was born in Peter- \nboro, N. H., July 2, 1814, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. He was admitted to the \n.Suffolk bar in September, 1839, and moved to St. Louis. He was judge of the Su- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n167 \n\n\npreme Court of Missouri from 1865 to 1868, and professor of law in the Harvard Law- \nSchool from 1868 to 1872. His literary career has been chiefly marked by his elab- \norate argument in denial of the reputed authorship of what are known as Shake- \nspeare's works. After resigning his professorship at Cambridge he returned to St. \nLouis for a time and now resides in Cambridge. \n\nEdward Otis Howard, son of Cyrus and Cornelia A. (Bassett) Howard, was born \nin Winslow, Me., March 11, 1852, and was educated at Colby University and at Bow- \ndoin College, where he graduated in 1874. He studied law with S. S. Brown in W'a- \nterville and Fairfield, Me., and was admitted to the bar in Augusta, .Me., in August, \n1876, and to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1881. He married Dorcas S. Hall at Wins- \nlow, Me., September 25, 1878, and lives in the Roxbury District. \n\nArchibald Murray Howe, son of James Murray and Harriet Butler (Clarke) Howe, \nwas born in Northampton, Mass., May 20, 1848, and fitted at the public schools in \nBrookline, Mass., for Harvard, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in the office of George S. Hillard, of Boston, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872. He was a member of the Massachusetts \nHouse of Representatives in 1891. He married Annie S., daughter of Epes S. Dix- \nwell, and lives in Cambridge. \n\nCharles Franklim Howe, son of James and Sarah B. Howe, was born in Strafford, \nVt., April 13, 1836, and was educated at the public and private schools in Lowell, \nMass. He studied law with Brown & Alger in Lowell and was admitted to the Mid- \ndlesex bar in April, 1859. He was register in bankruptcy under the United States \nbankrupt law, and in 1879 an alderman in Lowell. He has been twice married, at \nLowell, April 3, 1862, and again at Lowell, January 15, 1873. He resides in Boston. \n\nIsaac Redington Howe, son of David and Elizabeth (Redington) Howe, was born \nin Haverhill, March 13, 1791, and fitted at Phillips Academy for Harvard, where he \ngraduated in 1810. He studied law with George Bliss, of Springfield, and William \nPrescott, of Boston, and was admitted to the Essex county bar in 1821. He married \nSarah, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall, of Haverhill, June 16, 1816, and died \nin Haverhill, January 15, 1860. \n\nThomas Hutchinson, son of Thomas, who was a councillor from 1715 to 1739, ex- \ncepting the years 1724 and 1727, was born in Boston September 9, 1711, and gradu- \nated at Harvard in 1727. He was selectman and representative, lieutenant governor \nand governor of the Province, and from 1761 to 1769 was chief justice of the Supreme \nCourt of Judicature. He published a history of Massachusetts up to 1750. In 1774 he \nwent to England and died in Brompton, June 3, 1780. He married Margaret San- \nford, May 16, 1734. \n\nIncrease Nowell was born in England and came to Massachusetts in 1630. He was \nan assistant from the time of his appointment in England in 1629 to 1655, secretary \nof the Colony from 1639 to 1649, and at one time ruling elder of the church in \nCharlestown. He died in Boston, November 1, 1655. \n\nSamuel Nowell, son of the above, was born in Boston November 12, 1634, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1653. He was an assistant from 1680 to 1686, treasurer of \nHarvard from 1682 to 1686, and went to England as an agent of the Colony in \n1688, and died in London in September of that year. \n\n\n1 68 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam Pynchon was born in Springfield, England, in 1590, and was one of the \nassistants appointed by the crown. He continued in office until 1636, and served \nagain from 1642 to 1650. In 1652 he went to England and died in Wraysbury, October \n29, 16(12. \n\nCharles Eustis Hubbard, son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Coit) Hubbard, was born \nin Boston, August 7, 1S42, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Yale College, \nwhere he graduated in 1862. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the \noffices of Dwight Foster and Henry W> Paine in Boston, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar Januarv 27, 1866. He married Caroline D. Tracy in Boston in 1872, and \nlives in Cambridge. \n\nJames Humphrey, son of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Jones) Humphrey, was born in \nWeymouth, Mass., January 20, 1819, and was educated at the Derby Academy, at \nHingham and Phillips Andover Academy. He studied law in Boston with I). W. \nGooch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1855. He was a representative in 1852 \nand 1869, senator in 1872, county commissioner from 1875 to 1882, and has been jus- \ntice since 1882 of the East Norfolk District Court. He married at Hingham, Decern\" \nber 23, 1860, Susan Humphrey Gushing, and has his residence in Weymouth. \n\nCharles Phelps Huntington, son of Rev. Dana and Elizabeth W. (Phelps) Hunt- \nington, was born in Litchfield, Conn., May 24, 1802, and was fitted at the Hopkins \nAcademy in Hadley for Harvard, where he graduated in 1822. He studied law at the \nlaw school in Northampton, and was admitted to the bar in Hampshire county ; he \nbegan practice in Northampton, but removed to Boston and wras appointed in 1855 a \njustice of the Superior Court of Suffolk county, which office he held until the court \nwas abolished in 1859. He married first Helen Sophia Mills, who died March 3, \n1844, and second, January 2, 1847, Ellen, daughter of David Greenough. \n\nWinfield Scott Hutchinson, son of Stephen D. and Mary (Atkinson) Hutchinson, \nwas born in Buckfield, Me., May 27, 1S45, and graduated at Bowdoin College in \n1867. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Peleg W. \nChandler, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1873. He mar- \nried Adelaide S. Berry, of Brunswick, Me., January 1, 1870, and lives in Newton. \n\nHenry Dwight Hyde, son of Benjamin D. and Eveline (Wright) Hyde, was born \nin Southbndge, Mass., April 27, 1838, and graduated at Amherst in 1861. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law .School and in the office of George S. Hillard, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar January 4, 1864. He married Luran Charles at Brimfield, \n( (ctober 9, 1866, and lives in Boston. \n\nLouis Fiske Hyde, son of Alvin and Josephine (Manning) Hyde, was born in War- \nren, Mass., June 20, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in the office of H. D. Hyde, of Boston, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in 1890. He lives in Boston. \n\n( George Wesi Jackson, son of William F. and Abby C. (West) Jackson, was born in \nRoxbury, Mass. , January 8, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law \nat the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He \nlives in the Roxbury District of Boston. \n\nCharles W \\i i ek J vnes, son of Walter and Catherine C. (Guild) Janes, was born in \nMedfield, Mass., April 2, 1858, and was educated in the English High and other \n\n\nCla^c^cX^C<-^ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 169 \n\nschools in Boston. He read law with Augustus Russ and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar January 17, 1888. He makes mercantile law a specialty. His residence is in Boston. \n\nHarry James Jaquith, son of Benjamin F. and Harriet A. Jaquith, was horn in \nBoston, April 14, 1855, apd was educated at the Institute of Technology in Boston. \nHe studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1890. He married Mary A. H. Taylor at Greenfield Hill, Conn., in 1882, and \nresides at YVellesley. \n\nEugene M. Johnson, son of George L. and Sarah (Osgood) Johnson, was born in \nBoston, June 4, 1845, and was educated in the Lynn public schools for Harvard, where \nhe graduated in 1869. He studied law at the Albany Law School and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar April 11, 1871. He married Miss Nora J. Brown. \n\nHenry Augustus Johnson, son of John and Harriet Johnson, was born in Fair- \nhaven, Mass., February 17, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1849 or 1850. He \nhas held various offices of trust, and contributed frequently to magazines and daily \njournals. He married Elizabeth S. Hitch and lives in Braintree. \n\nMoses G. Howe, son of Moses and Frances D. Howe, was born in Portsmouth, N. \nH., August 13, 1826, and was educated at the Phillips Andover Academy. He read \nlaw with IthamerH. Beard in Lowell and was admitted to the bar there July 18, 1851. \nHe has been an alderman in Cambridge, where he lives, and married in 1857, at \nLowell, Lydia W. Varnum. \n\nWilliam Russell Howland, son of William and Caroline G. (Russell) Howland, was \nborn in Lynn, Mass., February 19, 1863, and attended the Lynn High School. He \nentered Harvard, but left college on account of sickness and did not graduate. He \ngraduated from the Harvard Law School in 1885, and read law also in the office of \nMorse & Allen in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1886. He \nhas been two years a member of the Common Council in Cambridge, where he lives, \nand is now a member of the School Board. \n\nEdward F. Haynes was born in Boston, February 14, 1858, and attended the pub- \nlic schools and Boston College. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and Bos- \nton University Law School, graduating from the last in 1882. He was a representa- \ntive in 1884. \n\nHenry Blatchford Hubbard, son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Coit) Hubbard, was \nborn in Boston, January 8, 1833, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where \nhe graduated in 1854. He read law with his brother, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and \nat the Harvard Law School, but may not have been admitted to the bar. He was \nclerk, engineer and treasurer of the Cambridge Water Works until 1859, when he was \nattached to the coast survey as magnetic and astronomic assistant. While visiting \nhis brother in Chicago he died there February 13, 1862. \n\nSamuel Hubbard, born in Boston, June 2, 1785, graduated at Yale in L802. Me first \npracticed in Biddeford, Me., but came to Boston in 1810, and was associated in busi- \nness with Charles Jackson. In 1842 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial \nCourt, and continued on the bench until his death in Boston, December 24, 1847. \n\nNathaniel Dean Hubbard, son of Henry and Sally (Dean) Hubbard, was born in \nCharlestown, N. H., January 14, 1821, and fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Acad- \n22 \n\n\n170 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nemy and Leicester Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1840, and after a course \nof study in the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the bar May 10, 1844. In 1852 \nhe abandoned the law and joined his brother, Aaron D. Hubbard, in the banking \nbusiness in Boston, with the firm name of Hubbard Brothers. He married, April 23, \nisi;:;, Anne B., daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, D. D., and died \nin Boston, October 7, 1865. \n\nWoodward Hudson, son of Frederic and Eliza Woodward Hudson, was born in \nNew York city, January 25, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 22, 1882. \nHe married Bessie Van Mater Keyes at Concord, Mass., August 31, 1880, and lives \nin Concord. \n\nGeorge Lewis Huntress, son of James Lewis and Harriet Paige Huntress, was \nborn in Lowell, Mass., April 4, 1848, and was educated at Phillips Andover \nAcademy and Yale College, from which he graduated in 1870. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law' School and in the office of Ives ctober \n12, 1886. \n\nByron B. Johnson, son of Charles and Maria W. Johnson, was horn in Needham, \nMass., November 30, 1833, and was educated in the Weston public schools, the Law- \nrence Academy at Groton and the Boston Law School, being the oldest member of \nthe first class of that school. Subsequently, while pursuing his law studies, he was \nemployed for nearly six years as an agent of the State, in caring for all cases of \njuvenile offenders in the courts, and was admitted to the bar in Cambridge, June 25, \nis;:!. From 1861 to '63 he was United States mail agent, and from 1863 to '66 chief \nexaminer of returns in the Ordnance Bureau, United States War Department, assist- \nant State visiting agent from 1869 to '74, town auditor of Waltham, Mass., two years, \nchief deputy United States marshal from 1879 to '83, first mayor of Waltham in INS.\"), \nmember of the Waltham School Board from 1888 to '92, and rechosen in 1892 for three \nyears. He is also a trustee of the Waltham Public Library. He married Louisa H. \nCutter at Weston, Mass., May 4, 1856, and lives in Waltham. \n\nEdward F. Johnson, son of Noah and Letitia Margaret (Claggett) Johnson, was \nborn in Hollis, N. H., October 21, 1842, and was fitted by David Crosby for Dart- \nmouth, where he graduated in 1864. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and \nwas admitted to the bar in Boston, May 11, 1866. He is judge of the Police Court of \nMarlboro'. He married Belle G. Carleton at Lynn, Mass., June 1, 1870, and lives in \nMarlboro'. \n\nRalph Edgar Josi.in, son of James Thomas and Annie C. (Burrage) Joslin, was \nborn in Marlboro', Mass., August 26, 1864. He fitted at the High and other schools \nof Hudson for Tufts College, from which he graduated in 1886. He read law in the \noffice of James T. Joslin in Hudson and graduated at the Boston University Law \nSchool in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1888. He has been a mem- \nber of the Hudson School Board since 1890, and practices in Boston and Hudson, a \nmember of the firm of J. T. & R. E. Joslin. He is the author of a historical sketch of \nHudson and other sketches. He married at Hudson, where he lives, Februai \n1892, Fanny Melissa, daughter of George W. and Melissa A. (Metcalf) Davis. \n\nFred Joy, son of Albion K. P. and Clara A. Joy, was born in Winchester, Mass., \nJuly 8, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law with Henry W. \nPaine in Boston and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar July 8, 1884. He resides in Winchester. \n\n\n1 72 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nFrank Warton Kaan, son of George and Maria Warton Kaan, was born inMedford, \nSeptember 11, 1861, and was educated in the Somerville public schools and at Har- \nvard in the class of 1883. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1888, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, L887. He lives in Somerville. \n\nI'm rick M. Keating was born in Springfield, Mass., March 15, 1860, and was edu- \ncated at the Houghton Grammar School and at Springfield High School, and at Har- \nvard in the class of 1883. He read law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of \nThomas ]. Gargan in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nFrank Merriam Keezer, son of David and Henrietta Keezer, was born in Jamaica \nPlain, Mass., April 10, 1868, and was educated at the Boston public schools and the \nBoston University. He read law with Wilbur H. Powers in Boston and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in January, 1890. He has been assistant clerk of the West Roxbury \nMunicipal Court and a contributor of legal articles to magazines and the daily jour- \nnals. He married in West Roxbury, April 29, 1891, Martha M. Whittemore and lives \nin Dorchester. \n\nEdward Francis Johnson, son of John Johnson, was born in Woburn, October \n22, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November 1881. He was the first mayor \ni if Woburn and is justice of the Fourth Eastern Middlesex District Court. He has pub- \nlished a record of Woburn births, deaths and marriages from 1640 to 1872. He mar- \nried, September 26, 1882, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Mary (Tidd) \nSimonds, and lives in Woburn. \n\nGeorge Tyler Bigelow, son of Tyler and Clara, daughter of Colonel Timothy \nBigelow, of Boston, was born in Watertown, October 6, 1810, and was fitted at the \nBoston Latin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1829. After leaving college \nhe was nearly a year a private tutor in the family of Henry Vernon Somerville at \nBloomsbury, Md., and then returned to Watertown, where he read law with \nhis father, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1833, after a short \nfurther period of study in the office of Charles G. Loring, of Boston. He began prac- \ntice in Watertown with his father, and remained there eighteen months, moving to \nBoston in June, 1835. In Boston he acquired a fondness for military life, and in May, \n1837, became ensign of the New England Giiards, and afterwards captain and col- \nonel in the Volunteer Militia, which last position he occupied three years. In 1843 \nhe associated himself in business with Manlius S. Clarke, and in 1844 defended Abner \nRogers, indicted for the murder of the warden of the State Prison, and secured his \nacquittal on the ground of insanity. He was a member of the Massachusetts House \nof Representatives five years and senator in 1847-8. In 1848 he was appointed by \nGovernor George N. Briggs judge of the Common Pleas Court, and in 1850 judge of \nthe Supreme Judicial Court. In 1860, on the resignation of Lemuel Shaw, he was \nmade chief justice by Governor Nathaniel P. Banks, and occupied that position until \nhis resignation in 1868. After his resignation he was chosen actuary of the Massa- \nchusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, and remained in that office until his \ndeath, April 12, 1878. He mai-ried, November 5, 1839, Anna, daughter of Edward \nMiller, of Quincy. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1853. \n\nJohn Chipman Gray, son of William and Elizabeth (Chipman) Gray, was born in \nSalem, December 26, 1793, and graduated from Harvard in 1811, receiving the degree \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. i73 \n\nof LL.D. from his alma mater in 1856. He was admitted in Boston to the Common \nPleas Court July 6, 1815, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in December, 1818. He \nwas the Phi Beta orator in 1821, the Fourth of July orator in Boston in 1822, a mem- \nber of the Common Council from 1824 to 1828, representative in 1828-30, '34, '38-41, \n'4:5-44, '4s, '52, a member of the Executive Council in 1832, a member of the Senate in \nL835-36, 1845-46, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and an overseer \nof Harvard College from 1847 to 1854. He married Elizabeth Pickering, daughter \nof Samuel P. and Rebecca Russell (Lowell) Gardner, of Boston, and died in Boston \nMarch 3, 1881. \n\nHenry Morris, son of Oliver Bliss Morris, was born in Springfield, Mass., in 1814, \nand graduated at Amherst College in 1832. He was'admitted to the bar in 1835, and \nafter studying with his father settled in Springfield. In 1855 he was appointed \njudge of the Common Pleas Court and remained on the bench until the court was \nabolished in 1859. He married Mary Warmer May 16, 1887, and died at his home in \nSpringfield June 4, 1888. \n\nFrancis Edward Parker, son of Rev. Dr. Nathan Parker, was born in Portsmouth, \nN. H., July 23, 1821, and fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated \nat Harvard in 1841 and became usher in Boston Latin School. In 1845 he graduated \nat the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1846, \nand associated himself with J. Eliot Cabot. He was a member of the Senate in 1Serby Acad- \nemy in Hingham, Mass., and the Boston Latin School. He graduated at Harvard in \n\n\n1 74 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. * \n\n1828, and studied law at Northampton and in the Harvard Law School and. in the \noffice of Charles P. Curtis, of Boston. He was admitted to the Common Pleas Court \nin April, 1833, and to the Supreme Judicial Court April 3, 1835. He became early in \nhis career editor of the Christian Register and of the Jurist. In 1835 he was repre- \nsentative, in the Common Council in 184.V47, and the last two years its president; a \nmember of the Senate in 1830, of the Constitutional Convention in 1853 and in that \nyear appointed city solicitor, which office he held two years; in 1868 he was appointed \nUnited States attorney and served till 1871, when he became the senior member of \nthe firm of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson. He was a trustee of the Boston Public Library \nfrom April 11, 1872, to November 23, 1876; the Boston Fourth of July orator in 1835, \nand the Phi Beta orator in 1843. He received the degree of LL.D from Trinity Col- \nlege in 1857. He married Susan Tracey, daughter of Judge Samuel Howe, of North- \nampton, and died in Brookline January 21, 1879. \n\nJames Warren, son of James and Penelope (Winslow) Warren, was born in Plym- \nouth September 28, 1 726. He succeeded Dr. Joseph Warren as president of Provincial \nCongress, and was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature in 177(5, but \nnever took his seat. He married in 1754 Mercy, daughter of James Otis, of Barn- \nstable, and sister of James Otis the orator. He died in Plymouth November '.27, lsus. \n\nCharles Henry Warren, son of Henry and Mary (Winslow) Warren, was born in \nPlymouth, September 29, 1798, and fitted for college at the Sandwich Academy, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law with Joshua Thomas in Plymouth \nand Levi Lincoln, of Worcester, and was admitted to the Plymouth bar. He began \npractice in New Bedford with Lemuel Williams, continuing with Thomas Dawes \nElliot, and from 1832 to 1839 was district attorney for the five southern counties of \nMassachusetts. In October, 1839, he was appointed judge of the Common Pleas \nCourt and resigned in 1844, when he moved to Boston and associated himself in the \npractice of law with Augustus H. Fiske and Benjamin Rand. He remained in practice \nonly two years, being engaged during that time in a successful defense of Rev. Joy \nH. Fairchild, indicted and tried for adultery. In 1846 he was chosen president of the \nBoston and Providence Railroad, and resigned in 1867. He was a member of the \nSenate and its president in 1851, and president of the Pilgrim Society from 184.\"> to \n1852. He married December 27, 1825, Abby, daughter of Barnabas and Eunice \nDennie (Burr) Hedge, of Plymouth, and died in Plymouth, to which place he moved \nin July, 1871, on the 29th of June, 1874. The writer of this sketch was informed by \nJudge Warren that as a judge he took no notes, and as a lawyer never had a brief, \nand that as district attorney he never lost an indictment, and only in two instances \nfailed to convict. His wonderfully retentive memory enabled him to recall with \nverbal accuracy the testimony of witnesses, and to build on it his argument or charge, \nwith a readiness which repeated references to notes would have only served to check. \n\nJohn Axbion Andrew, son of Jonathan and Nancy Green (Pierce) Andrew, was \nborn in Windham, Me., May 31, 1818. He received his early education at the Gor- \nham Academy, under Rev. Reuben Nason, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1837. He \nstudied law in the office of Henry H. Fuller, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar October 26, 1840. He held no office until 1859, when he represented Boston \nin the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Up to that time he had been devoted \nto his business, taking occasional interest in pelitics and closely identified with the \n\n\n7*3 \n\n\nBTOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. r?5 \n\nanti-slavery movement. In 1860 he was chosen governor of Massachusetts, being in- \naugurated January 5, 1861, and continuing in office until January 5, 1866, on which \nday he delivered a valedictory address to the Legislature. It would be superfluous \nto narrate the career of Governor Andrew through the war, as indelibly stamped as \nit is on the pages of our history. The magnitude of his labors may be approximately \nmeasured by the fact that, during his administration, he was the author of letters \nwhich, public and private, fill thirty-five thousand pages. After his retirement from \nthe State House he was offered the presidency of Antioch College, which he declined. \nHe married December 25, 1848, Eliza Jane, daughter of Charles Hersey, of Hingham, \nand died in Boston, October 30, 1867. His body was deposited in the cemetery in \nHingham. \n\nNathan Hale, son of Rev. Enoch Hale, a native of Coventry, Conn., and Octavia \nThroop, daughter of Benjamin Throop, was born in Westhampton, Mass., August \n16, 17S4, and was a nephew of Nathan Hale, one of the Revolutionary martyrs. He \nwas fitted for college by his father and graduated at Williams College in 1804. He \nstudied law in Troy, N. Y. , and in Boston in the office of Peter Oxenbridge Thacher, \nand was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas Court in July, 1810, and to the Su- \npreme Judicial Court in March, 1813. While studying law he was instructor in math- \nematics in Phillips Exeter Academy, from 1805 to 1810. In the early days of his \npractice in Boston he was assistant editor of the Weekly Messenger, and in 1814 be- \ncame the proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily . Idvertzser, which was at that \ntime the only daily paper in Boston. In 1825 he published a map of New England, \nin 1828 a pamphlet on the Protection policy, in 1820 was a member of the Constitu- \ntional Convention, was the first president of the Western Railroad from Worcester to \nAlbany, a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Massachusetts His- \ntory Society, representative from 1819 to 1822, a senator from 1828 to 1830, and re- \nceived the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1853. He married, September 16, 1816, \nSarah Prescott, daughter of Rev. Oliver Everett and sister of Alexander Hill, and \nEdward Everett. He died in Boston, February 9, 1863. \n\nBenjamin Robbins Curtis, son of Benjamin and Lois (Robbins) Curtis, was born in \nWatertown, Mass., November 4, 1809, and attended the school of Samuel Worcester \nat Newton, and Mr. Angier's school at Medford, graduating at Harvard in 1829. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School and read law in the offices of John Nevers at \nNorthfield, and Wells & Alvord at Greenfield, and was admitted to the Franklin county \nbar in 1832. He. first settled in Northfield, but moved to Boston in 1834. In 1846 he \nwas made a Fellow of Harvard, was a representative in 1851, and in the same year was \nappointed a judge of the United States Supreme Court, resigning in 1857. In 1871, \nwith William M. Evarts and Caleb Cushing, he was appointed counsel for the United \nStates before the Board of Arbitration at Geneva and declined, and in 1873 one of live \ncommissioners to revise the city charter. In 1868 he was one of the counsel for An- \ndrew Johnson in his impeachment trial. He received the degree of LL. I), from \nHarvard in 1852, and from Brown University in 1857. He married. May 8, 1833, \nEliza M. Woodward, of Hanover, N. H., who died in 1844, and January 5, 1S46, Anna \nWroe, daughter of Charles Pelham Curtis, of Boston, and August 29, 1861, Maria \ndaughter of Jonathan Allen, of Pittsfield. He died September 15, is; I. \n\n\n176 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nGeorge Bemis, son of Seth and Sarah (Wheeler) Bemis, was born in Watertown, \nMass., October 13, 1816, and fitted for Harvard with Mrs. Samuel Ripley, in Walt- \nham, graduating at Harvard in 1835. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in \n1839, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1839. He was associated \nwith George T. Bigelow in the defense of Abner Rogers, and with Attorney-General \nJohn H. Clifford, for the government, in the trial of John W. Webster. He was the \nauthor of the following pamphlets: \"Precedents of American Neutrality,\" \" Hasty \nRecognition of Rebel Belligerency and Our Right to Complain of It,\" \"American \nNeutrality, its Honorable Past, its Expedient Future,\" \"Mr. Reverdy Johnson, \nthe Alabama Negotiations and Their Just Repudiation by the Senate of the United \nStates.\" He died in Nice, January 5, 1878, and bequeathed $50,000 to Harvard for \nthe establishment of a professorship of public and international law. \n\nJam ms Savage, son of Habijah Savage and Elizabeth, daughter of John Tudor, was \nborn in Boston, July 13, 1784, and fitted for college at Washington Academy, Machias, \nMe., and at Derby Academy, Hingham, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1803, \nand received a degree of LL. I), from his alma mater in 1841. He studied law in \nthe office of Isaac Parker in Portland, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Jan- \nuary, 1807, after further study in the offices of Samuel Dexter and William Sullivan \nin Boston. He delivered the Boston Fourth of July oration in 1811, the Phi Betaora- \ntion in 1812, was a representative in 1812 and 1821, a member of the Constitutional \nConvention in 1820, a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and Executive Council, \nof the Boston Common Council and Board of Aldermen. He revised the volume of \ncharters and general laws of the Massachusetts Colony and the Province of Massachu- \nsetts Bay, was overseer of Harvard from 1838 to 1853, librarian of the Massachusetts \nHistorical Society from 1814 to 1818, its treasurer from 1820 to 1839, its president from \n1841 to 1855, the founder of the Provident Institution for Savings in the town of Bos- \nton in I si 7, and its secretary, treasurer, vice-president and president through a period \nof forty-five years. He married in April, 1823, Elizabeth Otis, daughter of George \nStillman, of Machias, Me., and widow of James Otis Lincoln, of Hingham, and died \nMarch 8, 1873. \n\nJohn Lothrop Motley, son of Thomas Motley and Anna, daughter of Rev. John \nLothrop, was born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814, and attended the Boston \nLatin School, Green's School at Jamaica Plain, and the Round Hill School at North- \nhampton. He graduated at Harvard in 1831, and afterwards studied at the Univer- \nsities of Berlin and Gottingen. In 1839 he published \" Morton's Hope;\" in 1841 he \nwas secretary of legation with Mr. Todd, minister to Russia; in 1845-7-9 he wrote \narticles for the North A in eric an Review) on Russia, on Balzac and on the polity of \nthe Puritans, and in 1849 published \"Merry Mount.\" The \" History of the Rise of \nthe Dutch Republic\" followed, then the \" History of the United Netherlands,\" and \nlater the \"Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland, with a View of \nthe Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War.\" He was appointed \nby President Lincoln minister to Austria in 1861, and in 1869 by President Grant \nminister to England. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1860, and \nhonorary degrees from Cambridge and Oxford and other universities. He married \nMarch 2, 1837, Mary Elizabeth Benjamin, and died near Dorchester, England, May \n29, 1877. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 177 \n\nPark Benjamin was born in Demerara, August 14, 1809. He entered Harvard, \nwhere he remained two years, and then entered Trinity College, where he graduated \nin 1829. He studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1834. In 1831 \nhe removed to New York and devoted his time to literary pursuits. He was at vari- \nous times associated editorially with the New England Magazine, the American \nMont /il v Magazine, the New Yorker, the Brother Jonathan, the New World, \nthe Western Continent, and the American Mail. He died in New York, Septem- \nber 12, 1864. \n\nJuki. Parker was born in Jaffrey, N. H., January 25, 1795, and graduated at Dart- \nmouth in 1811. He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in 1815, and in is:;:; \nwas appointed judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire. From 1838 to 1848 \nhe was chief justice, and at a later date was appointed professor in the Harvard Law \nSchool. He resigned in 1868, and died August 17, 1875. He was representative two \nyears in New Hampshire, and in both that State and Massachusetts was on a com- \nmission to revise the statutes. He was professor of medical jurisprudence at Dart- \nmouth from 1845 to 1857, and occupied the same position in the Columbia Law School \nin Washington. He received the degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth and Harvard \nin 1848. He married Mary M. Parker. \n\nTheron Metcalf, son of Hanan and Mary (Allen) Metcalf, was born in Franklin, \nMass., October 16, 1784. He was educated at the public schools and at Brown Uni- \nversity, from which he graduated in 1805. He studied law with Mr. Bacon in Can- \nterbury, Conn. , and at the law school in Litchfield, Conn. , then the only law school \nin the United States, and established by Tappan Reeve, chief justice of the Supreme \nCourt of Connecticut. He was admitted to the bar in Connecticut, and after a year's \nfurther study with Seth Hastings, of Mendon, he was admitted to the Norfolk bar in \nDedham by the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in September, 1808, and by the .Su- \npreme Judicial Court in 1811. After a year's practice in Franklin, Mass., he moved \nto Dedham in October, 1809, and on the 5th of November in that year married Julia, \ndaughter of Uriah Tracey, late United States senator from Connecticut. In April, \n1817, he was made county attorney for Norfolk, and held the office twelve years. He \nwas representative in 1831, '33-4, and senator in 1835. He at one time edited the \nDedham Gazette, and in October, 1828, opened a law school in Dedham, and among \nhis students were John H. Clifford and Seth Ames. In December, 1839, he was ap- \npointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, and moved to Bos- \nton. His reports fill thirteen volumes and cover a period from the Suffolk March \nterm, 1840, to the Essex November term, 1847. He was appointed judge of the Su- \npreme Judicial Court, February 25, 1848, and served until 1865, when he resigned. \nHe received the degree of LL.D. from Brown in 1844, and from Harvard in 1848. \nHe died in Boston, November 13, 1875. \n\nNathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Ingersoll) Bowditch, \nwas born in Salem, June 17, 1805, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He read law \nin the office of Benjamin R. Nichols, of Salem, and was admitted in Boston to the \nCommon Pleas Court in 1825, and to the Supreme Judicial Court January 12. 1828, \nafter a further course of study in the office of William Prescott. After admission he \nwas for a time associated with Franklin Dexter, but finally made conveyancing a \nspecialty, and in that department won a notable reputation. He published Sui'lolk \n23 \n\n\ni78 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nSurnames in is,\"}?. He married, in 1835, Elizabeth, daughter of Ebenezer Francis, \nand died April 16, 1861. \n\nWilliam Smith Shaw, son of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Smith) Shaw, was born in \nHaverhill, August 12, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1798. After leaving col- \nlege he was private secretary of John Adams, and afterwards studied law in the office \nof William Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1804. He was the \neditor of The Monthly Anthology, which was issued from 1803 to 1811. In 1806 he \nwas appointed clerk of the United States District Court for Massachusetts, and held \nthe office twelve years. He died in Boston unmarried, April 25, 1826. \n\nBordman Hall, son of Joseph F. and Mary M. Hall, was born in Bangor, Me., \nApril 18, 1856, and was educated at Colby University and the Boston University Law \nSchool. He continued his law studies with William H. McLellan, attorney general \nof Maine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 15, 1880. He has been \nassistant United States attorney, and a member of the Boston School Board. \nHe has been entrusted with the defense in many important criminal cases and has \nalways conducted it with skill and almost unvaried success. Among these cases \nwere the United States vs. Edward J. Reed, Commonwealth vs. Bostwick, Common- \nwealth vs. Nelson, Commonwealth vs. Wilson, which won for him a substantial repu- \ntation. He lives in East Boston. \n\nCharles F. Hall, son of William M. and Ann Elizabeth Hall, was born in Sebago, \nMe., and was educated at Colby University, Waterville, Me. He studied law at the \nBoston University Law School and in the office of William Gaston in Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He married Ellen C. Burgess \nAugust 12, 1884, and lives in Dorchester. \n\nJames Milton Hall, son of James Bartlett and Elvira (Clement) Hall, was born in \nHarverhill, Mass., December 29, 1861, and was educated at the public schools and at \nHarvard College, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law in the Harvard Law \nSchool and in the office of Prince & Peabody in Boston, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in July, 1886. He lives in Boston. \n\nAbraham S. Cohen, son of Mendell and Pauline Cohen, was born in Liverpool, \nEngland, March 25, 1863, and after attending the Boston University studied law in \nthe offices of J. W. Pickering, John Herbert and John E. Wetherbee1 in Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He married Minnie Levi in Boston. \n\nWalter Ciianning Burbank, son of Robert I. and Elizabeth W. Burbank, was born \nin Boston June 9, 1865, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard \nCollege, graduating in 1887. He studied law in the Boston University Law School, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1889. He makes a specialty in his \npractice of real estate and probate cases. He married Louise V. Roche in New York \nOctober 28, 1890. \n\nEdward Fuller Hodges, son of Harry and Anne Fuller Hodges, of Clarendon, \nVt., was born January 3, 1816, and graduated at Middlebury College in 1835. He \nstudied law with Judge Bennett in Vermont and afterwards in Maine, where he was \nadmitted to the bar. He returned to Vermont m 1N45 and practiced law in Rutland \nuntil 1846, when he moved to Boston and was there admitted to the Suffolk bar \nOctober 13, 1846. He remained in Boston until 1863, when he opened an office in»New \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. ^g \n\nYork city, retaining also his office in Boston. In November, 1866, he resumed his \nBoston practice and was council in many important cases connected with revolver, \ntelegraph, sewing machine and Goodyear rubber patents, and with the Sudbury \nRiver flowage. He married at Bangor, Me., July 7, 1845, Anne Frances, daughter \nof William Hammatt, and died in Boston February 28, 1883. \n\nHenry M. Ayeks, son of Charles W. and Amelia B. Ayers, was born in Philadel- \nphia April 8, 1864, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He studied law at the Har- \nvard LawvSchool and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in July, 1888. He has been conspicuously connected with the oppo- \nsition to legislation against oleomargarine. He married Mary C. Warren, daughter \nof William F. Warren, president of Boston University, September 3, 1890, and lives \nat Wilbraham. \n\nFrank Brewster, a descendant of Elder William Brewster and son of Benjamin and \nAnnie W. Brewster, was born in Montreal, Canada, November 28, 1857, and was edu- \ncated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in \n1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of \nWilliam C. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the summer of 1883. He \nis an instructor at the Harvard Law School on the peculiarities of Massachusetts Law \nand Practice. \n\nAlfred Stevens Hale, son of Edward and Frances A. (Tuttle) Hall, was born in \nWest Westminster, Vt, April 14, 1850, and was educated at the Kimball Union \nAcademy and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1873. He studied law \nat the Boston University Law School and in the offices of Cross & Burnham in Man- \nchester, N. H., and of T. L. Livermore and Nehemiah C. Berry in Boston, and at \nthe Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 20, 1876. \nHe has held town offices in Winchester, where he resides, and has been connected \nwitli the Vermont Central Railroad litigation. He married Annette M. Hitchcock \nat Putney, Vt., October 18, 1876, who died September 26, 1887. \n\nEdwin B. Hale, son of Aaron and Mary Hale, was born in Orford, N. H., June 16, \n1839, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H., and at \nDartmouth College, where he graduated in 1865. He attended the Harvard Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1875. He was a member \nof the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1878-9, and was, for a few years, \nsuperintendent of public schools in Cambridge, where he resides. He is not married. \n\nBenjamin A. Lockhart, son of Ephraim and Lucy Lockhart, was born in Horton, \nNova Scotia, and was educated at AcadiaCollege and Dalhousie College, Nova Scotia, \nand at the Boston University Law School. He also studied in Boston in the office of \nBennett & Burbank, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1*9(1. He married \nLeonora M. Martin, widow of William H. Martin, at Cambridgeport, February 8, \n1892, and makes Cambridgeport his home. \n\nWilliam Coddington was born in England in 1601 and came to Massachusetts with \nWinthrop in 1630. He was an assistant from 1629 to 1636, and in 1638 went to Rhode- \nIsland, where, in 1640, he was chosen governor. After the incorporation of the \nProvidence Plantations he was made president in KMN, but did not enter upon Ins \nduties. In 1649 he went to England and secured a commission to govern the islands \n\n\ntSo HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nof Rhode Island and Conanicut. He finally united with the Colony and died No- \nvember 1, 1678. \n\nRoger Ludlow was born in England. He was deputy governor in 1634, and as- \nsistant from 1629 t<> in:!:!. He was a lawyer and in 1635 removed to Connecticut. In \n1654 he moved to Virginia and died there not many years after. \n\nSir Richard Sai.tonstall, son of Samuel and Anne Ramsden Saltonstall, was bap- \ntized at Halifax, England, April 4, 15N6, and was lord of the manor at Ledsham. \nHe married three wives: (Trace, daughter of Robert Kaye, of Woodsome ; second, \nElizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas West, and third, Martha Wilford. He was one of \nthe original patentees of the Massachusetts Colony and after his first wife died he \ncame to New England with Winthrop in 1630, bringing his children. He was an as- \nsistant from 1629 to 1633. He began the settlement of Watertown, returned to Eng- \nland in 1631 and died about 1658 or 1659, giving in his will a legacy to Harvard \nCollege. \n\nRichard S \\i;i < install, son of Sir Richard by his first wife, was born at Woodsome, \nCounty of York, England, in 1610, and came to New England with his father in 1630 \nand returned with him to England in 1631. He married in England about 1633 Mu- \nriel, daughter of Brampton and Muriel (Sedley) Gurdon, of Assington, Suffolk, and \nagain came to New England in 1635 and settled in Ipswich. He was an assistant \nfrom 1637 to 1649 and again in 1664. He died on a visit to England at Hulme, April \n29, 1694. \n\nNathaniel Saltonstall, son of Richard and Muriel Saltonstall, was born in Ips- \nwich in 1639. He was an assistant from 1679 to 1686. He was appointed by Gov- \nernor William Phipps one of the judges of the Oyer and Terminer Court organized \nin 1692 to try the witches and refused to serve. He was named in the Provincial \nCharter as one of the Council and continued a member until 1694. He grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1659 and settled in Haverhill. In 1702 he was appointed judge \nof the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Essex county and remained on the bench \nuntil his death, which occurred May 21, 1707. He married Elizabeth, daughter of \nRev. John Ward, of Haverhill. \n\nRichard Saltonstall, son of Richard and Mehitable (Wainwright) Saltonstall, was \nborn in Haverhill, June 24, 1703, and graduated at Harvard in 1722. He was a mem- \nber of the Council from 1743 to 1745, and was a judge of the Superior Court of Judica- \nture from December 29, 1736, till his death, October 20, 1756. He had three wives, \nthe last of whom was Mary, daughter of Elisha Cooke. \n\nLeverett Saltonstall, son of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall and Anna, his wife, who \nwas the daughter of Samuel White, of Haverhill, was born in Haverhill, June 13, \n17S3. He was fitted at Phillips Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 1802, \nreceiving from his Alma Mater a degree of LL. D. in 1838, a degree of A. B. from \nYale in 1802, and of A. M. from Bowdoin in 1806. He studied law with Ichabod \nTucker in Haverhill and with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Essex bar \nin 1*06 and to the Suffolk bar in the same year. He was a member of the Massachu- \nsetts Senate and its president in 1831, and also a member of the House of Represent- \natives. He was the first Mayor of Salem and in 1838 wras chosen member of Congress, \nserving until 1843. He was president of the Bible Society, of the Essex Agricultural \n\n\nm \n\n\nrfUlAard < if < >ver- \nseers. He married, March 7, 1811, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Sanders, of \nSalem, and died in Salem, May 8, 1845. \n\nLeverett Sai/k install, son of Leverett and Mary Elizabeth (Sanders) Saltonstall, \nwas born in Salem, March 16, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1S44. In 1*47 he \ngraduated at £he Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October \n28, 1850. In 1854 he was on the staff of Governor Emory Washburn. In 1862 he re- \ntired from the law, but continued conspicuous in public affairs. From 1*76 to 1889 he \nwas a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a portion of the time its presi- \ndent. In 1876 he was appointed a commissioner of Massachusetts to the Centennial \nExposition in Philadelphia, and from December, 1885, to February, 1890, he was col- \nlector of the port of Boston. He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society \nand has been president of the Unitarian Club. He married in Salem, October 19, \n1854, Rose S., daughter of John Clarke and Harriet (Rose) Lee, and has his residence \nat Chestnut Hill near Boston. \n\nRichard Middlecott Saltonstall, son of Leverett and Rose (Lee) Saltonstall, \nwas born at Chestnut Hill near Boston, October 28, 1859. Among his distinguished \nancestors was Elisha Cooke, whose wife, Jane Middlecott, was a great-grand- \ndaughter of Governor Edward Winslow. She was also great-grand-daughter \nof Governor John Leverett. Thus it will be seen from whom his father and \ngrandfather took their names and from whom he took his middle name. He \ngraduated at Harvard in 1880 and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the \noffice of William Caleb Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1884. \nHe married at Medford, October 17, 1891, Eleanor, daughter of Peter C. Brooks, and \nlives at Chestnut Hill. \n\nEzra Weston Sampson, son of Sylvanus and Sylvia (Church) Sampson, was born in \nDuxbury, December 1, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar January 29, 1836, and began practice in Braintree. On the death of \nJairus Ware he was appointed clerk of the courts in Norfolk county and served till \nhis death at Dedham, January 15, 1867. He married, October 8, 1820, Selina Wads- \nworth, of Duxbury. \n\nJohn Henry Take, son of Thomas and Mary F. (Burke) Taff, was born in Boston \nAugust 20, 1857, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard Col- \nlege. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles F. \nDonnelly in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He married Sarah \nJ. Welch in Boston August 20, 1884, and lives in Boston. \n\nEugene Tappan, son of Daniel Dana and Abigail (Marsh) Tappan, was born in \nMarshfield, Mass., July 4, 1840, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy in \nMeriden, N. H., and at Williams College. He read law with Bacon & Aldrich in \nWorcester, and was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1871. He married, Alice R. \nCrosby, at Centreville, in Barnstable, Mass., December 24, 1872, and lives in Win- \nchester. \n\nJohn Henry Taylor, son of Hugh and Mary J. Taylor, was born in Boston \nOctober 13, 1853, and was educated in the public schools. He read law with Causten \n\n\ni.Sj history of the bench and bar. \n\nBrowne and [abez S. Holmes in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 6, \n1875. He has been commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, \nand examiner in equity for the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District. \nHe married, Annie B. Middleby in Boston, September 1, 1874, and lives in Chelsea. \nJohn Oscar Ti i son of Samuel and Ellen Chase Teele, was born in Wilmot, \n\nN. H., July 18, 1839, and was educated at the New Hampton and New London \nAcademies, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1878, receiving a degree later in conse- \nquence oi his being in New Orleans when the war broke out. He studied law with \nGeorge W. Nesmith, Austin F. Pike and Daniel Barnard in Franklin, N. H., and in \nNew < >rleans in 1861-2. He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in 1S63, and \nin Massachusetts in the same year, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of \nRepresentatives in 1886-7. He married, February 28, 1868, at Waltham, Mass., Mary \nP. Smith, and lives in Boston. \n\nGeorge Thacher, son of Peter, was born in Yarmouth, Mass., April 12, 1754, and \n\ngraduated at Harvard in 1776. He studied law with Shearjashub Bourne in Barn- \nstable, was admitted to the bar in 1778, and began practice in York, Me. In 1782 he \nmoved to Biddeford. He was a member of Congress from 1788 to 1801, and a district \njudge in Maine. He was appointed in 1801 judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and \ncontinued on the bench until January, 1*24, when he resigned. He was a member of \nthe convention in 1S19 which framed the constitution of Maine. He married \nMary, daughter of Samuel Phillips .Savage, of Weston, Mass., and died in Biddeford \nMe., April 6, 1824. * \n\nJoseph Stevens Buckminster Thacher, son of Peter Oxenbridge and Charlotte I. \n(McDonough) Thacher, was born in Boston May 11, 1812, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1832. He attended the Harvard Law School and began practice in Boston. In \n1n:!i> he moved to Natchez and became judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, hold- \ning the office until his death at Natchez November 30, 1867, \n\nOxenbridge Thacher, son of Oxenbridge Thacher, was born in Milton in 1720, and \ngraduated in Harvard in 1738. Hey first studied divinity and afterwards law, and \nbecame a leading lawyer of his town. He was a representative from 1763 to his \ndeath, which took place in Boston July 8, 1765. \n\nSylvanus M. Thomas, son of Sylvanus and Agnes Jackson Thomas, was born in \nNew Bedford, March 23, 1850, and graduated at Brown University, 1871. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston, \nand was admitted to the bar in Taunton in January, 1.S74, where he has been city \nsolicitor three years. He married at Taunton, where he lives, Emily Hayman, \nNovember 18, 1891. \n\nSamuel Thatcher was born in Boston July 1, 1776, and graduated at Harvard in \n1793. He was admitted to the bar before the close of the last century, and was a \nmember of Congress from 1803 to 1805. He was many years a representative and \noverseer at Harvard. He died in Boston Jtdy 18, 1872. \n\nBenjamin Bussey Thatcher, son of Samuel, was born in Warren, Me., October 8, \n1809, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1826. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831, \nbut devoted himself chiefly to literature. He published, besides fugitive poems and \narticles in the magazines, a \" Biography of North American Indians,\" \"Memoirs of \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n183 \n\n\nPhillis Wheatley,\" \" Memoir of S. Osgood Wright,\" \" Tales of the American Revolu- \ntion,\" etc. He died in Boston July 14, 1840. \n\nCharles Sedgwick Rackerman, son of Frederick W. and Elizabeth 1). Rackerman, \nwas born in Lenox, Mass., June 21, 1857, and was educated at the Lenox High \nSchool, the Cambridge High School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \nHe studied law with Francis V. Balch in Boston, at the Harvard Law School and \nthe Boston Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881. He is a vice- \npresident of the Conveyancer's Title Insurance Company and a director in the Water \nCompany of Milton, where he lives. Mr. Rackerman is grandson of Charles Sedg- \nwick, the clerk of the courts in Berkshire county for thirty years, and great-grandson \nof Theodore Sedgwick, a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court and speaker of the \nNational House of Representatives. \n\nFelix Rackerman, son of Frederick W. and Elizabeth D. Rackerman, was born in \nLenox, Mass., June 17, 1861, and was educated at Cornell University in the class of \n1882. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Robert T. \nLincoln in Chicago and Francis V. Balch in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in \nChicago in 1885 and in Boston in 1886. He married Julia, daughter of Dr. Francis \nMinot, of Boston, in 1886, and lives in Milton. \n\nThomas F. Reddy, son of Thomas and Catherine Reddy, was born in Boston Feb- \nruary 22, 1865, and was educated at the Boston University. He read law in Boston \nin the office of F. V. Balch and at the Boston University Law School, from which he \ngraduated in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1887. In prac- \ntice he makes a specialty of probate cases and conveyancing. He has been a writer \nfor the A nitric an Lara Review, and some of his articles have, by their thorough- \nness and comprehensiveness, commended themselves to the profession. He lives in \nBoston. \n\nCharles Montgomery Reed, son of Charles and Sophia Williams Reed, was born \nin Brookline, Mass., March 11, 1846, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1867. He read \nlaw with Latham & Kingman in Bridgewater and at the Harvard Law- School, from \nwhich he graduated in 1870. He was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in October, \n1869. He married Maria Ames Carlisle, July 3, 1878, at Boston, where he lives. \n\nGeorge Hammon Reed, son of Hammon and Sylvia J. Reed, was born in Lexing- \nton, Mass., January 31, 1858, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law \nin the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles Robinson in Boston, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1880. He has served on the School Committee \nin Lexington, where he lives. He married S. Augusta Adams at Lexington, Novem- \nber 5, 1884. \n\nJohn P. J. Ward was born in Boston, August 5, 1857, and educated at the May- \nhew and English High School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878. He was a member of the Boston \nCommon Council in 1879. \n\nJ. Otis Wardwell, son of Zenas C. and Adriana S. (Pillsbury) Ward well, was \nborn in Lowell, March 14, 1857, and was educated at the Georgetown High School, \nNew London Institution, and the Boston University. He studied law with J. P. and \nB. B. Jones in Haverhill, and with Samuel J. Elder in Boston, and was admitted to \n\n\n1 84 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthe Essex bar in September, 1ST!). He has been a member of the Haverhill Council \nand a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1887 to '91 inclu- \nsive. He was married in Bristol, Vt., December 24, 1887, and lives in Haverhill. \n\nHenry Wardwell, son of Moses and Amy Swasey (Farley) Wardwell, was born in \nIpswich, Mass., April \"2s, L840, and was educated at the Peabody public schools and \nat Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1866. He studied law in Boston \nwith Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nAugust 1, 1870. He has been in the Salem Council and Board of Aldermen, and was \na member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1879 and '81. He mar- \nried .Sarah Osborne Fitch at Peabody, October 6, 1875, and lives in Salem. \n\nGeorge Langdon Shorey, son of John L. and Sarah B. Shorey, was born in Lynn, \nMass., and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law in Boston with Augustine \nJones, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June 1875. He married Mary F. \nAlley, June 15, 187.\"), and lives in Lynn. He was counsel in the somewhat notable \ncase of Chester Snow, of Harwich, vs. John B. Alley, in which there were six trials \n— two disagreements, three verdicts for about one hundred thousand dollars each, \nand a final verdict for $58,000. There were in the case one reversal by the Su- \npreme Court and two settings aside by the judge of the Superior Court. In the first \nthree trials Mr. Shorey was alone, and in the last three junior with Colonel Ingersoll \nas senior counsel. \n\nFrank Howard Shorey, son of John and Cornelia (Guild) Shorev, was born in \nBoston, November 2, 1837, and fitted at the High School in Dedham for Dartmouth \nCollege, where he remained two years, and finally graduated at Harvard in 1858. He \nstudied law in Boston with Thomas Lafayette Wakefield, and was admitted to the \nbar in Boston, June 20, 1859. He died at Dedham, January 24, 1862. \n\nRoscoe Henry Thompson, son of Oakes and Livinia (Banks) Thompson, was born \nin Hartford, Me., May 1, 1836, and was educated at the Hebron Academy and the \nWesleyan Seminary. He studied law with Elbridge G. Harlow, of Canton,, Me., and \nA. P. Gould, of Thomaston, Me., and was admitted to the bar of Paris, Me., and to \nthe Suffolk bar, December 9, 1871. He was postmaster of Canton, Me., under the \nthe administration of Buchanan, town clerk and treasurer three years, and • first \nspecial justice of the Municipal Court of the East Boston District ten years. He mar- \nried Helen Crafts at Craftsmont Farm, Jay, Me., June 27, 1872. He has a residence \nin New'York city and in Jay, Me. \n\nSami el Lothrop Thorndike, son of Albert and Joanna (Batchelder) Thorndike, \nwas born in Beverly, Mass., December 28, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1852. \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Sidney \nBartlett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 11, 1855, and to the United \nStates Supreme Court in 1867. He was register of bankruptcy under the law of \n1867, and is a director in various railroad and manufacturing companies. He mar- \nried Anna Lamb, daughter of Judge Daniel Wells, and lives in Cambridge. \n\nCharles Copeland Nutter, son of Ichabod and Sarah (Copeland) Nutter, was \nborn in Hallowell, Me., January 12, 1820, and fitted at the Hallowell Academy for \nBowdoin College, where he graduated in 1839, at the head of his class. He studied \nlaw at Hallowell in the office of Henry W. Paine, and in Boston in the offices of \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. j85 \n\nSprague & Gray and of Sidney Bartlett, and was admitted to the .Suffolk bar in July, \n1841. He practiced some years as partner with William Hilliard, under the firm \nname of Hilliard & Nutter, and subsequently, from 1848 to 1871, with his brother, \nThomas F. Nutter, under the style of C. C. & T. F. Nutter. He was commissioned \nas master in chancery by Governor John H. Clifford, and held a commission by re- \nnewals until he retired from practice on account of ill health in 1871. He died in \nBoston in 1884. \n\nDaniel J. Shea was born in Boston, March 31, 1857. He was educated at the \nBrimmer School, the English High School, the Latin School and the Harvard Law- \nSchool. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and died September 3, 1888. \n\nR. W. Shea was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 14, 1851, and came with his \nparents an infant to Boston, where he was educated in the public schools. He gradu- \nated at the Boston University Law School in 1877, and was admitted to the Norfolk \nbar in 1880. He was subsequently admitted to the bar in Chicago. \n\nJoseph Gilbert Thorp, son of Joseph Gilbert and Susan A. Thorp, was born in \nOxford, Chenango county, N. Y., August 17, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Shattuck & Munroein \nBoston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He married Annie A. \nLongfellow, at Cambridge, October 14, 1885, and lives in Cambridge. \n\nCharles Gideon Davis, son of William and Joanna (White) Davis, was born in \nPlymouth, May 30, 1820. He was educated in his youth in the public schools of Plym- \nouth, at the private school of Samuel Willard, in Hingham, and under the direction \nof John A. Shaw of Bridgewater. He graduated at Harvard in 1840, and studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Jacob H. Loud in Plymouth, and Hub- \nbard & Watts in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in August, 1843. \nHe opened an office in Boston and practiced alone until January 1844, when he be- \ncame associated with William H. Whitman, late clerk of the courts of Plymouth \ncounty, and later with Seth Webb and George P. Sanger. In 1846 he identified him- \nself with the anti-slavery movement and aided in the election of Charles Sumner to \nCongress, and in the campaign of 1848 against the election of General Taylor to the \npresidency and in favor of Van Buren and Adams, whose nomination for president \nand vice-president he assisted as a delegate to the Buffalo convention in securing. In \n1851 he was tried before Benjamin F. Hallet, United States commissioner, for assist- \ning in the rescue of Shadrack, a fugitive slave, from the hands of the officers in the \ncourt-house in Boston. He was acquitted of the charge, but never denied that he \nrendered the assistance for which he was arrested. He was one of the organizers of \nthe Free Soil party and later of the Republican' party, and was a delegate to the na- \ntional convention in Philadelphia in 1856 which put John C. Fremont in nomination. \nDuring the Know-Nothing years 1854-5 he was chairman of the Republican State com- \nmittee. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1853 from Plymouth, \nto which place he moved in 1852, and in 1862 a member of the Massachusetts House \nof Representatives from that town, a trustee of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- \nlege many years, president of the Plymouth County Agricultural Society, and assessor \nof internal revenue from 1862 to 1869. In 1872, having abandoned the Republi- \ncan party, he was a delegate to the Cincinnati convention, which nominated Horace \n24 \n\n\n1 86 HISTORY OF J HE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nGreeley for the presidency, and has been a Democratic candidate for Congress. In \n1874 he was appointed by Governor Talbot judge of the Third District Court of \nof Plymouth countv, and still holds that position. He married in Plymouth, where \nhe now resides, November 19, 1845, Hannah Stevenson, daughter of John B. and \nMary (Rowland) Thomas. \n\nDaniel Davis, son of Daniel, was born in Barnstable, May 8, 17(52. He studied law \nin Barnstable with Shearjashub Bourne, and was admitted to the bar in 1782. Im- \nmediately after admission he settled in Falmouth, now Portland, and was one of the \nfive lawyers at that time practicing in the whole District of Maine. The other four \nwere George Thacher, Roland Gushing, Timothy Langdon, and William Lithgow. \nHe was six vears in. the House, six years in the Senate. From 1796 to 1801 he was \nUnited States attorney for Maine, and in 1800 was appointed by Governor Strong \nsolicitor general, and held that office until 1832, when the office was abolished. In \n1804 he removed to Boston, and after his retirement he became a resident in Cam- \nbridge, where he died October 27, 1835. He married in 17S(i Louisa, daughter of Rev. \nJames Freeman, D.D., of King's Chapel, Boston. He received an honorary degree of \nMaster of Arts from Harvard in 1797, and was for a time president of the Board of \nOverseers of Bowdoin College. \n\nJosiah S. Dean, son of Benjamin and Mary A. Dean, was born in Boston, May 11, \nI Slid, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law at the Boston Uni- \nversity Law School, the Harvard Law School, and in the offices of his father, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1885. He was a member of the Boston Com- \nmon Council in 1891-2, and he was associated with L. S. Dabney as attorney for the \nSouth Boston Railroad, and with the late Judge Abbott in the overissued stock cases \nof the same road. He married at Bradford, England, August 2, 1888, May Lilian, \ndaughter of Prof. Walter Smith, and lives in Boston. \n\nAlexander Fairfield Wadsworth, son of Alexander and Mary E. H. Wadsworth, \nwas born in Boston, January 28, 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 1X60. He studied \nlaw in the offices of John J. Clarke, Lemuel Shaw, jr., and William I. Bowditch in \nBoston, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar November 21, 1863, and was a common councilman in 1875. He married \nLucy Goodwin in 1876 in Boston, where he lives. \n\nWilliam Cushing Wait, son of Elijah Smith and Eliza Ann (Hadley) Wait, was \nborn in Charlestown, Mass., December 18, 1860, and fitted at the Medford High School \nfor Harvard, where he graduated in 1882. He graduated at the Harvard Law School \nin 1885, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1885, and to the United States \nCircuit Court May 15, 1888. He has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Law articles \non \"Representations as to Character, etc.,\" \"Statute of Frauds,\" \"Jettison,\" and \n\" Marine Insurance.\" He married Edith Foote Wright, January 1, 1889, at Medford, \nwhere he lives. \n\nJohn F. Wakefield, son of John H. and Minerva M. Wakefield, was born in Tay- \nlorsville, Penn., May 9, 1852, and was educated at the New London Institution in \nNew Hampshire, the Franklin Academy, and the Maiden High School. He studied \nlaw at the Boston University Law School, and in Boston in the office of John C. \nCrowley, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, 1875. He has made a specialty \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. Io? \n\nof marriage and divorce laws in Massachusetts. He married Laura A. Seaward in \nChelsea December 14, 1876, and lives in Boston. \n\nJonathan Fas- Barrett, son of Joseph and Sophia (Fay) Barrett, was born in Con- \ncord, Mass., January 28, 1817. He entered Harvard in 1834, and leaving college in \nthe autumn of 1835, began to study law in the office of Jonathan Chapman and Rich- \nard Sullivan Fay in Boston, and finished his studies at the Harvard Law School. 1 [e \nwas admitted to the bar in July, 1838, and practiced in Boston until his death, which \noccurred suddenly while in his office January 23, 1885. He married Lydia Ann Lor- \ning, April 27, 1S4S, and he always retained his residence in Concord. \n\nLewis S. Dabney, son of Frederick and Roxana (Stackpole) Dabnev, was born in \nFayal, December 21, 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 1861. His father was vice- \nconsul at Fayal and died there in 1857. He studied law with Horace Gray and Chas. \nF. Blake, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 10, 1863. He served in the \nwar of 1861 in the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, from November 1862 to January \n1865, and was mustered out as captain. Beginning practice in 1865 he was Assistant \ndistrict attorney with Richard H. Dana, jr., in 1866, He married, April 22, 1867, \nClara, daughter of George T. Bigelow. \n\nTimothy J. Dacey was born in Boston, October 11, 1849, and was educated at the \nEliot Grammar School, the English High School, and at the College of the Holy \nCross in Worcester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted \nto the bar in Boston, June 28, 1871. He was a member of the Boston Common Coun- \ncil in 1872-3, representative in 1874, a senator in 1875-6, a member of the Board of \nTrustees of the City Hospital, a delegate to the national Democratic convention at \nSt. Louis in 1S76, a member of the Boston School Board in 1880-1-3-5-6-7, and \nthree years president of the Board. In January, 1877, he was appointed assistant \ndistrict attorney for Suffolk. He died December 15, 1887. \n\nFrank Elliot Dickerman, son of Quincy E. and Rebecca M. Dickerman, was born \nin Charlestown, Mass., January 9, 1864, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He \nstudied law in the Harvard LawT School, and in Boston in the office of Richardson & \nHale, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. In Somerville, where he lives, he \nhas been president of the Common Council, and a member of the School Board. He \nmarried Minnie L. Despeaux at Somerville November 11, 1891. \n\nAlbert Dickerman, son of Wyat and Lois Dickerman, was born in Stoughton, \nMass., February 21, 1831, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Brown \nUniversity. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office \nof Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1854. He has \nbeen a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He married Mary \nAborn Smith, May 31, 1864, in Boston, where he lives. \n\nHenry Sweetser Dewey, son of Israel Otis and Susan Augusta (Sweetser) Dewey, \nwas born in Hanover, N. H., November 9, 1856, and graduated at Dartmouth College \nin 1878. He studied law in the Boston University Law School, from which he grad- \nuated in 1882, and in Boston in the office of Ambrose A. Ranney, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He was a member of the Boston Common Council \nfrom 1885 to 1887, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1889 \nto 1891, member of the First Corps of Cadets from 1880 to 1889, and was commis- \n\n\ni88 HIS10RY OF THE BEACH AND BAR. \n\nsioned judge advocate on the staff of the First Massachusetts Brigade with the rank \nof captain, February 26, 1889. He lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. \n\nJohn James 1 )everei \\, son of James and Sarah (Crowninshield) Devereux, was born \nin Salem, June 12, 1796. His father was a native of Waterford, Ireland, where he \nwas born in May, 1766, and coming to New England married, September 12, 17!»2, \nSarah, daughter of John and Mary (Ives) Crowninshield. John James was educated \nat the private school of Robert Rogers in Salem and at the Branch School established \nby an association of gentlemen under the direction of Benjamin Tappan. He grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1816 and engaged in commercial pursuits until 1829, when he \nstudied law with David Cummins, of Salem, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nOctober, 1831. After a few years practice in Boston he moved to New York and after \nthree years residence there moved to Philadelphia, where he lived until his death, \nwhich occurred in Salem, March 16, 1856. \n\nHenry Gardner Denny, son of Daniel and Harriet Joanna (Gardner) Denny, was \nborn in Boston, June 12, 1833, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School and at \nHarvard College, where he graduated in 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool and in Boston in the offices of Francis O. Watts and Owen G. Peabody, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1856. He has been a useful and trusted citizen \nin many ways, having served as treasurer of the Ph. B. K. Society (Alpha of Massa- \nchusetts) twenty-three years, treasurer of the Society for Promoting Theological Ed- \nucation thirteen years, treasurer of the Home for Aged Women eleven years, chair- \nman of the Dorchester School Board, auditor of the American Academy of Arts and \nSciences, member and cabinet-keeper of the Massachusetts Historical Society, mem- \nber of the committee to examine the Harvard College Library thirty years, member \nof the committee on rhetoric, logic and grammar at Harvard ten years, trustee of \nthe Dorchester Atheneum, treasurer of the Harvard Musical Association and director \nof other institutions and societies. He lives in Boston unmarried. \n\nSi i inky Bartlett, son of Dr. Zaccheus and Hannah (Jackson) Bartlett, was born in \nPlymouth, Mass., February 13, 1799. He was descended from Robert Bartlett, who \ncame to Plymouth in the ship Ann in 1623 and who married in 1628, Mary, daughter \nof Richard Warren, one of the Mayflower passengers. He was educated at the pub- \nlic schools in Plymouth and graduated at Harvard in 1818. After leaving college he \ntaught school in Scituate a short time and spent a year in Plymouth reading law in \nthe office of Nathaniel Morton Davis. During that year he was a private in the \nStandish Guards, a military company organized in 1818. In 1820 he entered the office \nof Lemuel Shaw, late chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and was admitted \nin Boston, October 2, 1821, to practice in the Common Pleas Court, and in March, \n1824, to practice in the Supreme Court. He was associated as partner with Mr. Shaw, \nhis instructor, until the appointment of Mr. Shaw to the Supreme Bench in 1830. He \nadvanced steadily, but surely, in his prof ession until he was recognized as the leader of \nthe Massachusetts bar. He was never a ready and eloquent pleader before a jury, but \nthe sphere in which he excelled was that of a shrewd, wise legal adviser, the results of \nwhose study no man would dare to question and whose arguments before the courts \nwere instructive to even the judges to whom they were addressed. His reputation \nwas by no means confined within the limits of his own State, and in the judgment of \nthe United States Supreme Court, it has been said, that no abler or more thorough \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. ,89 \n\nor convincing presentation of legal principles and their application to the cases at bar \nhas been made in his time thari by him. He never sought nor would he accept office \nwhose duties would call him from the profession to which he was wedded. Though \nimportuned to accept appointments to the bench he always refused them, and it is not \ntoo much to say that for many years the highest judicial positions in the land were \nwithin his reach. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives \nin ISol and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1853, but with these ex- \nceptions he scrupulously avoided what maybe called public life. He married in Bos- \nton, October 8, 1828, Caroline, daughter of John and Mary (Tewksbury) Pratt, and \nfrom the time of his admission to the bar always lived in Boston, where he died \nMarch 6, 1889. \n\nJoseph Bartlett, son of Sylvanus and Martha (Wait) Bartlett, was born in Plym- \nouth, Mass., in 1761, and graduated at Harvard in 1782. He studied law in Salem \nand was a member of the Suffolk bar. He went to England and appeared on the \nstage in Edinburgh as \"Maitland,\" returned to America and became a merchant in \nBoston and was a captain in Shays's Rebellion. He afterwards practiced in Woburn, \nand in 1799 delivered a poem before the Phi Beta called \" Physiognomv.\" He pub- \nlished a book of Aphorisms in 1823, and in the same year he delivered the Fourth of \nJuly oration in Boston. Shortly after he published a poem entitled, \"The New Vicar \nof Bray.\" He went to Maine, where he wTas a representative and edited at Saco the \nFreeman' ' s Friend. He also delivered a Fourth of July oration in Biddeford and \npracticed law in Portsmouth among other places. He married in Plymouth, Anna \nMay, daughter of Thomas and Ann (May) Wetherell, and died in Boston, October \n20, 1827. \n\nGrafton St. Loe Abbott, son of Josiah G. and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was \nborn in LowTell, Mass., November 14, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He \nstudied law with his father in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879. \nHe married Mary Adams at Quincy, Mass., September 29, 1890, and now resides at \nLewiston, Me. \n\nFranklin Pierce Abbott, son of Josiah G. and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was \nborn in Lowell, Mass., May 6, 1852, and was educated at St. Mark's School. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in 1876 and was admitted to the bar in New \nYork in 1878 and in Boston in 1885. Aside from his practice he is engaged in literary \npursuits. He lives at Wellesley Hills, Mass. \n\nCharles Allen, son of Sylvester an'd Harriet (Ripley) Allen, was born in Green- \nfield, Mass. , April 27, 1827, and graduated at Harvard in 1847. He read law in Green- \nfield in the office of George T. Davis and Charles Devens and at the Harvard Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the bar at Northampton, September 30, 1850. He re- \nmained in Greenfield in the practice of law until 1862, when, having been appointed \nreporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, he moved to Boston. He \nheld the office of reporter until 1867, and his reports are contained in fourteen volumes, \ncovering a period from the Suffolk January term of 1861 to the Suffolk January term \nof 1867. From 1867 to 1872 he was attorney-general of the Commonwealth. In L880 \nhe was appointed one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of the Common- \nwealth, and in 1882 was appointed by Governor Long judge of the Supreme Judicial \nCourt, which position he still holds. His residence is in Boston. \n\n\ni9o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nCharles Allen, son of Joseph Allen, was born in Worcester, August 9, 1797. He \nentered Yale College in 1811, after a course of study at Leicester Academy, and re- \nmained one year. He then entered the office of Samuel M. Burnside and was ad- \nmitted to the bar in 1818. He practiced in New Braintree six years and in \n1829 he returned to Worcester and became a partner with John Davis. He was a \nmember of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1829-34-36-40, and in the \nSenate in 1835-38-39, and in 1842 he was a member of the Northeastern Boundary \nCommission. In 1S42 he was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court and re- \nsigned in 1S44, and was a member of Congress from 1844 to 1853. In 1858, on the \nresignation of Chief Justice Nelson of the Superior Court of Suffolk county, he was \nappointed in his place. The court was abolished in 1859 by the Act establishing \nthe Superior Court and he was appointed in that year chief justice of the new court. \nHe resigned his seat in 1867 and died in Worcester, August 6, 1869. \n\nGeorge B. Bigelow, son of Samuel and Anna J. (Brooks) Bigelow, was born in \nBoston, April 25, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in Charlestown in the office of James Dana and Moses Gill \nCobb and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, December 31, 1859. \n\nJohn Prescott Bigelow, son of Timothy and Lucy (Prescott) Bigelow, was born \nin Groton, Mass., August 25, 1797, and was fitted at the Lawrence Academy in Gro- \nton for Harvard, where he graduated in 1815. He studied law with Luther Lawrence and \nhis father in Groton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1818. He was a mem- \nber of the Boston Common Council from 1827 to '32, and two years its president, and \nin 1829^33, '35, a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. In 1836 \nhe was chosen secretary of State, and served eight years, and was a member of the \nExecutive Council from 1845 to '49. In 1848-50 he was chosen mayor of Boston, and \nmade the first gift in money to the Boston Public Library, of which he was a trustee. \nWhile mayor he exhibited great efficiency and heroism during the cholera season of \n1849. He married, March 8, 1824, Louisa Anne, daughter of David L. Brown, an \nEnglish gentleman, and died in Boston, July 4, 1872. \n\nMelville Madison Bigelow,' son of Rev. William E. and Daphne F. Bigelow, was \nborn near Eaton Rapids, Mich., August 2, 1846, and was educated at the University \nof Michigan. He studied law in Michigan and Tennessee, and was admitted to the \nbar at Memphis in March, 1868, and later in Massachusetts. He has published several \nworks on legal subjects, among which are \"Law of Estoppel,\" \"Law of Torts,\" \n\" Law of Fraud,\" etc. He married in Cambridge two wives, one in 1869 and one \nin 1881, and lives in that city. \n\nTimothy Bigelow, son of Timothy and Anna (Andrews) Bigelow, was born in \nWorcester, April 30, 1767, and fitted for college under Benjamin Lincoln and Samuel \nDexter. He graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with Levi Lincoln. \nAfter admission to the bar he began practice in Groton and moved to Medford. He \nwas a representative thirteen years from Groton and twelve years from Medford, \nand speaker of the House thirteen years. He was a delegate to the Hartford con- \nvention in 1814, a member of the Executive Council, and delivered the Phi Beta ora- \ntion in 179(i. He married, September 3, 1791, Lucy, daughter of Doctor Oliver and \nLydia (Baldwin) Prescott, and died May 18, 1821. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. ,9i \n\nTyler Bigelow, son of David and Deborah (Heywood) Bigelow, was born in Wor- \ncester, August 13, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1801. He studied law with \nTimothy Bigelow in Groton, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1804. \nHe began practice in Leominster, but removed to Watertown in ISO.\"). He married, \nNovember 26, 1806, Clara, daughter of Timothy Bigelow, of Worcester, who died \nMarch 13, 1846. He married second, December 15, 1847, Harriet L. Whitney, \ndaughter of Abraham Lincoln, of Worcester, who died June 20, 1853. He died at \nWatertown, May 23, 1865, leaving a legacy of $10,000 to Harvard College for the \nbenefit of indigent and meritorious students. \n\nWilmon W. Blackmar, son of Joseph and Eliza J. (Philbrick) Blackmar, was born \nin Bristol, Penn., July 25, 1841, and was preparing for college at Exeter, N. H., \nwhen he enlisted in the army. He had previously attended the Brimmer School in \nBoston and the Bridgewater Normal School. He enlisted as private in the Fifteenth \nPennsylvania Cavalry and became orderly sergeant and lieutenant, and was trans- \nferred to the First West Virginia Veteran Cavalry. He then became captain, \nwas detailed as adjutant-general of his brigade, and fought at Antietam, Stone \nRiver, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga. He served through the whole war. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, \n1867. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1872 and was judge ad- \nvocate general of Massachusetts twelve years. He married in Boston, November 17, \n1880, Helen R. Brewer, and lives in Boston. \n\nStephen G. Nash, son of John and Abigail Ladd (Gordon) Nash, was born in New \nHampton, N. H., April 4, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842. He \nstudied law with George W. Nesmith in Franklin, N. H., and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar April 16, 1846. He has been a representative from Boston, and from 1855 \nto 1859 was a judge on the bench of the Superior Court of Suffolk county. He mar- \nried Mary Upton at Wakefield in 1866, and lives in Lynnfield. \n\nHenry F. Naphen, son of John and Jane (Henry) Naphen, was born in Ireland, \nAugust 14, 1852 and came an infant with his parents to Lowell. He was educated \nat the public schools and took a course at Harvard as resident bachelor. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard and Boston University Law Schools, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in November, 1879, after a further course of study in the office of Bur- \nbank & Lund in Boston. He has been a member of the State Senate and the Boston \nSchool Committee, and a member of the Democratic State Committee. He married \nMargaret A. Drummey, daughter of Patrick Drummey, and lives in South Boston. \n\nJohn Breed Newhall, son of Charles and Hester C. (Moulton) Newhall, was born \nin Lynn, Mass., October 1, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and in the office of Simmons & Pratt in Abington, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He has been president of the Common \nCouncil of Lynn, where he resides, and secretary of the Lynn Board of Trade. \n\nHenry Newman, son of Henry and Deborah (Cushing) Newman, was born in Bos- \nton, May 16, 1783. His father was a merchant and his mother a daughter of Lieu- \ntenant-Governor Thomas Cushing. He studied law with Thomas Dawes and Will- \niam Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1810. He gave up practice and \nmoved to Washington, but died in Boston, July 28, 1861. \n\n\n1 92 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nFrank N. Nay was born in Boston April 30, 1866, and fitted at the Roxbury Latin \nSchool for Harvard, where he graduated in 1887. He studied law at the Boston \nUniversity Law School and in the office of E. H. Bennett in Boston, and was admit- \nted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Hii.liard, son of William and Sarah Lovering Hilliard, was born in Cam- \nbridge, Mass., October 15, 1803, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in 1824 and practiced in Boston. He married Elizabeth Newhall \nof Boston, and died there September 8, 1869. \n\nThomas Leverett Nelson, son of John and Lois B. (Leverett) Nelson, was born in \nHaverhill, Mass., March 4, 1827. He was educated at Dartmouth College and at the \nUniversity of Vermont. He studied law with Charles E. Thompson, of Haverhill, \nand Francis H. Dewey, of Worcester^\" and was admitted to the bar in Worcester in \n1855. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1869, \nand in 1879 was appointed judge of the United States Court for Massachusetts District. \nHe was city solicitor of Worcester from 1870 to 1874. He married, October 29, 1857, \nAnna H. Hayward at Mendon, Mass., and March 23, 1865, Louisa A. Small at Mill- \nbury, Mass. His home is in Worcester. \n\nAlbert Hobart Nelson, son of Dr. John and Lucinda (Parkhurst) Nelson, was \nborn in Milford, Mass., March 12, 1812. He fitted for college at the Concord Acad- \nemy and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He studied law with Samuel Hoar, of Con- \ncord, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1837. He began \npractice in Concord, but in 1842 moved to Woburn and opened an office in Boston. \nIn 1846 he was appointed district attorney for the Middlesex and Essex District, and \nin 1855 he was a member of the Executive Council. He was in the Senate in 1 848-9. \nIn 1855 he was appointed chief justice of the Superior Court of the county of Suffolk, \nwhich was established in that year, and resigned on account of ill health in 1858. He \nmarried, in September, 1840, Elizabeth B., daughter of Elias Phinney, of Lexington, \nMass., and died at the McLean Asylum June 27, 1858. \n\nIsaac Johnson was born in Clipsham, England, and came to Massachusetts with \nWinthrop in 1630. He was an assistant in 1630, and died in Boston September 30 \nin that year. He married, Arbella, daughter of Thomas, Fourteenth Earl of Lincoln, \nwho came with her husband, and died in Salem, Mass., August 30, 1630. \n\nThomas Sharp came over in 1630, and was an assistant in that year. \nWilliam Vassel was an assistant in 1630. \nEdward Rossiter was an assistant in 1630. \n\nJohn Humphrey was born in Dorchester, England, and was one of the original \n\n' associates of the Massachusetts Company. He was chosen the first deputy governor \n\nin England in 1629, and was an assistant from 1632 to 1641. He married Susan, \n\ndaughter of the Earl of Lincoln, and returning with his wife to England died there \n\nOctober 21, 1641. \n\nRichard Dummer was an assistant in 1635 to 1636. \n\nAtherton Hough was an assistant in 1635. \n\nRoger Harlakenden, was an assistant from 1635 to 1638. \n\nIsrael Stoughton was an early settler in Dorchester, and a member of the General \nCourt from 16:55 to 1637. He was captain of the Artillery Company in 1642, and an \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. ,93 \n\nassistant from 1637 to 1643. He died at Lincoln, England, in 1645, giving three \nhundred acres of land to Harvard College. \n\nThomas Flint was an assistant from 1642 to 1651, and again in 1653. \nSamuel Symonds was an assistant from 1643 to 1673. \nWilliam Hibbens was an assistant from 1643 to 1654. \n\nHerbert Pelham was a grandson of Edward Pelham, of Hastings, England, who \n\nwas Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland, and who died in 16(16. Herbert, \nof Michelham Priory, son of Edward, was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1588. Herbert, \nthe son of Herbert, and the subject of this sketch, was born in 1601, and graduated \nat Oxford in 1619. He came to Massachusetts in 1638, and was the first treasurer of \nHarvard College. He was an assistant from 1645 to 1649, when he returned to \nEngland and died in 1673. His widow, Elizabeth, who had been his second wife, was \nthe widow of Roger Harlakenden, already referred to. \n\nFrancis Willoughby was deputy governor from 1665 to 1670, and an assistant in \n1650-51 and 1664. \n\nEdward Gibbons came very early to Massachusetts, and was a representative from \n1638 to 1647, an assistant in 1650-51, and captain of the Artillery Company. He \ndied in Boston December 9, 1654. \n\nThomas Wiggin was an assistant from 1650 to 1664. \nJohn Glover was an assistant in 1650 and 1653. \n\nDaniel G< k >rtn came to Massachusetts in 1644, having lived many years in Virginia. \nHe settled in Cambridge, and was a representative from that town in the House of \nDeputies, of which he was speaker in 1651. He was an assistant from 1652 to 1686, \nand in 1681 he was made major-general of the colony. He died in Cambridge March \n19, 1687. \n\nDaniel Denison, son of Willam, was born in England in 1613, and came to Massa- \nchusetts about 1631, and in 1635 moved to Ipswich from Cambridge, where he first \nsettled. He was major-general of the colony, speaker of the House of Deputies, \njustice of the Quarterly Court, commissioner of the United Colonies, and an assistant \nfrom 1653 to 1682. He died at Ipswich September 20, 16*2. \n\nSimond W ii. lard came to Massachusetts in 1634, and was born about 1605 in \nEngland. He settled in Concord, and afterwards lived in Lancaster, Groton and \nSalem. He was an assistant from 1654 to 1675, and died in Charlestown April 24, \n1676. \n\nHumphrey Atherton came to Massachusetts about 1636 and settled in Dorchester. \nHe afterwards moved to Springfield, and from both Dorchester and Springfield he \nwas a member of the House of Deputies, of which he was speaker in 1653. He was \nmajor-general of the colony, and an assistant from 1654 to 1661, and died in Boston \nSeptember 17, 1661. \n\nRichard Russell came to Massachusetts from Herefordshire, England, in 1640, and \nsettled in Charlestown. He was speaker of the House of Deputies in 1647-8-54-56- \n58, and an assistant from 1659 to 1676. He died at Charlestown, May 1 1, 1676. \n\nJames Russell, son of Richard, was born in Charlestown, October 1, 1640. He was \na Representative in 1679, and an assistant from 1680 to '86, and a member of the \nCounsel of Andros. He died April 28, 1709. \n25 \n\n\n1 94 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nThomas Danforth, son of Nicholas, was born in England in 1622. He was an as- \nsistant from 1659 to 1678, deputy governor from li>7!> to 1686. He was appointed, in \n\n1692, judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, and served until his death, Xovem- \nN 5, 1699. \n\nEl GEN] Bid LOW 11 V.GAR, son of Josiah B. and Mary Ann (Davis) Hagar, was born \nin Cambridge, Mass., September 23, L850, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall \nSchool, and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1*71. He studied law in the \nHarvard Law School, and in the office of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson in Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S74. He was a member of the Boston Common \nCouncil in 1880 81, assistant solicitor in Boston from 1881 to 1884. Helives in Boston. \n\nIIi\\k\\ L. Hallett, son of Benjamin F. and Laura Larned Hallett, was born in \nProvidence, R. I., in 1826, and graduated at Harvard in 1S47. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1850. In IS.\"):', he \nwas appointed by his father assistant United States attorney, and in 1857 was ap- \npointed United States Commissioner by the Circuit Court. In 1879 he was appointed \nsupervisor of elections for the district of Massachusetts. Previous to 1862 all busi- \nness before the United States commissioners, of whom there were several in Boston, \nwas taken to the nearest commissioner, but in that year Richard H. Dana, then United \nStates attorney, made an arrangement with Mr. Hallett, by which the latter estab- \nlished a Commissioner's Court, at which all business of a criminal character has since \nbeen transacted. He married, February 17, 1858, Cora, daughter of George Lovell, \not Barnstable, and died in Boston in 1892. \n\nRobert Sprague Hall, son of Gustavus Yasa and Susan Frances (Frothingham) \n\nHall, was born in Charlestown, Mass. , December 14, 1850, and was educated at the \nChauncy Hall School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1872. After \nstudying law he was admitted to the Suffolk bar August \"2, 1NS7. He has published \npoems, stories, translations, and magazine articles. He is unmarried and lives in \nCharlestown. \n\nThomas Bartlett Hall, son of Joseph, jr., and Maria, daughter of Thomas Bart- \nlett, of Boston, was born in Springfield, Mass., July 0. lie studied law at the Boston University \nLaw School and in the offices of Lyman Mason and George W. Morse in Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S7S. He married Harriet B. Winslow, Septei \n11, 1883, and lives at Norwood, Mass. \n\nJames H. Lange, son of John and Martha E. Lange, was born in Washington, D. \n\nC, January 1*, 1857, and was educated at the public schools of Washington and Phila- \ndelphia. He studied law at the Columbian University, Washington, and was admitted \nto the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, June 'J:J, 1880, and to the Suffolk \nbar April .\">, 1*87. He makes a specialty of patent causes. He married at Stanstead, \nCanada, October 0, 1886, Edith A. Miller, and lives in Boston. \n\nRufus Bigelow Lawrence, son of Luther and Lucy (Bigelow) Lawrence, was born \nin Groton, Mass., July 13, PS14, and attended the Lawrence Academy at Groton, the \nStow Academy and a private school. He graduated at Harvard in 1834, and a \nstudying law with his father was admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1837. \nIn 1 syo he opened an office in Boston, and shortly after, while on a visit to Europe, \ndied at Pau, France, January PL 1841. \n\nSamuel Parker Lewis, son of James and Harriet (Parker) Lewis, was born in Pep- \nperell, Mass., November Hi, 1824, and was educated at the Lawrence Academy at \nGroton and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1844. He studied law at the Harvard \nLaw School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 12, 1849. He began practice \nin Boston, but returned to Pepperell in 1852, In 1874 he opened an office in Aver, \nand in 1875 moved to Groton, returning again to Pepperell in 1880. He married, \nOctober 4, 1870, Catharine, daughter of Jonas Haskins, and Catharine (Marshal' \ntus, a native of Detroit, Mich., and died in Pepperell, November 26, 1882. \n\nPHILLIP J. LlBBY was born in Boston, February \"22, 1861, and was educated at the \nBoston public schools and at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, from which \nhe graduated in 1881. He studied law in the office of Crowley & Maxwell and in the \nBoston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1*86, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nCharles Franklin Light, son of James and Ellen E. Light, was born in Dorches- \nter, and was educated in the public schools of Dorchester and Boston. He attended \nthe Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, February \n2, 1887. He married Jessie G. Cochran, at Natick, Mass., November 2, 1889, and \nlives in Hyde Park. \n\nWilfred B. Rich, son of Ransom and P. Laurette Rich, was born in Jackson, Me., \nApril 21, 1855, and was educated at the Westbrook, Maine. Seminary, and the Maine \nCentral Institute, Pittsfield, Me. He studied law with Albert W. Paine, of Bangor, \n\n\ni96 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nand George E. Johnson, of Belfast, and was admitted to the bar in Bangor, January \n5, 1880, and in Boston, September L5, 1885. He was for a time postmaster of Cam- \nden, Me., and for two years was assistant editor of the Camden Herald. He lives in \nSomerville. \n\nThomas Rice was born in Wiscasset, Me., March 30, 1768, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1791. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow, and was a member of the Suf- \nfolk bar. He went to Winslow, Me., was a member of Congress from 1817 to 1819, \nand died in Winslow, August 24, 1854. \n\nGeorge Edward Rice, son of Henry and Maria (Burroughs) Rice, was born in Bos- \nton, July 10, 1822, and received his early education at the Boston Latin School and at \nthe school of Edmund Lambert Cushing. He graduated at Harvard in 1822, and \nstudied law with Charles G. Loring and William Uehon, and was admitted to the bar \nin Boston, October 27, 1845. He contributed to the North American Review, and \nwas the author of some attractive poems. He married, December 2s, 1857, Tirzah \nMaria, daughter of George W. Crockett, of Boston, and died in Roxbury, August 10, \n1861. \n\nConrad Rf.no, son of Jesse L. and Mary C. Reno, was born at Mount Vernon Ar- \nsenal, Ala., December 28, 1859, and was educated at Shortlidge's Media Academy, \nMedia, Penn., and the Lehigh University. He studied law at the Boston University \nLaw School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. The most noted cases in \nwhich he has been counsel were Eliot vs. McCormick, 144 Mass., 10, and Eustis vs. \nBolles, 140 Mass. He has been a contributor to the American Law Review, and the \nAmerican Law Register, and is now publishing a work on \" Non-residents and For- \neign Corporations.\" He married at Springfield, Mass., April 13, 1887, Susan M., \ndaughter of Rev. Dr. William T. Eustis, and lives in Boston. \n\nFrederick J. Ranlett, son of Charles E. and A. M. Ranlett, was born in Thomas- \nton, Me., November IT, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Robert Dickson Smith, and \nwas admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1884. He has been a member of the Com- \nmon Council in Newton, where he resides, a representative to the General Court in \n1890, and a member of the Newton Republican Ward and City Committee. \n\nGeorge H. Richards, son of Francis and Anne H. (Gardiner) Richards, was born \nin Gardiner, Me., and was educated at Rugby, England, and at Trinity College, \nCambridge, England. He studied law with Horace Gray, and Chandler & Shattuck \nin Boston, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar De- \ncember 4, 1865, and lives in Boston. \n\nWu.iiAM Reuben Richards, son of William Boardman and Cornelia Wells (Walters) \nRichards, was born in Dedham, Mass., July 3, 1853, and was educated at the Boston \nLatin School, Dr. Krause's Institute, Dresden, Germany, and at Harvard College, \nwhere he graduated in 1874. He studied law with Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe \nand at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 11, \n1878. He was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1886 to '88, and is now \none of the trustees of the Boston Library. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. \n\nIvory W. Richardson, son of Nathaniel and Mary Richardson, was born in Wes- \nton, Vt., February 5, 1812, and was educated at the public schools. He studied \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n«97 \n\n\nlaw at Chester, Vt, with Aikin & Richardson, and was admitted to the bar in \nWoodstock, Vt., in June, 1842. After practicing six years in Vermont lie \nmoved to Boston, where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 10, 1848. He \nmarried, at Andover, Vt., in 1832, Abigail Greeley, and at Keene, N. H., in \n1851, Anne B. Dodge. He lives in Chelsea. \n\nJames Bailey Richardson, son of Joel Richardson, was born in Oxford, X. II.. \nDecember 9, 1832, and graduated at Dartmouth in 18.\"»7. He studied law with \nHutehins <&r Wheeler, and was admitted to the bar in Boston February 27, L859. He \nwas early offered seats on the benches of the Boston Municipal Court and the Su- \nperior Court, but he declined both. In 1889 he was appointed by Mayor Hart cor- \nporation counsel of Boston, succeeding Edward P. Nettleton. He was appointed by \nMayor Matthews a member of the Rapid Transit Commission. As corporation coun- \nsel he gave an important opinion concerning the respective rights of the State Legis- \nlature and Congress in the navigable waters of Charles River. In 1884 he was ap- \npointed with ex-Mayor Cobb and James M. Bugbee to revise the city charter. He \nhas been, if he is not now, president of the Alumni of Dartmouth College in Boston \nand vicinity, and is a trustee of the college. He was sixteen years master in chan- \ncery, and was a referee in the important case of the Tremont and Suffolk Mills of \nLowell against the city of Lowell. He has been appointed during the present year \n(1892) judge of the Superior Court and now occupies a seat on the bench. He mar- \nried in 1865 Lucy Crashing, daughter of A. A. Gould, M. D. \n\nWilliam Richardson, son of Asa and Elizabeth (Bird) Richardson, was born in \nBoston, December 2, 1813, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har- \nvard, where he graduated in 1832. After leaving college he was for a year usher in \nthe Mayhew School, and in 1833 attended the Divinity School six months. In ls:-?4 \nhe entered the office of Jeremiah Mason to study law and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1837. He practiced in Boston until his death, which took place in Dorchester, \nJune 6, 1856. He married in Walpole, Mass., June HO, 1836, Almira, daughter of \nDaniel Kingsbury. \n\nWilliam Minard Richardson, son of Roswell Minard and Ann (Hapgood) Rich- \nardson, was born in Portland, Me., December 10, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in \n1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1882. He married Sara J. Hanks at Cambridge, June '27, 1888, and lives in \nCambridge. \n\nElmer Ellsworth Rideout, son of Albert and Harriet S. Rideout, was born in \nCumberland, Me., June 18, 1864, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1886. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, July \n29, 1890. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. \n\nHorace Binney Sargent, jr., son of Horace Binney and Elizabeth Little (Swett) \nSargent, was born in Boston, April 2, 1847, and was educated at the public schools, \nat schools in Europe, and at the Harvard Scientific School. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in the office of Henry W. Paine in Boston, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar September 24, 1872, and to the United States Supreme \nCourt, April 10, 1883- He was assistant city solicitor of Boston from 1879 to 1881, \nand has been active and prominent among the commissioned officers of the Massa- \nchusetts Volunteer Militia. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. \n\n\n198 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam McKinley Osborne, son of Abner and Abigail (Allison) Osborne, was \nburn in Girard, Ohio, April 26, 1842. He was educated at the Poland, Ohio, \nAcademy and at Alleghany College in Meadville; Penn. He enlisted in the Twenty- \nthird Ohio Regiment in the war of 1861 and was discharged on account of injuries \nreceived in the service. He studied law in the office of Sutliff, Tuttle & Stutt in \nWarren, Ohio, and in the law school in Ann Arbor, Mich., and was admitted to the \nbar in 1864 He began practice at Youngstown, Ohio, and was mayor of that city \nm 1ST! and 1875. He removed to Boston in 1880 and was there admitted to the bar. \nHe was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1884-5, and was appointed a \nmember of the Metropolitan Board of Police and still holds that position. He mar- \nried in Boston, April 24, 1878, Frances Clara, adopted daughter of Walter Hastings, \nof Boston. \n\nRobert Carter Pitman, son of Benjamin and Mary Ann (Carter) Pitman, was born \nin Newport, R. I., March 16, 1825. He was educated at the public schools of New \nBedford, at the Friends' Academy, and at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, \nConn., where he graduated in 1845, receiving the degree of LL. D. in 1869. He \nstudied law and was admitted to the bar in New Bedford in 1848, where he practiced \nuntil 1869, associated at different times as a partner with Thomas D. Eliot and Alan- \nson Borden. In 1869 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and remained on \nthe bench until his death. He was a representative in 1858 and a senator in 1864—5, \n'68-9, and the last year was the president of the Senate. He married, in New Bed- \nford, August 15, 1855, Frances R. , daughter of Rev. M. G. Thomas, and died at New- \nton, March 5, 1891. \n\nFrederick Octavius Prince, son of Thomas and Caroline Prince, was born in Bos- \nton, January 18, 1818, and was fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, where \nhe graduated in 1836 as class poet and secretary. He studied law in the office of \nFranklin Dexter and William Howard Gardiner, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- \nton in January, 1840. He early took up his residence in Winchester and was a rep- \nresentative from that town from 1851 to '53, and in 1853 was a member of the Con- \nstitutional Convention. In 1855 he was a member of the Senate, and in 1860, having \njoined the Democratic party on the dissolution of the Whig party, was a delegate to \nthe National Democratic Convention at South Carolina. He was secretary of the \nNational Democratic Committee from that time until 1888. In 1876 he was chosen \nmayor of Boston and re-elected in 1878-81. He was the Democratic candidate for \ngovernor in 1885, and in 1888 was appointed a member of the board to erect a build- \ning for the Boston Public Library. He married, in 1848, Helen, daughter of Bar- \nnard Henry, of Philadelphia, and November 27, 1889, he married for a' second wife, \nat Cambridge, Kate H. Blanc. To him a full share of credit is due for the erection \nof the most notable structure in Boston, in spite of the cavils and criticisms of those \nwho would measure the merit of public buildings by either the profusion of orna- \nmentation on the one hand, or the small amount of money expended in their con- \nstruction on the other. Boston has been fortunate in having a Board of Trustees of \nthe Public Library with good taste and artistic judgment and sufficient backbone to \nfearlessly exercise them. \n\nEdgar Sidney Taft, son of Bezaleel and Lucy M. (Bragg) Taft, was born in \nKcene, N. H., June 30, 1853, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law \n\n\n' si \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER lgg \n\n\nwith Albert R. Hatch, of Portsmouth, N. H., and was admitted to the bar in New \nHampshire, September 1, 1882, and to the bar in Massachusetts, October 30, L882. \nHe practiced law in Boston two years, and after a short time in the employ of the \nPullman Car Company opened an office in Gloucester, Mass., in 1885. \n\nCharles P. Thompson, son of Frederick M. and Susannah (Cheeseman) Thompson, \nwas born in Braintree, Mass., July 30, 1827, and was educated in the public schools \nand in the Hollis Institute of Braintree. He studied law in the office of Benjamin F. \nHallett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1854. In 1857 he removed \nto Gloucester from Boston, where he had practiced in association with Mr. Hallett, and \nhas since that time made Gloucester his residence. In 1885 he was appointed judge \nof the Superior Court, and is now on the bench. He was a representative in is; | -j, \nand from 1874 to 1876 was a member of Congress. In 1880 and 1881 he was the 1 >emo- \ncratic candidate for governor, and in 1877 received the honorary degree of Master of \nArts from Amherst College. He married in 1S01 Abbie Herrick, of Gloucester. \n\nLevi Clifford Wade, son of Levi and Abbie A. (Rogers) Wade, was born in \nAllegheny City, Penn., January 1(5, 1843, and received his early education in the pub- \nlic schools, in the Lewisburg Institute, and with private tutors. He graduated at \nYale in 1866, and was admitted to the bar in 1873. During his practice in Boston he \nwas for three years a partner with J. Q. A. Brackett. He married in Bath, Me., \nNovember 16, 1869, Margaret, daughter of William and Lydia H. (Elliott) Rogers. \nHe was a representative from Newton from 1876 to 1879, and in the last year was \nspeaker. He died March 21, 1891. \n\nHenry Walker, son of Ezra and Maria A. Walker, was born in Boston, and re- \nceived his early education in the public schools and the Boston Latin School. He \ngraduated at Harvard in 1855, and studied law with Hutchins & Wheeler in Boston, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1858. At the beginning of the war he \nenlisted in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment and served three months as adjutant. \nIn the autumn of 1861 he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Regiment, \nand in 1862 as colonel. He was discharged by reason of expiration of service in 1865, \nand resumed the practice of law. In 1877 he was appointed license commissioner, \nand served as police commissioner from 1879 to 1882. He was commander of the \nAncient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1887-88, and visited England to join in \nthe three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Honorable Artillery Company of \nLondon, and during his visit reflected credit, not only on the company under his \ncommand, but our country, of which he was to a certain extent, a representative. \n\nCharles Tilton Duncklee, son of Joseph and Betsey P. (Woodbury) Duncklce, \nwas born in Brighton, Mass., August 29, 1841, and graduated at Harvard College in \n1861. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of David II \nMason in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1863. He married Sarah J. \nBrown in Boston, December 26, 1866, and lives in Brookline. \n\nR. Augustus Duggan, son of William Brazier and Eunice B. (Glover) Duggan, was \nborn in Cjuincy, Mass., September 22, 1845, and was educated at the Middleboro' \nAcademy and at Harvard. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and \nwas admitted to the bar in that year at Dedham. He is unmarried, and livi \nCjuincy, Mass. \n\n\n200 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nRki ben Li i in Roberts, son of Reuben and Jane L. Roberts, was born in Boston \nFebruary 16, 1847, and was educated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. \nHe studied law in Boston with George L. Roberts, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in the autumn of 1871. He makes the management of patent law cases his spe- \ncialty. His home is in Brookline. \n\nGeorge Litch Roberts, son of Reuben and Jane (Litch) Roberts, was born in Bos- \nton December 30, ls;J,(5, and graduated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, \nConn., in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the \noffice of Benjamin R. Curtis, and was admitted to the .Suffolk bar June ?, 1864. He \nhas been counsel in many important patent cases, among which were the \" Pebbling \nmachine cases,\" affecting largely the interests of the leather trade; Woodman vs. \nStimpson, 3 Fisher's Patent Cases 88; Stimpson vs. Woodward, 10 Wall, 117; Wood- \nman Pebbling Machine Company vs. Guild, 4 Clifford 185, and the \" Spindle Cases\" — \nPearl vs. The Appleton Company, 3 Fed. Rep., 153, and various telephone suits. He \nmarried in Middletown, Conn., December 1, 1865, Hinda Barnes, and lives in Boston. \n\n( ) i > i n Barnes Roberts, son of the above, was born in Boston January 22, 1867, and \nwas educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard College, \nwhere he graduated in 1886, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to \nthe bar in Boston in January, 1891, and lives in Boston. \n\nGeorge Augustus Sanderson, son of George W. and Charlotte E. Sanderson, was \nborn in Littleton, Mass., July 1, 1863, and received his early education at the Law- \nrence Academy, Groton, Mass. He graduated at Yale College in 1885 and at the \nBoston University in 1SS7, and was admitted in 1887 to the Suffolk bar. He has been \nchairman and member of the School Committee of Littleton, where he resides, since \n1888, and served repeatedly as moderator of meetings in that town. He is a trustee \nof the Lawrence Academy. \n\nSanford Harrison Dudley, son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, was \nborn in China, Me., January 14, 1S42. His parents removed in 1857 to New Bedford \nand in 1870 to Cambridge. He graduated at Harvard in 1867, and then taught the \nNew Bedford High School three years. He studied law in New Bedford in the office \nof Eliot & Stetson and at the Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1871. He \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar J ly 21, 1871. He has in various ways been con- \nnected with the city government of Cambridge, where he resides, and is president of \nthe Umversalist Club and vice-president of the Universalist Sunday School Union. \nHe married Laura Nye, daughter of John M. Howland, at Fairhaven, Mass., April 2, \n1869. \n\nWilliam H. Drury, son of William E. and Martha K. Drury, was born in Worces- \nter, Mass., January 12, 1842, and graduated at Yale College in 1865. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge, June 3, 1872. \nHe married Mary Peters at Ellsworth, Me., September, 21), 1875, and lives in Walt- \nham. \n\nWalter Hill Roberts, son of Jacob W. and Sophronia P. Roberts, was born in \nCharlestown, Mass., and graduated at Harvard College in 1877. He studied law in \nthe offices of Levi C. Wade and J. 0. A. Brackett and at the Harvard Law School, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He married Alice S. Daniels, of Bos- \nton, October 25, 1883, and lives in Melrose. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 201 \n\nJames Walker Austin, son of William and Lucy (Jones) Austin, was born in Chai \ntown, Mass., January 8, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 7, 1851. He \nhas been justice of the Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Islands and membei \nspeaker of the Hawaiian Parliament. He married, July IS, 1857, Ariana E., daughter \nof John Sherburne Sleeper, of Roxbury, and now lives in Boston. \n\nAmbrose Eastm \\\\\\ son of Philip and Mary (Ambrose) Eastman, was born in North \nYarmouth, Me., April 18, 1834, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1854. lie stud- \nied law with Philip Eastman in Saco, Me., and was admitted to the York county bar \nin Maine in 1858 and afterwards in Boston. He married Charlotte S. Haines in Bid- \ndeford, Me., September 15, 1864, and lives in Boston. \n\nGeorge Warren Copeland, son of Daniel and Eliza (Coburn) Copeland, was born \nin Boston, April 4, 1833, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and received \nan honorary degree of Master of Arts from Amherst College in 1859. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September \"2!), 1858. \nHe was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1863 to 1865, \nand was president for some years of the Boston Butler Club. In law he has been con- \nnected with an important suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and in \nliterature he has been a lecturer of note. He married in Melrose, Mav 8, 1860, Sarah \nA. Shelton, and in Boston in July, is?.\"), Annie Loring Harmon, and died in Maiden, \nMass., May 27, 1892. \n\nWilliam Faxon, Jr., son of William and Henrietta B. (Cross) Faxon, was born in \nCambridge,, Mass. , September 26, I860, and graduated at Harvardin 1883. He stud- \nied law in the Boston University Law School and in the office of A. A. Ranney \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1886. His home is in Boston. \n\nGeorge Zaccheus Adams, son of Charles and Nancy (Robbins) Adams, was born in \nChelmsford, Mass., April 23, 1833, and received his early education in the public \nschools, at the Westford Academy and Phillips Andover Academy. He graduated at \nHarvard in 1856 and studied law in the office of Oliver Stevens in Boston and at the \nHarvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1858. He is \nspecial justice of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston. He married, September \n16, 1861, Joanna F., daughter of Charles and Joan F. (Hagar) Davenport, and lives \nin Boston. \n\nSamuel Nelson Aldrich, son of Sylvanus Bucklin and Lucy Jane (Stoddard) Al- \ndrich, was born in Upton, Mass., February 3, 1838, and was educated at the Worcester \nAcademy, the academy at Southington, Conn., and Brown University. He taughl \nschool in Worcester, Upton and Holliston. He studied law in the office of Isaac I >a- \nvis in Worcester and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Worcester \ncounty bar in 1863. He at once began business in Marlboro, opening an office in Bos- \nton in 1874. He has been many years a member of the School Board of Marlboro, a \nmember of the Board of Selectmen and its chairman, president of the Marlboro Board \nof Trade, president of the Framingham and Lowell Railroad and of the Central Mas- \nsachusetts Railroad. In 1879-80 he was a member of the Senate, in 1881 a Demo- \ncratic candidate for Congress and in 1883 a member of the Massachusetts House of \nRepresentatives. In 1887 he was appointed United States assistant treasurer in I \n20 \n\n\n202 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nton and on his retirement from that position in 1889 he was chosen president of the \nState National Bank in Boston, which position he still holds. He married at Upton \nin L865, Mary }., daughter of J. T. and Eliza A. (Colburn) Macfarland, and lives in \nBoston. \n\nHi \\in Kim; BraleY, son of .Samuel T. and Mary A. Braley, was born in Roches- \nter, Mass. , March 17, 1850, and was educated in the Rochester Academy and the \nPierce Academy, Middleboro, Mass. He studied law in Bridgewater in the office of \nHosea Kingman and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in October, 1873. He al- \nways practiced in Fall River until in 1891 he was appointed judge of the Superior \nCourt. He was city solicitor of Fall River in 1874 and mayor in 1883-83. He mar- \nried in Bridgewater, April 29, 1875, Caroline W., daughter of Philander and Sarah T. \nLeach, and still lives in Fall River. \n\nPhilip Edward Brady, son of Philip and Rose (Goodwin) Brady, was born in Attle- \nboro, Mass., August 10, 1859, and was educated in the public schools. He graduated \nat the Harvard Law School in 1882 and after studying in Attleboro in the office of Geo. \nA. Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. In 188.\") he opened an office in \nNorth Attleboro and was appointed by President Cleveland postmaster of Attleboro. \n\nHeman Merrick Burr, son of Isaac Tucker and Ann Frances (Hardon) Burr, was \nborn in Newton, Mass., July 28, 1856, and received his early education in the public \nschools. He graduated at Harvard in 1877 and studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1884, and entered upon practice \nin Boston. He was a member of the Common Council of Newton in 1887 and 1888, \nand in 1889 mayor of the city. He married in Boston, November 29, 1881, Mary Fran- \nces, daughter of Samuel T. and Mary Hartwell (Barr) Ames. \n\nNapoleon Bi inap vrte Bryant, son of Jeremy Y. and Mercy P. Bryant, was born in \nAndover, N. H., February 25, 1825, and attended at various times the High School \nat Franklin, N. H., and the Boscawen, Concord, Claremont, Gilmanton, New \nLondon and New Hampton academies and Waterville College. At the age of \ntwenty-two he began the study of law in Franklin in the office of Nesmith & Pike and \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848. He was admitted to the bar at Plym- \nouth, N. H., in 1849 and opened an office in Bristol, where he remained until 1853, \nwhen he removed to Plymouth. He was county commissioner for Grafton county \nthree years and afterwards county prosecuting attorney. In 1855 he removed to Con- \ncord, N. H., and became associated with Lyman T. Flint. He was city solicitor for \nConcord three years, member of the Legislature and two years speaker of the House \nof Representatives, and a delegate to the National Republican Convention which \nnominated Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860. In 1860 he moved to Boston and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar December 17 in that year. Besides a practice in the \ncourts lie has engaged in literary pursuits involving much general and special study, \nand has been called upon to deliver lectures in the Lyceum and historical addresses at \ncentennial anniversaries of his native town and of Brandon, Vt. He married in May, \n1*49, Susan M., daughter of Abram Brown, of Northfield, N. H., and while living \npartly in Boston has his legal residence in Andover, N. H. \n\nFr \\\\i is Brooks, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Boot) Brooks, was born in Medford, \nMass., November 1, 1824, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846. His \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n203 \n\n\nname will be found in the Harvard Catalogue as Francis Bootl Brooks, the name he \nbore until 1854, when he dropped his middle name. He was admitted to the bar Jan- \nuary 1, 1848. He married, first, May 6, 1850, Mary Jones, daughter of Ebenezer Chad- \nwick, of Boston, and second, November 29, 1854, Louise, daughter of Henry and Mary \nAnn (Davis) Winsor, of Boston. He died at Medford, October '27, 1891. \n\nLincoln Flagg Brigham, son of Lincoln and Lucy (Forbes) Brigham, was horn in Cam- \nbridge, October 4, 181 9, and fitted at the public schools for Dartmouth College, where he \ngraduated in 1842. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in New Bedford \nin the offices of John H. Clifford and Harrison G. O. Colby, and was admitted to the \nBristol county bar in 1845. After his admission he associated himself with John 11. \nClifford, and the partnership continued until Mr. Clifford was inaugurated governor \nof the Commonwealth in January, 1853. He was appointed district attorney for the \nSouthern District, and continued in office six years. In 1859 he was appointed asso \nciate justice of the Superior Court, established in that year, and in 1869, on the pro- \nmotion of Seth Ames to the Superior Judicial Court, he was made chief justice. In \n1890 he resigned and no man ever left the bench of a Massachusetts court more re- \nspected and beloved. He married, at New Bedford, October 20, 1*47, Eliza Endicott, \ndaughter of Thomas and Sylvia (Perry) Swain, and has many years lived in Salem. \n\nJames Madison Barker, son of John V. and Sarah (Apthorp) Barker, was born in \nPittsfield, Mass., October 23, 1839, and was fitted at various schools and academies \nfor Williams College, where he graduated in I860. He studied law at the Harvard \nLaw School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 13, 1863. He at once opened \nan office in Pittsfield and continued in practice there, associated at different times \nwith Charles N. Emerson and Thomas P. Pengree until 1882, when he was appointed \njudge on the bench of the Superior Court. In 1891 he was promoted to a seat on the \nbench of the Supreme Judicial Court, which he still occupies. He was a member of \nthe Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1872-73, and a commissioner on the \nrevision of the statutes in 1881. He married in Bath, N. Y., September 21, L864, \nHelena, daughter of Levi Carter and Pamelia Nelson (Woods) Whiting. \n\nCaleb Blodgett, son of Caleb and Charlotte (Piper) Blodgett, was born in Dorches- \nter, N. H., June 3, 1832, and received his early education at the Canaan, N. H., Acad- \nemy, and the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth \nCollege in 1856 and afterwards taught for two years the Leominster, Mass., High \nSchool. He studied law in the office of Bacon & Aldrich in Worcester, and was ad- \nmitted to the bar in Worcester in February, 1860. He opened an office in Hopkin- \nton, but afterwards removed to Boston, where he was associated in business with \nHalsey J. Boardman until 1882, when he was appointed judge of the Superior Court. \nIn 1882 he received from Dartmouth the degree of LL. D. He married, December 14, \n1865, at Canaan, N. H., Roxie B., daughter of Jesse and Emily A. (Green) Martin. \n\nChester W. Eaton, son of Lilley and Eliza (Nichols) Eaton, was born in Wakefield, \nMass., January 13, 1839, and was educated in the public schools and at Dartmo \nCollege. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar January 16, 1864. He began to practice in South Reading, now Wakefield, and \nin 1868 opened an office in Boston, continuing to practice in both places. He served \nduring the war as a private in the Fiftieth Massachusetts Regiment and has held in \n\n\n±o\\ HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWakefield the positions of town clerk, collector, and treasurer of the Wakefield Sav- \nings Bank, and many others indicative of the confidence reposed in him by the citi- \nzens of his native town. He married Emma G., daughter of Rev. Giles and Eliza- \nbeth (Thompson) Leach in Rye, N. H., May 14. 186\"8. \n\nJ i si i\\ I )ewey, son of Justin and Melinda(Kelsey) Dewey, was born in Alford, Mass., \nJune 12, 1836, and fitted in Alford and Great Barrington for Williams College, where \nhe graduated in 1858. He studied law in Great Barrington in the office of Increase \nSumner and was admitted to the Berkshire bar in November, 1860. He was a mem- \nber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1862 and 1877, and a member \nof the Senate in 1879. In 1886 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and is \nstill on the bench. He married Jane, daughter of George and Clara (Wadhams) Stan- \nlev in Great Barrington, February 8, 1865. \n\n[ wii.s Robert Dunbar, son of Henry W. and Elizabeth (Richards) Dunbar, was \nborn in Pittsfield, Mass., December 23, 1847, and graduated at Williams College in \n1871. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Westfield in the office of Henry \nM. Whitney, with whom he formed a partnership in 1874. He was in the Senate in \nlss.\") and 1886, and his service and deportment there gave him a reputation which led \nto his appointment in 1888 to a seat on the bench of the Superior Court. He married, \nMay 15, 1875, at Westfield, Harriet P., daughter of George A. and Electa N. (Lin- \ncoln) Walton, and he now resides in Newton. \n\nJohn Wilkes Hammond, son of John AVilkes and Maria Louisa (Southworth) Ham- \nmond, was born in Mattapoisett (then Rochester), December 16, 1887, and fitted at \nthe public schools of his native town for Tufts College, where he graduated in 1861. \nAfter leaving college he taught school in Tisbury, Stoughton, Wakefield and Melrose, \nserving, during an interval, nine months in the Third Massachusetts Regiment. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Sweetser & \nGardner, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1861. He practiced in \nCambridge and was representative in 1872 and '73, city solicitor three years, and was \nappointed in 1886 to the seat he continues to occupy on the bench of the Superior \nCourt. He married in Taunton, August 15, 1866, Clara Ellen, daughter of Benjamin \nF. and Clara (Foster) Tweed, and lives in Cambridge. \n\nWilliam H. Hart, son of William and Elizabeth (Bruce) Hart, was born in Lynn, \nMass., December 22, 1836, and was educated in the public schools. He entered the \narmy in 1862 as a private in the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery and was after- \nwards sergeant and second lieutenant in that regiment. In 1864 he joined the \nThirty-sixth Regiment of Hnited States Colored troops as captain and was promoted \nto lieutenant-colonel, and was for a time assistant adjutant-general and assistant in- \nspector-general in the Twenty-fifth Corps. He studied law in the Harvard Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, June 20, 1874. He is a special justice of \nthe Chelsea Police Court and resides in Chelsea. He married Susan Ju daughter of \nSamuel and Susan (Waterman) Harris, in Springfield, February 1, 1866. \n\nM vrcus P. Knowlton, son of Merrick and Fatima (Perrin) Knowlton, was born in \nWilbraham, Mass., February 3, 1839, and received his early education at the public \nschools and at Monson Academy. He graduated at Yale in 1866, and after leaving \ncollege served a year as teacher of the Union School in Norwalk, Conn. He studied \nlaw in the office of James G. Allen, of Palmer, Mass., and in the office of John Wells \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 205 \n\nand Augustus L. Soule, in Springfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1862, in \nSpringfield, where he has since always lived. In 1881 he was appointed judge of the \nSuperior Court and in 1887 was promoted to the seat on the bench of the Supn \nJudicial Court which he still occupies. He married Sophia, daughter of William \nSaba A. (Cushman) Ritchie at Springfield, July 18, 1867. \n\nHenry Cabot Lodge, son of John Ellerton and Anna (Cabot) Lodge, was born in \nBoston, May 12, 1850. He attended the schools of Thomas Russell Sullivan \nEpes Sargent Dixwell, .and after visiting Europe in lSP>(i he entered Harvard and \ngraduated in 1871. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1875. He entered at once on a literary rather \nthan a legal career, and at various times before 1881 edited the North American \nReview, the International Review, and was employed at Harvard as a lecturer on \nAmerican History. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa- \ntives in 1880 and '81, and since that time, though engaged at intervals on literary \nwork, has trod the paths of politics. He has published \" Lives of Alexander Hamil- \nton and George Washington and Daniel Webster\" in the \"American Statesmen \nSeries,\" and edited the \" Public Life and Letters of George Cabot,\" and the \" Works \nof Alexander Hamilton.\" In 1886 he was chosen member of Congress from the dis- \ntrict which includes Nahant, the place of his residence, and has been chosen by the \nLegislature of 1893 United States senator for six years. In 1878 he was chosen a \nmember of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1879 a trustee of the Boston Athene- \num, in 1880 an honorary member of the Cobden Club, in 1879 delivered the Fourth \nof July oration in Boston, and in 1880 delivered a course of lectures before the Lowell \nInstitute on the English Colonies in America. He married in Cambridge, June '29, \n1871, Anna Cabot Mills, daughter of Rear-Admiral Charles H. Davis. \n\nAlbert Mason, son of Albert T. and Arlina (Orcutt) Mason, was born in Middle- \nboro', Mass., November 7, 1836, and was educated in the public schools and in the \nPierce Academy in Middleboro', After engaging for a time in the manufacturing \nbusiness in Plymouth, he studied law in that town in the office of Edward L. Sher- \nman, and was admitted to the Plymouth bar February 15, 1860. Soon after begin- \nning practice in Plymouth he enlisted as a private in one of two companies raised by \nWilliam T. Davis at the request of Governor Andrew, for the Thirty-eighth Regi- \nment of Massachusetts Volunteers, and was recommended by Mr. Davis for a com- \nmission as second lieutenant in Company F of that regiment. He received the com- \nmission and served until 1865 as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain and assis- \ntant quartermaster. On his return from the army he resumed his practice in Plymouth \nand later opened also an office in Boston and was associated in business in either \nPlymouth or Boston, or both, with Arthur Lord and Benjamin R. Curtis. He was a \nmember and the chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Plymouth from 1S(K> to L873 \ninclusive, and a representative from Plymouth in 187:) and '74. In 1874 he was ap- \npointed a member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners and in that year moved \nfrom Plymouth to Brookline, where he still resides. In 1882 he was appointed judge \nof the Superior Court and in 1891) was appointed to succeed Lincoln Flagg Brigham as \nchief justice of that Court. He married Lydia F. , daughter of Nathan and Experi- \nence (Finney) Whiting at Plymouth, November 25, 1857. \n\nEi.isha Burr Maynard, son of Walter and Hannah (Burr) Maynard, was born in \nWilbraham, Mass., November 21, 1842, and received his early education at the pub- \n\n\n2o6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND EAR. \n\nlie schools. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1867, and studying law in Spring- \nfield, Mass., in the office of George M. Stearns and Marcus P. Knowlton, was ad- \nmitted to the Hampden county bar in 1868. He always practiced in Springfield un- \ntil 1891, when he was appointed judge of the Superior Court. In 1879 he was a mem- \nber of the Massachusetts Hoiise of Representatives and in 1887 and '88 was mayor \nof Springfield, where he still lives. He married Kate C, daughter of Calvin and \nSarah (Townshend) Doty, of Springfield, Penn., August 25, 1870. \n\nBushrod Morse, son of Willard and Eliza (Glover) Morse, was born in Sharon, \nMass., August 24, 1837, and received his early education in the public schools, the \nProvidence Conference Seminary, and the Pierce Academy in Middleboro', Mass. \nHe took part of a course at Amherst College in the class of 1860, leaving college on \naccount of his health. He studied law in North Easton and Boston, and was ad- \nmitted to the bar in Boston November 5, 1864. He has been a member of the School \nCommittee of Sharon, where, though practicing in Boston, he still resides, was a \nrepresentative in 1870, '83 and '84, presidential elector in 1884, and Democratic candi- \ndate for Congress in 1886 and 1890. He is now one of the special justices of the \nSouthern Norfolk District Court. He married Gertie S., daughter of James and \nSarah A. (Loomer) Gertridge, in Windsor, Nova Scotia, September 29, 1871. \n\nJohn Torrev Morse, son of John Torrey and Lucy Cabot (Jackson) Morse, was \nborn in Boston, January 9, 1840, and received his early education at private schools \nin Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1860, and after reading law in the office of \nJohn Lowell in Boston was admitted to the Suffolk bar, August 4, 1862. After prac- \nticing about eighteen years, during which his tastes were leading him into a literary \ncareer, he abandoned the law and has since that time devoted himself to more con- \ngenial work in the field of literature. He has published many works, among which \nmaybe mentioned \" The Law of Banks and Banking,\" \"The Law of Arbitration \nand Award,\" the \" Life of Alexander Hamilton,\" and biographies of Thomas Jeffer- \nson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Benjamin Franklin, published in the \nStatesmen Series. He has been also a frequent and valuable contributor to the pages \nof law and other magazines and to the columns of the daily press. He married \nFanny, daughter of George O. Hovey, of Boston, in 1865, and resides in Boston. \n\nMarcus Morion, a descendant of George Morton, one of the early Plymouth colo- \nnists and son of Nathaniel and Mary (Gary) Morton, was born in Freetown, Mass., \nFebruary 19, 1784, and graduated at Brown University in 1804. He studied law at \nthe Law School iti Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar \nabout 1807, and settled in Taunton, Mass. He was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate \nin 1811, member of Congress from 1817 to 1821, member of the Executive Council in \n1823, and lieutenant-governor in 1824. In 1825 he was appointed by Governor Levi \nLincoln judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and resigned in 1840 to take his seat as \ngovernor of the Commonwealth, a position which he again held in 1843. In 1845 he \nwas appointed by President Polk collector of the port of Boston, and continued in office \nuntil 1848. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and a member \nof the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1858. He received the degree of \nLL.D. from Harvard in 1840. He married in 1807, Charlotte, daughter of James \nHodges, of Taunton, and died in Taunton February 6, 1864. \n\nMarcus Morton, jr., son of Marcus and Charlotte (Hodges) Morton, was born in \nTaunton April 8, 1819, and graduated at Brown University in 1838. He graduated \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 2o7 \n\nalso at the Harvard Law School inl840, and after further pursuing his studies in Hus- \nton in the office of Peleg Sprague and William Gray, was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJuly 12, 1841. In 1850 he removed to Andover and represented that town in the \nConstitutional Convention of 1853, and in the Legislature of 1858. In the latter \nyear he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Suffolk county to succeed \nJosiah G. Abbott, who had resigned, and remained on the bench until the abolition \nof that court in 1859. In the organization of the Superior Court for the Common- \nwealth he was appointed one of the justices, and there he remained until lsudley and \nAndros. He was one of the judges appointed in 1692 to try the witches, and in the \nsame year was appointed judge of probate for Essex county, and one of the judges of \nthe Inferior Court of Common Pleas for that county. He died February 28, 1698 9. \n\nThomas Savage was an assistant in 1680 and 1681. \n\nWilliam Brown was born in Salem in 1639, and was the son of William. He was \nan assistant from 1680 to 1683, and died February 14, 1716. \n\nSamuel Appleton was an assistant from 1681 to 1686. \nRobert Pike was an assistant from 1682 to 1686. \nSamuel Fisher was an assistant in 1683. \nJohn Woodbridge was an assistant in 1683 and 1684. \nWilliam Johnson was an assistant from 1684 to 1686. \n\nJohn Hawthorne, or Hathorne, son of William, was born in Salem about 1641, was \nassistant from 1684 to 1686, and judge of the Superior Court of Judicature from \nAugust 14, 1702, to June, 1712, and'died in Boston May 10, 1717. \n\nElisha Hutchinson, son of Edward, was born in Boston in 1640 and was an assist- \nant from 1684 to 1686. Though a merchant he was appointed, March 3, 1693, chief \njustice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county and remained on \nthe bench until his death, December 10, 1717. \n\nSamuel Sew all, son of Henry, came from England in 1661 at the age of nine vears \nand graduated at Harvard in 1671. He studied divinity and occasionally preached, \nbut probably had no settlement. He was an assistant from 1684 to 1686, and again \nafter the deposition of Andros until-1692. Under the provincial government he was \na member of the Council until 1725. In 1692 he was appointed one of the judges to \ntry the witches, and on the organization of the Superior Court of Judicature he was \nmade one of the associate justices. In 1718 he was appointed to succeed Wait Win- \nthrop as chief justice, and served until 1728, when he resigned both that position and \nthe office of judge of probate for Suffolk county, which he had held since 1715. He \ndied in January, 1730. \n\nIsaac Addington, son of Isaac, was born in Boston January 22, 1645, and was edu- \ncated as a surgeon. He was a member of the House of Deputies and speaker in \n1685. In 1686 he was an assistant, and after the deposition of Andros was made \nsecretary of the colony, an office he continued to hold under the provincial charter \nuntil his death. He was judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk \ncounty from March 3, 1693, to 1702, when he was appointed chief justice of the Su- \nperior Court of Judicature, and remained in office one year. He died March 19, \n1715. \n\nJohn Smith was an assistant in 1686. \n\nOliver Purchase was chosen an assistant in 1685 and declined. \n27 \n\n\n210 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n( )ns Madison Shaw, son of Charles A. and Sophia L. Shaw, was born in Biddef ord, \nMe., December 7, 1857, and graduated at Bqwdoin College in 1881. He studied law \nat the Boston University Law School and in the office of Allen, Long & Hemenway \nin Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He makes patent law a \nspecialty. His residence is in Boston. \n\nEdward Hosmer Savary, sou of Rev. William H. and Anna (Hosmer) Savary, \nwas born in Buffalo, N. V., July 22, 1864, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for \nHarvard, where he graduated in 1888. He studied law at the Harvard Law School \nand in Boston in the offices of Brooks & Nichols and Melville M. Weston, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and to the Circuit Court of the United \nStates January 23, 1892. He was the law editor of the Boston Real Estate Record \nfrom February to May, 1891. He resides in South Boston. \n\nSumner Robinson, son of Charles and Rebecca T. (Ames) Robinson, was born in \nCharlestown, Mass., October 26, 1866, and graduated at Tufts College in 1888. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January \n21, 1891. He is a trustee of Tufts College and lives in Newton. \n\nWilliam Everett Rogers, son of Edward and Charlotte A. (Barron) Rogers, was \nborn in Webster, Mass., July 16, 1854, and was educated at the Hartford, Conn., \nHigh School and Trinity College, from which he graduated in 1877. He graduated \nalso at the Boston University Law School in 1880, and continued his law studies in \nFranklin, N. H., in the office of Daniel Barnard, and in Boston in the office of J. H. \nBenton. He was admitted to the bar at Concord, N. H., in August, 1880, and at \nBoston in November of the same year. He has been a member of the School Board \nin Wakefield, Mass., where he resides, since 1887, and the treasurer of the Beebe \nTown Library in that town since 1886. He married, July 6, 1881, at Tilton, N. H., \nEllen S. Cate, of Franklin, N. H. \n\nJohn Paul Robinson, son of Paul and Nancy (Gage) Robinson, was born in Dover, \nN. H., March 16, 1800, and after fitting at the Exeter Academy entered Harvard in \n1819. He failed to finish his course, but in 1845 received a degree of Master of Arts. \nIn August, 1823, he entered the office of Daniel Webster in Boston as a student, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar July 9, 1827. He established himself in Lowell and \ncontinued in business there, serving as a representative in 1829-31, 1833, '39, and as \nsenator in 1835. He was an eminent Greek scholar and a man of high attainments \nin other fields of literature. He married, October 2, 1837, Nancy, daughter of Ezra \nand Mary (Lang) Worthen, of Lowell, and died at the Insane Asylum, Somerville, \nOctober 19, 1864. \n\nJohn Gerry Robinson, son of Joseph H. and Eliza H. Robinson, was born in \nMarblehead, Mass., November 24, 1860, and was educated chiefly by private tutors. \nHe studied law at the Georgetown Law School, in the office of Merrick & Morris in \nWashington, D. C, at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Hyde, \nDickinson & Howe, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886. His \nresidence is in Melrose. \n\nJohn Jones Clarke, son of Rev. Pitt Clarke, of Norton, Mass., and Rebecca \n(Jones) Clarke, of Hopkinton, Mass., was born in Norton, Mass., February 24, 1803. \nHe was educated at the Norton, Framingham and Andover Academies, and entered \n\n\nii \n\n\n^^^^^V^-^^^^^ \n\n\nBiographical register. \n\n\ni\\\\ \n\n\nHarvard in 1819. In consequence of the rebellion, which occurred during his senior \nyears, he with a large majority of his class failed to receive a degree, but in 1S41 the \ndegree of Master of Arts was conferred on him. He studied law in the ofno \nLaban Wheaton, of Norton, and James Richardson, of Dedham, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar June, 20, 1828. He had previously been admitted in either Norfolk \nor Bristol counties to the Court of Common Pleas in 1826. He established himself in \nRoxbury, and made that place his residence during the remainder of life. In 1848 he \nassociated himself in business with his brother, Manlius Stimson Clarke in Boston, \nretaining, however, his office in Roxbury for some years. On the death of his brother \nin 1853 he was associated for a time with Elias Merwin, and in 1854 with Lemuel \nShaw, jr., with whom he remained until 1863, soon after which time he retired from \nbusiness. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from \nRoxbury in 1836 and 1837, a senator in 1853, and when Roxburv was made a city in \n1846 he was chosen its mayor, declining to serve more than one year. He married \nin 1830 Rebecca Cordis Haswell, and died in the Roxbury District of Boston Novem- \nber 5, 1887. \n\nManlius Stimson Clarke, son of Rev. Pitt and Rebecca (Jones) Clarke, of Norton, \nMass., was born in Norton, October 17, 1816, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin January of the same year, and was associated in business with George Tyler \nBigelow until Mr. Bigelow was in 1848 appointed judge of the Court of Common \nPleas. He then became associated with his brother, John Jones Clarke, who had \npreviously practiced in Roxbury, and this partnership continued until his death, \nwhich occurred in Boston, April 28, 1853. He married, December 1, 1841, Frances \nCordis Lemist, of Roxbury. \n\nEdward Sohier was the son of Edward Sohier, who came to America in 1750 \nfrom St. Martins in the Island of Jersey. The father was born December 27, \n1724, and married in Boston, March 13, 1760, Susannah Brimmer. He died in Maine, \nMay 23, 1794. The son, Edward, was born in Boston in September, 1762, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1781. He studied law in the office of John Lowell, and at a \nmeeting of the Suffolk bar held on the 7th of July, 1784, it was voted, on motion of \nMr. Lowell, \" that Mr. Edward Sohier be recommended by the bar to the Court of \nCommon Pleas this term for the oath of an attorney of that court.\" He married in \n1786, Mary Davies, and died October 28, 1793. \n\nWilliam Davies Sohier, son of Edward and Mary (Davies) Sohier, was born in Bos- \nton, March 14, 1787, and received his early education under Master Pemberton in \nBillerica, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1805, and after studying law with \nChristopher Gore, was admitted to the bar of the Common Pleas Court in July, 1808, \nand to that of the Supreme Judicial Court in March, 1810. He married, June 20, 1809, \nElizabeth Amory Dexter, and died at Cohasset, June 11, 1868. \n\nEdward Dexter Sohier, son of William Davies and Elizabeth Amory (Dexter) \nSohier, was born in Boston, April 24, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1832, and in 1838 formed a partnership \nwith Charles A. Welch, which continued till his death. Mr. Sohier was in many re- \nspects a remarkable man. He was a profound lawyer, full of resources, forcible in \nargument, sharp in repartee, conscientious in his management of cases, and withal \n\n\nHi HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nas has been said \" as witty as Sydney Smith and more agreeable.\" At a meeting \nof the Suffolk bar to pay due tribute to his memory, the presiding officer, Edward \nBangs, said, \"Asa lawyer he stood among the first; as a man, his courtesy, his \nhonesty, his untarnished honor, the severe strictness of his integrity, made him re- \nmarkable, even among associates abounding in such virtues.\" He married, February \n16, 1836, Hannah Louis Amory, and died November 23, 1888. \n\nWilliam Sohier, son of William Davies and Elizabeth Amory (Dexter) Sohier, was \nborn in Boston, March 24, 1822, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. He studied law \nwith Edward D. Sohier in Boston and with Samuel Fessenden and Thomas A. De \nBlois in Portland, Me., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 9, 1843. He \nmarried Susan Cabot, daughter of John Amory Lowell, of Roxbury, Mass., October \n11, 1846, and lives in Beverly, Mass. \n\nWilliam Davies Sohier, son of William and Susan Cabot (Lowell) Sohier, was born \nin Boston, October 22, 1858, and was educated at private schools and at the Massa- \nchusetts Institute of Technology- He studied law at the Harvard Law .School and in \nthe offices of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in June, 1881, and later to the United States Circuit Court. He was a member \nof the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1888 to 1891 from Beverly and \nwas remarkably effective in his opposition to the division of that town. He married \nEdith F. Alden, December 13, 1880, and lives in Beverly. \n\nAugustus E. Scott, son of Rila and Sarah S. Scott, was born in Franklin, Mass., \nAugust is, 1838, and graduated at Tufts College in 1858. He studied law at the Law \nSchool in Albany, N. Y., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 12, 1866, \nhaving been previously admitted to the bar in New York. He was a member of the \nMassachusetts House of Representatives in 1879 and 1880, and a member of the Sen- \nate in 1885 and 1886. He married Cecilia F. Gustine in New Orleans, January 20, 1891, \nand lives in Lexington. \n\nRobert Hermann Otto Schuz, son of Carl H. A. and Caroline (Weckell) Schuz, \nwas born in Boston, April 7, 1866, and was educated at the Dedham public schools \nand the Boston University. He studied law in Boston with W. E. L. Dilloway, and \nin Dedham with Austin Mackintosh, and in the Boston University Law School. He \nwas admitted to the Norfolk county bar at Dedham, May 22, 1888. He was counsel \nfor the defendant in the Commonwealth vs. Philip Hoffman, arrested for the murder \nof Mary Emerson, of Dedham, in June, 1891, in which Hoffman was released from \nimprisonment by the Supreme Court in habeas corpus proceedings. He lives in \nDedham. \n\nAndrew Ritchie, son of Andrew and Isabella (Montgomery) Ritchie, was born in \nBoston, July 18, 1782, and graduated at Harvard in 1802. He studied law with Rufus \nGreene Amory in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1805. In 1808 \nhe was the Fourth of July orator in Boston. He married, March 27, 1807, Maria Cor- \nnelia, daughter of Cornelius Durant, a West India planter, and December 2, 1823, \nSophia Harrison, daughter of Harrison Gray Otis. He died at Newport, R. I., Au- \ngust 7, 1862. \n\nCharles Robertson Saunders, son of Charles Hicks and Mary Brooks (Ball) \nSaunders, was born in Cambridge, Mass., November 22, 1862, and fitted at the Cam- \nbridge High School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1884. He graduated also at \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n213 \n\n\nthe Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January IT, 1888. \nHe was in college president of the Harvard Union, and has been since president of \nthe Cambridge Lyceum. He lives in Cambridge. \n\nDaniel Saunders, son of Daniel and Phoebe F. (Abbott) Saunders, was horn in \nAndover, Mass., and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Josiah G. Abbott and Samuel A. \nBrown in Lowell, and was admitted to the bar in Cambridge, January 1, 184.\"). He \nhas been a member of both houses of the Massachusetts Legislature and mayor of \nLawrence, where he resides. He married at Lowell, October 7, 1846, Mary J. , daughter \nof Judge Edward St. Loe Livermore. \n\nLouis Carver Southard, son of William L. and Lydia Carver Dennis Southard, \nwas born in Portland, Me., April 1, 1854, and was educated at the Portland public \nschools, the Dorchester High School and the Maine State College. He studied law \nwith W. W. Thomas and Clarence Hale in Portland and at the Boston University \nLaw School. He was admitted to the bar in Portland in October, 1877, and later to \nthe bar in Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre. \nsentatives from the Second Bristol District in 1887. He has been an active Republi- \ncan, serving as the president of the Republican Club of Easton, and member of the \nRepublican State Committee. He has been counsel in important cases, among which \nwere the Robert Treat Paine will case and others equally well known. He married \nNellie Copeland, daughter of Joseph and Lucy A. Copeland, of Easton. He has been \nengaged largely in newspaper work and was from 1877 to 1880 editor of the Easton \nJournal. His residence is at North Easton. \n\nWilliam Channing Appleton was born in Boston, October 25, 1812, and graduated \nat Harvard in 1832. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1836, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in August in that year. He died in the Roxbury District \nof Boston, August 8, 1892. \n\nThomas Andrews Watson was born in Boston, December 19, 1823, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1845. He graduated also from the Harvard Law7 School in 1848, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 1849. In 1852 he left Boston and moved to New \nYork, where he became one of the leading real estate lawyers of the city, holding for \nfifteen years prior to his death a place of responsibility in the real estate department \nof the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company. He died in New York city, May \n15, 1892. \n\nJames Ancrum Winslow was born in Roxbury, Mass., April 29, 1839, and graduated \nat Harvard in 1859. In 1865 he appears in the roll of members of the Suffolk bar. He \ndied at Binghamton, N. Y., June 27, 1892. \n\nFrederick Dabney was born at Fayal, Azores, August 9, 1846, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1869. He died \nat Boston July 24, 1892. \n\nArthur Lincoln Allen was born in West Cambridge, Mass., September 28, 1863, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1885. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School \nin 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in that year. He died at Arlington, \nMay 16, 1892. \n\nEdward Mellen was born in Westboro', Mass., in 1802, and graduated at Brown \nUniversity in 1823. He was admitted to the bar in 1828 and settled in Wayland. In \n\n\n2i4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n1847 he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1854 succeeded \nDaniel Wells as chief justice of that court. He remained on the bench until the \nCommon Pleas Court was abolished in 1859, when he settled in Worcester, and died \nin 1875. \n\nMathew James McCafferty was born in Ireland in 1829. He studied law in Low- \nell, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1857. He practiced in Worces- \nter after leaving Lowell, and was appointed judge of the Boston Municipal Court \nJanuary 24, 1883, and died in Boston May 5, 1885. \n\nBenjamin Lynde was born in Salem, September 22, 1666, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1686. In 1692 he went to England and studied law in the Middle Temple, London. \nIn 1697 he returned to Massachusetts with a commission as advocate general of the \nCourt of Admiralty for Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. In 1699 he re- \nmoved from Boston to Salem and continued his residence there until his death. He \nwas appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1712, and in 1729 was \nmade chief justice. He married a daughter of William Browne, of Salem, and died \nJanuary 28, 1749. \n\nBenjamin Lynde, jr., son of Benjamin Lynde above mentioned, was born in Salem, \nOctober 5, 1700, and graduated at Harvard in 1718. He was appointed in 1739 judge \nof the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Essex county, and in 1S45, the year of his \nfather's resignation as chief justice of the Superior Court of Judicature, he was made \na justice of that court. In 1769 he was made chief justice and resigned in 1771. After \nleaving the bench he was appointed judge of probate for Essex county, and held that \nposition until his death, which occurred October 9, 1781. \n\nStephen Sewall, son of Stephen Sewall, of Newbury, and nephew of Chief Justice \nSamuel Sewall, was born in Salem, December 18, 1704, and graduated at Harvard in \n1721. After leaving college he taught school in Marblehead and served as tutor at \nHarvard College from 1728 to 1739. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court of \nJudicature in 1739, and in 1752 was made chief justice to succeed Paul Dudley. He \ndied unmarried, September 10, 1760. \n\nPeter Oliver, son of Daniel, was born in Boston, March 26, 1713, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1730. He early established himself in Middleboro', Mass., and occupied \na seat on the bench of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth county \nfrom 1747 to 1756. On the 14th of September, 1756, he was appointed judge of the \nSuperior Court of Judicature, and in 1771 was made chief justice to succeed Benjamin \nLynde, jr., who had resigned. In 1774, by a modification of the charter, the salaries \nof the judges were made payable by the crown and the salary of the chief justice \nwas increased to £400. All the judges except Oliver, yielding to popular clamor, re- \nfused to receive their salaries from the crown, and notwithstanding the expressed \nwishes of the Legislature, he continued his refusal to decline accepting any grant \nexcept from the General Court. In 1775 he left the bench and went to England when \nthe British troops evacuated Boston in 1776, and died at Birmingham, England, \nOctober 13, 1791. During his residence in England he received the degree of LL. D. \nfrom the University of Oxford. \n\nPeter Oliver, son of Dr. Daniel Oliver, was born in Hanover, N. H., in 1821, and \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842. \"He was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nMay 7, 1844, and died in 1855, while on a voyage which he had undertaken for his \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 2I$ \n\nhealth. He left the manuscript of \"The Puritan Commonwealth,\" which was pub- \nlished in 1856 by his brother, F. E. Oliver. \n\nJohn Walley, son of Rev. Thomas Walley, was born in Barnstable in 1644, and \nwas an assistant in the Plymouth colony from 1684 to 1686. He was one of the \nfounders of the town of Bristol, and was appointed in 1700 a judge of the Superior \nCourt of Judicature, remaining on the bench until his death, which occurred in Bos- \nton January 11, 1712. \n\nJohn Saffin was born in England, and coming to New England about 1650 settled \nin Scituate. He afterwards removed to Boston, and was speaker of the House of \nDeputies in 1686. In 1688, or about that time, he removed to Bristol, and was ap- \npointed judge of probate for Bristol county, after the accession of William and Mary, \nholding the office until 1702. In 1701 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court \nof Judicature and held the office one year. He married three wives — first in 1668, \nMartha, daughter of Thomas Willet ; second in 1680, after he removed to Boston, \nElizabeth, widow of Peter Lidget, and third Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Lee, of \nBristol. He died at Bristol July 29, 1710. \n\nJonathan Curwin was born in Salem in November, 1640, and always had his resi- \ndence there. He was appointed in 1692 one of the judges of the court to try the \nwitches in the place of Nathaniel Saltonstall who had declined. In the same year he \nwas appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Essex county, and \nheld that office until 1708, when he was appointed one of the judges of the Superior \nCourt of Judicature. In 1715 he resigned, and died in June, 1718. \n\nNathaniel Thomas, son of Nathaniel and Deborah (Jacob) Thomas, of Marshfield, \nwas born in Marshfield about 1665. He was the great-grandson of William Thomas, \none of the merchants of London who assisted the Pilgrims in their enterprise and who \ncame to New England and settled in Marshfield in 1630. He was evidently bred as a \nlawyer, and in 1686 took the oath as an attorney of the Superior Court. He was a \njudge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth county from 1702 to 1712, \nwffien he was appointed to a seat on the bench of the Superior Court of Judicature, \nwhich he resigned in 1718. Judge Washburn in his Judicial History of Massachusetts \nerrs in stating that Gen. John Thomas of the Revolution was a descendant of Na- \nthaniel. The general belonged to an entirely distinct Thomas family and was de- \nscended not from William, the ancestor of Nathaniel, but from John, who came an \norphan in the ship Hopewell from London in 1635 and also settled in Marshfield. \nThe only connection between the descendants in the present generation of the two \nancestors William and John, arises from the marriage of Gen. John Thomas with \nHannah Thomas, a granddaughter of Judge Thomas, the subject of this sketch. \nJudge Thomas, the subject of this sketch, died in 1718, the year he left the bench. \nHe married in 1694, Mary, daughter of John Appleton, of Ipswich. \n\nEdmund Quincy, son of Edmund Quincy, of Braintree, was born in Braintree, Oc- \ntober 24, 1681. He graduated at Harvard in 1699. In 1713 he was commissioned \ncolonel of the Suffolk regiment, was many years a representative, and in 1715 was \nchosen a member of the Council. In 1718 he was appointed a judge of the Superior \nCourt of Judicature, and held that seat until his death. He was appointed in IVM an \nagent of Massachusetts, and went to England in the performance of his duties touch- \n\n\n216 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ning the boundary line between the provinces of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. \nHe was inoculated for the small-pox in London, and died of the disease February 23, \n\n1 for* \n1 I ill . \n\nJohn Cushing was born in Scituate in 1662. In 1702 he was appointed chief justice \nof the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth county, and held his seat until \n1728, when he was appointed to a seat on the Superior Court bench, which he occu- \ndied until 1733. He died at Scituate in 1737. \n\nJonathan Remington was born in Cambridge about 1677, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1696. He was appointed chief justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas \nfor Middlesex county in 1713 to succeed John Phillips, and in 1731 was made judge of \nprobate for that county. In 1733 he was made judge of the Superior Court of Judi- \ncature and remained on the bench until his death, which took place September 20, \nL745. \n\nThomas Greaves was born in Charlestown in 1684, and graduated at Harvard in \n1703. He was a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex county \nfrom 1733 to 1738 and from 1739 to 1747. During the year 1738 he occupied a seat on \nthe Superior Court bench. He died June 19, 1747. \n\nNathaniel Hubkard graduated at Harvard in 1698, and for many years resided in \nBristol. He was a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Bristol county \nfrom 1728 to 1745, and in the latter year was promoted to the bench of the Superior \nCourt. In 1729 he was appointed by Nathaniel By field deputy judge of admiralty \nfor Bristol county in Massachusetts, and the colony of Rhode Island and the Narra- \nganset country. He died in 1747, while occupying his seat on the Superior bench. \n\nJohn Cushing, son of Judge John Cushing, previously mentioned, was born in Scit- \nuate in 1695, and always made that town his place of residence. From 1746 to 1763 \nhe was a member of the Council, and from 1738 to 1746 judge of probate for Plymouth \ncounty. From 1738 to 1747 he was one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas \nfor Plymouth county, and in the latter year was made a judge of the Superior Court \nof Judicature. He resigned his seat in 1771, and died in 1778. \n\nChambers Russell, son of Daniel Russell, was born in Charlestown in 1713, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1731. From 1747 to 1752 he was one of the judges of the \nCourt of Common Pleas for Middlesex county, and a member of the Council in 1759 \nand 1760. He was also appointed in 1747 judge of vice-admiralty over New Hamp- \nshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He early in life established himself in Con- \ncord and represented that town in the General Court. He was appointed judge of the \nSuperior Court in 1752 and remained on the bench until his death, which occurred in \nGuilford, England, November 24, 1766. Judge Russell was one of the few judges up \nto his time educated in the law. \n\nEdmund Trowbridge was born in Newton in 1709, and graduated at Harvard in \n1727. He was trained as a lawyer and in 1749 was appointed attorney-general of the \nProvince. In 1764 and 1765 he was a member of the Council, and in 1767 was ap- \npointed a judge of the Superior Court of Judicature. He resigned in 1775 and died \nat Cambridge, April 2, 1793. \n\nFoster Hutchinson, a brother of Governor Thomas Hutchinson and son of \nThomas, a merchant of Boston, was born in Boston about 1702 and graduated at \n\n\n-'■>' g \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 217 \n\nHarvard in 1721. Though a merchant he was appointed judge of the Inferior \nCourt of Common Pleas for Suffolk in 1758, and remained in that court until 1771, \nwhen he was promoted to the Superior Bench. In 1709 he was appointed judge of \nprobate for Suffolk county, and retained this office together with bis scat on the \nbench until the Revolution when he went to England with other loyalists and there \ndied. \n\nNathaniel Ropes was born in Salem, May 20, 1726, and graduated at Harvard in \n174.'). He was a member of the Council from 1762 to 1709, and in 1701 was appointed \njudge of probate for Essex county and chief justice of the Court of Common Picas for \nthat county. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1 772, \nand remained on the bench until his death, March 18, 1774. \n\nWilliam Ci suing, son of John Cushing already mentioned, was born in Scituate, \nMarch 1, 1732, and graduated at Harvard in 1751. He studied law with Jeremiah \nGridley in Boston, and settled in Pownalboro, Me., in 1755. In 1760 he was appointed \njudge of probate for Lincoln county, and in 1772 was appointed judge of the Superior \nCourt, retaining his seat through the Revolution and being appointed in 1777 chief \njustice, a position which he continued to hold in the Supreme Judicial Court after its \nestablishment in 17S2. In 1789 he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court \nof the United States. In 1790, on the resignation of Chief Justice Jay, he was ap- \npointed as his successor, but declined, remaining however on the bench as associate \njustice until his death, which occurred at Scituate, September 13, 1810. \n\nWilliam Browne was born in Salem, February 27, 1737, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1755. He was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Essex county from 1770 \nto 1774 and many years a representative from Salem. He was appointed judge of \nthe Superior Court of Judicature in 1774 and at an earlier date he had been collector \nof the port of Salem. He remained on the bench until the Revolution, when he left \nthe country and was made governor of Bermuda. He died in England, February \n13, 1802. \n\nCharles Devens, son of Charles and Mary (Lithgow) Devens, was born in Charles- \ntown, April 4, 1820, and graduated at Harvard in 1838. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School, where he graduated in 1840, and in the office of George T. Davis \nin Greenfield, and was admitted to the Franklin county bar in 1841. After his ad- \nmission to the bar he was associated with Mr. Davis in business until 1849, represent- \ning Franklin county in the Senate in 1848. Fr*om 1849 to 1853 he held the posi- \ntion of United States marshal for Massachusetts, and in 1854 resumed the practice of \nlaw in partnership with George F. Hoar in Worcester. While he was marshal it \nbecame his duty to execute the process remanding to his alleged owner Thomas \nSims, a fugitive slave, and until the war came on he made unavailing efforts to \npurchase the freedom of the man he had officially aided in returning to slavery. \nAfter the emancipation proclamation had freed Sims, Mr. Devens assisted him, and \nwhen attorney-general of the United States, during the administration of President \nHayes, gave him a place in his department. In April, 1861, he took command of a \nrifle battalion for three months' service and was posted at Fort McHenry in Balti- \nmore harbor. On his return home he was commissioned colonel of the Fifteenth \nRegiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, raised for three years' service, and was en- \n28 \n\n\n2i8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ngaged in the battle of Balls Bluff, where after the death of Colonel Baker he was left \nin command. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers April 15, 1862, and was \nengaged in the battles of Williamsburg, Fairoaks, South Mountain and Antietam. \nAt the battle of Chaneellorsville he commanded a division of the Eleventh Corps, \nand in 1864-5 he was attached to the Eighteenth Corps. In December, 1864, he was \nin command of the Twenty-fourth Corps, and in April, 1865, was brevetted major \ngeneral. He remained in the service until June, 1866, when he was mustered out. \nIn 1867 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and remained on the bench of \nthat court until 1873, when he was made judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. In \n1877 he left the bench to take the office of attorney-general of the United States, and \nwas reappointed to the bench in 1881, after his retirement from the cabinet. On the \n17th of June, 187.\"), he delivered an oration at the celebration of the two hundredth \nanniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, which gave him a leading position as an \norator. In 1877 he received from Harvard the degree of LL.D. He died in Boston \nJanuary 7, 1891. \n\nSi/ih Ames, son of Fisher Ames, was born in Dedham, Mass., April 19, 1805. His \nmother was Frances, a daughter of Colonel John Worthington, of Springfield, Mass. \nHe graduated at Harvard in 1825. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and \nin Springfield in the office of George Bliss, and in Boston in the office of Lemuel \nShaw. He was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Dedham in 1828 and to the \nSupreme Court in Cambridge in October, 1830, and began to practice in Lowell, \nwhere for a time he was associated with Thomas Hopkinson. He was a member of \nthe Lowell Board of Aldermen in 16-o7, '40, a representative in 1832 and a senator \nin 1841. He was also city solicitor from 1842 to 1849. In 1849 he was appointed \nclerk of the courts for Middlesex county and removed to Cambridge. When the Su- \nperior Court was established in 1859 he was appointed an associate judge, and in 1867 \nsucceeded Charles Allen as chief justice. In 1869 he was promoted to the bench of \nthe Supreme Judicial Court and removed to Brookline. He resigned his seat Jan- \nuary 15, 1881, and died in Brookline, August 15, in the same year. He married in \n1830 Margaret, daughter of Gamaliel Bradford, of .Boston, and in 1849 Abigail Fisher, \ndaughter of Rev. Samuel Dana, of Marblehead. \n\nWilliam Sewall Gardner was born in Hallowell, Me., October 1, 1827, and gradu- \nated at Bowdoin College in 1850. He studied law in Lowell and was admitted to \nthe Middlesex bar in October, 1852. Lie began practice in Lowell, associated with \nTheodore H. Sweetser, and remained there until 1861, when he removed his office \nto Boston. In 1875 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court, and in 1885 he \nwas promoted to the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court. He resigned on the 7th \nof September, 1887, and died at his home in Newton, April 4, 1888. \n\nAbraham Moore was born in Bolton, Mass., January 5, 1785, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1806. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow in Groton, Mass., and after \nadmission to the bar began to practice in that town. He was postmaster of Groton \nfrc m 1812 to 1815, when he removed to Boston, where he remained until his death, \nJanuary '■'>, 1854. He married first Mary (.Mills), a double widow of a Mr. Barnard \nand a Mr. Woodham. .She had been an actress, and in consequence of her husband's \nfinancial troubles, returned to the stage and appeared in Boston as Lady Teazle. \nTwo rr, son of Ralph Smith and Nancy (Williams) Dorr, was born in Louis- \nville, Ky., January 1, 1842, and after attending the Roxbury, Mass., Latin School, \nentered Harvard and graduated in 1864. He studied law at the Boston University \nLaw School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1874. His business is \nchiefly connected with trusts and corporation affairs. He married Anne Isabella \nKennedy in Roxbury, September 17, 1867, and lives in the Dorchester District of \nBoston. \n\nEdward Warren Cate, son of Hiram S. and Caroline P. Cate, was born in New- \nton (Lower Falls), March 18, 1852, and fitted at the public schools for Harvard, where \n\n\nBiographical register. 22I \n\nhe graduated in 1874. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was acini: \nto the Middlesex bar July 8, 1878. He has been councilman, alderman, and president \nof the Water Board in Newton. He married Mary Louise Doty at Keene, X. II., \nOctober 25, 1883, and lives in Boston. \n\nJohn Melville Gould, son of John B. and Caroline E. Gould, was born in Marsh- \nfield, Mass., July 4, 1848, and graduated at Brown University in 1871. He studied \nlaw in England and at the Harvard and Boston University Law Schools, fend was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar December 12, 1874. He is the author of \" The Law of Wa- \nters \" and associate author of Gould & Tucker's \"Notes on United Stales Revised \nStatutes,\" and editor of the 9th and 10th volumes of Story's Equity Pleadings. His \nresidence is in Newton. \n\nNelson M. Graffam was an attorney in Boston in 1890, and died in December, \n1891. \n\nAmbrose Wellington, son of Benjamin Oliver and Mary (Hastings) Wellington, \nwas born in Lexington, Mass., April 11, 1819, and attended the Lexington public \nschools, the academy at Stow under the charge of Leonard Bliss, and the Fairmount \nSeminary in Watertown, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1841 and after teach- \ning several years, a part of the time as master of the Smith School in Boston, he \nstudied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1857, confining his \npractice chiefly to conveyancing and real estate matters. He married Lucy lane, \ndaughter of William Kent, of Concord, N. H., May \"27, 1845. With impaired health \nhe retired some years since from practice and now lives with a daughter in the city \nof New York. \n\nCharles Frederick Simmons, son of Judge William and Lucia (Hammatt) Simmons, \nwas born in Boston, January 27, 1821. After receiving a common school education \nhe was fitted for college in the Boston Latin School and under the direction of his \nbrother, Rev. George Frederick Simmons, and entered Harvard in 1N37. In his sen- \nior year he was expelled from college as an alleged leader in a rebellion in which his \nentire class was involved, but receired his degree in 185.\"). He studied law with Da- \nvid A. Simmons and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1845. Early in \nthe war he was commissioned adjutant of the Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment, \nbut ill health compelled him to resign. For expected benefits fron»a warm climate \nhe sailed from Boston for Santiago, Cuba, February 25, 1862, in the brig Gypsy, of \nwhich no tidings were ever heard. \n\nChristopher Gore Ripley, son of Rev. Samuel and .Sarah Alden (Bradford) Ripley, \nwas born in Waltham, Mass., September 6, 1822, and was educated for college by his \nfather and mother, both of whom were accomplished educators. He entered the \nsophomore class at Harvard in 1838 and graduated in 1841. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in the offices of Franklin Dexter and William H. Gardiner, \nand was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1844. In 1855 he removed to \nBrownsville, Minn., and in 1856 to Chatfield in the same State, and in 1*70 was ap- \npointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota. He resigned in is; I mid \nreturned to Concord, Mass., where he remained in poor health until his death, which \noccurred October 15, 1881. He married, December 14, 1863, Mrs. Fanny Cage, a \ndaughter of Gideon Horton, of New Orleans. \n\n\n222 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nSami i.i Fosteb McCleary, son of Samuel Foster and Maria Lynde (Walter) Mc- \nCleary, was born in Boston, July 14, 1822, and received his early education at the \npublic schools of Boston and the Boston Latin School, receiving the Franklin medal. \nHe graduated at Harvard in 1841 and at the Harvard Law School in 1843, complet- \ning his studies in Boston in the office of John A. Andrew, and being admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 9, 1*44. He succeeded his father as city clerk of Boston and \nheld the office thirty-one years, his father having held it thirty years. In 1883, fail- \ning a re-election, he was appointed manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society \nof Boston, but resigned in 1888. He has been trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank, \nsecretary of the Hunker Hill Monument Association, and is now treasurer of the \nFranklin Fund for the benefit of young mechanics. He married, February 1, is.\").\"., \nEmily Thurston, daughter of Captain James Henry and Eliza Lawrence (Farris) \nBarnard, of Nantucket, Mass., and lives in Brookline. \n\nAbraham Jackson, son of Abraham and Harriet Otis (Goddard) Jackson, was born \nin Plymouth, Mass., January 31, 1821. He was fitted for college at the High School \nin Plymouth, and graduated at Harvard in 1841. He studied law in Baltimore and \nat the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1845. \nHe died unmarried in Boston January 21, 1889. \n\nWickham Hoffman, son of Murray and Frances Amelia (Burrall) Hoffman, was \nborn in the city of New York, April G, 1821, and was fitted for college at private \nschools. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and after studying law was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar May 23, 1848, having previously spent a year or two in the business \noffice of his uncle, L. M. Hoffman, in New York. During the war he held commis- \nsions as captain and major, and was appointed in February, 1862, on the staff of \nBrigadier-General Thomas Williams and in that capacity he served in the Hatteras \ncampaign. Fie participated in the capture of New Orleans, in the battle of Baton \nRouge and in the siege of Port Hudson. On returning to Washington with the \nbrevet of colonel he was appointed in October, 1866, assistant secretary of legation at \nParis under General John A. Dix, and in January, 1867, full secretary. He remained \nin Paris attached to the legation until January, is?\"), when he was appointed secre- \ntary of legation to the court of St. James. Remaining in London two years he was \ntransferred in May, 1877, as secretary of legation to St. Petersburg and remained \nthere six years. In March, 1883, he was appointed Minister to Denmark, which post \nhe held until 1885. He published in 1877 a volume entitled \"Camp, Court and \nSiege: a narative of personal adventure during the wars, 1861-65 *and 1870-71,\" and \nin 1883 \"Leisure Hours in Russia.\" He married, May 14, 1844, Elizabeth Baylies, \nof Taunton, and resides in New York. \n\nGeorge Whiting Hay, son of Joseph and. Bathsheba (Whiting) Hay, was born in \nBoston, June 29, 1820, and fitted for college at private schools. He graduated at \nHarvard in 1841, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of \nSidney Bartlett, and was admitted to the bar. He removed early to Ashburnham, \nMass., and there lived until his death, August 24, is?!t. \n\nFranklin Hail, son of Jesse and Sarah D. (Wiswall) Hall, was born in East Cam- \nbridge, Mass., August 8, 1822, and attended the Cambridge public schools and the \nFramingham Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and graduated at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1S44, and after a short time in the office of JohnC. Dodge in Bos- \n\n\n. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 223 \n\nton, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 6, 1845. He was a member of the Mas- \nsachusetts House of Representatives m 1854 and 1856, and a member of the Cam- \nbridge School Board in 1859 and 1860. He married Jane W. Morse, daughter of \nuel F. Morse, of Boston, ( (ctober 15, 1863, and died in Dorchester August 6, 1868. \n\nJames Trecothick Austin, son of Jonathan Loring and Hannah (I vers) Austin, was \nborn in Boston January 10, 1784, and was educated before entering college at the \n\nprivate school of Caleb Bingham, in the Boston Latin School and at Andover. He \ngraduated in 1802 at Harvard, studied law with William Sullivan, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in July, 1805. In 180? he was appointed by Governor Sullivan \nattorney of the State for Suffolk county, and in 1809 town advocate, in 1811 \nhe was reappointed attorney of the State, or county attorney. In 1816 he was \nappointed by President Madison to manage the business under the 41st article \nof the treaty of Ghent, and in 1820 he was a member of the Massachusetts \nConstitutional Convention. He continued to act as county attorney until 1832, \nand in 1825-26 and 1831 he was a member of the State Senate. When the office \nof solicitor-general was abolished and the office of attorney-general created in \n1832 he was appointed by Governor Lincoln to that office and held it until it was \nabolished in 1843. In 1831 he delivered the annual Phi Beta oration, and in 1835 re- \nceived the degree of LL.D. from Harvard. He published the life of his father-in- \nlaw, Elbridge Gerry, two Fourth of July orations, one at Lexington in 1815 and one \nin Boston in 1829, and was a frequent contributor to the Christian Examiner, and the \nLaw Reporter, and other magazines. He married, October 2, 1806, Catharine, \ndaughter of Elbridge Gerry, of Boston, and died in Boston, where he had always re- \nsided, May 8, 1870. \n\nIvers James Austin, son of James Trecothick and Catharine (Gerry) Austin, was \nborn in Boston, February 14, 1808, and graduated at West Point in 1828. He was \nbrevetted second lieutenant of artillery, July 1, 1828; and resigned November 8, 1828. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the Common Pleas Court April 11, 1831, and in \nthe Supreme Judicial Court April 3, 1833, having studied law in the office of his father. \nHis military tastes led him into the volunteer militia and he passed through the sev- \neral grades from adjutant to lieutenant-colonel. He was a member of the Massa- \nchusetts House of Representatives in 1838, a visitor at West Point in 1842, and he re- \nceived from Harvard in 1852 the degree of Master of Arts. He published a memoir \nof Prof. Wm. W. Mather in 1883, and died at Newport, June 11, 1889. \n\nElbridge Gerry Austin, son of James Trecothick and Catharine (Gerry) Austin, \nwas born in Boston, October 10, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1832 in the Common Pleas Court, and to the Middlesex \nbar in the Supreme Court in October, 1834. He practiced in Boston until 1850, when \nhe removed to San Francisco. While on a visit to Massachusetts he died at Nahant, \nJuly 23, 1854. \n\nJohn Downes Austin, son of William and Hepzibah (Downes) Austin, was born \nBoston, February 10, 1827, and after living in Boston, Roxbury, Lowell, Dedham, \nRavenwood, La., and Columbia, Tenn. , he fitted for Harvard at the school of Stephen \nMinotWeld at Jamaica Plain, near Boston, and graduated in 1846. He studied law in \nthe Harvard Law School, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1848, and in Boston in the \n\n\n224 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\noffice of Bradford Sumner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. In 1850 lie removed \nto Taunton and was associated a short time in practice with Horatio Pratt. In 1853 \nhe removed to New York, but returned to Boston in 1854 and continued in practice \nthere until his death. On the 25th of February, 1861, he visited New York, and on \nthe night of the 28th disappeared. On the 1st of March his hat was found in Bronx \nriver, near Williamsbridge, and his shirt on the bank. On the 11th of April his body \nwas found in a pond at White Plains. It may be inferred that his death occurred Feb- \nruary 28, 1861. \n\nGeorge Howard Fall, son of George H. and Rebecca G. (Howard) Fall, was born \nin Maiden, Mass., October 19, 1858. He attended the Maiden High School and the \nBoston University, and studied law at the Boston University Law School. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1887, and is, or has been, a lecturer in the Col- \nlege of Liberal Arts and in the Boston University Law School. He married, Septem- \nber 17, 1884, Anna Christy, and lives in Maiden. \n\nAnna Christy Fall, daughter of William and Margaret Christy, was born in Chel- \nsea, Mass., April 23, 1855, and was educated at the Chelsea High School and the Bos- \nton University. She graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1891,, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. She married George Howard Fall, \n.September 17, 1884, and lives in Maiden, where she is now serving a three years term \non the School Board. \n\nCharles Gersham Fall, son of Gersham Lord and Rowena Powers Moody Fall, was \nborn in Maiden, Mass., June 22, 1845, and was fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for \nHarvard, where he graduated in 1868. He studied law at the Harvard Law School \nand in Boston in the office of W. A. Richardson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1869. He has been interested in the establishment of an arbitration board and the \nEmployer's Liability Act, and has been engaged in various important suits for dam- \nages against railroad companies. He has published two books of poems and \" Fall on \nEmployer's Liability.\" His residence is in Boston. \n\nRufus G. Fairbanks, son of William and Mary P. (Hayward) Fairbanks, was born \nin Bellingham, Mass., July 11, 1859, and was educated at the Medway High School \nand the Wesleyan Academy. He studied law in the office of Thurston, Ripley & \nCompany, of Providence, R. I., and graduated at the Boston University Law School \nin 1884. He was admitted to the Norfolk county bar at Dedham in 1891, and prac- \ntices in Boston and West Medway. His residence is at Caryville. \n\nJames Henry Flint, son of James and Almira Flint, was born in Middleton, \nMass., June 25, 1852, and was fitted at Phillips Academy, Andover, for Harvard, \nwhere he graduated in 1876. He studied law in New York city with Stanley, Clark \n& Smith, and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in June, 1882. He taught the High School in Marblehead, Mass., from 1876 to \n1880, has been a member of the School Board of Weymouth, where he lives, and is \na special justice of the East Norfolk District Court. He has published \"Flint on \nTrusts and Trustees,\" and is engaged in preparing other works for the press. He \nmarried Abbie A. Pratt at Weymouth, November 19, 1889. \n\nWilliam Franklin Griffin, son of James S. and Sarah E. Griffin, was born in \nWindsor, Me., June 13, 1838, and while attending school in Illinois he entered the \narmy and served through the war. After his discharge he studied law at Bellows \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 225 \n\nFalls, Vt., in the office of J. D. Bridgman and at the Harvard Law School, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1869. He married Abbie W. Spiller at Haver- \nhill, Mass., in 1872, and his home is in the West Roxbury District of Boston. \n\nJohn C. Dodge was born in Newcastle, Me., in L810, and graduated at Bowdoin \nCollege in 1834. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1842, and made a \nspecialty of maritime law. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Rep- \nresentatives and a member of the Senate. He was president of the Board of Over- \nseers of Bowdoin and received from that college in 1875 a degree of LL.D. He \nmarried Lucy Sherman, of Edgecomb, Me., in 1843, and died at Cambridge, July \n\n17, 1890. \n\nEdward St. Li if. Livermore, son of Samuel and Jane (Browne) Livermore, was \nborn in Portsmouth, N. H., April 5, 1762. His father was chief justice of the Su- \nperior Court of \"New Hampshire. He was educated at Londonderry and Holder- \nness, N. H., and studied law in Newburyport in the office of Theophilus Parsons. \nHe began to practice in Concord, N. H., and afterwards removed to Portsmouth \nand was appointed United States district attorney and chief justice of the Superior \nCourt. In 1802 he removed to Newburyport and was a member of Congress. In \n1811 he removed to Boston, and in 1815 to Zanesville, Ohio, but returned to Boston \nand finally settled in Tewksbury, where he died September 15, 1832. He married \nin 1799 Sarah Crease, daughter of William Stackpole, of Boston. \n\nEdward Brooks, son of Peter C. Brooks, was born in Boston in 1793, and gradu- \nated at Harvard in 1812. He studied law in Boston in the office of his uncle, Ben- \njamin Gorham, and was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston in 1815 \nand to the Supreme Judicial Court December 23, 1818. He was a representative \nfrom Boston in 1834, '37, '42, and finally removed to Medford, where he died in \n1878. \n\nGorham Brooks, son of Peter C. Brooks, was born in Medford, February 18, \n1795, and fitted at Phillips Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 1814. He \nstudied law in Northampton with Joseph Lyman, but the editor is not certain that \nhe was ever admitted to the bar. He died in Medford, September 10, 1855. He \nmarried a daughter of R. D. Shepherd, of Shepherdstown, Va. \n\nWilliam Austin was born in Charlestown, Mass., March 2, 1778, and graduated \nat Harvard in 1798. He practiced in Suffolk county, but was probably admitted to \nthe Middlesex bar. In 1805 he was wounded in a duel with James H. Elliott. He \ndied in Charlestown, June 27, 1841. \n\nJonathan Williams Austin, son of Benjamin Austin, was born in Boston, April \n\n18, 1751, and graduated at Harvard in 1769. He studied law with John Adams, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar July 27, 1772. In 1773 he began practice in Chelms- \nford. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, passing through the grades of \ncaptain, major and colonel, and died during a southern campaign in 1778. \n\nChristopher Gore, son of John Gore, was born in Boston, September 21, 1758, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1776. He studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in July, 1778. In 1789 he was appointed United States district at- \ntorney and in 1796 was appointed one of the commissioners to settle American claims \nagainst England under Jay's treaty. In 1809 he was governor of Massachusetts, \n29 \n\n\n226 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nand from 1813 to 1N16 United States senator. He died in Waltham, Mass., March 1, \n1*27. \n\nAshkr Ware was born in Sherburne, Mass., February 10, 1782, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1804. He was Greek tutor at Harvard from 1807 to 1811, and Greek pro- \nfessor from 1811 to 1815. He practiced one year in Boston, and in 1817 removed to \nPortland. In 1820 he was made secretary of state in Maine, and from 1822 to 1866 \nwas judge of the United States District Court. He died in Portland. \n\nBenjamin Gorham, son of Nathaniel Gorham, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Feb- \nruary 13, 1775, and graduated at Harvard in 1795. He practiced in Middlesex and \nSuffolk counties, and from 1820 to 1823 and from 1827 to 1835 was a member of Con- \ngress. His residence during his professional life was in Boston, where he died Sep- \ntember 27. 1856. \n\nGeorge Washington Warren, son of Isaac and Abigail (Fiske) Warren, was born in \nCharlestown, Mass. , October 1, 1813, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He was admit- \nted to the Suffolk bar April 5, 1837, and settled in Charlestowm. He was a representa- \ntive in 1838 and senator in 1853^. After Charlestown was made a city by an act \naccepted March 10, 1847, he was chosen mayor three successive years. He was sec- \nretary of the Bunker Hill Monument Association ten years, and from 1847 to 1875 its \npresident. In 1861 he was appointed judge of the Charlestown District Municipal \nCourt, and continued in office until his death in Boston, where in his latter years he \nlived, May 13, 1883. He married first in 1835 Lucy Rogers, daughter of Jonathan \nNewell, of Stow% and second, Georgianna, daughter of Jonathan and Susan Pratt \nThompson, of Charlestown. \n\nWilliam Whiting, son of Col. William and Hannah (Conant) Whiting, was born \nin Concord, Mass., March 3, 1818. He was descended from Rev. Samuel Whit- \ning, a non-conformist minister, who came in 1636 from Skirbeck, near Boston, Eng- \nland, and arrived in Massachusetts on the 26th of May in that year. This ancestor \nwas born in Boston, England, November 20, 1597, became the minister of the \nchurch in Lynn, and remained there until his death, which occurred December 11, \n1679. He married in Boston, England, on the 6th of August, 1629, Elizabeth St. \nJohn, daughter of Sir Oliver St. John, of Cashoe, England. A first wife died in \nEngland, by whom he had two sons and one daughter. The sons died in England \nand the daughter married Thomas, son of Rev. Thomas Welde, of Roxbury, Mass. \nJoseph Whiting, a son of the second wife, was born in Lynn, Mass., April 6, 1641, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1661. He was settled as a minister in Southampton, \nLong Island, in 1682, and remained in the pastorate until his death, April 7, 1723. \nHe married first Sarah, daughter of Thomas Danforth, of Cambridge, who was the \nmother of his children, and second, November 11, 1646, Rebecca Prescott. John \nWhiting, son of Joseph, was born at Southampton, January 20, 1681, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1700. He was ordained at Concord, Mass., May 14, 1712. \nHe continued his connection with the church until 1738, and after that time preached \nto a congregation of seceders until his death, May 4, 1752. His wife Mary was a \ndaughter of Rev. John Cotton, of Hampton, N. H., and great-granddaughter of \nRev. John Cotton, of Boston. Thomas Whiting, son of John, was born in Con- \ncord, June 25, 1717, and married Mary Lake. His son William, born at Concord, \nSeptember 30, 1760, died at Lancaster in 1832. He married in June, 1783, Rebecca, \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 22J \n\ndaughter of Rev. Josiah Brown, of Sterling. Col. William Whiting, son of William \nand Rebecca, was born in Sterling, Mass., October 20, 1788, and was the father of \nthe subject of this sketch. He died in Concord, September 2'.), 1862. Mr. Whiting \npursued his preparatory studies at the Concord Academy, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1833. After leaving college, while pursuing a course of law studies, he taught a \nprivate school in Plymouth, and perhaps other places, and graduated at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1838. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1838, and es- \ntablished himself in Boston, where by his tact, industry and perseverance combined \nwith intellectual power and legal proficiency he gained almost at a single leap an ex- \ntensive and lucrative practice. He entered the profession with a determination to \nsucceed, making success the goal at which he aimed and on which he kept a single \neye. The old Common Pleas Court was the first arena in which he exercised his \npowers and the records of that court attest the brilliant opening .of his legal career. \nHis transition from the lower to the higher courts was an easy one. Retaining his \nold clients he added to their lists those against whom he had secured verdicts, and \nfrom continued triumphs before a jury still further triumphs were evolved. It was \nnot long before suits involving the largest interests were confided to him, and among \nthem those arising under the patent laws more especially commanded his attention. \nIt has been truly said of him that in \" undertaking suits of this nature he studied not \nonly the legal questions on which it was supposed they would turn, but he explored \nto their most minute mechanical details the application and operation of the patents \nhe was defending or contesting, until he was able to instruct his clients upon practi- \ncal defects in their inventions, as well as upon the law.\" There were others as pro- \nfound in the law and as persuasive and eloquent, but the distinction between him \nand them, and the secret of his success lay in the absolute thoroughness with which \nhis cases were always prepared and the expert knowledge acquired and displayed in \nhis examination of witnesses and in his argument to the jury. At the outbreak of \nthe war, with the same determination to grasp and solve the many intricate legal ques- \ntions of the hour which had characterized him at the bar, he published a pamphlet \non ' ' The War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress in \nRelation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery,\" which attracted so much attention that \nhe was invited at once by the president to act as solicitor of the war department. \nAnother pamphlet published in 1863 on \" Military Arrests in Time of War,\" aided still \nfurther in relieving the administration from doubts on embarrassing questions, and be- \ncame the guide of the officers of law in all future prosecutions during the war. He \nserved gratutiously as solicitor until his resignation in April, 1865. Mr. Whitney was \na presidential elector in 1868, and in 1872 was chosen representative to Congress, but \ndied before he took his seat at Roxbury, June 29, 1873. He married, October 28, 1840, \nLydia Gushing, daughter of Thomas Russell, of Plymouth, Mass. The following are \nthe published works of Mr. Whiting: Argument, Boston Gas-Light Co. vs. William \nGault, Boston 1848; Argument, Elias Johnson et al., vs. Peter Lowetal., Boston \n1848; Report of the Committee in Favor of the Union of Boston and Roxbury, Bos- \nton 1851; Speech before a Legislative Committee on the Destruction of Boston Har- \nbor, Boston 1851 ; Argument in Supreme Court of the United States, Brooks vs. Fiske \net al., (Woodworth Planing Machine Patent), 1852; Argument in Circuit Court of \nthe United States for Northern District of New York, Ross Winans vs. Orasmus \nEaton etal., on the Eight-wheeled Car Patent, 1853; Address before the Historic \n\n\n228 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nGen. Societv, 1853 ; Memoir of Rev. Joseph Harrington, Boston 1854; Argument \nbefore a Legislative Committee against the Erection of a Bridge across Chelsea Creek, \n1854; Argument incase of Volute Spring Steam Guage, 1858; Twenty Years' War \nagainst the Railroads, 1800; Argument in Supreme Court of the United States in \nRoss Winans vs. New York and Erie Railroad, 1860; The War Powers of the Presi- \ndent, etc., 1862; The Return of the Rebellious States, 1863; Military Arrests in \nTime of War, 1863; Slavery and Reconstruction, 1864; Military Government of \nHostile Territory, 18(!4; Argument in the Circuit Court of United States, Union \nSugar Refinery vs. Continental Sugar Refinery, 1807; Address before Roxbury Grant \nClub, 1868; Constitutionality of the Reconstruction Laws, 1868; Argument, Crowell \nvs. Sim et al., 1869; Argument, Rumford Chemical Works vs. John E. Lauer, 1869; \nArgument, City of Chicago vs. George T. Bigelow, Administrator, 1869; Argument, \nUnion Sugar Refinery vs. Francis O. Matthiersson, 1869; Argument before Commis- \nsioner of Patents, 1870 ; Letter on Pacific Railroad, 1870 ; Argument, James S. \nCarew et al. vs. Boston Elastic Fabric Co. , 1871 ; Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, \n1872; Argument, Union Paper Collar Co. vs. Ward, 1872; Argument, Rumford \nChemical Works vs. Hecker et al. , 1872; Address before Roxbury Grant and Wilson \nClub, 1872; Address before Societies of Colby University, 1^72. Mr. Whiting was \npresident of the New England Historic Genealogical Society from 1853 to 1858, presi- \ndent of the Pilgrim Society in 1864, corresponding member of the New York Histori- \ncal Society, and honorary member of the historical societies of Pennsylvania, Wis- \nconsin, and Florida. \n\nAlice Parker, daughter of Dr. Hiram and Annie G. (Trafton) Parker, was born in \nLowell, Mass., April 21, 1863, and was educated in Lowell and Boston. She studied \nlaw in the office of J. M. Lesser of San Francisco, and was admitted to the California \nbar in 1888. Coming to Massachusetts she was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in \n1890. Her business is confined chiefly to probate affairs and office consultations. \nShe has been a contributor to the Illustrated American, the Boston Home Journal, \nand the Boston Herald. Her residence is in Lowell. \n\nGeorge Winter Parke was born in Salem, O., October 20, 1840, and was educated \nat Western College, Cleveland. He resided in Michigan, and began the study of law \nwith Charles S. May in that State, but entered the army in April, 1861, as an officer \nof Michigan volunteers, and resigned in consequence of wounds received in one of \nthe early engagements in Virginia. He resumed the study of law with John P. Rob- \ninson of Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 25, 1863. He took \nup his residence in Cambridge, and was alderman there in 1869 and 1870, and repre- \nsentative in 1879 and 1880. His practice has been confined to property causes in the \ncivil courts, among which may be mentioned Nichols vs. Boston, 98 Mass., 39 ; Felch \nvs. Hooper, 119 Mass., 52; Cook vs. Gray, 133 Mass., 106 and 135 Mass., 189; and \nCole vs. Eastham, 133 Mass., 65. ' \n\nWilliam Foster Otis, son of Harrison Gray and Sally (Foster) Otis, was born in \nBoston, December 1, 1801, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he grad- \nuated in 1821. He studied law with his brother, Harrison Gray Otis, jr., and with \nAugustus Peabody, and was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston, Octo- \nber 8, 1824, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in March, 1827. He was a represent- \native in 1830-31-32, and in 1831 delivered a Fourth of July oration before the young \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 229 \n\nmen of Boston. He took great interest in the temperance cause and was presn \nof the Young Men's Temperance Society. He also took an interest in military af- \nfairs, and was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, an offi- \ncer in the New England Guards, and major of the Boston Regiment. He married. \nMay 18, 1831, Emily, daughter of Josiah Marshall, of Boston, who died August 17, \n1839, at the age of thirty-nine. He died at Versailles, France. May 29, 1858. \n\nEdmund M. Parker, son of Joel and Mary M. Parker, was born in Cambridge, \nAugust 15, 1856, and was fitted at the Cambridge High School for Harvard, where he \ngraduated in 1877. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1SS'2, and in that \nyear was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He married Alice Gray, April 8, 1891. \n\nPhilip Glendower Peabody, son of Charles A. and Julia (Livingston) Peabody, was \nborn in New York city, February 22, 1857, and was educated at Columbia College. \nHe studied law in New York city, and was admitted to the bar in Poughkeepsie, X. \nY., May 13, 1880, and to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He married in New York, July 3d, \n1879, and lives in Boston. \n\nHenry Bromfield Pearson, son of Eliphalet and Sarah (Bromfield) Pearson, was \nborn in Cambridge, March 29, 1795, and after attending Phillips Academy, Andover, \nand spending two years at Yale College he entered the senior class at Harvard, and \ngraduated in 1816. He went to Philadelphia, and after preparing himself for the bar, \npracticed law until he became partially blind, when he returned to Massachusetts and \nsettled on the Bromfield estate at Harvard. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Wil- \nliam McFarland, of Waterville, Me., in December, 1840, and died in Boston, June 21), \n\n1867. \n\ni \nFrancis Peabody, jr., was born in Salem, September 1, 1854, and removed to Lon- \ndon with his father in 1871. He attended Cheltenham College two years, and enter- \ning Trinity College, Cambridge, took the degree of B.L. in 1876. He then spent one \nyear in the office of a leading barrister of Lincoln's Inn and Middle Temple, and re- \nturning to America entered the office of Morse, Stone & Greenough, of Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879, after a year's further study at the \nHarvard Law School. He was associated with Charles A. Prince five years, and \nsince that time has practiced alone. He is at present on the staff of Governor Russell. \n\nHenry Melville Parker, son of Isaac and Sarah (Ainsworth) Parker, was born in \nBoston, August 7, 1820, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he grad- \nuated in 1839. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1841, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar November 29, 1N42. He married Fanny Cushing, daughter of Dr. \nA. F. Stone, of Greenfield, April 30, 1851, and died at Cambridge, October 17, 1863. \n\nSamuel Parsons, son of Samuel and Mary Brown (Allen) Parsons, was born in Bos- \nton, May 2, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied law in Boston with \nC. B. Goodrich and William Brigham, and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1852, \nhaving been admitted to the bar at Cambridge in 1851. He practiced in Boston until \nhis health failed, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he died October 28, 1859. \n\nEdward Payson Payson, son of Edward and Penelope Ann (Martin) Payson, was \nborn in Westbrook, now Deermg, Me., July 16, 1849, and graduated at Bowdoin Col- \nlege in 1869. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and with Symonds & Libby, \nof Portland, and was admitted to the Maine bar in April, 1875. He was admitted to \n\n\n230 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthe Suffolk bar in Boston, November 20, 1883, and to the United States Supreme \nCourt March 20, 1891. He has been a contributor to the American Law Review. \nHis residence is in Boston. \n\nJohn Sidney Pai roN, son of Robert and Elizabeth Emeline (Warlick) Patton, was \nborn in McDowell county, N. C, and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Harvard, \nwhere he graduated in 1874. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was \nadmitted to the Arkansas bar at Little Rock in June, 1878, and to the Texas bar at \nDallas in July, 1878, and to the Massachusetts bar at Cambridge in July, 1880. He \nmarried at Cambridge, April 15, 1885, Anna Kelley, of Boston, and lives in Allston, a \ndistrict of Boston. \n\nSalem Darius Charles, son of Abraham and Esther L. (Wallis) Charles, was born \nin Brimfield, Mass., March 19, 1850, and graduated at Amherst College in 1874. He \nstudied law with Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson and at the Boston University Law School, \nand was admitted to the bar in Springfield, Mass., in 1878. He was a representative \nfrom Boston in 1891 and 1892. He is unmarried and lives in Jamacia Plain (Boston). \n\nParker Cleaveland Chandler, son of Peleg Whitman and Martha (Cleaveland) \nChandler, was born in Boston, December 7, 1848, and was fitted at the Boston Latin \nSchool for Williams College, where he graduated in 1872. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October 2, 1875. He has been managing counsel \nfor the defendant in the suit of the American Bell Telephone Company vs. the Drau- \nbough Telephone Company. He resides in Boston. \n\nOrrin Henry Carpenter, son of Henry B. and Lucy A. (Reed) Carpenter, was \nborn in Grafton, Vt., January 17, 1861, and was educated at the Bellows Falls High \nSchool and Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law at the Boston University Law \nSchool and at Bellows Falls in the office of C. B. Eddy and in Boston in the office of \nGaston & Whitney, and was admitted to the Vermont bar in September, 1883, and to \nthe Suffolk bar in September, 1884. He has been for six years chairman of the \nBoard of Assessors in Maiden, where he resides, and has taught in the Boston Even- \ning High School three years. He married Mary L. Dow at Bellows Falls, Vt., in \n1883. \n\nJohn Ray Campbell, son of Tristram and Annie (Meehan) Campbell, was born in \nRoxbury, Mass., November 29, 1860, and was educated in the Dwight Grammar \nSchool in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 1888. Since January, \n1887, he has been assistant clerk of the Superior Court, criminal side. He married \nMargaret Frances Doherty in Boston, July 17, 1888, and lives in Brookline. \n\nJoseph Aloysius Campbell, son of Francis and Rose Ann Campbell, was born in \nBoston, October 16, 1863, and was educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmits- \nburg, Md. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the \nbar at Cambridge, January 29, 1891. He married Louise De Lamater in New York, \nOctober 22, 1891, and lives in Boston. \n\nCharles Stark Newell, son of Samuel Newell and Elizabeth, daughter of Major \nCaleb Stark and granddaughter of General John Stark, was born in Boston, August \n19, 1 rcutt, son of Franklin W. and Abigail (Davis) Orcutt, was born \nin Georgia, Vt., February 26, 1845, and after attending the New Hampton Institute, \nFairfax, Vt., he entered Dartmouth College and graduated in 1871. He studied law \nwith Bainbridge Wadleigh in Milford, N. H., and in Boston with Col. T. L. Liver- \nmore, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 11, 1873. He has been chair- \nman of the School Board of Milford, N. H. He married Katie E. Wheeler at Mil- \nford, December 22, 1874, and lives at Wollaston (Quincy). \n\nJonathan Porter, son of Jonathan and Phebe (Abbot) Porter, was born in Med- \nford, Mass., November 13, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law \nwith Luther Lawrence at Groton and Asahel Stearns at Chelmsford, and was ad- \nmitted to the Middlesex bar in November, 1819, and practiced in Boston. He de- \nlivered the Phi Beta oration in 1828. He married, July '20, 1823, Catharine, daughter \ndf Samuel and Anna (Orne) Gray, of Medford, and died at Medford June, 11, 1859. \n\nEdward Henry Pierce, son of Samuel and Wilhelmina (Zimmerman) Pierce, was \nborn at Stony Brook, Long Island, N. Y. , and was educated at the Rochester Uni- \nversity, N. Y. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston with Smith \n& Bates, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 30, 1865. He was a member of \nthe House of Representatives in 1868 and was counsel for the plaintiff in the well- \nknown case of Chase vs. Nantucket, in which a verdict for $15,000 in consequence of \na defect in the highway was the means in 1877 of altering the law applicable to such \ncases. He married at Rochester, N. Y. , May 5, 1869, Emily Williston, daughter of \nCharles J. Hill, of Rochester, and his residence is now at Newtonville (Newton). \n\nJohn Tyler Hassam is descended from AVilliam Hassam, or Horsham, who came \nto New England in or about 1684, and settled in Manchester, Mass. This ancestor \nmarried in Marblehead, December 4, 1684, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Allen, of \nManchester, and died in Manchester about 1735. Jonathan Hassam, son of the \nancestor William, was born in Manchester, August 17, 1702, where he married, August \n10, 1727, Mary Bennett, and where he died February 21, 1754. William Hassam, son \nof Jonathan, was born in Manchester, August 11, 1752, married there Elizabeth, \ndaughter of Ambrose Allen, May 15, 1780, and there died April 9, 1833. Jonathan, \nson of the last William, born in Manchester, May 23, 1784, married there October \n00, 1808, Sally, daughter of John Cheever, and in 1849, Mary, widow of Thomas \nSmith, and died in Manchester, January 14, 1859. John Hassam, son of Jonathan, \nborn in Manchester, September 4, 1809, married May 15, 1836, Abby, daughter of \nAmos Hilton, of Manchester, and died in Boston, August 3, 1885. John Tyler Has- \nsam, the subject of this sketch, was the son of John Hassam, and was born in Boston, \nSeptember 20, 1841. He fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and graduated \nat Harvard in 1863. In December, 1863, he entered the army as first lieutenant of the \nSeventy-fifth United States Colored Infantry, and remained in the service from \nDecember 8, 1863, to August 1, 1864, having taken part in the Red River expedition. \nHe studied law in the office of Ranny & Morse in Boston and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar December 13, 1867. Beginning as a lawyer in general practice he has \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 233 \n\nof late years devoted himself chiefly to conveyancing. Having early imbibed anti- \nquarian tastes, he has mingled with his professional occupations historic researches \nand is a member of both the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the \nMassachusetts Historical Society. Of the former of these he was six years chairman \nof the Library Committee and was one of the earliest promoters of those exhaustive \nresearches in England, which have been carried on so successfully under its direction. \nTo the Mont lily Register of the Society he has been a frequent contributor. Among \nhis contributions have been \"The Hassam Family,\" 1870; \" Some of the Descend- \nants of William Hilton,\" 1877; \" Ezekiel Cheever and some of his Descendants,\" \n1879; \"Boston Taverns,\" 1880; \"Early Suffolk Deeds,\" 1881, and \" The Dover Set- \ntlement and the Hiltons,\" 1882. He has been especially interested in the care and \npreservation of records, and was appointed April 5, 1884, by the Superior Court for \nthe county of Suffolk, one of the commissioners under whose authority the indices in \nthe registry of that county are made. The arrangement now going on of the original \nfiles of Suffolk County Courts, including the Superior Court of Judicature under the \nprovincial charter, is largely due to his efforts. Indeed, in every possible way that \na deep antiquarian interest could suggest, he has labored successfully for the safety \nand preservation of not only the records of Boston, but those also of the Common- \nwealth. He married in Salem, February 14, 1878, Nelly Alden, daughter of Dr. John \nHenry and Jane Reed (Smith) Batchelder, of Salem, and his residence is in \nBoston. \n\nJohn Andrew Noonan, son of Daniel A. and Ellen Noonan, was born in Boston, \nAugust 25, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at the Boston \nUniversity Law School and in the office of Burbank & Bennett of Boston, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886. He lives in South Boston. \n\nT. Frank Noonan, son of Edward and B. Jane Noonan, was born in Boston, and \neducated in the public schools. He studied law in Boston with Russell Gray and with \nHenry W. Swift, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. \n\nWilliam Mark Nokle, son of William T. and Rebecca W. Noble, was born in \nSpringfield, Mass., February 27, 1865, and studied law at the Boston University Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. His residence is at Newton. \n\nJoseph D. Fallon, son of Daniel and Julia Fallon, was born in Galway county, \nIreland, December 25, 1837, and was educated in private and national schools in Ire- \nland, at the Petit Seminaire in Montreal, and at the College of the Holy Cross in \nWorcester. He studied law with Jonathan Coggswell Perkins in Salem, and with \nGeorge W. Searle in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 11, 1865. \nHe has served nineteen years and eleven months on the Boston School Board, and \nsince 1H74 has been a special justice of the Municipal Court for the South Boston I >is- \ntrict. He married in Boston, in 1872, Sarah E. Daly, and lives in South Boston. \n\nHenry E. Fales, son of Silas and Roxa (Perrigo) Fales, was born inWalpole, Mass.. \nNovember 6, 1837. He was educated at the Walpole and Medway High Schools, and \nstudied law with Todd & Pond in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May \n4, 1864, and has been assistant district attorney for Worcester county, and member of \nthe Massachusetts House of Representatives. He has been engaged in seven capital \ncases and in a general civil and criminal practice. He married at Milford, Mass.. \nNovember 5, 1867, Clara A. Hayward, .and lives in Milford. \n30 \n\n\n234 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nBenjamin Mark Farley, son of Benjamin and Lucy (Fletcher) Farley, was born in \nHollis, N. H., April 8, 1783, and fitting for college at the New Ipswich Academy, N. \nH., graduated at Harvard in 1804. He studied law with Abijah Bigelow, of Leom- \ninster, and after admission to the bar began practice in Hollis, and remained there \nand at Groton, Mass., until 1855, when he removed to Boston. He was a representa- \ntive in New Hampshire from 1814 to 1829 with the exception of five years. He mar- \nried first, September 26, 1805, Lucretia Gardner, who died April 30, 1809, and second, \nin September, L828, Mrs. Lucretia (Bullard) Parker, daughter of Rev. John Bullard, \nof Pepperell. He died at Lunenburg, Mass. , while passing the summer there Sep- \ntember 16, 1865. \n\nEdwin Hale Abbot, son of Joseph Hale and Fanny (Larcom) Abbot, of Boston, \nwas born in Beverly, Mass., January 26, 1834, and graduated at Harvard in 1855. \nHe was a tutor at Harvard from 1857 to 1862, meanwhile studying law at the Har- \nvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar November 11, 1862, and practiced in Boston until 1875 when he went to Mil- \nwaukee and afterwards to New York. He married, September 19, 1866, Martha \nTrask, daughter of Eben Steele, of Portland, Me. \n\nJohn Edward Abbott, son of John S. and Elizabeth T. (Allen) Abbott, was born in \nNorridgewock, Me., November 30, 1845, and graduated at Wesleyan University, Mid- \ndletown, Conn., in 1869. He studied law in Boston in the office of John S. Abbott, \nand was admitted to the bar in Boston, March 8, 1872. He was admitted as an at- \ntorney of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1885. He has been connected \nwith important patent cases in the United States Circuit and Supreme Courts. He \nmarried at Compton, Province of Quebec, Canada, June 12, 1878, Alice G., daughter \nof Hon. M. H. Cochrane, and has his residence in Watertown, Mass. \n\nHenry Austin, son of William and Ellen Austin, was born in Charlestown, Mass., \nDecember 21, 1856, and graduated at Harvard Law School in 1879. He continued \nthe study of law in the offices of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith in Boston, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He is a special justice of the West Rox- \nbury Municipal Court and commissioner of insolvency for Suffolk county. He is the \nauthor of \" American Farm and Game Laws,\" \" The Liquor Law in the New Eng- \nland States,\" and \"American Fish and Game Laws.\" His home is at West Rox- \nbury. \n\nGeorge W. Norris, son of Trueworthy and Mary J. Norris, was born in Pittsfield, \nN. H. , March 13, 1840, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law in \nthe offices of Arthur F. L. Norris, of Lowell, and Joseph Nickerson, of Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar September 7, 1861. He has been president of the \nSchool Board of Woburn, where he lives, chairman of the Board of Water Commis- \nsioners of that city, and by appointment under President Cleveland agent for the Nez \nPerce tribe of Indians in Idaho. He married Sarah F. Williams at Chelsea, Mass., \nin 1863. \n\nFrederick Lewis Norton, son of Lewis R. and Harriet F. Norton, was born in \nWestfield, Mass., November 24, 1865. He graduated at Amherst College in 1886, and \nattended Johns Hopkins University, and studied law at the Boston University Law \nSchool. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1889, and lives in Boston. \n\n\n9&9 ;,V' \n\n\nj 'Vii \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 235 \n\nLints Child, son of Rensselaer and Priscilla (Corbin) Child, was born in Woodstock, \nConn., February 27, 1803, and passed his early years in the public schools and on his \nfather's farm. He was finally placed under the charge of Rev. Samuel Backus, of \nEast Woodstock, and later at the Bacon Academy in Colchester, Conn., where he- \nwas fitted for college. He entered Yale College in 1820 and graduated in 1824. After \nleaving college he studied law at the Law School in New Haven and in the offices of \nS. P. Staples and Judge Daggett in that city and continued his studies m the office \nof Ebenezer Stoddard in his native town. He was admitted to the bar in Connecti- \ncut, but preliminary to his admission to the bar in Massachusetts he studied a short \ntime in the office of George A. Tafts, of Dudley, Mass. It is stated in the history of \nWorcester county that he was admitted to the bar there in 182(3, which must be too \nearly a date to admit of the prolonged periods of study in Connecticut and Massa- \nchusetts described by his biographers. He was admitted, however, to the bar in \nMassachusetts soon after the completion of his studies and established himself at \nSouthbridge, Mass., where, on the 27th of October, 1827, he married Berenthia, \ndaughter of Oliver Mason of that town. He remained in Southbridge eighteen years \nand during that time won for himself not only repute as a sound and sagacious law- \nyer, but as a political speaker, who by his logical and pursuasive appeals to the intel- \nligence of the people, was a potential worker in the ranks of the Whig party to which \nhe belonged. The writer well remembers the political gatherings in the Clay cam- \npaign of 1844, where his large and well proportioned figure, his massive head, his hand- \nsome, expressive face and above all the convincing quality of his speech made him \neverywhere conspicuous and popular. During his residence in Southbridge he rep- \nresented Worcester county six years in the State Senate. In 1845 he was selected to \ntake the agency of one or more of the large manufacturing corporations in Lowell \nand moved to that city. In Lowell, as in Southbridge, though having little time to \ndevote to politics without impairing his usefulness in the responsible position he held, \nhe did not fail to exert his powerful influence in those fields of usefulness in which it \nis the duty of every citizen to labor. In the welfare of his city and his church, in the \ngood government of the one and the highest usefulness of the other, he took a deep \ninterest, and gave to them freely his thoughts, his time and his means. In 1862 he \nremoved to Boston and resumed there his professional business, associated with \nhis son, who before that time had been admitted to the Suffolk bar and was then \nin practice in Boston. He died in Hingham, Mass., August 26, 1870. \n\nLinus Mason Child, son of Linus and Berenthia (Mason) Child, was born in South- \nbridge, Mass., March 13, 1835, and graduated at Yale College in 1855. He studied \nlaw in the office of his father in Southbridge and at the Harvard Law School, where \nhe graduated in 1 858. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 16, 1858, and estab- \nlished himself in business in that city. He remained alone in practice until 1863, when \nhis father, who, temporarily abandoning the law, had been since 1845 an agent of one or \nmore of the mill corporations in Lowell, and had now removed to Boston, became as- \ns< iciated with him. Resembling his father, both in body and the quality of his mind, he- \nwas not long in attracting to himself a clientage, whose interests he faithfully served \nand whose fullest confidence he enjoyed. He was the trusted counsel of the Middlesex \nStreet Railway Company, as long as it had a distinct existence, and of the Old South \nChurch corporation in its various conflicts under the law. He has been largely en- \n\n\n236 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ngaged before committees of the Legislature, and his arguments in support of petitions \nfor a charter of an elevated railway in Boston and in favor of or opposed to other \nrailway schemes have added to a reputation already established. He married, Octo- \nber 16, 1862, Helen, *a daughter of James Barnes, of Hmgham, and July 20, 1889, \nAda M., daughter of J. R. Cummings, of Chelsea. He resides in Boston. \n\nEdward Belcher Callender, son of Henry and Adeline Jones (Stoddard) Callen- \nder, was born in Dorchester, Mass., February 23, 1851, and was fitted in the public \nschools for Harvard, where he graduated in 1872. He studied law at the Harvard \nLaw School and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar April 24, 1ST.\"). He was a member of the Massachusetts House of \nRepresentatives in 1879. He has published \" Thaddeus Stevens, Commoner,\" and \nvarious articles in the A in eric an Law Review and the SontJiern Law Review. He \nlives in Boston. \n\nHenry B. Callender, son of Henry and Adeline Jones (Stoddard) Callender, was \nborn in Dorchester, Mass., January 1?, 1864, and was educated at the Boston public \nschools and the Roxbury Latin School. He studied law at the Boston University \nLaw School and in the office of Lewis S. Dabney in Boston, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar February 2, 1887. His residence is in the Dorchester District of Boston. \n\nGeorge Hylands Campbell, son of Charles H. and Ann Rebecca (Tucker) Camp- \nbell, was born in Amherst, N. H.. September 22, 1850, and was educated at Phillips \nAcademy, Andover. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in \nthe office of Jewell, Gaston & Field, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 28, \n1874. He was private secretary of Governor Gaston, Governor Rice and Governor \nAmes during their respective administrations. \n\nHerbert Allen Chapin, son or Horace and Susan F. Chapin, was born in Chelsea, \nJune (i, 1851, fitted at Chauncy Hall School and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He \nstudied law- with Charles S. Lincoln, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, \n1879. He is clerk of the Somerville Police Court. He married in Boston in 1881, \nMary M. Granger, and lives in Somerville. \n\nHerman White Chaplin, son of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah and Jane Dunbar Chaplin, was \nborn in Providence, R. I., April 9, 1847, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He \nstudied law in the office of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith, arid was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar June 21, 1869. He was assistant district attorney from 1875 to \n1877, member of the Prison Commission in 1887, and lecturer in the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1888-9, 1889-90 and 1890-91. He has published \"Five Hundred Dollars \nand other Stories,\" and \"Cases on Criminal Lawr,\" both issues with the imprint of \nLittle, Brown & Company. He married Martha Louise Crowell, of Yarmouth, Mass. , \nJune 26, 1890, and lives in Boston. \n\nB. Marvin Fernald, son of Benjamin and Caroline E. Fernald, was born in Great \nFalls, N. H., February 14, 1847, and fitting for college at Phillips Exeter Academy \ngraduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law with Joseph F. Wiggin, of Exeter, \nX. H., and was admitted to the Rockingham bar in 1873, and afterwards to the \nSuffolk bar. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives \nin 1881 and 1882, and a Senator in 1891 and 1892. He is now chairman of the Legis- \nlative Committee on the revision of the judicial system of the Commonwealth. He \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 237 \n\nhas delivered many political and other addresses, among the latter being Decoration \nDay addresses at Melrose and Saugus. He married Grace, daughter of Richard F. \nFuller, of Cambridge, November 1, 1874, and lives at Melrose. \n\nFrank A. Appleton, son of Melville C. and Roxanna T. Appleton, and born in \nVassalboro', Me., April 18, 1860, was educated at Boston University, ami studied law \nat Boston University Law School. He was admitted to the bar at Dedham, Decem- \nber, 3, 1890. \n\nDavid Sewall, son of Samue , and born in York, Me., October 7, 1735, graduated at \nHarvard in 1755, and studied law with Judge William Parker, of Portsmouth, N. II., \nwhose daughter he married. He established himself in York, was appointed register \nof probate in 1766, and judge of the Superior Court of Judicature in 177 7, and judge of \nUnited States Court for the district of Maine in 1789. He sat on the bench till is is, \nand died at York, October 12, 1825. \n\nFrancis Bernard, born in Nettleham, England, in 1714, educated at Oxford, a \nsolicitor of Doctors Commons, was governor of Massachusetts from 1760 to 1769. He \nwas made a baronet in 1769, and died in England, June 16, 1779. \n\nRobert Auchmuty was born in Scotland, whence his father removed to Ireland in \n1699. He was educated in Dublin, studied law in the Temple, and emigrating to \nAmerica was admitted to practice in Boston in 1720. He was judge of the Court of \nAdmiralty from 1733 to 1747. The high tone of the Massachusetts bar may be said \nto have been established by him. He died in Boston in April, 1750. \n\nRobert Auchmuty, jr., son of the above, was born in Boston, was a distinguished \nlawyer, and with Adams & Quincy defended Captain Preston and others connected \nwith the Boston massacre. He was judge of admiralty from 1767 to 1776, was a \nloyalist, went to England, and there died in December, 1788. \n\nThomas Aspinwall, son of Dr. William, was born in Brookline, Mass., August '!'■'•, \n1784, and graduated at Harvard in 1804. He studied law with William Sullivan and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1S07. In the war of 1812 he was major of the \nNinth United States Infantry, distinguished himself in various battles, lost an arm \nat Lake Erie, and was made brevet lieutenant-colonel May 2!), 1813, and brevet col- \nonel September 17, 1814. He was United States consul at London from 1816 to 1854, \nand died in Boston, August 11, 1876. \n\nJoseph Kinnicut Angell, born in Providence, R. I., April 30, 1794, graduated at \nBrown University in 1813, and was admitted to the bar in 1S16. He was editor of \nthe Laio Intelligencer and Review several years and was some years reporter to \nthe Supreme Court of Rhode Island. His legal works were \"Law of Carriers,\" \n\" Law of Fire and Life Insurance,\" \" Law of Highways,\" \" Law of \"Water Courses,\" \n\" Law of Tide Waters,\" and \" Limitations of Actions at Law in Equity and Admi- \nralty.\" He died in Boston, May 1, 1857. \n\nFisher Ames, son of Dr. Nathamiel, was born in Dedham, April 9, 1758, and gradu- \nated at Harvard in 1774. He studied law with William Tudor, and the records of the \nSuffolk bar state that it was voted on the 3d of December, 1779, that he be considered \na law student from the first day of January, 1779, and that at the expiration of three \nyears from that day, he be recommended to be sworn on examination particularly in \nthe practical business of the profession. But at a meeting of the bar on the 9th of \n\n\n238 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nOctober, 17S1, it was voted \" that notwithstanding the vote of December 3, 1779, re- \nspecting Mr. Fisher Ames, he be recommended to the Court of Common Pleas for \nthe oath of an attorney of that court, in consideration of his having studied for four \nyears and upwards, and his present state of health requiring a relaxation from all \nstudy, and in consideration of his cheerfully offering himself to an examination, and \nhis moral, political and literary character standing in the fairest point of view.\" He \nestablished himself in Dedham, but as the roll of Suffolk lawyers in 1793 contains \nhis name, it is probable that he had an office in Boston also. In 1788 he was a rep- \nresentative, and member of the Constitutional Convention, and was a member of \nCongress from 1789 to 1797. He was chosen president of Harvard College in 1804 \nand declined. He died at Dedham, July 4, 1808. \n\nl'.i njamin Amis, son of Benjamin and Phoebe (Chandler) Ames, was born in An- \ndover, Mass, October 30, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1803. He studied law \nwith Samuel Dana at Groton, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Octo- \nber, 1806. He established himself in Bath, Me., in 1807 was attorney of Lincoln \ncounty, in 1811 was judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, and in 1820-23 \nwas speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. In 1824 he was president of \nthe Senate, and in 1827 was again a member of the House. From 1827 to '29 he \npracticed in Cincinnati, and died in Houlton, Me., September 28, 1835. He married \nfirst at Andover, Mary, daughter of Abel and Polly (Abbott) Boynton, of Westford, \nMass., who died at Bath, November 3, 1810, and second, May 11, 1812, at Bath, \nSally, sister of his first wife. \n\nX viiian Ames, son of Daniel and Laura (Newcomb) Ames, was born in Roxbury, \nN. H., November 17, 1826, and fitting for college at Phillips Andover Academy, \ngraduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied law with Franklin Dexter, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1853. He died in Saugus, August 17, 1865. \n\nSampson Salter Blowers was born in Boston, March 22, 1742, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1763. He studied law with Thomas Hutchinson and was associated \nwith Adams & Quincy in the defense of Captain Preston in 1770. A loyalist, he \nwent to England in 1774, and returning in 1778 he found his name in the Prescrip- \ntion Act, and after a short imprisonment retired to Halifax, N. S., where in 1785 \nhe was appointed attorney-general, and in 1797 chief justice of the Supreme Court. \nHe died at Halifax, October 25, 1842. \n\nWilliam Brattle, son of Rev. William, was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1702, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1722. He studied theology and preached for a time, \npracticed medicine and finally became a lawyer. He was chosen attorney-general \nand served in 1736 and 1 737. He was also a representative, and was a member of \nCouncil from 1755 to 1768. He was a loyalist, and retiring to Halifax died there in \nOctober, 1776. \n\nNathaniel Byfield, son of Richard, was born in Long Ditten, England, in 1653, \nand came to Boston in 1674. About 1680 he removed to Bristol, then in Massachu- \nsetts, and there practiced law, being promoted to the position of chief justice of the \nCourt of Common Pleas for Bristol county. While living in Bristol he was also for a \ntime judge of the Admiralty Court and judge of probate. He returned to Boston in \n1724, and was speaker of the House of Representatives, chief justice of the Common \nPleas for Suffolk, and judge of admiralty. He died in Boston, June 6, 1733. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 239 \n\nGeorge Ticknor Curtis, brother of Benjamin Robbins Curtis already mentioned \nwas born in Watertown, Mass., November 28, 1812, and graduated at Harvan \n\n1832. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1836, and practiced many years \nin Boston. He has published many legal works and a life of Daniel Webster. Ami mg \nhis works are \"Rights and Duties of Merchant Seamen,\" \"Equity Precedents,\" \n\"Treatise on the Law of Patents.\" \" Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Com- \nmon Law and Admiralty,\" \"Cases in the American and English Courts of Admi- \nralty,\" \"American Conveyancer,\" \"Commentaries on the Jurisprudence, Practice, and \nPeculiar Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States,\" and \" History of the ( >rigin, \nFormation and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States.\" He is now liv- \ning in New York. \n\nGeorge Storer Bulfinch, son of Charles Bulhnch, the distinguished architect who \ndrew the plans for the Boston State House- and the Capitol at Washington, was born \nin Boston, January 23, 1799, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. lie was admitted \nto the Common Pleas Court in Suffolk in 1825, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in \nMarch, 1826. He was many years librarian of the Boston Library, over the arch in \nFranklin street. He died in Boston in 1853. \n\nElias Hasket Derby, great-grandson of Richard, grandson of Elias H., and son of \nElias H., all of Salem, was born in Salem, September 24, 1803, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1824. He studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Com- \nmon Pleas Court in Suffolk in October, 1827, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in \nOctober, 1S29. He was a broad, progressive man, became a railroad lawyer, and \nwas at one time president of the Old Colony Railroad. He died in Boston, March 30, \n1880. \n\nWilliam Elliott was born in Marblehead, August 17, 1803, and graduated at Dart- \nmouth in 1826. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and practiced law at Marblehead \nand Boston and at Lewiston, 111. He died in 1872. \n\nAbraham Eustis was born in Boston, March 28, 1786, and graduated at Harvard in \n1804. He studied law with Isaac Parker, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, \n1807. He began practice in Boston. He distinguished himself in the war of 1812 as \nan officer in the United States army, and in 1834 was brevetted brigadier-general, and \nmade colonel of First Artillery November 17, 1834. He died at Portland, June 27, \n1843. \n\nRichard Fletcher was born in Cavendish, Vt. , January 8, 1788, and graduated at \nDartmouth in 1806. He studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the \nNew Hampshire bar. In 1820 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and remained in \nBoston until his death, June 21, 1869. He was a member of Congress from 1837 to \n1839, and judge of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1848 to 1853. He received a de- \ngree of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1846, and bequeathed to that college $100,000. \n\nRichard Frederic Fuller, son of Timothy, was born in Cambridge, May 15, 1821, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, I >ecember \n22, 1846, and died at Wrayland, Mass., May 30, 1869. \n\nJohn Gardiner, son of Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, was born in Boston in 1731, and \nstudied law at the Inner Temple, London, and in June, 1761, was admitted to p \ntice as barrister in Westminster Hall. After a short practice in England he was ap- \n\n\n240 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\npointed attorney-general at the Island of St. Christopher and removed there. After \nthe Revolution he came to Boston, where he was recognized as a citizen by a special \nlaw passed February 13, 1784, and was a barrister in 1785. He afterwards removed \nto Pownalboro', in Maine, and was drowned off Cape Ann, October 15, 1798. He re- \nceived a degree of Master of Arts from the University of Glasgow in 1755, and from \nHarvard in 1791. He married Margaret Harris, of Haverford, Wales. \n\nFrancis Hiij.iakd, son of William, was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Har- \nvard in ISO:!. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1830. He was judge of \nthe Roxbury Police Court, judge of insolvency for Norfolk county, and the author of \n\"Digest of Pickering's Reports,\" \" Sales of Personal Property,\" \" American Law of \nReal Property.\" \"American Jurisprudence,\" \"Law of Vendors and Purchasers,\" \n\"Treatise on Torts,\" \" Remedy for Torts,\" \"New Trials,\" \" Law of Injunctions,\" \nand \" Hilliard on Mortgages.\" He died in 1878. \n\nLevi Lincoln, son of Levi, was born in Worcester, October 25, 1782, and graduated \nat Harvard in 1802. He was admitted to the Worcester bar after studying with his \nfather, and established himself in his native town. He was senator in 1812, speaker \nof the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1822, lieutenant governor in 1823, \njudge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1824, governor from 1825 to 1834, member of \nCongress from 1835 to 1841, collector of the port of Boston from 1841 to 1843, State \nsenator again in 1844, and president of the Senate in 1845. He died in Worcester, \nMay 29, 1868. \n\nGeorge W. Searle, son of Joseph and Mary Searle, was born in Salem, Mass., \nJanuary 22, 182(5, and was educated at the Boston schools and at Phillips Andover \nAcademy. He studied law with Fuller & Andrew and with Richard Fletcher, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar October 11, 1847. He has written treatises with the \nfollowing titles: \" Of the Habeas Corpus,\" \" Extraordinary Remedies, — Error, Cer- \ntiorari, Prohibition, Mandamus, Quo Warranto,\" \"Legal Principles, their Exceptions \nand Limitations,\" \" Patents,\" and \" Hints on the Art of Advocacy.\" He has been a \nfrequent contributor to the daily press as law critic and to the law reviews. He has \nbeen associated as counsel with Franklin Pierce and B. F. Butler in important crimi- \nnal trials. He married in December, 1849, Sarah F. Ball. He died in Boston, Octo- \nber 18, 1892. \n\nAlbert Lamb Lincoln, jr., son of Albert Lamb and Ann Eliza (Stoddard) Lincoln, \nwas born in Boston, April 29, 1850, and after attending the public schools of Brook- \nline, graduated at Harvard in 1872. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and \nin the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 15, \n1875. He has been a member of the Board of Selectmen since 1886 and its chairman \nsince 1848, and was a special justice of the Brookline Police Court from 1882 until his \nresignation in 1889. He married Edith, daughter of Moses Williams, of Brookline, \nOctober 9, 1879, and still lives in Brookline. \n\nArthur Lincoln, son of Solomon and Mehitable (Lincoln) Lincoln, was born in \nHingham, Mass., February 16, 1842, and was fitted for college at private and public \nschools in Hingham, and graduated at Harvard in 1863. He graduated at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1865, and finishing his law studies in the office of Lathrop & \nBishop, was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 16, 1865. He was a representative in \n\n\n^l^L (5L^(^_ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 241 \n\n1879-1880. He married Serafina, daughter of Joseph G. Luring, at Boston, Decem- \nber 17, 1883, and has his residence in Hingham. \n\nCharles Sprague Lincoln, son of Christopher and Elizabeth Lincoln, was born in \nWalpole, N. H., April 20, 1826, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1854. He has been selectman, overseer of \nthe poor, member of the School Committee, trustee of the Public Library, and repre- \nsentative from Somerville, where he still lives, and married there Louise E. Plimp- \nton, October 8, 1856. \n\nCharles Plimpton Lincoln, son of Charles Sprague and Louise E. (Plimpton) Lin- \ncoln, was born in Somerville, Mass. , May 7, 1859, and was educated at the Somerville \nHigh School. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of \nhis father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889. He has been a \nmember of the Common Council in Somerville, where he now lives. He married \nMary Foote Lowe at Somerville, June 25, 1889. \n\nGeorge Taylor Lincoln, son of George C. and Anna M. Lincoln, w-as born at \nWestboro, Mass., June 3, 1858, and was educated at the North Brookfield high and \ncommon schools. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in May, 1884. He is the Massachusetts editor of the Northeastern \nReporter, and has been engaged on the \" Complete Digest.\" He married Hattie E. \nWilson at West Newton, in June, 1886, and lives in West Newton (Newton). \n\nTheodore Lyman was born in Boston, February 19, 1792, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1810. He studied law, but the editor is not certain as to his admission to the \n\nbar. He was mayor of Boston from 1832 to 1835, and died July 17, 1849. \n\nf \n\nWilliam Powell Mason, son of Jonathan and Susannah (Powell) Mason, was born \nin Boston, December 9, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He was admitted \nto the Common Pleas Court in Boston in September, 1814, and to the Supreme Judi- \ncial Court in December, 1816. He married Hannah, daughter of Daniel Dennison \nRogers, October 24, 1831, and died in Boston, December 4, 1867. \n\nJohn Wingate Thornton was born in Saco, Me., August 12, 1818, and graduated \nat the Harvard Law School in 1840. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13, \n1840, and lived and practiced in Boston until his death, June 6, 1878. He was a dis- \ntinguished antiquary, one of the founders of the N. E. Historic Genealogical So- \nciety, a vice-president of the American Statistical Society, and of the Prince Publica- \ntion Society. His historical papers and reviews and essays were too numerous to \nmention. \n\nJohn Osborne Sargent was born in Gloucester in 1810, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1830. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1834, and remained in Bos- \nton until 1837, when he went to New York and became associate editor of the New \nYork Courier and Enquirer. During his residence in Boston he was connected \nwith the Boston Atlas, and in 1835 and 1836 was representative. Subsequently he \nedited the Republic newspaper in Washington, and practiced law in Washington and \nNew York until his death in 1891. \n\nThomas Oliver Selfridge, born probably in Boston about 1777, graduated at \nHarvard in 1797 and died in 1816. He studied law in Boston with Robert Treat \n31 \n\n\n242 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nPaine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1800. In 1806, as the result of a polit- \nical quarrel, he shot Charles Austin in State street, Boston, and was tried for mur- \nder and acquitted. Samuel Dexter defended him and made one of those powerful \nand eloquent appeals to the jury for which he was distinguished. He was the father \nof Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver Selfridge of the United States navy. \n\nMatthew Hale Smith, son of Rev. Elias Smith, and well known to the last genera- \ntion as a correspondent of the Boston journal under the name of ' ' Burleigh,\" studied \ndivinity and was successively a Universalist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Bap- \ntist. He was the author of many theological and other works, and finally studied \nlaw and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1850. \n\nFrederick William Sawyer was born at Saco, Me., April 32, 1810, and in 1838 re- \nmoved to Boston, where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1840, and prac- \nticed law until his death, September 6, 1875. He published \" The Merchant's and \nShipmaster's Guide,\" \" Plea for Amusements,\" and was a frequent contributor to the \ndaily press. \n\nJonathan Sewall, son of Jonathan, was born in Boston, August 24, 1728, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1748. He was appointed attorney-general of Massachusetts \nin 1767, and in the next year was made judge of the Nova Scotia Admiralty Court. \nIn 1775 as a loyalist he went to England, and in 1788 settled in St. John, N. B., \nwhere he held the position of admiralty judge until his death in that place, Septem- \nber 26, 1796. \n\nBenjamin Pratt was born in Cohasset, Mass., March 13, 1710, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1737. He studied law with Robert Auchmuty and married his daughter. \nHe was a representative from Boston from 1757 to 1759 and was one of the few \neminent lawyers in Boston of that day. He was appointed in 1761 chief justice of \nNew York, and died January 5, 1763. \n\nGeorge D. Noyes, son of Rev. George R. and Eliza (Buttrick) Noyes, was born in \nBrookfield, Mass., June 3, 1831, and graduated at Harvard in 1851. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, \n1855. He married Susan P., daughter of John Wright, of Lowell, June 19, 1872, \nand lives in Brookline. \n\nPatrick O'Loughlin, son of Patrick and Catherine O'Loughlin, was born in En- \nnistymore, County Clare, Ireland, July 16, 1849, and was educated in Ireland in the \nChristian Brothers' Schools. He came to Boston June 5, 1864, and finished his edu- \ncation in the Boston public schools. He studied law at the Boston University Law \nSchool and in the office of Sumner Albee, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, May \n20, 1878. He is now preparing a work on the Law of Fraternal, Social and Literary \nSocieties. He married Catherine F. Kearns at Boston, June 5, 1884, and lives in \nBrookline. \n\nJames Monroe Olmstead, son of John W. and Mary (Livingston) Olmstead, was \nborn in Framingham, Mass., February 6, 1852, and fitting for college at the Roxbury \nLatin School graduated at Harvard in 1873. He afterwards attended the University \nof Berlin and the University of Heidelberg. He graduated at the Boston University \nLaw School in 1877, and finishing his law studies with Jewell, Field & Shepard, was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar December 7, 1877. He was a representative from Ward \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 243 \n\nEleven in Boston in 1891 and 1892. The special eases in which he has been engaged \nare Schmauz vs. Goos, 132 Mass., 141, Batchelder vs. Batchelder, 139 Mass., 1, and \nFogg vs. Millis, 188 Mass., 443. He was instrumental in the introduction of the \nAustralian ballot into the caucus system in Boston. He married Annie M. Batchel- \nder in Boston, May 29, 1879, and lives in Boston. \n\nGeorge Read Nutter, son of Thomas F. and Adelaide R. Nutter, was born in \nBoston, August 9, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. He resides in \nBoston. \n\nJohn Adams, son of John and Susanna (Boylston) Adams, was born in Braintree, \nMass., October 31, 173.\"), and graduated at Harvard in 1755. He studied law in Wor- \ncester and began practice in Boston in 1758, while retaining a residence in Braintree. \nHe moved to Boston in 1768 and was soon after made a barrister. In 1770 he was \none of the counsel defending Captain Preston and others for the Boston massacre, \nand in the same year was chosen representative. He was a delegate to the Congress \nof 1774 and 1775, and a member of the Provincial Congress. He was president of \nthe Board of War in 1776-77, and in 1777 was appointed commissioner to France. \nHe was appointed by Congress minister to treat with Great Britain for peace in 1779 \nand in 1780 was sent to Holland to negotiate a loan. With Franklin and Jay he \nnegotiated a treaty of commerce with Great Britain and in 1785 was sent minister to \nthe Court of St. James. In 1788 he was chosen vice-president of the United States \nand in 1796 president. In 1820 he was a delegate to the State Convention, and died \nat Quincy, Mass., July 4, 1826. He married in 1764 Abigail Smith, of Weymouth. \n\nJohn Quincy Adams, son of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams, was born in Brain- \ntree, Mass., July 11, 1767. At eleven years oFage (in 1778) he went with his father \nto France and returned in 1779, having attended school in France during his absence. \nHe returned to France in 1779 and continued his studies there and at Amsterdam \nand in the Leyden University. In 1781 at the age of fourteen he went with Francis \nDana, minister to Russia, as his secretary, and after several years at St. Petersburg \nand Stockholm, Copenhagen and Hamburg, returned to America in 1785. He \nstudied law with Theophilus Parsons, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791. \nIn 1794 he was appointed minister to Holland, and in 1796 minister to Portugal. In \n1797 he was appointed minister to Prussia, but was recalled on the election of Jeffer- \nson and resumed practice in Boston. In 1802 he was chosen a member of the State \nSenate, and in 1803 United States senator. In 1806 he was appointed professor of \nrhetoric and belles-lettres at Harvard, and in 1809 he was appointed minister to Rus- \nsia. In 1815 he was appointed minister to England, and under President Monroe \nniade secretary of state. In 1824 he was chosen president and served one term. In \n1831 he was chosen by the anti-Masonic party member of Congress and he remained \nin Congress until his death, which occurred in the Capitol at Washington February \n23, 1848. He married, July 27, 1797, Louisa, daughter of Joshua Johnson, of Mary- \nland, American consul at London. \n\nNathaniel Peaslee Sargeant, son of Rev. Christopher Sargeant, was born in \nMethuen, November 2, 1731, and graduated at Harvard in 1750. He practiced law \nin Haverhill, was a delegate to Provincial Congress in 1775, and in 1775 was appointed \njudge of the Superior Court of Judicature, being promoted in 1790 to chief justice, \nand dying in October, 1791, at Haverhill. \n\n\n244 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nTheophilus Parsons, son of Rev. Moses Parsons, was born in Newbury, Mass., \nFebruary 24, 1750, and graduated at Harvard in 1709. He was admitted to the bar \nin Portland in 1774, and after a practice of a year or two established himself in New- \nburyport in 1777. He removed to Boston in 1800 and was made chief justice of the \nSupreme Judicial Court in 1806, holding his seat until his death at Boston, October \n80, 1813. He married a daughter of Benjamin Greenleaf. \n\nTheophilus Parsons, jr., son of Theophilus, was born in Newburyport, May 17, \n1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1815. He studied law with William Prescott, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar February 16, 1819, beginning practice in Taunton \nbut soon settling in Boston. He was largely engaged in literary work, including \ncontributions to reviews and the press and several law books, among which are \"Law \nof Contracts,\" \" Elements of Mercantile Law,\" \" Laws of Business for Business Men,\" \n\" Maritime Law,\" \" Notes and Bills of Exchange,\" \" Law of Partnership,\" \"Marine \nInsurance and General Average,\" and \" Shipping and Admiralty.\" He was also the \nauthor of a memoir of his father and several volumes of essays. He was appointed \nin 1847 Dane professor of law in the Harvard Law School, a position which he held \nuntil his death, which occurred in Cambridge, January 26, 1882. \n\nSamuel Sewall was born in Boston, December 11, 1757, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1776. He settled in Marblehead, wras at one time representative, was a member \nof Congress from 1797 to 1800, and made judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in \n1800. He was made chief justice in 1813 and served until his death at Wiscasset, Me., \nJune 8, 1814. \n\nIsaac Parker was descended from John, who came from Biddeford, England, to \nSaco, Me., and in 1650 bought the island in the Kennebec River, called Parker's \nIsland, and there died in 1661. He was born in Boston, June 17, 1768, and graduated \nat Harvard in 1786. He studied law in Boston with William Tudor, and was admit- \nted to the Suffolk bar in 1789. He settled in Castine, Me., was representative in \n1791-93-94-95, member of Congress from 1797 to 1799, and United States marshal \nfrom 1797 to 1801. He removed to Portland, was appointed judge of the Supreme \nJudicial Court of Massachusetts in January, 1806, and made chief justice in 1814, serv- \ning until his death, May 26, 1830. He was eleven years trustee of Bowdoin College, \ntwenty vears an overseer of Harvard, and Royal professor of law at the Harvard \nLaw School from 1816 to 1827. He received a degree of LL.D. from Harvard in \n1814. He married Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Hall, of Medford. \n\nJames W. O'Brien was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 1, 1846, and was admitted \nto the Middlesex bar in 1867. He was a member of the Charlestown City Council in \n1870-71, and trustee of the Public Library. He practiced in Charlestown until its an- \nnexation to Boston in 1874, when he removed to Boston proper. \n\nLemuel Shaw, son of Oakes and Susannah (Hayward) Shaw, was born in Barn- \nstable, Mass., January 9, 1781. His father, born in Bridgewater, Mass., June 10, \n1736, was ordained over the First Church in Barnstable, October 1, 1760, and died \nFebruary 11, 1807, and his mother was a native of Braintree. He was fitted for col-* \nlege by his father and by Rev. Wm. Salisbury, of Braintree, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1800. After leaving college he was usher in the Franklin (Brimmer) School \nunder Dr. Asa Bullard, principal, and assistant editor of the Boston Gazette. In \n1801 he entered the law office of David Everett in Boston, and after a regular course \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 245 \n\nof study in Boston and Amherst, N. H., was admitted to the bar in Hopkinton, N. \nH., in September, 1804. He was afterwards admitted to the Massachusetts War at \nPlymouth in November, 1804, and established himself at Boston. He was a repre- \nsentative in 1811-12-13-14-15, a member of the Convention of 1820, a Senator in \n1821-22 and 1828-29, and wrote the act incorporating the city of Boston with the ex- \nception of the section relating to public theatres and exhibitions, and the section \nestablishing the Police Court of the city of Boston, which were drafted by William \nSullivan. He was a member of the Boston Library Society, the Humane Society, \nthe Massachusetts Historical Society, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel \namong the Indians in North America, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences, a mem- \nber of the Board of Overseers of Harvard twelve years, and one of the corporation of \nHarvard twenty-seven years. On the 23d of August, 1830, he was appointed chief \njustice of the Supreme Judicial Court and resigned August 31, 1860. He received \nthe degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1831 and from Brown in 1850, and died in Bos- \nton, March 30, 1861. He married first Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Knapp, of \nBoston, January 6, 1818, and second Hope, daughter of Dr. Samuel Savage, of Barn- \nstable, in August, 1827. \n\nReuben Atwatkr Chapman was the son of a farmer and born in Russell, Mass., \nSeptember 20, 1801. At first clerk in a store in Blanford, he studied law there and \nafter admission to the bar practiced successively in Westfield, Monson, Ware, and \nSpringfield, being in the last place a partner with George Ashmun. He was ap- \npointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1860, and chief justice in 1868, hold- \ning his seat until his death, which occurred in Fluellen, Switzerland, June 28, 1873. \nHe received the degree of Master of Arts from Williams in 1836, and Amherst in 184 1 . \nand the degree of LL.D. from Amherst in 1861, and Harvard in 1864. \n\nHorace Gray, son of Horace, was born in Boston in 1828, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1845, and from the Harvard Law School in 1849. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar February 14, 1851. In 1854 he was appointed reporter of the decisions of \nthe Supreme Judicial Court, and his reports are contained in sixteen volumes, cover- \ning the period from the Suffolk and Nantucket term of 1854 to the Suffolk term of \nNovember, 1860. In 1864 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and \nin 1873 chief justice. In 1882 he was made associate justice of the Supreme Court of \nthe United States and is still on the bench. \n\nThomas Green Fessenden was born in Walpole, N. H., April 22, 1771, and grad- \nuated at Dartmouth in 1796. He studied law, and after admission to the bar wrote a \npoem, entitled \" Jonathan's Courtship,\" which attracted some attention. In London, \nin 1803, he published another poem \"Terrible Tractoration,\" and in Boston, in 1806, \npublished \"Democracy Unveiled.\" In 1812 he practiced law at Bellows Falls, and \nin 1815 in Brattleboro, where he edited the Intelligencer. In 1822 he came to Bos- \nton and published the New England Farmer until his death, November 11, 1837. \n\nWilliam Reed was a Boston man, and was deputy judge of admiralty in 1766. \nHe was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in \n1770, and held that office untirthe Revolution. He was a barrister in 1768. In 1775 \nhe was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature and was superseded in \n1776. He died in 1780. \n\n\n246 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nJedediah Foster was born in Andover, October 10, 1726, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1744. He settled in Brookfield, and was a delegate to the Provincial Con- \ngress in 1774-5. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature and \nserved till his death, October 17, 1779. \n\nIncrease Sumner, son of Increase, a farmer in Roxbury, was born in that town No- \nvember 27, 1746, and graduated at Harvard in 1767. After graduation he taught \nschool, and after studying law in Boston with Samuel Quincy was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1770, and settled in Roxbury. He was representative from 1776 to \n1780, senator from 1780 to 1782, and in 1782 was appointed judge of the Supreme Ju- \ndicial Court, holding the seat until he was chosen governor in 1797, and died in office, \nJune 7, 1799. He married, September 30, 1779, a daughter of William Hyslop, of \nBrookline, Mass. \n\nNathan Cushing was born in Scituate, September 24, 1742, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1763. He was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1790 and \nresigned in 1800. He died at Scituate, November 2, 1812. \n\nThomas Dawes, son of Col. Thomas, was born in Boston, July 8, 1758, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1777. He studied law in -the office of John Lowell in Boston, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1780. He was appointed in 1790 judge of \nprobate for Suffolk county and in 1792 judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. He re- \nmained on the bench till his resignation in 1802, when he was again appointed judge \nof probate and held the office until his death, July 22, 1825. He was also appointed \nin 1802 judge of the Municipal Court in the town of Boston to succeed George Rich- \nards Minot, who was appointed on the establishment of the court in 1800. He held \nthis office until he was succeeded on his resignation by Josiah Quincy, who was ap- \npointed January 16, 1822. \n\nTheophilus Bradbury was born in Newbury, Mass., November 13, 1739, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1757. He taught school in Falmouth, now Portland, and after \nstudying law established himself in Falmouth, where he remained until 1779, when \nhe removed to Newbury. He was a representative and senator, and also a member \nof Congress from 1795 to 1797, and judge of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1797 to \n1803. He died at Newbury, September 6, 1803. \n\nSimeon Strong was born in Northampton, March 6, 1736, and graduated at Yale \nCollege in 1756. He was admitted to the bar in 1761. He was representative from \n1767 to 1769, senator in 1793, and in 1801 was appointed judge of the Supreme Ju- \ndicial Court, remaining on the bench until his death at Amherst, December 14, 1805. \n\nTheodore Sedgwick, son of Benjamin, was born in Hartford, Conn., in May, 1740, \nand graduated at Yale in 1705. In April, 1766, he was admitted to the bar and prac- \nticed in Great Barrington and Sheffield. In the Revolution he was on the staff of \nGen. John Thomas in the expedition to Canada. He was a representative from Shef- \nfield, delegate to the Continental Congress, and in 1788 to 1797 a member of Con- \ngress. He was speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1788-9, \nUnited States senator from 1796 to 1799, and in 1802 he was appointed judge of the \nSupreme Judicial Court, serving until his death, which occurred in Boston, June 24, \n1813. \n\nDaniel Dewey was born in Sheffield, Mass., January 29, 1766. He studied law \nwith Theodore Sedgwick, and settled in Williamstown in 1787 ; was a member of the \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 247 \n\nExecutive Council, member of Congress in 1813-14, and appointed judge of the Su- \npreme Judicial Court in 1814, serving till his death, May 26, 1815. \n\nSamuel Putnam was born in Danvers, Mass., April 13, 1768, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1787. After admission to the bar he began practice in Salem in 1790. He \nwas State senator in 1808-9-13-14, representative in 1812, and a judge of the Supreme \nJudicial Court from 1814 to 1842. He died at Somerville, July 3, 1853. \n\nLeon Martin Abbott, son of Joseph B. and Lydia C. Abbott, born in Richmond, \nN. H., August 28, 1867, was educated at the High School in Keene, N. H., and grad- \nuated at Harvard. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. Residence at Keene, N. H. \n\nSamuel Appleton Browne Abbott, son of Josiah Gardner and Caroline (Livermore) \nAbbott, was born in Lowell, March 6, 1846. He graduated at Harvard in 1866, and \nstudied law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1868, and to the \nUnited States Supreme Court in 1875. He married at Providence, R. I., October 15, \n1873, Abby Frances Woods. Residence in Boston. \n\nRoscius Harlow Back, son of Roscius and Harriet C, born in Union, Conn., May \n28, 1865, educated at common schools of Union and High School of Brimfield, Mass., \nstudied law at Boston University Law School, admitted to the bar at Boston, 1889. \nMarried Katharine E. Hart at Boston, December 1, 1888, residence in Boston. \n\nDudley P. Bailey, son of Rev. Dudley Perkins and Hannah Barrows (Cushman), \nborn in Cornville, Me., October 24, 1843, graduated at Colby University 1867, studied \nlaw with William L. Putnam, of Portland, admitted to Maine bar April 28, 1870, to \nSuffolk bar April 15, 1873, representative 1886-7. Residence at Everett, Mass., un- \nmarried. \n\nAndrew Jackson Bailey, son of Barker and Alice, born in Charlestown, Mass., \nJuly 18, 1840, graduated at Harvard 1863, was second lieutenant in the war, studied \nlaw with John W. Pettingill and Hutchins & Wheeler, admitted to bar 1867, repre- \nsentative 1871-72-73, senator 1874, city solicitor of Boston 1881. Married in January. \n1869, Abby V., daughter of John and Hannah Getchell, of Charlestown. \n\nThomas Cogswell Baciielder, son of Dr. Samuel Fogg and Martha (Badger) Bach- \nelder, born at Gilmanton Iron Works, N. H., November 6, 1860, graduated at Har- \nvard 1883, studied law at Harvard Law School, and admitted to Suffolk bar January \n26, 1886, residence Dorchester District of Boston. \n\nEugene Pendleton Carver, son of Nathan P. and Frances A. (Pendleton) Carver, \nborn in Searsport, Me., September 5, 1860, educated at Boston University, studied \nlaw at Boston University Law School, admitted to Suffolk bar in June, 1882. Mar- \nried Clara P. Porter, August 11, 1886, residence Arlington. \n\nJohn H. Casey, son of Jeremiah and Margaret, born in Somerville, Mass., Decem- \nber 9, 1860, educated at public schools, studied law with Stearns & Butler and at Bos- \nton University Law School, admitted to Suffolk bar January, 1885, residence Dor- \nchester District of Boston. \n\n• \n\nJames Cooney, jr., son of James and Jane (Fields) Cooney, born in Ellington, Conn., \nJanuary 3, 1851, educated at public and private schools, studied law at Yale Law \nSchool and in office of Judge De Forest, of Bridgeport, admitted to bar in New Haven, \nJune 27, 1883, in Boston, January 20, 1885, residence Boston. \n\n\n248 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nEdward O. Cooke, son of Russell and Mary V. (Otis) Cooke, born in Boston, Sep- \ntember 5, 1839, educated at public schools, studied law with John F. Colby in Boston, \nadmitted to bar in Boston, November, 1879. Married daughter of Charles W. Morse, \nof Boston, residence Scituate. \n\nFrancis Dana, son of Col. George H. and Frances Anne Matson Burke Dana, \nborn in Singapore, educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., studied law at \nHarvard Law School and in the office of Joseph Willard, Boston, admitted to Suffolk \nbar in December, 1888, residence Boston. \n\nRichard Ela, son of Richard and Lucia (King) Ela, born in Washington, D. C, No- \nvember SO, 1850, graduated at Harvard 1871, studied law with Jewell, Gaston & Field \nand at Harvard Law School, admitted to bar in Boston, June, 1873, residence Cam- \nbridge. \n\nMichael F. Farrell, born in Kilkenny, Ireland, September 13, 1848, educated at \nBoston College, studied law with Edwin S. Hovey, admitted to Middlesex bar June, \n1871. Married Elizabeth M. Treanor at Somerville in 1874, residence Somerville. \n\nWilliam Aspinwall, son of Col. Thomas and Louisa Elizabeth (Poignand) Aspin- \nwall, United States consul in London from 1815 to 1853, was born in London, February \n16, 1819, educated at a private school in Hammersmith, England, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1838. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, finished his law \nstudies in the office of Franklin Dexter and George W. Phillips, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in 1841. In 1847 he became a resident in Brookline, was town clerk \nfrom 1850 to 1852, representative in 1851 and 1852, member of the Constitutional Con- \nvention of 1853, senator in 1854, and assessor, selectman, and water commissioner. \nHe married in January, 1848, Arixene Southgate, daughter of Richard King Porter, \nof Portland, and died at Brookline, October 25, 1892. \n\nCharles Sumner Hamlin, son of Edward Sumner and Anna Gertrude Hamlin, was \nborn in Boston, August 30, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1883. He graduated \nalso at the Harvard Law School in 1886, and finished his law studies in the office of \nRobert M. Morse. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He is an ardent \nDemocratic politician, deeply interested in civil service and tariff reform and an \nffective speaker on the political platform. In April, 1893, he was appointed by \nPresident Cleveland assistant secretary of the treasmy. Residence Brookline. \n\nHenry A. Scudder, son of Josiah and Hannah (Lovell) Scudder, born in Barn- \nstable November 25, 1819, studied law with his brother Zeno at Barnstable and in \nBoston with George T. Bigelow, admitted to Suffolk bar October 25, 1844, appointed \nin February, 1869, judge of the Superior Court, resigned 1872. Married, June 30, 1857, \nMrs. Nanie B. Jackson, daughter of Captain Charles B. Tobey, of Nantucket, \ndied at Washington, Jamiary 26, 1892. \n\nAsa Wellington, son of John, born in West Boylston, December 14, 1817, studied \nlaw with Ezra Wilkinson at Dedham, admitted to the Norfolk bar in 1850, practiced \nin Weymouth first, afterwards Boston. Married, November 9, 1850, Cornelia A. \nThayer, of Weymouth, died in Boston, May 9, 1892. \n\nGeorge W. Wake, jr., born in Boston, Octobers, 1837, graduated at Amherst 1859, \nHarvard Law School 1861. Married, December 14, 1865, Alice S., daughter of \nEdward S. Tobey, of Boston, died in Boston, February 12, 1890. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 249 \n\nGeorge Greenleaf Pratt, son of Rev. Enoch, born in Brewster in 1842, graduated \nat Harvard 1866, studied law with Richard H. Dana, jr., admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJune 24, 1873, died at Waverly, May 4, 1890. \n\nEdward F. Head graduated at the Harvard Law School 1842, admitted to the \nMiddlesex bar October, 1843, was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1848, removed to \nCalifornia and became judge of the Superior Court of San Mateo county, and died in \nSan Francisco in April, 1890. \n\nJohn F. Colby, born in Bennington, N. H., March 3, 1834, graduated at Dartmouth, \n1859, admitted to the Suffolk bar December 14, I860, councilman in Boston 1878-79, \nrepresentative 1886-87, died at Hillsboro', N. H., June 7, 1890. \n\nGilman Marston, born at Orford, N. H., August 20, 1811, graduated at Dartmouth, \nis:!7, studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hubbard & Watts, \nof Boston, admitted to Suffolk bar April 22, 1841, practiced in Exeter, N. H., repre- \nsentative in New Hampshire eighteen years, member of Congress 1859 to 1863, and \n1865 to 1867, colonel and brigadier-general in the war, died at Exeter, N. H., July 3, \n1890. \n\nEdward Darley Boit, son of John, who was chief officer of the ship Columbia, \nwhich gave the name to Columbia River, born in Boston 1815, graduated at Harvard \n1834, and at Harvard Law School 1844, admitted to the Suffolk bar January 29, 1847, \nassociated with Charles P. & B. R. Curtis, representative 1852-53. Married, June 13, \n1839, Jane P., daughter of John Hubbard, of Boston, abandoned law to become \ntreasurer of several mill corporations, died at Cotuit, Mass., October 15, 1890. \n\nEdward P. Nettleton, born in Chicopee, Mass., November 7, 1834, graduated at \nYale, 1856, captain in Thirty-first Massachusetts Regiment, made colonel June 7, \n1865, studied law at Springfield and Harvard Law Schools, admitted to Suffolk bar \n1867, appointed assistant United States attorney 1869, fourth assistant city solicitor \n1876, second assistant 1878, first assistant 1879, city solicitor 1881, corporation counsel \nof Boston 1882, judge advocate general on staff of Governor Robinson 1883. Married \nDecember 15, 1869, Mary E., daughter of Rev. Dr. J. T. Tucker, died at Boston, \nApril 17, 1889. \n\nPeleg Whitman Chandler, son of Peleg, was born in New Gloucester, Me., April \n3, 1816, and graduated at the Bangor Theological Seminary in 1834 and at Bowdoin \nCollege in 1837. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law School \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was a city councilman 1843-45, president \nof the council the two last years, representative 1845-7, city solicitor 1845 to 1853, \nFourth of July city orator in 1844, trustee of Bowdoin College, and received the de- \ngree of LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1867. He published two volumes of noted criminal \ntrials and was connected for some time with the editorial management of the Boston \nDaily Advertiser. He married a daughter of Professor Parker Cleaveland and \ndied in Boston, May 28, 1889. \n\nFrancis Brinley, born in Boston, November 10, 1800, graduated at Harvard 1818, \nstudied law Avith William Sullivan and admitted to Suffolk bar November, 1821, \npresident of Common Council of Boston 1850-51, representative 1832, '50, '54, and \nsenator 1852-53, '63. In 1857 removed to Tyngsboro', and then to Newport, R. I. \nDied at Newport, June 14, 1889. \n32 \n\n\n250 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHenry Weld Filler, son of Henry W. Fuller and Esther, daughter of Captain \nBenjamin Gould, of Newburyport, born in Augusta, Me., January 16, 1810, gradu- \nated at Bowdoin 1828, studied law with his father and at Harvard Law School, be- \ngan practice in Augusta, removed to Boston 1841, admitted to Suffolk bar October \n30, 1841, and became a partner with E. Hasket Derby, afterwards appointed clerk of \nUnited States Circuit Court. Married in 1835 Mary Storer, daughter of Nathaniel \nGoddard, of Boston, and died in Boston, August 14, 1889. \n\nFrancis Fiske Heard, born in Wayland, January 17, 1825, graduated at Harvard \n1848. He practiced in Framingham from 1851 to 185G, and was afterwards, while in \nBoston, associated with E. H. Bennett in the Digest. He married two wives, the \nfirst of whom was Harriet, daughter of Dr. Israel Hildreth, of Dracut, and he died \nin Boston, September 29, 1889. \n\nBenjamin Pond, born in Salem, February 6, 1822, educated at Latin School, \nstudied law with William Whiting, Boston, councilman 1857-8, judge of Municipal \nCourt of East Boston District, resigned in 1887, died November 21, 1889. \n\nFrancis Winthrop Palfrey, son of Rev. Dr. John G. Palfrey, born in Boston, \nApril 11, 1831, graduated at Harvard 1851 and at Harvard Law School 1853, ad- \nmitted to Suffolk bar September 21, 1854, lieutenant-colonel, colonel of Twentieth \nMassachusetts Regiment, and brevet major-general, wounded at Antietam, author \nof \"Antietam and Fredericksburg,\" register of bankruptcy- Married Louisa, daugh- \nter of Sidney Bartlett, of Boston, and died at Cannes, France, December 5, 1889. \n\nHoratio E. Swasey, son of Horatio J., born in Standish, Me., educated at Gor- \nham Academy, studied with his father and in Boston with Henry W. Paine, after \nadmission associated with Thomas J. Gargan till 1882, then with his brother, Demo- \ncratic candidate for Congress in 1888, died in Boston, December 24, 1889. \n\nJohn H. Krey, born in Boston 1859, studied at the Boston Law School, admitted \nto Suffolk bar 1884, died in Boston, December 26, 1889. \n\nJoseph McKean Churchill, son of Asaph and Mary (Gardner) Churchill, born in \nMilton, April 29, 1821, graduated at Harvard 1840, and at Harvard Law School 1845, \nadmitted to Suffolk bar 1845, overseer of Harvard 1856-58, representative 1858-5.9, \nmember of the Executive Council 1859-60, of the Constitutional Convention 1853, \ncaptain Company B Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment in the war, special justice \nof the Boston Municipal Court 1867, associate justice 1871, married Augusta Phillips \nGardner, and died at Milton, March 23, 1886. \n\nGeorge L. Ruffin, born of free parents in Richmond, Va. , December 16, 1834, \ncame with his parents to Boston 1853, attended Chapman Hall School, opened a bar- \nber's shop, studied law with Jewell & Gaston, graduated at Harvard Law School \n1869, admitted to Suffolk bar September 18, 1869, representative 1870-71, councilman \n1876-77, appointed judge of Municipal Court of Charlestown District in November, \n1883, by Governor B. F. Butler, and died November 19, 1886. \n\nIsaac Hull Wright, born in Boston in 1816, went into business with his father, \nafterwards connected with the press, appointed navy agent at Boston in 1846, lieu- \ntenant-colonel and colonel of Massachusetts Volunteers in the Mexican war, studied \nlaw with Theophilus Parsons, admitted to Suffolk bar January 22, 1863, died in Dor- \nchester, December 22, 1886. \n\n\nfz^/££<2j^^A \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 251 \n\nBenjamin F. Brooks, born in Sturbridge, October 26, 1818, admitted to Suffolk \nbar October 7, 1840, many years a partner with Joshua D. Ball, died at Newton, Jan- \nuary 4, 1887. \n\nCharles Atwood, born in Haverhill, May 15, 1803, graduated at Yale 1821, died \nFebruary 13, 1887. \n\nHenry Bromfield Rogers, born in Boston, April 4, 1802, graduated at Harvard \n1822, admitted to the Suffolk bar October 27, 1825, alderman in Boston in 1844-48-49- \n50-51, senator 1857, died in Boston, March 30, 1857. \n\nHenry Lunt, son of Rev. Dr. William Parsons Lunt and Ellen Hobart, daughter of \nBarnabus Hedge, of Plymouth, born in Quincy, Mass., March 28, 1842, graduated \nat Harvard 1863, studied law with Brooks, Ball & Storey, admitted to the Suffolk bar \nSeptember 17, 1866, died at Quincy, April 7, 1887. \n\nJonathan Palmer Rogers, son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Palmer) Rogers, born in \nShapleigh, now Acton, October 10, 1802, went with his father at the age of twelve to \nAugusta, Me., studied law with Ruel Williams, admitted to the Penobscot bar 1826, \nsettled in Bangor, attorney-general of Maine 1832, senator 1834, and removed to Bos- \nton 1840, and admitted to Suffolk bar. He married Lucretia, daughter of Henry \nPage, of Hallowell, Me., and died in Boston, November 26, 1846. \n\nJustin Allen Jacobs, born in Cranston, R. I., February 3, 1818, graduated at Har- \nvard 1839, admitted to Middlesex bar June, 1850, died at Cambridge, January 3, \n1887. \n\nWilliam Davis Buss, son of Alexander Bliss and Elizabeth, daughter of William \nDavis, of Plymouth, born in Plymouth, May 1, 1826, graduated at Harvard 1846, ad- \nmitted to Suffolk bar January 22, 1851, removed to Petaluma, Cal., and there died, \nNovember 1, 1886. \n\nCharles Folsom Walcott, born in Hopkinton, Mass., December 22, 1836, gradu- \nated at Harvard 1857, at Harvard Law School 1860, died at Salem, June 11, 1887. \n\nFrancis Bartlett Patten, son of J. Bartlett and Lucy P. Patten, born in Boston, \nJanuary 11, 1858, graduated at Harvard 1879, studied law at the Boston University \nLaw School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1883, residence Boston. \n\nWilliam Page, son of Thomas and Sarah (Cogswell) Page, born in Boston, August \n24, 1795, graduated at Harvard 1815, studied law with James T. Austin, and was \nadmitted before 1822 to Suffolk bar, and died in Boston, April 11, 1867. \n\nGeorge Sumner Forbush, son of James E. and Elizabeth W. Forbush, born in Ash. \nland, Mass. , April 17, 1853, studied law at Boston University Law School and with \nJudge Mellen Chamberlain in Boston, admitted to the Suffolk bar December 12, 1874, \nand married Grace Shipley Etheridge in Boston, June 25, 1877, residence Brookline. \n\nJoseph R. Churchill, son of Asaph and Mary Churchill, born in Dorchester, July \n29, 1845, graduated at Harvard 1867, at Harvard Law School 1869, admitted to the \nNorfolk county bar 1869, is judge of the Municipal Court of the Dorchester District \nof Boston. He married, February 21, 1871, at Dorchester, Mary, daughter of Dr. \nBenjamin Gushing, of Dorchester, residence in Dorchester. \n\nEdward James Flynn, son of Maurice and Mary Flynn, born in Boston, June 16, \n1859, graduated at Boston College in 1861. He studied law at Harvard and Boston \n\n\ni52 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nUniversity Law Schools, and was admitted to Suffolk bar in January, 1884, repre- \nsentative in 1885 86 88, member of the Executive Council 1889-90-91, director of \nEast Boston ferries 1887-88-89, president of Boston College Alumni Association, res- \nidence Boston. \n\nElk itL. Packard, son of Nelson and Martha P. Packard, born in Brockton, Mass., \n| urn- 4, 1854, graduated at the Bridge-water Normal School in 1*72, studied law at \nthe Boston University Law School and with Jonas R. Perkins and W. W. Wilkins at \nBrockton, admitted to Plymouth county bar in 1877, councilman in Brockton 1885, \nmarried at Hopkinton, Mass., December 25, 1884, Cora Lethbridge, residence in \nWbburn since 1886. \n\nFrank M. Forbush, son of James E. and Elizabeth W. (Goddard) Forbush, born in \nNatick, Mass., September 20, 1858, studied law at the Boston University Law School \nand in the offices of George S. Forbush and Patrick H. Cooney, and admitted to the \nbar in Lowell, .September 13, 1882. He married at Natick, November 1, 1882, Annie \nLouise Mead, and lives in Natick. \n\nJeremiah (i. Foley, son of Michael J. and Catherine Foley, born in North Leomin- \nster, Mass., October 2, 1863, educated at Boston College, studied law with Charles \nA. Prince in Boston and at Boston University Law School, and admitted to Suffolk \nbar August 4, 1891, residence Boston. \n\nEdward Tyrrel Channing, son of William, was born in Newport, R. I., Decem- \nber 12, 1791, and entered Harvard but did not graduate, receiving, however, the de- \ngree of Master of Arts in 1819 and of LL.D. in 1847. He was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in January, 1812, and began practice in Boston. He was a frequent and \nable contributor to the North American Review, and in 1819 its co-editor with \nRichard H. Dana. He delivered the Boston Fourth of July oration in 1817, and in \n1819 was appointed Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, holding \nthe place until 1851 and performing work probably more useful than that of any \nprofessor since the college was organized. He died at Cambridge, February 8, 1856. \n\nWilliam H. Baker, son of James E. and Eliza A. Baker, was born m Cornville, \nMe., July 22, 1865, and was educated at the Norridgewock Eaton School. He studied \nlaw at the Boston University Law School and with Charles Robinson and Blackmar \n& Sheldon in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1887, and the \nMaine bar in Skowhegan in September, 1887, residence in Boston. \n\nJoseph Whitman Bailey, son of Loring Wourt and Laura A. (Avray) Bailey, was \nborn in Fredericton, N. B., May 9, 1865, and was educated at the Collegiate School \nand University of New Brunswick at Fredericton. He studied law with Wetmore & \nWinslow, barristers at Fredericton, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admit- \nted to tlie Suffolk bar in December, 1889, residence in Boston. \n\nHorace G. Allen, son of Stephen M. and Ann M. Allen, was born in Jamaica \nPlain, July 27, 1855, and educated at the Boston public schools. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 5, 1877. He \nhas been councilman, and in 1891 was candidate for mayor of Boston. He married \nin 1881 Grace D. Chamberlain, of Brunswick, Me., residence in Roxbury. \n\nHoi. i is Ri ssell Bailey, son of Otis and Lucinda Alden (Loring) Bailey, was born \nFebruary 24, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He graduated at the Harvard \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 2S3 \n\nLaw School in 1878, and after a course of study in the office of Hyde, Dickinson & \nHowe in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1880. He ma \nMary Persis, daughter of Governor Charles H. Bell, of New Hampshire, February \n12, 1884, and lives in Cambridge. \n\nEdward I. Baker, son of J. Alonzo and Maria M. Baker, was born in Eddington, \nMe., February 25, 1866, and studied law in the Boston University Law School ami in \nthe office of Albert W. Paine, of Bangor, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nOctober, 1887, residence in Boston. \n\nWilliam B. De Las Casas, son of Francisco Beltran and Elizabeth Cardes (Pedrick) \nde las Casas, was born in Maiden, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. His father \nwas a political exile from Spain in 1820, who had favored a constitutional govern- \nment. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of \nRobert D. Smith, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He lives in Maiden, \nand for some years he has been an active and efficient promoter of civil service and \ntariff reform. \n\nEbenezer Gay, son of Martin and Mary (Pinckney) Gay, was born in Boston, Feb- \nruary 24, 1771, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. He studied law with Christopher \nGore, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793. He began practice in Boston, \noccupying an office in Schollay's building, and secured almost at once a lucrative \npractice. He changed his residence to Hingham in 1805, but continued his business \nin Boston till 1809, after which date he enjoyed a large practice at the Plymouth county \nbar. He married Mary Allyne, daughter of Joseph Otis, of Barnstable, July 31, 1800, \nand died at Hingham, February 11, 1842. \n\nWilliam H. Osborne, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Woodman) Osborne, born in Scit- \nuate, September 16, 1840, was educated at the East Bridgewater Academy and the \nState Normal School in Bridgewater, graduating at the last institution in 1860. He \nenlisted in 1861 as private in Company C, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment, was \nseverely wounded near Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862, made prisoner, released on parole \nJuly 18, sent to hospital, and discharged in January, 1863. He studied law with Ben- \njamin W. Harris in East Bridgewater, and was admitted to the Plymouth county bar \nJune 15, 1864. He was representative from East Bridgewater in 1871 and 1883, \npublished a history of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, and is now United States pension \nagent at Boston, having his residence in East Bridgewater. \n\nWilliam Payne Blake, son of Edward and Mary M. J. (Dehon) Blake, was born in \nDorchester, July 23, 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1866. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar September 14, 1869. He resides unmarried in Boston. \n\nGeorge Andrew Blaney, son of George Arnold and Hannah M. C. Blaney, was \nborn in Roxbury, April 16, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Charles Robinson, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar May 13, 1878. He married Ella A. Fowlc at Wobura, \nJune 2, 1880, and lives at West Newton. \n\nElisha Hunt Allen, son of Samuel C. Allen, was born in New Salem, Mass., Jan- \nuary 28, 1804, and was a descendant from Edward Allen, who left England at the \nrestoration and coming to New England settled on the Connecticut River. He re- \n\n\n254 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nceived an early acadamical education and began life as a clerk in a store, but find- \ning business distasteful he fitted for college, and graduated at Williams in 1823. He \nstudied law in his father's office, and after admission to the bar began practice in \nBrattleboro, Vt, where he remained two years. In 1828 he removed to Bangor, \nwhich at that time was the centre of a new country, as attractive to enterprising \n\nng men in other parts of New England as the \"West has been in later days. He \nthere associated himself in business with John Appleton, afterwards chief justice \n\nte Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, the partnership continuing until the election \nof Mr. Allen to Congress in 1840. His election to the State Legislature in 1836 marked \nhis entry into a political life, which continued unbroken except by his death. Though \nhe had determined to devote himself to professional labors, a power beyond himself \ncontrolled his career and he remained in the Legislature five years, serving a part of \nthe time as speaker of the House of Representatives. The period of his legislative \nservice was a marked one in the history of Maine. Comparatively a new State, a \nvast number of important questions touching its establishment were to be settled, \nand added to these the question of the northeastern boundary became a perplexing \nand disturbing one. In the discussion of all these questions Mr. Allen took a promi- \nnent part, and a resolution introduced and advocated by him favoring the presence \nof a military force to prevent depredations on public lands and the removal of lum- \nber beyond the limits of the State, did much towards securing that action of our gov- \nernment which ended in the Ashburton treaty. In 1840 he was elected member of \nCongress as a Whig in opposition to Hannibal Hamlin the Democratic candidate, \nand thus the political field into which he had once resolved never to enter was en- \nlarged instead of being abandoned. In 1846 he removed to Boston and became a \nmember of the Suffolk bar. In 1849 he was a representative from Boston, and in \nthat year was appointed consul to the Hawaiian Islands. During his residence in \nBoston the writer's acquaintance with him began which ripened into a friendship \nstrengthening with years. A more cordial, warm-hearted, unselfish friend it has \nnever been his fortune to find, and he is now glad of an opportunity to pay a tribute \nto his memory. His life in the Sandwich Islands was an agreeable one, and his pub- \nlic service was exceedingly creditable to himself and valuable to the government he \nfor a time represented. The American element in Honolulu was by no means in- \nconsiderable and its influence with the Hawaiian government was a salutary one. \nCharles Coffin Harris, of Portsmouth, N. H., Stephen H. Phillips, of Salem, Edward \nP. Bond, of Boston, and many others occupied prominent official positions, and their \npresence went far towards not only making Mr. Allen's residence agreeable, but mak- \ning also the performance of his official duties less irksome and difficult. After four \nyears' service as consul he was appointed minister of finance of the Hawaiian govern. \nment, and in 1857 chancellor of the kingdom and chief justice of the Supreme Court, \nholding the last mentioned office twenty years. During his official life he made re- \npeated visits to Washington in efforts to secure the adoption of treaties which he be- \nlieved would be advantageous both to the government he represented and to the \nUnited Stales. The treaty of 1875 was wholly his work in both inception and con- \nsummation, and the admission of sugar and rice into the United States free of duty \nreciprocal with a like admission of the products of our own country into the Hawaiian \nIslands has accomplished all he expected and more than he promised. In 1876 he re- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 255 \n\nsigned both the positions of chancellor and chief justice and became resident minis- \nter at Washington, occupying that position until his death, and at the last as dean of \nthe Diplomatic Corps. He was married twice, first in early life at Brattleboro, Vt., \nto Miss Fessenden, of that town, and second, in 1857, to Mary Harrod, daughter of \nFrederick Hobbs, of Bangor. He died suddenly while attending a diplomatic recep- \ntion at the president's house in Washington, January 1, 1883. \n\nHenry William Paine, son of Lemuel and Jane Thompson (Warren) Paine, was \nborn in Winslow, Me., August 30, 1810, and graduated at Waterville College in 1830. \nHe studied law in the office of Samuel S. Warren, of China, Me., and at the Harvard \nLaw School, and was admitted to the bar of Kennebec county in 1834. He opened \nan office in Hallowell and continued there in the active and successful practice of \nlaw until 1854, when he became a member of the Suffolk bar and a resident of Cam- \nbridge, which is still his home. He was a representative from Hallowell in the \nMaine Legislature in 1835-37, '53, and county attorney five years. Since his arrival \nin Boston he has enjoyed a large practice and won a reputation for skill, wisdom and \nprofound knowledge of law, which places him in the front rank of his profession. A \nseat on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court might have been his both in Maine \nand Massachusetts, but its attendant honors have failed to draw him away from his \nchosen career. He received the degree of LL.D. from Waterville College, or Colby \nUniversity, as it is now called, in 1852. He married Lucy E. Coffin, of Newbury- \nport, Mass., Mayl, 1837. \n\nElbridge Gerry, son of Elbridge and Ann (Thompson) Gerry, was born in Cam- \nbridge, Mass., June 12, 1793, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law \nwith his brother-in law, James T. Austin, in Boston. He was appointed surveyor in \nthe Boston Custom House by President John Quincy Adams, and removed by Jack- \nson in 1830, and was a representative from 1831 to L835. He died at New York, May \n18, 1867. \n\nHarvey Deming Hadlock is descended in the seventh generation from Nathaniel, \nwho came from England in 1038 and settled in Charlestown. In 1653 Nathaniel was \none of the founders of Lancaster. His son, Nathaniel, born in Charlestown, July 16, \n1643, settled near the Ipswich line, and married Remember Jones, of Gloucester. \nThough not a Quaker, his sympathies were excited in their behalf, and he was pun- \nished for declaring \" that he could receive no profit from Mr. Higginson's preaching, \nand that in persecuting the Quakers the government was guilty of innocent blood.\" \nSamuel Hadlock, son of the second Nathaniel, was born April 27, 1687, and married \nJane Gorton in 1708. Samuel Hadlock, son of Samuel, married Hannah Tappan, \nJanuary 25, 1737, and had a son, Samuel, born August 16, 1746, who married Mary \nAndrews, of Ipswich. November 10, 1768. Samuel and Mary had a son, Samuel, \nborn July 6, 1771, who married Sarah Manchester. Edwin Hadlock, son of Samuel \nand Sarah, born January 17, 1814, married Mary Ann, daughter of John and Mary \n(Gilley) Stanwood, and was the father of Harvey Deming Hadlock, the subject of this \nsketch. Samuel Hadlock, the grandfather of Harvey, removed from Massachusetts \nto Maine in the early part of this century and established himself on Little Cranberry \nIsland, most of which he had purchased, and there carried on the shipping business \nso successfully as to amass what for those days was a fortune. There he died in No- \n\n\n25 6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nvember, 1854. His son Edwin who had been a seafaring man retired from the sea \non the death of his father and succeeded to his business, and died at Cranberry Isles. \nSeptember 15, 1s\">. \n\nAt Cranberry Isles, Harvey Deming Hadlock was born, October 7, 1843. His \neducation was received from his mother, a woman of strong intellect and more than \nordinary culture, and in the schools of his native town. At the age of thirteen his \nparents removed to Bucksport, Me., and there he became a student in the East \nMaine Conference Seminary, where he pursued an advance course of classical study, \nenjoying also the benefits of private instructors. Subsequently at the Maine State \nSeminary, now Bates College, and at Dartmouth, he pursued a course of scientific \nstudy, and thus became fully equipped for a start in the professional career which he \nhad determined to pursue. On the 7th of September, 1863, by the advice and with \nthe influence of Governor Edward Kent, he entered the law office of Samuel F. \nHumphrey, of Bangor, and on the 6th of January, 1865, at the age of twenty-one \nyears he was admitted after examination to the Maine bar and established himself in \nBucksport. Soon after his admission, business having led him to New Orleans, he \nthere pursued the study of civil and maritime law under Christian Roselius, return- \ning to Bucksport in the spring of 1866. In 1868 he visited the West and at Omaha \nwas admitted to practice in the courts of Nebraska. In the autumn of the same year \nhe was admitted to the Suffolk bar and opened an office in Boston. In the spring of \n1869 he was called to New York on a case pending in the Federal Courts, and there \nhe was admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts. In the autumn he re- \nturned to Boston, remaining until the spring of 1871 when, believing that the com- \npletion of projected railroads would largely promote the prosperity and growth of \nBucksport, his adopted home, he returned there and resumed practice. He remained \nin Bucksport .until 1881, enhancing his reputation and widening his legal field, and \nm that year removed to Portland. From 1881 to 1887 he remained in Portland, \nmaintaining as a member of the Cumberland bar the leading position he had held \nat Bucksport, practicing in both State and Federal Courts and managing important \ncases in which civil, criminal and maritime law were involved. In 1887 he again \nestablished himself in Boston, and after five years in full practice there contributed \nby a clientage in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and NewT York, it may be \nconfidently stated that the Suffolk bar will be the central point of his future profes- \nsional life. The many important cases in which he has acted and is acting as coun- \nsel afford abundant evidence of his skill and success. Among the criminal cases may \nbe mentioned the defence of Azro B. Bartholomew at Boston in March, 1872, indicted \nfor murder, and the defence of Edward M. Smith at Ellsworth in April, 1877, charged \nwith the murder of the Trim family at Bucksport in 1876. Among the cases in \nmaritime law may be mentioned Sawyer vs. Oakman, argued in New York in 1870 \nand reported in Blatchford's Reports, and Gould vs. Staples, tried in 1881 in the \nUnited States Circuit Court in Maine, reported in the ninth volume of the Federal \nReporter. Among railroad cases there are Spofford, petitioner for certiorari, vs. \nBucksport and Bangor Railroad Company, reported in Maine Reports 66, 26, Bucks- \nport and Bangor Railroad Company vs. Inhabitants of Brewer, in Maine Reports 67, \n295, and Deasy, admisistrator, vs. Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. \nAmong those cases now pending are that of the Jenness will cise, entitled Patten vs. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 257 \n\nCilley, on a writ of error from the United States Circuit Court in New Hampshire to \nthe United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and that of Campbell \nvs. Haverhill and eleven other cities on writ of error from the United States Circuit \nCourt for Massachusetts to the Supreme Court of the United States, and Campbell \nvs. Mayor and Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, involving sev- \neral millions of dollars in their decision, and now pending on an accounting in the \nUnited States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Hadlock \nmarried, January 26, 1865, Alexene L., daughter of Captain Daniel S. Goodell, of \nSearsport, Me. \n\nJohn Henry Hardy, son of John Henry and Hannah (Farley) Hardy, was born in \nHollis, N. H., February 2, 1847, and graduated at Dartmouth, INTO. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Edward F. Johnson, of Marl- \nboro' and Robert M. Morse, jr., of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, Jan- \nuary 22, 1872. He was a representative in 1884, and appointed June 3, 1885, asso- \nciate justice of the Municipal Court of Boston, a position he still holds. He married \nat Littleton, Mass., August 31, 1871, Anna I. Conant, and lives in Arlington. \n\nJosiah Gardner Abbott was descended from George Abbott, who came from \nYorkshire, England, and settled in Andover in 1643. Caleb Abbott, the fifth in de- \nscent from George, was a merchant in Chelmsford, Mass., and married Mercy, daugh- \nter of Josiah Fletcher. His children were Mercy Maria, born January 24, 1808, died \nAugust 21, 1825; Lucy Ann Lovejoy, born September 16, 1809; Caleb Fletcher, born \nSeptembers, 1811; Josiah Gardner, the subject of this sketch, born at Chelmsford, \nNovember 1, 1815, and Evelina Maria Antoinette, born September 14, 1817. Josiah \nGardner received his early education at the Chelmsford Academv under the instruc- \ntion of Ralph Waldo Emerson, its principal, and he never forgot the lessons learned \nfrom that eminent philosopher. He entered Harvard at the end of his twelfth year \nand graduated in 1832. He studied law in Lowell with Nathaniel Wright and Amos \nSpaukling and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Decem- \nber, 1835. After admission to the bar he was associated as partner two years with \nMr. Spaulding, one of his instructors, and in 1840 formed a partnership in Lowell \nwith Samuel Appleton Brown. By this time he had fairly entered on a professional \ncareer which was destined to be a brilliant one. With great natural gifts and a \nfoundation of legal knowledge and methods firmly laid, he found himself in an arena, \nthat of the Middlesex bar, where hard knocks were to be received and where alone \nhard knocks in return could prevail. No other bar in the State presented so many \nobstacles to the advancement of a superficial, timid and unskillful man, and none \npresented greater attractions to one conscious of his power and eager to measure \nswords with its well trained professional gladiators. To such an arena was Mr. Ab- \nbott introduced, and in his frequent contests with such men as Butler, Farley, \nSweetser and Wentworth, he not only fought an equal fight, but sharpened his lance \nfor future contests. In 1855 the sessions of the old Common Pleas Court in Suffolk \ncounty were abolished by law and the Sirperior Court for the county of Suffolk was \nestablished. The judges of this court were Albert H. Nelson, chief justice, and \nJosiah G. Abbott, Stephen G. Nash, and Charles P. Huntington, associates, all ap- \npointed October 13, 1855. Judge Abbott resigned in 1S58, and Marcus Morton, jr., \nwas appointed to succeed him. Under the law establishing this court its judges were \n33 \n\n\n258 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nex officio judges of the Municipal Court, as the judges of the Common Pleas Court \nhad been before them since 1843. After leaving the bench Judge Abbott opened an \noffice in Boston, abandoning Lowell except as a place of residence, which he retained \nthere until 1861, when Boston became his permanent home. In 1860 a seat on the \nbench of the Supreme Judicial Court was offered to him but declined. In 1837 he \nwas a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1842 and 1843 \na member of the Senate. In 1840-41 he was a member of the staff of Governor Mor- \nton, in 1853 a member of the Constitutional Convention, and in 1875 and 1876 a mem- \nber of Congress. Several times the Democratic candidate for governor and for \nUnited States senator, many times a delegate to Democratic National Conventions, he \nwas always a trusted leader of the party, in whose principles he was a firm believer \nand to whose interests he was always devoted. Judge Abbott married, July 18, 1838, \nCaroline, daughter of Edward St. Loe Livermore, chief justice of the Supreme Court \nof New Hampshire. Few men at the north laid heavier sacrifices during the war on \nthe altar of his country. Of seven sons four enlisted for service, Edward Gard- \nner, born September 29, 1840, and a graduate of Harvard in 1860, as brevet major, \nwas killed at the battle of Cedar Mountain. Henry Livermore, born January 21, \n1842, a graduate also of Harvard in 1860, as brevet brigadier-general, was killed in \nthe Wilderness. Fletcher Morton, born February 18, 1843, served on the staff of \nGeneral William Dwight. Samuel Appleton Browne, born March 6, 1846, and a \ngraduate of Harvard in 1866, and now an efficient trustee of the Boston Public \nLibrary, enlisted at the age of sixteen, but was not called into service. He is a mem- \nber of the Suffolk bar and mentioned elsewhere in this register. Franklin Pierce \nAbbott, another son, is also a member of the Suffolk bar, as well as Grafton St. Loe, \nthe sixth son, and Holker Welch Abbott is an artist. Judge Abbott received a \ndegree of LL.D. from Williams College in 1862. He died in Boston, June 6, 1891. \n\nWilliam Allen, son of William, was born in Brunswick, Me., March 31, 1822, and \ngraduated at Amherst in 1842. He studied law at the Yale Law School and at North- \nampton, where he was admitted to the bar in 1845. In 1881 he was appointed judge \nof the Supreme Judicial Court, holding his seat until his death in 1891. \n\nJohn Forrester Andrew, son of John A. and Eliza Jane (Hersey) Andrew, was \nborn in Hingham, Mass., November 26, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1872. He \ngraduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1875, and studied in the office of Brooks, \nBall & Storey in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1875. He was a \nrepresentative from Boston in 1880-81-82, and a senator in 1884 and 1885, chosen for \nthe first of these years as a Republican and the second as a Democrat. In 1886 he \nwas the Democratic candidate for governor, and in 1888 and 1890 was elected to Con- \ngress from the Third Massachusetts District on the Democratic ticket. He married \nin Boston, October 11, 1883, Harriet, daughter of the late Nathaniel and Cornelia \n(Van Rensselaer) Thayer, and his residence is in Boston. \n\nMontressor Tyler Allen, son of George W. and Mary L. (Tyler) Allen, was born \nin AVoburn, Mass., May 20, 1844, and served a short time in the Civil War in Com- \npany G, Fifth Massachusetts Regiment. He was educated at the Warren Academy \nand at the Boston University, and graduated from the Boston University Law School \nin 1878. Previous to studying law he was engaged several years in mercantile pur- \nsuits. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879, and has since that time practiced \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 259 \n\nin Boston, while retaining his residence in Woburn. He was a member of the House \nof Representatives in 1888-89, and married in Boston in June, 1865, Julia Frances, \ndaughter of John and Ruth (Magoun) Peasley. \n\nEdward C. Carrigan, born in England, March 15, 1850, came to New England in \n1857. He enlisted as a drummer boy in the First Vermont Regiment at the age of \nthirteen, and after leaving the army attended Dean Academy, the Boston Evening \nHigh School, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1S7T. He studied law in the office of \nBenjamin F. Butler in Boston, and at the Boston University Law School, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar. Having received his earliest education at the Evening \nHigh School he felt a deep interest in that institution, and having received from the \nBoston School Board a teacher's certificate of the highest grade, he was placed in 1881 \nat the head of that school. In 1883 he was appointed a member of the State Board of \nEducation and educational interests shared with his professional occupations his time \nand labors. The free text book act, the illiterate minor bill, and the evening school \nlaw, were largely due to his persistent efforts. He was unmarried, and died sud- \ndenly while traveling through Colorado, November 7, 1888. \n\nWallridge Abner Field, son of Abner and Louisa Griswold Field, was born in \nSpringfield, Vt., April 26, 1833, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1855. After grad- \nuating he remained at Dartmouth as a tutor in 1856 and 1857, and filled the same \nplace again in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in \nthe office of Harvey Jewell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 12, 1860. In \n1865 he was appointed assistant United States attorney and served until 1869, when \nhe was appointed assistant attorney-general of the United States. He resigned his \noffice in Washington in 1870, and resumed practice in Boston with Harvey Jewell \nand Wm.- Gaston under the firm name of Jewell, Gaston & Field. In 1881 he was \nappointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and on the resignation of Marcus \nMorton in 1890, was made chief justice. Judge Field was a member of the Boston \nSchool Board in 1863-64, a common councilman in 1865-66-67, and a member of the \nForty-sixth Congress. He married first in 1869 Eliza E. McLoon, and second in 1882 \nFrances E., daughter of Nathan A. Farwell, of Rockland, Me. \n\nOliver Wendell Holmes, jr., son of Oliver Wendell and Amelia Lee (Jackson) \nHolmes, was born in Boston, March 8, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1861. He \nwas commissioned first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment, after- \nwards lieutenant-colonel and brevet colonel, having been wounded at Ball's Bluff, \nAntietam and Fredericksburg. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, \nand after further pursuing his law studies in the offices of Robert M. Morse, jr., and \nGeorge O. Shattuck in Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1867. \nHis lectures at the Lowell Institute upon the common law established his reputation, \nand in 1882 he was appointed professor in the Harvard Law School. In the same \nyear he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and is still on the bench. \nIn 1886 he received the degree of LL.D. from Yale. He married, June 17, 1872, \nFanny Bowditch (Dixwell), and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Saxton Morton, son of Joseph and Mary (Wheeler) Morton, was born in \nRoxbury, September 22, 1809, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He received his \nearlier education at the Milton Academy, at Greene's School at Jamaica Plain, and \n\n\n260 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nat Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law in the offices of Perez Morton, who had \nbeen attorney-general, and Sidney Bartlett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar February 10, 1835. For a short time he practiced law in Amherst, N. H., \nand moved to Quincy in 1840, where he held his residence until his death. He was a \ndelegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1853, president of the Bank and Insur- \nance Company in Quincy, chairman of the School Board, and trial justice for Norfolk \ncounty. He married, October 3, 1839, at Boston, Mary Jane Woodbury, daughter of \nThomas and Martha (Woodbury) Grimes, and died at Quincy, September 21, 1871. \n\nJohn Foster, born in England, came to New England before 1682. He was named \ncouncillor in the charter of 1692 and continued in office until his death, February \n9, 1711. He was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk \ncounty March 3, 1693, and served until January, 1710. \n\nJeremiah Dimmer, son of Richard, was born in Newbury, September 14', 1645. He \nwas appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in \n1702, and sat on the bench until 1715. He died May 24, 1718. \n\nThomas Palmer was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in \n1711, and after the death of Judge Town send in 1727 was made chief justice, serving \nuntil his death, October 8, 1740. \n\nEdward Lyde was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suf- \nfolk county December 29, 1715, and served until 1723, when he probably died. \n\nAdam Winthrop, fourth in descent from Governor John Winthrop, and the third \nbearing the same name, graduated at Harvard in 1694. He was a representative \nfrom Boston in 1714, and a member of the Council. He was appointed judge of the \nInferior Court of Common Pleas for Stiff oik county December 29, 1715, and after the \ndeath of Judge Palmer in 1740 was made chief justice, resigning in 1741, and dying \nOctober 2, 1743. \n\nEdward Hutchinson, son of Judge Elisha Hutchinson, was born in 1678. He was \na representative from Boston in 1717 and 1718, and was appointed judge of the In- \nferior Court for Suffolk county in 1723, serving until 1731, when he was removed by \nGovernor Belcher. In 1740 he was reappointed, and on the resignation of Judge \nWinthrop in 1741 was made chief justice, serving until his death, March 16, 1752. \nHe was also judge of probate. \n\nJohn P. Healey, son of Joseph, was born in Washington, N. H., in 1810, and grad- \nuated at Dartmouth in 1835. He studied law in the office of Daniel Webster in Bos- \nton, and was afterwards associated with him in business until the death of Mr. Web- \nster in October, 1852. He was not in the fullest sense a partner, as a large amount \nof Mr. Webster's business was his own, in which Mr. Healey had no interest. But \nfor many years even these cases were largely prepared by him, and to that extent \nof course he received his share of the fees. After the death of Mr. Webster he was \nin full practice alone until 1856, when he was chosen by the City Council city solic- \nitor, the sixth incumbent of that office. The first was Charles Pelham Curtis, holding \noffice from from 1827 to 1829; the second, John Pickering, from 1829 to 1846 ; the \nthird, Peleg Whitman Chandler, from 1846 to 1853; the fourth, George Stillman Hil- \nlard, from 1853 to 1855; the fifth, Ambrose A. Ranney, from 1855 to 1856; John P. \nHealey, 1856 to 1881. In 1881 the office of corporation counsel was established and \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 26i \n\nMr. Healey was appointed and held the office until his death, January 4, 1882. Ed- \nward P. Nettleton was chosen city solicitor July 4, 1881, as the successor of Mr. Hea- \nley, and in January, 1882, after Mr. Healey' s death, he was appointed corporation \ncounsel. Mr. Nettleton resigned December 24, 1888, and James B. Richardson was \nappointed in his place January 1, 1S89, and held the office until May 1, 1891, when \nThomas M. Babson, the present incumbent, was appointed. Andrew Jackson Bailey \nwas appointed city soliciter in November, 1881, to succeed Mr. Nettleton and is still \nin office. Mr. Healy was at various times both senator and representative, and was \nat one time offered the appointment of judge of the United States Court for the \nNorthern District of California, but declined. His wife was a Miss Barker, of \nBoston. \n\nWilliam Amory, son of Thomas Coffin and Hannah Rowe (Linzee) Amory, was \nborn in Boston, June 15, 1804. He fitted for college with Jacob Newman Knapp at \nBrighton and Jamaica Plain, and entered Harvard in 1819. On account of the Re- \nbellion, in which his class took part, he with many others was expelled, but received \nthe degree of Master of Arts in 1845. In 1823 he entered the law office of Luther \nLawrence in Groton, where he remained five months, then going to Europe and re- \nmaining five years. On his return he studied in the offices of Franklin Dexter and \nWilliam H. Gardiner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1830. He \nabandoned law and became one of the most eminent and respected merchants of Bos- \nton. He married, January 17, 1833, Anna Powell Grant, daughter of David and \nMiriam Clark (Mason) Sears, of Boston, and died in Boston, December 8, 1888. \n\nFrancis Inman Amory, son of William and Anna Powell Grant (Sears) Amory, was \nborn in Boston, June 5, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He graduated at \nthe Harvard Law School in 1875, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1875. \nHe married at Boston, May 12, 1886, Grace J., daughter of Charles Minot, and re- \nsides in Boston. \n\nOmen Southworth Keith graduated at Harvard in 1826, was admitted to the Mid- \ndlesex bar in December, 1832, and settled in Wayland, where he practiced until 1838, \nwhen he removed to Boston. He died in 1847. \n\nHenry Baldwin, son of Life and Susannah D. Baldwin, was born in Brighton, \nMass., January 7, 1834, and graduated at Yale in 1854. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School and in Worcester in the office of Peter C. Bacon, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar October 2, 1857. He was a representative in 1861, and is judge of \nthe Municipal Court of the Brighton District of Boston. He married at Brighton in \nNovember, 1861, Harriet A. Hollis, and lives in the Allston District. \n\nWilliam Amos Bancroft, son of Charles and Lydia Emeline (Spaulding) Bancroft, \nwas born in Groton, Mass., April 26, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of William B. Stevens, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar September 2, 1881. He was a councilman in Cam- \nbridge, where he resides, in 1882, representative in 1883-84—85, president of the Cam- \nbridge Board of Alderman 1891-1892, and since February 7, 1882, has been colonel of \nthe Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He was chosen mayor of Cam- \nbridge in 1892. He married in January, 1879, Mary Shaw. \n\nCharles Edwin Beale, son of Ambrose and Caroline A. (Andrews) Beale, was born \nin Bowdoin, Me., August 10, 1845, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1870. He \n\n\n262 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nstudied law with A. P. Gould at Thomaston, Me., and graduated at the National \nUniversity Law School in Washington, D. C. He was admitted to the Supreme Court \nof the District of Columbia in 1872, and to the Suffolk bar January 19, 1877. He was \nin the United States Treasury Department from 1864 to 1867, and special agent of the \nInterior Department from 1870 to 1876. He edited Catchy' ' s Universal Educator \nand Gatehy's World ' s Progress. His residence is in Dorchester. \n\nJoseph H. Beale, jr., son of Joseph H. and Frances E. Beale, was born in Dor- \nchester, October 12, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886. Since \n1890 he has been a lecturer in the Harvard Law School. He married Elizabeth C. \nDay at Barnstable, Mass., December 23, 1891, and lives in Dorchester. He was a \njoint editor of the eighth edition of \"Sedgwick on Damages.\" \n\nGeorge F. Bean, son of Stephen S. and Nancy E. (Colby) Bean, 'was born in \nBradford, N. H., March 24, 1862, and was educated at Colby Academy, New London, \nN. H., and at Brown University, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law with \nS. C. Eastman at Concord, N. H., and in the office of Ropes, Gray & Lormg, Boston, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He was in 1891 mayor of Woburn, \nwhere he resides, and where he married E. Maria Blodgett, of Watertown, in Sep- \ntember, 1886. \n\nWilliam Dudley is said by Washburn to have been the first educated lawyer on \nthe Common Pleas bench. He was the son of Governor Joseph Dudley, and was \nborn in Roxbury in 1686. He graduated at Harvard in 1704. He was a representa- \ntive many years and speaker from 1724 to 1728. He was chosen to the Council in \n1729, and continued a member until 1740. He was a judge of the Inferior Court of \nCommon Pleas for Suffolk county from 1728 to 1731, and from 1733 to his death, Au- \ngust 10, 1743. He married a daughter of Addington Davenport. \n\nAnthony Stoddard, son of Simeon, was born in 1678, and died March 11, 1748. \nHe was a representative and member of the Council from 1735 to 1742. He gradu- \nated at Harvard in 1697, and was judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for \nSuffolk county from 1733 till his death. \n\nEliakim Hutchinson was a member of the Council from 1744 to 1746, and Was \nmade judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1741. He \nsucceeded Edward Hutchinson as chief justice in 1752, and remained until the Revo- \nlution. \n\nEdward Winslow, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Winslow, and grand- \nson of John, of Boston, who came to Plymouth in the Fortune in 1621, and married \nMary Chilton, one of the Mayflower passengers, was born in Boston in 1669. He was \ntreasurer of Suffolk county at the time of his death and had served as sheriff from \nDecember 12, 1728, to October 20, 1743, when he was made judge of the Inferior \nCourt of Common Pleas for Suffolk county, and continued on the bench until bis \ndeath in December, 1753. \n\nSamuel Watts was a Suffolk county man who was a member of the Council from \n1742 to 1763. He was made a judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1748, \nand continued on the bench until 1770, in which year on the 12th of March he died. \n\n\nfe^^^7^Tc/h \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n263 \n\n\nSamuel Welles was a member of the Council in 1747 and 1748 and many years a \nmember of the House of Representatives from Boston. He was made judge of the \nCommon Pleas for Suffolk county in 1755, and remained on the bench until his death. \nMay 20, 1770. He was a very prominent man in the province and was appointed a \nmember of various commissions looking after its welfare. \n\nNathaniel Hatch was born in Dorchester, and graduated at Harvard in 1742. He \nwas made a judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1771, and at the Revo- \nlution, being a loyalist, left the country. He died in 1780. \n\nJoseph Greene was appointed judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county July \n3, 1772, and left the bench December 31st in the same year. He was a loyalist, and \nleft the country at the Revolution. \n\nThomas Hutchinson, jr., son of Governor Thomas Hutchinson, graduated at Har- \nvard in 1758, and was appointed judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county \nDecember 31, 1772, and being a loyalist left the country at the Revolution, and died in \nEngland in 1811. \n\nBenjamin Gridlev was a barrister, and graduated at Cambridge in 1751. He was \nappointed judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in May, 1775, and his was \nthe last appointment made by a royal governor. He went to Halifax in 1776, and in \n1778 was proscribed. He probably died in England. \n\nRichard Nichols was one of the commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, appointed \nby the government in England in 1664 to visit the colonies and hear and determine \nall matters of complaint. He was the first English governor of New York after its \nconquest by the United Colonies in 1664. He left New York in 1667 and returned to \nEngland. \n\nSir Robert Carr was one of the commissioners of Oyer and Terminer mentioned \nabove. He returned to England and died in 1667. \n\nGeorge Cartwright was another of the commissioners mentioned above. He re- \nturned to England in 1665, and on his voyage was captured by the Dutch. \n\nSamuel Maverick, another of the commissioners mentioned above, was the son of \nRev. John Maverick, of Dorchester. He was born in England about 1602, and died \nat New York, where he resided after 1665. \n\nJohn Cogg an was a merchant who acted as an attorney in the courts of Boston \nunder the colonial charter. \n\nAmos Richardson was a tailor who acted as an attorney during the life of the \nMassachusetts Colony. \n\nJohn Watson was a merchant who acted as attorney in the days of the Colony. \n\nBenjamin Bullivant was the first attorney-general and was appointed about 1686. \nHe was a physician and apothecary and acted as an attorney in the courts. \n\nAnthony Checkley was a merchant who acted as an attorney in the colonial \ncourts. He was appointed attorney-general June 14, 1689, and reappointed under \nthe province charter October 28, 1692. \n\nSimon Lvnde was appointed associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July 27, \n1686, by Joseph Dudley during his short administration. \n\n\n264 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nEdward Randolph was appointed associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July \n27, 1686, by President Dudley. \n\nRichard Wharton was appointed associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July \n\n27, 1686, by President Dudley. \n\nJohn Usher, son of Hezekiah and born in Boston in April, 1648, was appointed \nassociate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July 27, 1686, by President Dudley. He \nwas a bookseller. \n\nGiles Masters was sworn in as an attorney in 1686, and died in 1688. \n\nChristopher Webb was sworn in as an attorney in 1686. \n\nSamuel Shrimpton was a appointed by Andros in 1687 judge of the Superior \nCourt. \n\nCharles Lidget was one of the associate judges of the Superior Court appointed \nby Andros in 1687. \n\nGeorge Farwell succeeded Benjamin Bullivant as attorney-general and continued \nin office until June 20, 1688. He came from New York and was sent to England with \nAndros in February, 1689. \n\nJames Graham succeeded George Farwell as attorney-general June 20, 1688, and \nwith Andros and Farwell was sent to England in February, 1689. \n\nTiiom \\s Newton was sworn as an attorney June 8, 1688, and was appointed attor- \nney-general in 1718, holding that office until May 28, 1721. He was born in Eng- \nland, June 10, 1660, and was educated there. He was a deputy judge of the Court \nof Admiralty and comptroller of the customs for the port of Boston. He died May \n\n28, 1721. \n\nKing was an attorney in the days of Andros. \n\n.Samuel Hayman was an attorney during the close of the seventeenth century, and \nfrom 1692 to 1702 was a judge of the Common Pleas Court for Middlesex county. \n\nJohn West came from New York and was an attorney about the time of the union \nof the colonies in 1692. \n\nJohn Palmer superseded Joseph Dudley as chief justice of the Superior Court in \n1688. He was sent to England with Andros in February, 1689. \n\nRobert Mason acted as a judge under Andros. He lived in Portsmouth and died \nin 1686. \n\nJohn Hinks belonged to Portsmouth and was a member of the Council in 1697 and \nits president. He came from England about 1670 and married at an unknown date \nElizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Christian Fryen. He was living at Newcastle, \nN. H., in 1722, and died before April 25, 1734. His descendants have spelled their \nnames in various ways. General Edward Winslow Hincks, of Cambridge, is among \nthe number. \n\nSamuel Thaxter, of Hingham, was appointed in 1735 special justice of the Su- \nperior Court to act in a case in which the city of Boston was interested. \n\nThomas Berry, of Ipswich, a physician, was appointed special justice of the Su- \nperior Court in 1735 to act in a case in which the city of Boston was interested. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 265 \n\nBenjamin Prescott, of Groton, was appointed in 1735 special justice of the Su- \nperior Court in a case involving the interests of the city of Boston. He was born in \n1696, and died in August, 1738. \n\nSylvanus Bourne, son of Meltiah, of Sandwich, was appointed in 1747 special jus- \ntice of the Superior Court, and June 2, 1758, was appointed judge of the Court of \nCommon Pleas for Barnstable county. At his death, September 18, 1763, he was \nchief justice, and also judge of probate. \n\nJoseph Pynchon, of Hampshire, was appointed special justice of the Superior \nCourt in 1747. \n\nJohn Jeffries was appointed in 1748 special justice of the Superior Court. \nThomas Hubbard, of Boston, a representative, speaker of the House, and member \nof the Council, was appointed in 1748 special justice of the Superior Court. \n\nJosiah Quincy, son of Josiah, of Braintree, and great-grandson of Edmund \nQuincy, who was born in Wigsthorpe, England, in 1602, was born in Boston, Febru- \nary 23, i744, and graduated at Harvard in 1763. He studied law with Oxenbridge \nThacher and became a leading lawyer and orator. He was one of the counsel for \nCaptain Preston and others engaged in the Boston massacre. He stood side by side \nwith the prominent patriots of his time and while he saw that conflict with the \nmother country was inevitable, he was not deterred from taking the boldest stand \nagainst the usurpations which were threatening it. In the old South Church, when \nthe band of men disguised as Indians passed it on their way to the tea ships in the \nharbor, he exclaimed: \"I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast on our hori- \nzon, the thunders roll, and the lightnings play, and to that God who rides on the \nwhirlwind and directs the storm, I commit my country.\" In September, 1774, he \nsailed for England to consult with friends of the patriots there, but the seeds of pul- \nmonary disease which had begun to germinate in his system were destined to pre- \nvent his return. On his way home, almost within sight of the shores of Massachu- \nsetts Bay, he died April 26, 1775. He married in 1769 Abigail Phillips.. \n\nJosiah Quincy, son of Josiah and Abigail (Phillips) Quincy, was born in Boston, \nFebruary 4, 1772. He was fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1790. From April 18, 1859, to his death he was the oldest living \ngraduate. He studied law with William Tudor, and at a meeting of the Suffolk \nbar held July 9, 1793, it was voted that he \"be recommended to the Court of Com- \nmon Pleas for the oath of an attorney of that court.\" In 1800, at the age of twenty- \neight, he was nominated candidate for Congress by the Federal party and defeated. \nIn 1804 he was chosen member of the State Senate and also member of Congress, \ntaking his seat at Washington in 1805, and holding it until 1813, when he declined a \nre-election. While in Congress he opposed the embargo and moderately the war \nwith England. In a speech delivered January 4, 1811, in opposition to the admission \nof Louisiana as a State, he announced for the first time the doctrine of secession. \nHe said: \"I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that if this bill \npasses, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which com- \npose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that as it will be the right of all, so \nit will be the duty of some to prepare definitely for a departure, amicably if they can, \nviolently if they must.\" In 1814 he was again a member of the State Senate, re- \n34 \n\n\n266 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nmaining until 1821. In 1821-2 he was speaker of the House of Representatives, re- \nsigning, when on the 16th of January, 1822, he was appointed judge of the Municipal \nCourt of Boston. While a member of the Senate he was chosen a delegate also to \nthe Constitutional Convention of 1820. In 1823 he resigned the office of judge and \non the 14th of May Peter O. Thatcher was appointed to succeed him. While on the \nbench in the trial of Joseph Tinker Buckingham for libel against Rev. John N. Maf- \nfit, he announced the rule that the publication of the truth with good intentions was \nnot libel. From 1823 to 1828 he was mayor of Boston, and on the 15th of January, \n1829, he was chosen president of Harvard College and held that position until 1845. \nAmong his literary works may be mentioned, orations on the Fourth of July in Bos- \nton in 1798 and 1826, orations at the second centennial of Boston, September, 1830, \nand of Harvard in 1836, a History of Harvard University, History of the Boston \nAtheneum, Municipal History of Boston, Memoir of Josiah Quincy, jr., his father, and \na Memoir of John Quincy Adams. He married, June 6, 1797, Eliza Susan, daughter of \nJohn Morton, of New York, a descendant of George Morton, who was the father of \nNathaniel Morton, the secretary of Plymouth Colony, and who came to Plymouth in \nthe Ann in 1623. He died at Quincy, July 1, 1864. He received the degree of Mas- \nter of Arts from Yale in 1792, and LL.D. from Harvard in 1824. \n\nJosiah Quincy, son of Josiah and Eliza Susan (Morton) Quincy, was born in Bos- \nton, January 17, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 5, 1824, but after a few years became engaged in business pur- \nsuits. He was a councilman from 1833 to 1837, the last five years president of the \nCouncil, and in 1842 was president of the State Senate. From 1845 to 1849 he was \nmayor of Boston and was many years treasurer of the Western Railroad, as the road \nwas called extending from Worcester to Albany, and treasurer of the Boston \nAtheneum. He married Mary Jane, daughter of Samuel R. Miller. He died at \nQuincy, November 2, 1882. \n\nJosiah Phillips Quincv, son of Josiah and Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy, was born \nin Boston, November 28, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He was admitted \nto the Suffolk county bar in 1856. He is the author of several dramas and political \nessays. He married, December 23, 1858, Helen Fanny, daughter of Judge Hunt- \nington. \n\nSamuel Miller Quincy, son of Josiah and Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy, was born in \nBoston, June 13, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1852. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 23, 1856, and became editor of the Monthly Law Reporter. \nHe entered the army during the war as captain in the Second Massachusetts Regi- \nment, May 24, 1861, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Seventy-second \nUnited States Colored Regiment, October 20, 1863, colonel May 24, 1864, and brevet \nbrigadier-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865. He died unmarried in Keene, N. \nH.,' April 24, 1887. \n\nEdmund Quincy, son of Josiah and Eliza Susan (Morton) Quincy, was born in Bos- \nton, February 1, 1808, and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in October, 1830, but devoted himself chiefly to literary labors and to anti- \nslavery efforts. He published an excellent memoir of his father, and \" Wensley, a \nstory without a moral.\" He married Priscilla, daughter of Daniel P. Parker, of Bos- \nton, and died in Dedham, May 17, 1877. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 267 \n\nJosiah Quincy, son of Josiah Phillips and Helen Fanny (Huntington) Quincy, was \nborn in Boston, October 15, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, was representative from Quincy in 1887-88-89-90- \n91, secretary of the Civil Service Reform League in 1881, of the Tariff Reform League \nin 1883, of the Democratic State Executive Committee in 1890, chairman in 1891, and \nsecretary of the National Democratic Committee in 1892. In March, 1893, he was \nappointed assistant secretary of state by President Cleveland. He is unmarried. \n\nJosiah H. Quincy, son of Samuel H. and Sarah A. Quincy, was born in Rumney, \nN. H., March 8, 1860, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1884. He studied law at the \nBoston University Law School and in the office of John W. Corcoran, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. His residence is in Boston. \n\nMelville P. Beckett, son of Joseph and Marcia P. Beckett, was born in Peabody, \nMass., October 30, 1860, and studied law at the Boston University Law School, and \nwas admitted to the bar at Salem January 28, 1883, His residence is at Peabody. \n\nAbijah Bigelow, son of Elisha and Sarah (Goodrich) Bigelow, was born in West- \nminster, Mass., December 5, 1775, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1795. He studied \nlaw with Samuel Dana at Groton, and Samuel Dexter in Boston, and his name is on \nthe roll of admissions to the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court prior to 1807. He prac- \nticed in Leominster nineteen years, during which time he was town clerk five years, \nrepresentative in 1807-8-9, and member of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses. \nIn 1817 he removed to Worcester, and till 1834 was clerk of the courts for Worcester \ncounty. He married, April 8, 1804, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Francis and Sarah \n(Gibson) Gardner, of Leominster, and died August 21, 1857. \n\nEdward Bicknell, son of William E. and Rebecca J. (Richmond) Bicknell, was \nborn in Boston, October 22, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Proctor, Warren & Brig- \nham, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 15, 1879. He is now trial jus- \ntice for Franklin county with a legal residence in Orange. He married at Boston, \nJune 20, 1887, Elizabeth R. Healy, of Weymouth, Mass. \n\nJames Benjamin, son of Ashur, was born in Boston, April 23, 1811, and graduated \nat Harvard in 1830. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835, and prac- \nticed in Boston, \n\nJonathan Belcher, son of Jonathan, governor of Massachusetts, was born in Bos- \nton, July 28, 1710, and graduated at Harvard in 1728. He studied law, went to Lon- \ndon, entered the Temple, and practiced law in England. He was one of the first \nsettlers of Halifax, was lieutenant-governor of the Province, and in 1761 was made \nchief justice. He died in Halifax, March 29, 1776. \n\nJohn Richards Buli ard, son of William and Mary R. Bullard, was born in Brook- \nlyn, N. Y., March 3, 1846, and attended the Dedham High School and Phillips An- \ndover Academy, and graduated at Harvard Law School in 1866. He continued his \nlaw studies with Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar November 4, 1867. He was representative in 1868-70-71, and lives in Dedham. \nHe married Mary A. Richards at Irvington, N. Y., in 1871. \n\nEugene Lucian Buffinton, son of Jonathan and Mary Ann (Churchill) Bufhnton, \nwas born in Roxbury, Mass., January 1, 1847, and was educated at the public schools \n\n\n268 H1S10RY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nand with private tutors. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1880. He married Georgianna, daughter of \nGeorge Dove, of Boston, January 1, 1868, and resides in Boston. \n\nWilliam Colvard Parker, son of Samuel T. and Margaret Parker, was born in \nWakefield, Mass., April 12, 1858, and attended Boston University and Massachusetts \nAgricultural College. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He is president of the Agricultural College \nAlumni Club and of the Boston Common Council. He resides in Boston. \n\nHoratio G. Parker, son of Elijah and Sally (Hall) Parker, was born in Keene, N. \nH., April 26, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth. He studied law in New York \nin the office of William Curtis Noyes and in Boston in the office of Henry M. \nParker, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1847, and to the Massachusetts bar \nin Middlesex county in 1848. He was a representative in 1854. He married in 1863 \nat Greenfield, Mass., Harriet Newton, and in 1874, at Greenfield, Lucy S. Newton. \nHis residence is at Cambridge. \n\nHenry Baylies, son of Frederick and \\relina Worth Baylies, was born at Edgar- \nton, Mass., September 9, 1822, and was educated at Wesleyan University in Con- \nnecticut. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and with Edward H. Bennett \nand George S. Hale in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Taunton, September, \n1870. He was a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1846 to 1870, \nbut abandoned the ministry on account of ill health. His residence is at Maiden. \n\nFrancis Lowell Batchelder, son of Samuel and Mary (Montgomery) Batchelder, \nwas born in Chelmsford, Mass., April 2, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. \nHe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar November 20, 1848. . He was a councilman in Cambridge, where he resided, in \n1853-54, and practiced in Boston. He married Susan Cabot Foster, of Cambridge, \nDecember 2, 1851, and died at Hibernia, Fleming's Island, Fla., February 9, 1858. \n\nJames Bodtineau was an attorney in Boston and mandamus counsellor in 1774. \nHe was included in the conspiracy act of 1779 and his estate was confiscated. It was \nhis son-in-law, John Robinson, who made the assault on James Otis in 1769, which \nprobably produced his alienation of mind. His wife was a sister of Peter Faneuil. \\ \nMr. Boutineau went to England and there died. \n\nAndrew Cazneau was an attorney and barrister in Boston before the Revolution, \nand was proscribed in the act of 1778. He went to England in 1775, and finally to \nBermuda, where he held office under the crown. He returned to Boston in 1788 and \ndied in Roxbury in 1792. He married in 1769 Hannah, daughter of John Hammock, \na merchant of Boston. \n\nThomas Danforth, son of Samuel, graduated at Harvard in 1762, and was the \nonly attorney in Charlestown. He went to Halifax in 1776, and died in London in \n1825. \n\nDavid Gorham graduated at Harvard in 1733, and was one of the addressers to \nHutchinson in 1774. He died in 1786. \n\nBenjamin Kent was born in Charlestown, and graduated at Harvard in 1727. He \nstudied divinity and in 1733 was settled over a church in Marlboro', where he re- \nmained two years. He next studied law and became a barrister in Boston. As a \nloyalist he went to Halifax and there died in 1788. \n\n\ni \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 269 \n\nSamuel Quincy, son of Josiah and brother of Josiah the patriot and orator, was \nborn in Braintree in 1735, and graduated at Harvard in 1754. He studied law, and \nwas appointed solicitor-general of the Province in 1767 to succeed Jonathan Sewall, \nwho had been appointed attorney-general. At the Revolution he adhered to the \ncrown. On the 25th of May, 1775, he sailed for England, and in 1776 was a member \nof the Loyalist Association in London. He was proscribed and banished by the act \nof 1778, and in 1779 was appointed \" Comptroller of the Customs at the port of Par- \nham in Antigua.\" In 1789, on his passage from Antigua to England, he died at sea, \nas did his brother Josiah fourteen years before. He was married twice, to a Miss \nHill, of Boston, who died in 1782, and to a lady in Antigua, who not long survived \nhim. \n\nSamuel Fitch was a barrister in Boston and an addresser of Hutchinson in 1774. \nHe was advocate-general of the Court of Admiralty and solicitor to the Board of \nCommissioners. He went to Halifax in 1776, and in 1778 was proscribed and ban- \nished. He went to England and was a loyalist addresser of the king in 1 779. He \nprobably died in England in 1784. He graduated at Yale in 1742 and received an \nhonorary degree from Harvard in 1766. \n\nEzekiel Cheever, Seth Williams, William Ward, Andrew Oliver, Samuel Danforth, \nThomas Hutchinson, the father of the governor, Joseph Richards, John Chandler, \nBenjamin Lincoln, Samuel White, Joseph Lee, Francis Hooke, Charles Frost, Samuel \nWheelwright, Benjamin Browne, John Higginson, John Gardner, James Coffin, \nThomas Mayhew, Benjamin Skiffe, William Gayer, Joseph Hammond, Ichabod \nPlaisted, William Pepperell, John Wheelwright, John Hill, Lewis Bane, John Otis, \nJohn Gorham, Samuel Partridge, John Parsons, John Stoddard, Zacheus Mayhew, \nand Enoch Coffin, belonging in different parts of the province, were appointed be- \ntween 1692 and 1746 special justices of the Superior Court of Judicature to sit in spe- \ncial cases and as quasi judges of a court which included Suffolk county within its \njurisdiction, they are placed on this register. \n\nWilliam Atwood was appointed judge of admiralty October 28, 1701, having Mas- \nsachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and the Jerseys \nwithin his jurisdiction. \n\nRoger Mompesson was appointed judge of admiralty in April, 1703. \n\nJohn Menzies was appointed judge of admiralty in 1715. He was born in Scotland \nin 1650 and settled in Roxbury, and died in Boston, September 20, 1728. \n\nChambers Russell, son of Daniel, was a judge on the bench of the Superior Court \nfrom 1752 to 1766. He was born in Charlestown in 1713, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1731. He was appointed a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Mid- \ndlesex county in 1747 and held that position until he was promoted to the Superior \nCourt. In 1747 he was appointed judge of the Admiralty Court and held the office \nuntil his death, which occurred at Guilford, England, November 24, 1767. \n\nGeorge Cradock was deputy judge of admiralty, resigning in 1766, and died July \n1, 1771. \n\nWilliam Reed was appointed judge of admiralty in July, 1766. He was also ap- \npointed in 1770 judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county, and in 1775 \njudge of the Superior Court of Judicature. \n\n\n270 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam Bollan was horn in England, and studied law in Massachusetts with Rob- \nert Auchmuty. He was advocate-general of the Court of Admiralty. He married \na daughter of Governor Shirley, and died in England in 1776. \n\nJohn Valentine was an attorney in Boston, and held the office of advocate-general \nof admiralty at the time of his death in 1724. \n\nWilliam Shirley was born in Preston, England, in 1693, and was educated to the \nlaw. He came to Boston in 1734 and practiced his profession until 1741, when he \nwas appointed governor of the Province, a position which he held until 1756. He was \ncommander-in-chief of the British forces in America and planned the expedition \nagainst Cape Breton in 1745. In 1759 he was made lieutenant-general. He was trans- \nferred from the government of Massachusetts to that of one of the Bahama Islands, \nbut returned to Massachusetts and settled in Roxbury, where he died March 24, 1771. \nHe was during the early part of his residence in Boston advocate-general of admi- \nralty. \n\nAndrew Lane, a Boston attorney, died April 13, 1747. \n\nJames Otis, jr., son of Col. James and Mary Allyne Otis, was born in Barnstable, \nMass., February 5, 1725, and graduated at Harvard in 1743. He studied law in Bos- \nton with Jeremiah Gridley and finished his studies in Plymouth, where he was ad- \nmitted to the bar, and practiced until 1750, when he removed to Boston. His sister \nMercy married James Warren, of Plymouth. Not long after his arrival in Boston he \nwas appointed advocate-general of admiralty, an office which he resigned in 1761, in \nwhich year he made his memorable speech against writs of assistance. In the same \nyear he was chosen representative from Boston, and in 1766 speaker of the House. \nIn 1769 he was assaulted by John Robinson, one of the commissioners of customs, \nwhom he had denounced in an article in the Gazette, and so seriously injured that \nnot long after his mind became deranged and he retired from public life to Andover. \nwhere he was killed by lightning May 29, 1783. He married in 1755 Ruth Cunning- \nham. \n\nSamuel Swift, an attorney of Boston, graduated at Harvard in 1735, and was a \nbarrister in 1768. \n\nJohn O^ering was a successful Boston attorney, who was chosen by the House of \nRepresentatives attorney-general in 1722, and again in 1728. He held office until \n1 733, and was again chosen in 1739-40-41-43, and annually afterwards until his death, \nNovember 24, 1748. \n\nJohn Read, born about 1677, graduated at Harvard in 1697, and studied divinity. \nAfter preaching acceptably for a time he studied law, and was admitted to the bar \nabout 1720. He was chosen attorney-general in 1723-33-34-35, and was chosen to \nthe General Court in 1738 and several succeeding years, the first lawyer chosen to \nthat body. He was also several years a member of the Council, and was one of the \nlegal counsel for the Province in its contest with Rhode Island concerning the \nboundary line. He was probably the ablest lawyer in Massachusetts before the Rev- \nolution. He died February 7, 1749. \n\nJeremiah Gridley was born about 1705, and graduated at Harvard in 1725. He \nwas chosen attorney-general in 1742, and was appointed in 1761 to the same office by \nthe governor and Council. Before entering the profession he studied divinity and \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 271 \n\ntaught a Boston school. His residence was in Brookline, from which town he was a \nrepresentative some years. In 1761 he acted as king's attorney in defending the \nwrits of assistance, with his former pupil James Otis against him. He held the office \nof attorney-general until his death, which occurred September 7, 1767. \n\nJames Otis, sr., son of John and Mercy (Bacon) Otis, was born in Barnstable, .Mass,, \nin 1702, and became an eminent lawyer. In 1748 he was appointed attorney-general \nand held the office one year, and in 1760-61 he was speaker of the House of Repre- \nsentatives. In 1764 he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas and judge \nof probate for Barnstable county. He married Mary, daughter of Joseph Allyne, of \nWethersfield, and James Otis, the patriot, was his son. He died in November, 1778. \n\nJoseph Hearne, a Boston attorney, died in Boston, December 26, 1728, aged nearly \nseventy years. \n\nWeldon, a Boston attorney, committed suicide in London in 1734. \n\nJoseph St. Lawrence, an attorney from Ireland, was admitted to the Superior \nCourt in 1737, and opened an office in Boston. \n\nJohn Lowell, son of Rev. John Lowell, was born in Newbury, Mass., June 17, \n1743, and graduated at Harvard in 1760. He studied law with Oxenbridge Thacher, \nand was admitted to the bar in 1762. He began practice in Newburyport, but in 1777 \nremoved to Boston. In 1776 he was a representative from Newburyport and in 1778 \nfrom Boston. He was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1780, \nmember of Congress in 1783, judge of the Court of Appeals from 1783 to 1789, judge \nof the United States District Court for Massachusetts 1789-1801, chief justice of the \nCircuit Court for Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island in 1801, \nuntil the law creating the court was repealed in 1802. He died in Roxbury, May 6. \n1802. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1792. \n\nJohn Lowell, son of the above, was born in Newburyport, October 6, 1769, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1786. He studied law in Boston with his father, and at a \nmeeting of the Suffolk bar July 21, 1789, it was voted that he be \" recommended to \nthe Court of Common Pleas the present term for the oath of an attorney of that \ncourt.\" He went to Europe in 1803 and after his return he devoted himself chiefly to \nliterary pursuits. He was one of the founders of the Massachusetts General Hospital, \nof the Boston Atheneum, the Provident Institution for Savings, and the Hospital Life \nInsurance Company. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1814, and \ndied March 12, 1840. \n\nAbel Willard was born in Lancaster, Mass., in January, 1732, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1752. He studied law in Boston with Benjamin Pratt, and was admitted \nto the bar in 1755. He practiced in Lancaster until the Revolution, when he removed \nto Boston. In 1776 he went to Halifax, and in 1778 was proscribed and banished. \nHe died in England in 1781. He married Eliza, daughter of Rev. Daniel Rogers, \nwho died in Boston in 1815. \n\nJames Putnam was born in Danvers, Mass., in 1725, and graduated at Harvard in \n1746. He studied law with Edmund Trowbridge, and after admission to the bar set- \ntled in Worcester in 1749, practicing also in Suffolk county. He went to England in \n1776 and in 1778 was proscribed and banished. In 1784 he was appointed judge of \nthe Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and died at St. Johns in 1789. \n\n\n272 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nJohn A. Bolles, son of Rev. Matthew Bolles, was born in Ashford, Conn., April \n17, 1809, and graduated at Brown University in 182!). He was admitted to the bar \nin Boston in April, L833, and practiced there. In 1843 he was secretary of the Com- \nmonwealth, in 1852 a member of the Harbor and Back Bay Commission. He enlisted \nin July, 1861, and from 1862 to 1865 was judge advocate on the staff of his brother-in- \nlaw, General John A. Dix. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers in \n1865 and naval solicitor. He died at Washington, D. C, May 11, 1878. He married, \nNovember 11, 18:54, Catherine Hartwell, daugher of Colonel Timothy Dix. \n\nCharles H. Blood, son of Hiram A. and Mary M. (Person) Blood, was born in \nFitchburg, Mass., December 10, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied \nlaw in New Bedford in the office of Marston & Cobb, and at the Boston University \nLaw School, and was admitted to the Bristol county bar in August, 1882. He is \nspecial justice of the Police Court of Fitchburg, where he has his residence. \n\nGeorge Richard Blinn, son of John F. and Susan L. Blinn, was born in Charles- \ntown, Mass., July 11, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied law in \nBoston with George Z. Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar February \n2, 1887. He married Clara A. Pollard at South Newmarket, N. H. , June 6, 1886, \nand resides in Bedford, Mass. \n\nWilliam P. Blake, son of Edward and Mary J. (Dehon) Blake, was born in Dor- \nchester, July 23, 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1866. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1869. He was associated in the practice of \nlaw with his father until his father's death in 1873. \n\nCharles Francis Adams, son of John Quincy and Louisa (Johnson) Adams, was \nborn in Boston, August 18, 1807, and graduated at Harvard in 1825. While a youth \nhe was with his father, then minister at St. Petersburg, and in 1815 accompanied \nhim to England in his mission to the Court of St. James. He returned home in 1817 \nand fitted for college. After graduating he studied law in the office of Daniel Web- \nster in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1829. He was rep- \nresentative from 1831 to 1834 and senator from 1835 to 1837. He was nominated at \nBuffalo in 1848 by the Free Soil Party for the vice-presidency, on a ticket with Mar- \ntin Van Buren for president, and from 1859 to 1861 was a member of Congress. From \nMarch, 1861, to February, 1868, he was minister to England, and by his wise and \nskillful diplomacy rendered his country an inestimable service. He married in 1829 \na daughter of Peter Chardon Brooks, of Boston, and died in Boston, November 21, \n1886. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1864. \n\nJohn Quincy Adams, son of the above, was born in Boston, September 22, 1833, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1853. He was admitted [to the Suffolk bar July 7, \n1856. He was representative from Quincy in 1866, 1869 and 1870, and in 1867 and \n1871 was the Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts. He is at present \na member of the corporation of Harvard, to which position he was chosen in 1877. \n\nCharles Francis Adams, jr., brother of the above, was born in Boston, May 27, \n1835, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May \n17, 1858, and served through the war, being mustered out in July, 1865, as brevet \nbrigadier-general of volunteers. In 1869 he was appointed a member of the Board \n\n\ndlA/\\3WU^ \n\n\nc\\A/acw>j \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 273 \n\nof Railroad Commissioners of Massachusetts, and in that position exhibited suhc \nmarked ability as led to his election in 1884 as president of the Union Pacific Rail- \nroad. Since his retirement from that office one of his most marked efforts is the ad- \ndress delivered on the Fourth of July, 1892, in commemoration of the one hundredth \nanniversary of the town of Quincy. \n\nBrooks Adams, brother of the above, was born in Quincy, Mass., June 24, 1848, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April It), \n1873, and is the author of the \"Emancipation of Massachusetts.\" \n\nGeorge Everett Adams was born in Keene, N. H., in 1840, and when a child went \nto Chicago. He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy and.graduated at Har- \nvard in I860. He graduated at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar August 19, 1865. He settled in Chicago and has been a member of the \nIllinois Senate, and was a member of Congress from the Fourth Congressional Dis- \ntrict of Illinois from 1883 to 1891. He is president of the Chicago Harvard Club and \nthe Union League Club, and was at the last election chosen an overseer of Harvard. \n\nCharles Day Adams, son of George and Angelina (Day) Adams, was born in Wor- \ncester, July 28, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law with Oren \nS. Knapp in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 27, 1875. He was \nassociated in business with Mr. Knapp until Mr. Knapp's death, and now, while prac- \nticing in Boston, resides in Woburn, where he is a special justice of the Fourth East- \nern Middlesex District Court. \n\nCharles Frederick Adams, son of Charles Frederick and Caroline Hesselrigge \n(Walter) Adams, was born in Boston, February 3, 1824, and graduated at Harvard in \n1843. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of \nCharles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 24, 1846. In 1849, on \naccount of ill health, he made a voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands and China, \nreturning after thirteen months' absence and resuming the practice of law. He died \n. of consumption at Boston, December 30, 1856. \n\nNathaniel Prentiss Banks was born in Waltham, Mass., January 30, 1816. In his \nyouth he worked in the mill of which his father was superintendent and learned the \nmachinist's trade, so mingling study with his labor as enabled him to secure a posi- \ntion as editor first of a paper in Waltham and then in Lowell. He then studied law \nand after his admission to the bar he was sent to the Legislature from Waltham in \n1849, and in 1851 and 1852 was speaker of the House of Representatives. The writer \nhas a distinct recollection of the bearing and methods of twenty-four speakers of the \nHouse as far back and including Thomas Kinnicut in 1843, and he has no hesitation \nin expressing the opinion that not one of them all equaled Mr. Banks in readiness to \ngrasp situations, in coolness, promptness in decision and general parliamentary skill. \nHe was an ideal speaker and not a few presiding officers have remembered with \nprofit lessons learned from him while in the speaker's chair. In 1853 he was a mem- \nber and the president of the State Constitutional Convention, and then member of \nCongress from 1853 to 1857. In 1855 he was chosen speaker of the National House \nof Representatives on the 133d ballot, after a contest during which his bearing was \nremarkable for its sagacity and wisdom. In 1857 he was chosen by the Republican \nparty governor of Massachusetts, and twice re-elected, serving until January, 1861. \n35 \n\n\n274 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nAfter leaving the executive chair he was chosen president of the Illinois Central Rail- \nroad, but he had hardly entered his new office before the war broke out, when he of- \nfered his services to the government and was commissioned major-general May 16, \n1861. So much may be found elsewhere concerning his career, it will be unnecessary \nto follow it in this register. He resigned his commission in 1864, and in that year \nwas again chosen to Congress, continuing in service, with the exception of one Con- \ngress, until 1 s 7 T . On his retirement from Congress he was appointed United States \nmarshal for .Massachusetts, and not receiving a reappointment to that office from \nPresident Cleveland, was again chosen to Congress, and finally retired from public \nlife in 1890. He still resides in Waltham. \n\nAnson Burlingame, son of a farmer, was born in New Berlin, X. Y., November 14, \n1820, and when three years old removed with his parents to a farm in Seneca count v, \n( )hio, where he lived ten years. In 1883 he removed to Detroit and after two years \nto a farm at Branch, Mich. In 1837 he entered the University of Michigan, and in \n1843 entered the Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1846, and was admitted \nto the bar in Middlesex county in September, 1846. During the presidential cam- \npaign of 1844 at a meeting of the Young Men's Whig Club, of which Charles Francis \nAdams was president, held in a small hall in Schollay's building, which stood in the \ncenter of Schollay Square, Mr. Burlingame made his first speech. The writer was \npresent and remembers well the favorable impression which his somewhat florid \noratory made on the audience. After that at political meetings he was often called \nout and his speeches were frequent. He began practice in Boston, but his business \ns< m m yielded to the demand of politics and he entered almost at once on a public \ncareer. In the campaign of 1848 he was an active worker and speaker in the Free \nSoil party, and again the writer was with him in organizing meetings in Faneuil Hall \nand other places. In 1849 he went to Europe, and in 1850 was a member of the State \nSenate. In 1853 he was chosen a delegate from Northboro' to the State Constitutional \nConvention, though living in Cambridge, and in 1854 was chosen member of Con- \ngress by the Know-Nothing party. He was re-elected in 1856 and 1858, and in 1861 • \nwas appointed minister to Austria. The Austrian government refused to receive him \non account of his advocacy of Hungarian independence and of the recognition of \nSardinia as a first class power. He was then sent minister to China, returning home \nin 1867, and again resuming his official duties after a short vacation. In 1867, when \nretiring from the Chinese embassy, he was appointed by the Chinese government a \nspecial envoy to the United States and the European powers for the purpose of ne- \ng< itiating treaties. Having accomplished his mission in the United States he pro- \nceeded in 1868 to England, and afterwards to France, Denmark, Sweden, Holland \nand Prussia, where, with the exception of France, his duties were successfully per- \nformed, finally reaching St. Petersburg in 1870, where he died on the 23d of February, \n1871. He married a daughter of Isaac Livermore, of Cambridge. \n\nWilliam Crancii, son of Richard and Mary (Smith) Cranch, was born in Wey- \nmouth, Mass., July 17, 1769, and graduated at Harvard in 1787, receiving in 1829 the \nthe degree of LL. D. He studied law with Thomas Dawes, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in July, 1790. He removed to Washington, D. C, in 1794 and in 1801 \nPresident John Adams appointed him assistant judge of the Circuit Court of the Dis- \ntrict of Columbia, of which court he became chief justice in 1805, serving until his \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n275 \n\n\ndeath September 1, 1855. He published nine volumes of reports of the United States \nSupreme Court, and six volumes of reports of the Circuit Court of the District of Co- \nlumbia. \n\nLuther Stearns Crushing was born in Lunenburg, Mass., June 22, 1803, and grad- \nuated at the Harvard Law School in 1826. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex \ncounty in March, 1827. He was several years editor of The Jurist and Law Maga- \nzine, from 1832 to 1884 was clerk of the House of Representatives, and represent- \native in 1844. From 1N44 to 1848 he was judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and \nfrom 1S4S to 1853 reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, editing during that \nperiod twelve volumes, beginning with the Suffolk and Nantucket term of 1848 and \nending with the Suffolk term in November, 1853. He is more popularly known as \nthe author of \"A Manual of Parliamentary Practice,\" the \" Elements of the Law and \nPractice of Legislative Assemblies,\" and \" Rides of Proceeding and Debates in De- \nliberate Assemblies.\" \n\nThomas Cushing, son of Thomas, was born in Boston, March 24, 1725, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1744, receiving the degree of LL.D. in 1785. He was represent- \native, speaker of the House, member of the Provincial Congress, and judge of the \nCommon Pleas and Probate for the county of Suffolk. He was lieutenant-governor \nof Massachusetts from 1779 to his death, which occurred February 28, 1788. \n\nBenjamin F. Hallett, son of Benjamin, was born in Barnstable, December 2, 1797, \nand graduated at Brown University in 1816. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and \npracticed in Boston. He was a prominent Democrat after the decline of the Anti- \nMasonic party to which he belonged, He was appointed district attorney for Massa- \nchusetts by President Pierce in is.\"):!. He died in Boston, September 30, 1862. \n\nSamuel Hubbard was born in Boston, June 2, 1785, and graduated at Yale in 1802. \nHe studied law in Boston with Charles Jackson and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin April, 1806. He practiced in Biddeford, Me., until 1810, when he returned to \nBoston and became associated with Mr. Jackson, his former teacher. He was judge \nof the Supreme Judicial Court from 1842 to 1847, and received in 1842 the degree of \nLL.D. from Harvard. He died in Boston, December 24, 1847. \n\nSamuel Lorenzo Knapp was born in Newburyport, January 19, 1783, and gradu- \nated at Dartmouth in 1804. He was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1807. \nHe was a representative, commander of a regiment of militia during the war of 1812, \neditor in Boston of various newspapers and magazines between 1824 and 1827, re- \nsumed the practice of law in New York, and died at Hopkinton, Mass., July 8, 1838. \nHe was the author of \" Lives of Eminent Lawyers, Statesmen, and Men of Letters,\" \nand was a profuse writer on other subjects. \n\nJohn Lathrop, son of Rev. John, was born in Boston, January 13, 1772, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1789. He studied law with John Lowell and Christopher Gore \nin Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. After practicing in Dedham a short \ntime he returned to Boston, and after an unsuccessful career at the bar went to \nIndia in 1799, returning in 1809. He then taught school, delivered lectures, con- \ntributed to the newspapers and pronounced several orations. He finally secured a \nplace in the Post-office Department in Washington, and died at Georgetown, D. C, \nJanuary 30, 1820. He married in 1793 a daughter of Joseph Pierce of Boston. \n\n\n276 HIS20RY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nJohn Leverett, grandson of the governor, was born in Boston, August 25, 1662, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1680. He was an educated lawyer, speaker of the \nProvincial Legislature in 1700, judge of the Superior Court of Judicature from 1702 \n\nto 1708, judge of probate, and the successor of Samuel Willard as president of Har- \nvard College in 1707. He died May 3, 1724. \n\nEdward St. Loe Livermo're was an attorney in Boston in 1812. He was born in \n\n.mouth, N. 11., April 5, 1762, was United States attorney, member of Congress \n\nfrom L806 to 1812, and a judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire from 1797 to \n\nto 1799. After taking up his residence in Boston he delivered the Fourth of July \n\noration there in 1818, and died at Lowell, September 22, 1832. \n\nGrenville Mellen, son of Chief Justice Prentiss Mellen, was born in Biddeford, \nMe., and graduated at Harvard in 1818. He practiced law in Portland and North \nYarmouth, Me., but moved to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February \n1, 1834. He devoted himself more to literature than to law and published a number \nof poems. He died in New York, September 5, 1841. \n\nDavid Hall Rick was born in Penn Yan, N. Y., May 6, 1841, and graduated at \nSvraeuse University. After admission to the bar he went south and practiced until \n1868. In 1869 he opened an office in Lowell, Mass., and subsequently in Boston. \nAt the recent election, November 8, 1892, he was chosen a member of the Executive \nCouncil. His residence is in Brookline. \n\nArtemas Ward, son of General Artemas, was born in Shrewsbury, Mass., January \n9, 1762, and graduated at Harvard in 1783. He practiced in Shrewsbury until 1809, \nwhen he removed to Boston. He was a representative, member of the Executive \nCouncil and member of Congress from 1813 to 1817. May 11, 1819, he wasappointed \njudge of the Boston Court of Common Pleas, and when that court was abolished, \nFebruary 14, 1821, he was appointed chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for \nthe Commonwealth, established at the same date, and served until he resigned in \n1839. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1842, and died in Boston, \nOctober 7, 1847. \n\nRoyall Tyler was born in Boston, July 18, 1757, and graduated at Harvard in \n1 776. He studied law with John Adams and was recommended by the Suffolk bar, \nJuly 18, 1780, for admission to practice in the Court of Common Pleas. In 1790 he \nremoved to Guilford, Vt., and in 1794 was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of \nVermont, being promoted to chief justice in 1800. Previous to his appointment as \nchief justice he indulged in the recreation of writing dramas, among which may be \nmentioned \"Contrast,\" a comedy, the first American play ever acted on a regular \nstage; \"May Day, or New York in an Uproar;\" \"The Georgia Spec, or Land in the \nMoon,\" and the \" Algerine Captive.\" In 1809 he published two volumes of \"Reports \nof Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont.\" He died at Brattleboro' , Vt., August \n16, 1826. \n\nLeverett Saltonstall Tuckerman, son of John Francis and Lucy (Saltonstall) \nTuckerman, was born in Washington, D. C, April 19, 1848, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1868. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and finishing his \nlaw studies in Salem in the office of Perry & Endicott, was admitted to the bar in \nSalem in 1872. He is unmarried and resides in Boston. \n\n\n/ s cy^c^£^tr^t \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 277 \n\nFrederick Goddard Tuckerman, son of Edward and Sophia (May) Tuckerman, \nwas born in Boston, February 4, 1821, and was educated at the Boston Latin School. \nHe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar September 16, 1844. He married, June 17, 1847, Hannah L. B., daughter of \nDavid Smith Jones, of Weston, and Hannah Lucinda Whitman, of Lincoln, and died \nat Greenfield, May 9, 1873. \n\nGeorge Ticknor, son of Elisha, was born in Boston, August 1, 1791, and gradu- \nated at Dartmouth in 1807. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813, and prac- \nticed, if at all, only two years. In 1815 he went to Europe, spending two years at \nGottingen and returning home in 1819. During his absence he was appointed pro- \nfessor of modern languages at Harvard and served fifteen years. In 1835 he again \nwent to Europe, returning in 1840, when he began writing a History of Spanish \nLiterature, which he published in 1849. His lesser works were a Life of Lafayette, \na Memoir of William Hickling Prescott, and contributions to the North American \nReview and other publications. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in \n1850, and died in Boston, January 26, 1871. \n\nPeter Oxenbridge Thacher, son of Rev. Peter Thacher, was born in Maiden, \nDecember 22, 1776, and graduated at Harvard in 1796. He was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1801, and May 14, 1823, was appointed the judge of the \"Municipal Court \nin the Town of Boston,\" serving until his death at Boston, February 22, 1843. On \nthe first of March following the Legislature, believing it best that a judge should not \nbe exclusively devoted to the trial of criminal cases, provided by law that the judges \nof the Common Pleas Court should be ex officio judges of the Municipal Court. \n\nWalter H. Thorpe, son of Walter and Eliza J. (Ellery) Thorpe, was born in Athol, \nMass., October 7, 1867, and was educated at the Athol High School. He studied law \nat the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex \ncounty, June 27, 1890. His residence is in Newton. \n\nJohn Weldon Threshie, son of Charles and Henrietta C. Threshie, was born in \nNew Orleans, La., August 22, 1863, and was educated at the Pierce Academy in Mid- \ndleboro', Mass. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the \noffice of J. Frank Paul, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, \n1877. He was an assistant of John Lathrop, reporter of the decisions of the Supreme \nCourt. He resides in Newton. \n\nJames L. Walsh was born in East Boston, March 28, 1843, and was educated at \nthe Lyman Grammar School in Boston and at the College of the Holy Cross in Wor- \ncester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar March 12, 1872. He was representative in 1877-78, and is a special justice of the \nEast Boston District Court. \n\nClarence Stuart Ward, son of Andrew Henshaw and Anna H. W. (Field) Ward, \nwas born in Newton, Decembers, 1852, and graduated at the Massachusetts Insti- \ntute of Technology in 1872. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in \n1876, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 19, 1875. He was a commissioner \nof the United States at the Paris Exposition in 1889. He makes patent cases and \ncorporation law specialties, and is the author of \"Wit, Wisdom and Beauties of \nShakespeare,\" published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company in 1887. He lives unmar- \nried in the Allston district of Boston. \n\n\n27S HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nEdward Garrison Walker, son of David and Eliza Walker, was born in Boston \nin L835, and was educated in Charlestown. He studied law in Boston in the office of \nCharles A. Tweed, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1861. He was a \nrepresentative in 1867, and lives in Boston. \n\nfosEPH W \\i.kkk, son of Joseph IT. and Hannah M. Walker, was born in Worcester, \n.Mass., Inly 13, 1865, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in \nthe office of Chaplin & Garret, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, \n[889. He married at Providence, R. I., June 30, 1890, and resides in Brookline. \n\nNathanie) Upham Walker, son of Joseph B. and Elizabeth L. Walker, was born \nin Concord, N. H., January 14, 1855, and graduated at Yale in 1S77. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Jewell, Field & Shepard, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 14, 1881. He married in Boston, June \nli. 1888, Helen F. Dunklee, and resides in Boston. \n\nCharles Pinckney Sumner was born in Milton, Mass., January 20, 1776, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1796. He studied law in Boston with George Richards Minot, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1800. He was high sheriff of Suffolk county \nfrom 1825 to 1839, and died in Boston, April 2, 1839. \n\nCharles Sumner, son of Charles Pinckney Sumner, was born in Boston, January 6-, \n1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He graduated at the Harvard Law School \nin 1834, and was admitted to the bar in that year. Soon after his admission he was \nappointed reporter of the Circuit Court, and in 1835-36-37-43 he was a lecturer in the \nHarvard Law School, and in 1851 succeeded Daniel Webster as United States sena- \ntor. In 1848 he allied himself with the Free Soil party and advocated the election of \nVan Buren and Adams in the presidential campaign of that year. His election by \nthe Legislature to the Senate in 1851 was the result of a coalition of the Free Soil men \nwith the Democrats, who received their share by the election of George S. Boutwell \nfor governor, the election of that officer coming to the Legislature in consequence of \na failure to elect by the people. His career in the Senate was marked by a constant \nand effective attack on the strongholds of slavery, and, perhaps, next to Garrison \nno man did more to bring about that condition of affairs which resulted in the eman- \ncipation of the slave. He continued in the Senate until his death. In the line of his \nprofession in 1831 he became editor of the American Jurist, in 1836 he edited \" Dun- \nlap on Admiralty,\" from 1828 to 1839 he published three volumes of Circuit Court Re- \nports, and jointly with Jonathan C. Perkins edited \" Vesey's Chancery Reports\" in \ntwenty volumes. His most noted speeches were \" The Crime against Kansas,\" \n\" Freedom is National, Slavery Sectional,\" and the \" Barbarism of Slavery,\" deliv- \nered in the Senate, and \"The True Grandeur of Nations,\" \" The Scholar, the Jurist, \nthe Artist, the Philanthropist,\" \" Fame and Glory,\" \" White Slavery in the Barbary \nStates,\" \" Law of Human Progress,\" \" Finger-Point from Plymouth Rock,\" \" Land- \nmark of Freedom,\" \"The Anti-Slavery Enterprise,\" \"Position and Duties of the \nMerchant,\" \"Our Foreign Relations,\" \" The Case of Florida,\" \" Eulogy of Abra- \nham Lincoln,\" \" Our Claims on England,\" on various occasions, a collection of which \nwas published in two volumes in 1850 and 1856. He married Alice, widow of Stur- \ngis Hooper, of Boston, and daughter of Jonathan Mason, of Boston, and died in \nWashington, March 11, 1874. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 2?9 \n\nRobert Rantoul, son of Robert, was born in 'Beverly, Mass., August 13, L805, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1826. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1831, and \nafter a short season of practice in South Reading established himself in Gloucester in \n1833, and in 1838 removed to Boston. He was representative from Gloucester from \n1833 to 1837, and collector of the port of Boston from 1843 to 1845. He was appointed \nUnited States district attorney for Massachusetts in 1845, holding the office until \n1849, and United States senator for the unexpired term of Mr. Webster in 1851, and \nmember of Congress from 1851 to his death, which occurred at Washington, August \n7, 185-2. \n\nWilliam Prescott, son of Col. Wm. Prescott, was born in Peppered, Mass., Au- \ngust 19, 1762, and graduated at Harvard in ITS:;. After teaching school a short time \nat Brooklyn, Conn., and Beverly, Mass., he studied law with Nathan Dane, of Bev- \nerly, and was admitted to the bar in 1787, establishing himself in Beverly for three \nyears and then removing to Salem. He was a representative from Salem and sena- \ntor from Essex county. In 1808 he removed to Boston. In 1X14 the Boston Court of \nCommon Pleas was established, of which Harrison Gray Otis was the first judge, ap- \npointed on the 16th of March in that year, succeeded by William Minot, appointed \nMarch 2, 1818, who was followed by Mr. Prescott, appointed April 21, 1818. He \nserved until May 11, 1819, when he was succeeded by Artimas Ward, the last judge \nof that court. In 1814 he was a delegate to the Hartford Convention, and in 1820 a \nmember of the State Constitutional Convention. He received the degree of LL. D. \nfrom Harvard in 1824, and died in Boston, December 8, 1844. \n\nEdward Goldsborough Prescott, son of Judge William, was born in Salem, Jan- \nuary 2, 1804, and graduated at Harvard in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJuly 14, 1828, but after practicing a few years studied divinity, and in 1837 was \nsettled as an Episcopal clergyman in New Jersey. He died April 4, 1844. \n\nJohn Pickering, son of Col. Timothy Pickering, was born in Salem, February 17, \n1177, and graduated at Harvard in 1790. He studied law with Edward Tilghman in \nPhiladelphia and in Salem, and was admitted to the bar of Essex county in 1806. \nWhile pursuing his studies he was in 1797 secretary of legation to William Smith, \nUnited States minister at Portugal, and in 1799 private secretary of Rufus King, \nUnited States minister to England. He practiced in Salem until 1827, when here- \nmoved to Boston, where he was city solicitor from 1829 until his death, which occurred \nin Boston, May 5, 1846. He was a representative from Salem, and a senator from both \nEssex and Suffolk counties. He was also a member of the Executive Council. Dis- \ntinguished as he was in the profession of law, he was quite as distinguished as a \nphilologist, and was the author of \" Vocabulary of Americanisms,\" \" The Uniform \nOrthography of the Indian Language,\" \" Indian Languages of America,\" of articles \non the Chinese language, the Cochin Chinese language, and other languages, and of \na Greek and English Lexicon. He was familiar with French, Portuguese, Italian, \nSpanish, German, Romaic, Greek and Latin, and more or less so with Dutch, Swed- \nish, Danish and Hebrew. He had also studied Arabic, Turkish, Syriac, Persian, \nCoptic, Sanscrit, Chinese, Malay, and the Indian languages of America. In 1806 he \nwas appointed professor of Hebrew at Harvard, and received the degree of LL.D. \nfrom Bowdoin in 1822 and Harvard in 1835. He died in Boston, May 5, 1846. \n\n\n28o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n( ), i w ii s Pickering, son of Col. Timothy Pickering, was born in Wyoming, Penn., \nSeptember 2, 1792, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law with his \nbrother John in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 181 6. He \npracticed in Boston, and in 1822 was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Su- \npreme Judicial Court, his reports comprising twenty-four volumes, beginning with \nthe Berkshire term in September, 1822, and ending with the Essex term in 18:51). He \ndied in Boston, October 29, L868. \n\n1 wn.s Winthrop Pickering, son of James Farrington and Sarah (Pike) Pickering, \nwas born in Boston, March 26, 1848, and was educated at the Boston public schools. \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston with his father, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1869. He married Alice Aurelia, daugh- \nter of Oliver Lawrence and Mary (Whitney) Wheeler in 1880, and resides in Boston. \n\nJohn Phillips, son of William and Margaret (Wendell) Phillips, was born in Bos- \nton, November 26, 1770, and graduated at Harvard in 1788, and was admitted to the \nbar in 1791 or 1792, as in the latter year his name is found in the list of Suffolk law- \nyers. On the 29th of August, 1809, he was appointed one of the justices of the Court \nof Common Pleas, and from 1803 to 1823 he was a member of the Senate, serving as \nits president the last ten years. He was the first mayor of Boston, serving in 1822 \nand 1823. He died in Boston, May 29, 1823. He married Sally, daughter of Thomas \nand Sarah (Hurd) Walley. \n\nWendell Phillips, son of John and Sally (Walley) Phillips, was born in Boston, \nNovember 29, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He was admitted to the bar \nin Middlesex county in September, 1834. The current of anti-slavery sentiment then \ndeveloping in Massachusetts swept him away from his profession, and soon after his \nadmission he abandoned the law and devoted his time and talents to the anti-slavery \ncause. His maiden oratorical effort was in support of resolutions at a meeting in \nFaneuil Hall in is:',7, condemning the murder of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, of Alton, \n111. It is Unnecessary to recount in this register the incidents in the life of a man so \nwell known and whose career has been so thoroughly published to the world. Un- \nlike Mr. Garrison, who considered his life work done when the cause of emancipation \nwas triumphant, he lent his energies to other reforms and continued until his death \nthe advocate of temperance, labor reform, and woman suffrage. He died in Boston, \nFebruary 2, lss-l. He married Anne Terry Greene. \n\nThom \\s Walley Phillips, son of John and Sally (Walley) Phillips, and brother of \nWendell, was born in Boston, January 16, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. \nHe studied law with Lemuel Shaw in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Mid- \ndlesex county in November. 1819. He was a councilman in Boston in 1827, a repre- \nsentative from 1834 to 1837, and was appointed by Judge Peter Oxenbridge Thacher \nin 1830 clerk of the Boston Municipal Court, serving in that capacity until his death, \nwhich occurred at Nahant, Septembers, 1859. He married in Boston, March 18, \n1S'24, Anna Jones, daughter of Samuel Dunn, of Boston. \n\nGrenville Tuuok Phillips, son of John and Sally (Walley) Phillips, was born in \nBoston, August 14, 1816, and graduated at Harvard in 1836. He studied law in Bos- \nton in the offices of Peleg Sprague and William Gray, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in October, 1839. He devoted but little of his time to his profession, and \nafter 1845 spent most of his time in Europe. He died in Saugus, May 25, 1863. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 281 \n\nWillard Phillips was born in Bridgewater, Mass., December 19, 1784, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1810, where he was tutor after his graduation until 1815. He \nthen studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in October, 1818. \nHe was for a time an assistant editor of the North American Review, and in 1825- \n26 was a member of the Massachusetts H< ruse of Representatives. On the 3d of May, \n1839, he was appointed judge of probate for Suffolk county and continued in office \nuntil 1847, when on the 17th of December he was succeeded by Edward Greeley Lor- \ning. He was then made president of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Com- \npany in Boston and continued in that office until his death, which occurred at Cam- \nbridge, September 9, 1873. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1853. \n\nJohn Phillips, was born in Charlestown in 1631. He was judge of admiralty, treas- \nurer of the Province, and judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex \ncounty from 1692 to 1715. He died at Charlestown, March 20, 1726. \n\nStephen Henry Phillips, son of Stephen C. and Jane (Appleton) Phillips, was born \nin Salem, August 16, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1844, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 6, 1846. \nHe was for a time editor of the Law Reporter, district attorney of Essex from 1851 \nto 1853, and attorney-general by election from 1858 to 1861. In 1866 he went to \nHonolulu and was attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands from 1866 to 1873, and \nminister of foreign affairs. On his return to the United States he practiced law for \na time in San Francisco, and has been since engaged in his profession with offices in \nSalem and Boston. He married, October 3, 1871, Margaret, daughter of James H. \nand Mary (Willis) Duncan, of Haverhill, Mass. \n\nJonathan Cogswell Perkins, was born in Ipswich, Mass., November 21, 1809, and \ngraduated at Amherst in 1832. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was \nadmitted to the bar in Essex county in 1835. He was State senator in 1847, and in \n1848 was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court, remaining on the bench until \nthe dissolution of the court in 1859. He edited several volumes of Pickering's Re- \nports with Notes, Chitty's Criminal Law, Chitty on Contracts, Jarman on Wills, Ab- \nbot on Shipping, Daniell's Chancery Practice, Collver on Partnership, and was the \nauthor of a treatise on Arbitrations and Awards. He died in .Salem, December 12, \n1877. \n\nEdward Griffin Parker, was born in Boston, November 16, 1825. He studied law \nwith Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1849. In IN.')'.! \nhe was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. He was chairman of the committee \nto whom was referred that part of the message of Governor Banks relating to the \npurchase of the Hancock house for an executive residence, and the writer who was \nwith him at the Senate Board and aided him in his efforts, bears willing testimony to \nthe energy and eloquence displayed by him in advocating the purchase. During the \nwar he was a volunteer aid on the staff of General B. F. Butler, and afterwards as- \nsistant adjutant-general on the staff of General Martindale. He was the author of \n\" Golden Age of Oratory,\" and an exceedingly interesting book entitled \" Reminis- \ncences of Rufus Choate.\" He died in New York city, March 30, 1868. \n\nSamuel Allyne Otis, son of Col. James Otis, was born in Barnstable, Mass., No- \nvember 24, 1740, and graduated at Harvard in 1759. He studied law, but relin- \n36 \n\n\n282 HISTORY OF THE BEXCH AND BAR. \n\nquished it and became a Boston merchant. The writer is not certain that he was \never admitted to the bar. He was a representative in 1770, and in 1784 speaker of \nthe House. He was a member js in 1788, and afterwards secretary of the \n\nUnite - He married Elizabeth, daughter of Harrison Gray, of Boston, \n\nand was the father of Harrison Gray Otis. He died at Washington. I). C. April 22, \n1814. \n\nE Arthur Perkins, son of Levi and Elizabeth (Sands) Perkins, was born in \n\nCambridge, September 4, 1856, and graduated at the Boston University Law School \n\n376. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in May 1876, and to the \n\nUnited States Circuit Court April 3, lw2. He was a representative from Cambridge \n\nin : .-.nd his residence is still in that city. \n\nHenry Grover Perkins, son of Francis W. and Laura (Simonds) Perkins, was born \nin Fitzwilliam. N. H.. July 16, 1*65. and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied \nlaw at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Jan- \nuarv 15, - He lives in the Dorchester district of Boston. \n\nDaniel Leonard, a graduate of Harvard in 1760, is spoken of in 1770 as a barris- \nter at the Suffolk bar. He belonged to Taunton. He was at the meeting of the \nSuffolk bar held January 3, 177<». at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern on the corner of \nState and Kelly streets, to form a Bar Association. He died in 1800. \n\nBenjamin Hichborn graduated at Harvard in 1768 and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1772. He died in 1817. \n\nElisha Thayer, son of Ebenezer Thayer, of Braintree, graduated at Harvard in \n1 7 • \"« 7 . and studied law with John Adams. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \n1774, and died in the same year. \n\nJohn Bllkley graduated at Harvard in 1769. and after studying law with Josiah \nOuincy was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1770. and died in 1774. \n\nEdward Walker studied law with Samuel Quincy and was probably admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in 1775. \n\nThomas Edwards graduated at Harvard in 1771. and studied law with Josiah \nOuincy. He was admitted to the Supreme Court in 1784 and to the Common Pleas \nat an earlier date. He died in lv \n\nNathaniel Coffin, after practicing two years in the Inferior Court of Common \nPleas, was admitted to the Superior Court-in. Suffolk in 1773. \n\nJonathan Williams, son of Inspector General John Williams, graduated at Har- \nvard in 1772, and studied law with John Adams. He was admitted in 1775, and \ndied in 178 \n\nEdward Hill, son of Alexander, of Boston, graduated at Harvard in 1772, and \nstudied law with John Adams. He was admitted in 1775, and died the same year. \n\nJohn Trumbull, probably the painter, graduated at Harvard in 1773, and entered \nthe office of John Adams in 1774. He died in 1843. \n\nNathaniel Battelle graduated at Harvard in 1765, and entered the office of \n-alter Blowers in 1774. He died in 1816. \n\nPerez Morton, son of Joseph and Amiah (Bullock) Morton, was born about 1751, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1771. He studied law with Josiah Quincy, and was \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 283 \n\nadmitted to the Common Pleas Court in Suffolk in July, 1774. He was appointed \nattorney-general September 7. 1810, and was succeeded by James T. Austin. May \"J4, \n1832. He died in 1837. \n\nJoshua Thomas, son of William and Mercy Logan (Bridgham) Thomas, was born \nin Plymouth in 1751, and graduated at Harvard in 1772. He studied law in the \noffice of Josiah Quincy, and was probably admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was \nthe staff of General John Thomas early in the Revolution, but finally settled in his \nnative town, where he became judge of probate, a member of the Committee on Cor- \nrespondence, and the first president of the Pilgrim Society. He married Isabella \nStevenson, of Boston, and died at Plymouth in 1821. \n\nDaniel New comb graduated at Harvard in 1768, and after studying law with John \nLowell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1778. He became judge of the Supreme \nCourt of New Hampshire, and died in 1818. \n\nSamuel Doggett graduated at Harvard in 1775, and studied law with Perez Mor- \nton. He was admitted to the bar in 1780, and died in 1817. \n\nHenry Goodwin graduated at Harvard in 1778, and studied law in Boston with \nWilliam Tudor, and died in 1789. \n\nRufus Greene Amory graduated at Harvard in 1778, and studied law with John \nLowell, and was admitted to the bar in 1781. He died in 1833. \n\nJames Hughes graduated at Harvard in 178U. He studied law with Benjamin \nHichborn, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1780. He died in 1799. \n\nIsrael Keith graduated at Harvard in 1771, and was an attorney at the Suffolk bar \nin 1780. He died in 1819. \n\nPeter Clarke graduated at Harvard in 1777, and studied law with Increase Sum- \nner. He died in 1792. \n\nBenjamin Lincoln graduated at Harvard in 1777. and studied law in Worcester \nwith Levi Lincoln, and in Boston with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1781. He died in 1788. \n\nWilliam Hunter Torrens, of Charleston, S. C, studied law in the office of John \nLowell in 1781, and was probably admitted to the Suffolk bar. \n\nWilliam Hunt graduated at Harvard in 1768, and was a member of the Suffolk \nbar in 178<>. He died in 1804. \n\nJonathan Fay graduated at Harvard in 1778, and studied law with Benjamin \nHichborn. He was admitted to the bar in 1781, and died in 1811. \n\nWilliam Wetmore was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1781, and was a barrister \nin 1787. In 1811 the Circuit Courts of Common Pleas were established and in the \nMiddle Circuit, of which Suffolk county formed a part, Mr. Wetmore. of Boston, was \nappointed associate justice. \n\nJoseph Hall graduated at Harvard in 1781, and studied law with Benjamin Hich- \nborn. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1784. He was appointed judge of pro- \nbate for Suffolk county September 6, 1825, and was succeeded by John Heard, March \n15, 1836. He died in 1848. \n\nEdward Wendell graduated at Harvard in 1781, and studied law with John \nLowell. He died in 184L \n\n\n2$4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nDavid Leonard Barnes graduated at Harvard in 1780, and studied law with James \nSullivan and Daniel Leonard. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1783. He be- \ncame judge of the United States District Court, and died in 1812. \n\nEdward Gray graduated at Harvard in 1782, and studied law with James Sulli- \nvan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1785. He died in 1810. \n\nJohn Brown Cotting studied law in the office of John Lowell in 1783, and was \nprobably admitted to the bar in 1785. \n\nSamuel Quincv, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1782, and read law in the office of \nChristopher Gore. He was admitted to the bar in 1786, and died in 1816. \n\nHarrison Gray Otis, son of Samuel Allyne Otis, was born in Boston, October 8, \n1765, and graduated at Harvard in 1783. He studied law with John Lowell, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1786. He was a representative in 1796, member \nof Congress form 1797 to 1801, United States district attorney in 1801, representative \nagain and speaker from 1803 to 1805, president of the State Senate from 1805 to 1811. \nHe was appointed March 16, 1814, judge of the Boston Court of Common Pleas, and \nwas succeeded by William Prescott, April 21, 1818. He was United States senator \nfrom 1817 to 1822, and mayor of Boston from 1829 to 1832. In 1814 he was a mem- \nber of the Hartford Convention. He married in Boston Sally, daughter of William \nand Grace (Spear) Foster, and died in Boston, October 28, 1848. \n\nJohn Rowe graduated at Harvard in 1783, and studied law with William Tudor. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1786. He died in 1812. \n\nJohn Tucker graduated from Harvard in 1774, and is referred to as a member of \nthe Suffolk bar in 1783. He died in 1825. \n\nRichard Brook Roberts studied law in Carolina and in Boston with Benjamin \nHichborn, whose office he entered in October, 1783. \n\nSamuel Cooper Johonnot graduated at ^Harvard in 1783, and studied law with \nJames Sullivan. He died in 1806. \n\nJohn Tii vxter graduated at Harvard in 1774, and in 1784 was admitted to the Su- \npreme Court, having already been admitted to the Common Pleas. He died in 1791. \n\nBradisii, probably either Ebenezer, who graduated at Harvard in 1769, or \n\nIsaac, who graduated in 1773, is referred to as a Suffolk attorney in 1784. \n\nJohn Gardiner, jr., son of John, read law with his father, entering his office in \n1784. \n\nWilliam Hill, from North Carolina, studied law with Christopher Gore. \n\nFortescue Vernon graduated at Harvard in 1780, and studied law with Benjamin \nHichborn. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1787, and died in 1790. \n\nJohn Merrick graduated at Harvard in 1784, and studied law in the office of \nThomas Dawes. He was admitted to the bar in 1788, and died in 1797. \n\nSamuel Borland graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with John Lowell, \nand died in 1840. \n\nJames Sullivan, jr., son of James, graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law \nwith his father, and died in 1787 before admission. \n\nThomas Russell, son of Thomas, of Boston, studied law with John Lowell in 1786. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 285 \n\nThomas Williams graduated at Harvard in 1784, and after studying law with \nJohn Lowell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1787. He died in 1823. \n\nGeorge Warren studied law with Perez Morton, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1788. \n\nThomas Crafts graduated at Harvard in 1785, and studied law with Christopher \nGore. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1788, and died in 1798. \n\nSamuel Andrews graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with Benjamin \nHichborn. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1789, and died in 1841. \n\nWilliam Lyman studied law with James Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1789. \n\nNathaniel Higginson studied law with William Wetmore in 1788. \n\nPhineas Bruce entered the office of Benjamin Hichborn in 1788, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in 1790. \n\nBossenger Foster graduated at Harvard in 1787, and studied law with Theophilus \nParsons. He died in 1816. \n\nEdward Clarke graduated at Harvard in 1788, and studied law with John Lowell. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791, and died in the same year. \n\nJoseph Blake graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with John Lowell. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1789, and died in 1802. \n\nRobert Paine, son of Robert Treat Paine, graduated at Harvard in 1789, and \nstudied law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in 1792, and died in 1798. \n\nThomas Hammond, who had been admitted to the bar in New Hampshire, was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1790. He graduated at Harvard in 1787, and died in \n1803. \n\nNathaniel Fisher graduated at Harvard in 1789, and studied law with Edward \nH. Robbins. He was admitted to the bar in 1791, and died in 1802. \n\nSamuel Haven graduated at Harvard in 1789, and studied law with Fisher Ames. \nHe Avas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793, and died in 1N47. \n\nJohn Callender graduated at Harvard in 1790, and studied law with Christopher \nGore. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793, and died in 1833. \n\nAlexander Townsend was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court in Suffolk \ncounty before 1807. \n\nHoratio Townsend was admitted in Suffolk county to practice in the Supreme \nCourt before 1807. \n\nWilliam Sullivan, son of General John Sullivan of the Revolution, was born in \nSaco, Me., November 30, 1774, and graduated at Harvard in 1792. He studied law \nin Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk barm 1795. He soon became one of the \nleaders of the bar and entered somewhat into politics. He was a representative and \nmember of the Executive Council and of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, and \ndevoted himself also to literary pursuits. He published \"Familiar Letters on the \nPublic Men of the Revolution,\" \"Sea Life,\" \"Political Class-book,\" \" Moral Class- \nbook,\" \"Historical Class-book,\" and delivered several orations, the most noted of \nwhich was his oration at Plymouth on the 22d of December, 1829. He died in Bos- \nton, September 3, 1839. \n\n\n286 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nJohn Turner Sargent Sullivan, son of William, was born in Boston in 1813, and \nwas educated in Germany. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835, \nand practiced first in St. Louis and afterwards in Philadelphia. He was a superior \nlinguist, a fine musician, an inimitable story teller and excellent conversationalist. \nThe writer knew him well and can say with truth that he has never encountered a \nman with such varied talents. He died in Boston, December 30, 1848. \n\nBenjamin Beale graduated at Harvard in 1787, and is referred to as a member of \nthe Suffolk bar in 1792. He died in 1826. \n\nJohn Williams graduated at Harvard in 1792, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1795. He studied with Harrison Gray Otis. He died in 1845. \n\nFrancis Blake graduated at Harvard in 1789, and studied law in Worcester. He \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793, and died in 1817. \n\nJoseph Rowe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793. He had been educated in \nCanada and had studied law two years in the office of the attorney-general of Can- \nada. He afterwards spent two years in the office of William Tudor, and was twenty- \ntwo years old at the time of his admission. \n\nJames Allen, jr., studied law in Worcester with Levi Lincoln, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in 1795. \n\nCharles Porter Phelps graduated at Harvard in 1791, and is referred to as a \nmember of the Suffolk bar in 1796. He died in 1857. \n\nShearjashub Bourne graduated at Harvard in 1764, and died in 1806. He began \npractice in Barnstable, but the writer finds his name enrolled as a member of the \nSuffolk bar, May 17, 1796, and he was appointed chief justice of the Court of Com- \nmon Pleas for Suffolk county in 1801. \n\nCharles Paine graduated at Harvard in 1793, and he is referred to as a member \nof the Suffolk bar in 1796. He died in 1810. \n\nWilliam Thurston signed a roll of members of the Suffolk bar in 1797. \n\nEdward Jackson graduated at Harvard in 1794, and was a member of the Suffolk \nbar in 1796. He died in 1819. \n\nEzekiel Bacon, son of Rev. John Bacon, was born in Boston, September 1, 1776, \nand graduated at Yale in 1794. In 1796 he was a member of the Suffolk bar. He \nmoved from Boston to Stockbridge, Mass., was a representative in 1805-6, chief jus- \ntice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in 1813, first comptroller of the Treasury \nfrom 1813 to 1815, member of Congress from 1807 to 1813. He moved in 1816 to \nUtica, N. Y., and there died October is, 1870. \n\nJohn Heard was enrolled as a member of the Suffolk bar in 1796. He was ap- \npointed judge of probate of Suffolk county March 15, \\X'-M'\\ and was succeeded by \nWillard Phillips, May 3, 1839. \n\nDavid Everett is referred to as a member of the Suffolk bar in 1796. \n\nHenry Maurice Lisle, a member of the Suffolk bar in 1796. \n\nIsaac Story graduated at Harvard in 1793, and studied law in Essex county. He \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1796, and died in 1803. \n\nJohn Ward Glrlev studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1799. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 287 \n\nCharles Davis graduated at Harvard in 1790, and studied law with James Sullivan. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1799, and died in 1821. \n\nCharles Cushing graduated at Harvard in 1790, and studied law with James Sul- \nlivan. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1799, and died in 1819. \n\nBenjamin Wood graduated at Harvard in 1797, and in the same year entered the \noffice of John Davis, but died in 1798, before admission. \n\nHolden Sloci m, jr., studied law with George R. Minot, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1801. \n\nFoster Waterman was a schoolmaster in Boston, and studied law with John M. \nForbes, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1798. \n\nJohn Murray Forbes graduated at Harvard in 1787, and died in 1831. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791. \n\nKilborn Whitman, son of Zechariah and Abigail (Kilborn) Whitman, was born in \nBridgewater, August 17, 1765, and graduated at Harvard in 1785. He prepared for \nthe ministry under the instruction of William Shaw, D.D., of Marshfield, and was \nsettled over the parish in Pembroke, where he continued to live until his death. After \nten years' service in the ministry he studied law in the office of his brother, Benjamin \nWhitman, of Hanover, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791. He settled in \nPembroke, and was appointed count)- attorney in 1811, continuing in office until \n1832. He was also for many years overseer of the Mashpee and Herring Pond \nIndians. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Winslow, of Marshfield, and died \nin Pembroke December 11, 1835. \n\nHumphrey Devereux graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with John \nLowell. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801, and died in 1867. \n\nArtemas Sawyer graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with George R. \nMinot. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801, and died in 1815. \n\nTkomas Paine studied law in 1799 in the office of Robert Treat Paine, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801. \n\nTotham Bender graduated at Harvard in 1796, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \n1799, and died in 1800. \n\nLuther Richardson graduated at Harvard in 1799, and studied law with Thomas \nWilliams. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1802, and died in 1811. \n\nHenry Cabot, son of George and Elizabeth (Higgmson) Cabot, was born in Boston \nin 1783, and took a partial course at Harvard. He studied law with Rufus (\\. \nAmory, and was admitte'd to the Suffolk bar in 1804. He married Anna Sophia, \ndaughter of John Welland and Abigail (Jones) Blake, of Brattleboro', Vt., and died at \nNahant, August 18, 1864. \n\nNathaniel Sparhawk was born in 1781, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1798. He \nstudied law with George Blake, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801, and died \nin 1802. \n\nAaron Hall Putnam graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with John \nLowell. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1803, and died in 1809. \n\nHenry Edes graduated at Harvard in 1799, and studied law with James Sullivan. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1802, and died in 1851. \n\n\n288 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nGideon Latimer Thayer graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with \nJames Sullivan. Me was admitted to the Suffolk bar probably in 1804, and died in \n1829. \n\nDavid [rei and Greene graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with Wil- \nliam Sullivan. He died in 1826. \n\nWarren Dutton studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in July, 1803. \n\nSamuel Parker studied law with Rufus G. Amory in Boston in 1801. \n\nAlpheus Baker studied law with John Lowell in 1801. \n\nSwu ii. Mather Crocker graduated at Harvard in 1801. He studied law with \nEdward Gray, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1804. He died in 1852. \n\nJohn Knait graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with John Davis. He \nwas admitted to the bar in July, 1808, and died in 1849. \n\nThomas Welsh graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with John Davis. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1804, and died in 1831. \n\nArthur M. Walter studied law with Harrison Gray Otis, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1802. \n\nWilliam Smith Shaw graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with Harrison \nGray Otis. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1804, and died in 1820. \n\nJohn Codman, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1802, and studied law with John \nLowell. He died in 1847. \n\nJames Henderson Elliott graduated at Harvard in 1802, and studied law with \nJohn Lowell, t He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1806, and died in 1808. \n\nTimothy Fuller, son of Rev. Timothy, was born in Chilmark, Mass., July 11, \n1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1801. He studied law in Worcester with Levi \nLincoln, and in Boston with Charles Paine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nOctober, 1SII4. He was senator from 1813 to 1816, member of Congress from 1817 \nto 1825, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1825, and member \nof the Executive Council in 1828. He died at Groton, October 1, 1835. \n\nTimothy Boutelle graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with Ebenezer \nGay. He died in 1855. \n\nDavid Bradley studied law in the office of John Heard in 1802. \n\nAaron Emmes studied law with David Everett in 1802. \n\nIsrael Munroe graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with John Phillips. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1803, and died in 1834. \n\nBenjamin Welles graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with Harrison \nGray Otis. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1803, and died in 1860. \n\nBenjamin Marston Watson graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with \nTheophilus Parsons. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1804, and died in 1851. \n\nAdam Winthrop graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with George \nBlake. He was admitted to the bar in 1803, and died in 1846. \n\nRobert Fields applied for admission to the bar in 1805, but the writer is not cer» \ntain that he was ever admitted. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 289 \n\nHomer Albers, son of Claus and Rebecca Albers, was born in Warsaw, 111., \nFebruary 28, 1863, and was educated at the Central Wesleyan College, at Warrenton, \nMo. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1885. He is or has been a professor at the Boston University Law \nSchool. He married, at Fredonia, N. Y., June 26, 1889, Minnie B. Martin, and \nresides at Winchester. \n\nClift Rogers Clapp, son of Howard and Frances A. (Rogers) Clapp, was born in \nBoston, February 10, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of George S. Hale and Ropes, \nGray & Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He resides in the Rox- \nbury District of Boston. \n\nSamuel M. Child, son of Nahum A. and Ellen (Sargent) Child, was born in Tem- \nple, N. H., September 10, 1802, and studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1890. He was a member of the Constitutional \nConvention of New Hampshire in 1889. He is corresponding secretary of the Young \nMen's Democratic Club of Massachusetts, and lives in Boston. \n\nJames R. Dockray, son of James R. and Mary A. Dockray, was born in Portland, \nMe., February 11, 1834, and studied law in Worcester with Henry Chapin, and was \nadmitted to the bar in Worcester. He removed his business to Boston, where he \nnow lives, and married Elizabeth S. Hardon at Cambridge in 1877. \n\nCharles Sidney Ensign, son of Sidney Ariel and Julia Maria (Hull) (Brockway) En- \nsign, was born in Hartford, Conn., July 26, 1842. He studied law with Thomas C. \nand Charles E. Perkins, of Hartford, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in \n1863. He was admitted to the bar in Cambridge, and settled in Hartford, where he \nwas admitted July 19, 1864, and became a councilman in 1865. He afterwards prac- \nticed for a time in New York and Brooklyn, having been admitted to the bar in New \nYork April 9, 1868, and in 1886 removed his business to Boston, taking up his resi- \ndence in Watertown, from which place he was a representative in 1891. He married, \nDecember, 1868, Angie Faxon, daughter of Hiram and Hepseybeth (Adams) (Faxon) \nBarker, of Brighton. He was representative from Watertown in 1891, and has been \ntrustee of the Free Public Library in that town, and chairman of the School Com- \nmittee. \n\nGeorge A. O. Ernst, son of Andrew H. and Sarah Otis Ernst, was born in Cincin- \nnati, O., November 8, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of Ropes & Gray and J. B. Rich- \nardson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1875. He was a represent- \native in 1883-84. He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 9, 1879, Jeanie C. \nBynner. He is a frequent contributor to the law journals. Residence, Boston. \n\nGeorge W. Estabrook, son of Joseph E. and Mary A. (Porter) Estabrook, was born \nin Montgomery, Ala., March 31, 1840, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1861. He \nstudied law with Ira Perley at Concord, N. H., at the Harvard Law School and in \nBoston with James Schouler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1865. He mar- \nried Laura S. Perkins at Fitzwilliam, N. H., in July, 1876, and resides in Boston. \n\nGeorge Eistis, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Gray) Eustis, was born in Boston, Oc- \ntober 20, 1796, and graduated at Harvard m 1815. He was secretary of his uncle, \n37 \n\n\n290 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam Ettstis, while minister to the Hague, where he began his law studies. He \nwas admitted to the bar in 1822 and settled in New Orleans, becoming representa- \ntive, secretary of state, attorney-general, and judge and chief justice of the Supreme \nCourt of Louisiana. The writer is doubtful where he was admitted to the bar. He \nmarried in 1825 Clarissa Allair, of Louisiana. He received the degree of LL.D. from \nHarvard in 1849, and died in New Orleans, December 23, 1858. \n\nBenjamin Guild graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1807. He died in Boston, March 30, 1858, at the age of seventy-three. \n\nWilliam Henry Rowe, son of Samuel and Lydia Ann (Fletcher) Rowe, was born in \nBoston, October 6, 1830, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied law and \nsettled in Davenport, la., but the writer is not certain where he was first admitted to \nthe bar. He was admitted in Davenport in March, 1856, and became a successful \nlawyer. He died in Boston, July 22, 1858. \n\nMathew Hale Carpenter was born in Moretown, Vt., December 22, 1824, and en- \ntered West Point in 1843, where he remained two years, and then returned to Ver- \nmont to study law with Paul Dillingham. In November, 1847, he was admitted to \nthe Vermont bar, but at once went to Boston and continued his legal. studies in the \noffice of Rufus Choate. The writer is not informed whether he was ever admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar. In 1848 he settled in Beloit, Wis., and about 1857 removed to -Mil- \nwaukee. He was during the war judge advocate-general of Wisconsin. In 1869 he \nwas chosen United States senator and served one term of six years. In 1879 he was \nagain chosen to the Senate and served until his death, which took place in Washing- \nton, February 24, 1881. He was at the age of fifty-six cut off in the very height of a \nsplendid career. It is unnecessary to rehearse here his many triumphs both at the \nbar and in the Senate. It is sufficient to say that after the death of Webster he was \ncalled by many the best constitutional lawyer in the United States. He married a \ndaughter of Paul Dillingham, of Vermont, his instructor in law. \n\nJohn Henry Clifford was born in Providence, R. I., January 16, 1809, and grad- \nuated at Brown in 1827. He studied law in Dedham with Theron Metcalf, and after \nhis admission to the bar settled in New Bedford, and, as was the custom in that day, \nattended the courts of Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable and Nantucket, and the courts \nof Dukes county, and soon won a leading place among the lawyers of Southeastern \nMassachusetts. In 1835 he was a representative, and in 1849 was appointed to the \noffice of attorney-general, which had been abolished in 1843 and revived in that year. \nIn 1852 he was chosen governor and served one year, and Rufus Choate accepted the ap- \npointment of attorney-general. In 1854 he was again appointed attorney-general and \nserved until 1858, when the office became elective and Stephen Henry Phillii^s was \nchosen. In 1859 he was appointed in the place of Ellis Ames counsel for the Com- \nmonwealth to act with Mr. Phillips, the attorney-general, in the proceedings in \nequity, which had been begun in the matter of the Rhode Island boundarv. The \ncounsel for Rhode Island were Charles S. Bradley and Thomas A. Jenks, and in 1861 \nthe vexed boundary question, which had been a disputed one for nearly two hundred \nyears, was finally and satisfactorily settled. In 1862 Mr. Clifford was president of \nthe Senate, and for several years he was president of the Overseers of Harvard Col- \nlege. He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown University in 1849, and from \nAmherst and Harvard in 1853. In 1850, while attorney-general, he conducted the \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 29 1 \n\ntrial of Prof. John W. Webster for the murder of Dr. George Parkman, assisted by \nGeorge Bemis. In 1867 he succeeded Charles Henry Warren as president of the \nBoston and Providence Railroad Company, and retired from professional labors. He \nmarried a daughter of William H. Allen, of New Bedford, and died in that city Jan- \nuary 2, 1876. \n\nElisha Cooke, sr., aphysician, was born in Boston September 16, 1637, and died May \n31, 171 5. He graduated at Harvard in 1657, and was an assistant from 1684 to 1686. \n\nCaleb Cushing, son of Capt. John N. and Lydia (Dow) Cushing, was born in Salis- \nbury, Mass., January 17, 1790, and when two years of age his parents removed to \nNewburyport. He was educated while young chiefly by Michael Walsh, a noted \nteacher of that day, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. Though probably the \nyoungest member of his class, he was selected to make the address to President Mon- \nroe when he visited Cambridge during his senior year. After graduating he re- \nmained in the college two years as tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy, and \nthen entered the office of Ebenezer Moseley, of Newburyport, to prepare himself for \nthe bar. He was also one of the earliest students at the Harvard Law School, that \ninstitution having graduated its first class in 1820. He was admitted to the Essex \nbar in 1822 and established himself in his adopted town. He married in 1823 Caro- \nline, daughter of Samuel Sumner Wilde, afterwards an associate justice of the Su- \npreme Judicial Court, who removed from Hallowell, Me., to Newburyport in 1820, and \nremained there until 1831. After his marriage he spent two years in Europe and in \n1825 was a representative from Newburyport to the General Court, and again in 1833 \nand 1N34, and again in 184.\"), 1850 and 1859. In 1834 he was chosen member of Con- \ngress from Essex North District, and it is stated that Mr. Webster said \" that he had \nnot been six weeks in Congress before he was acknowledged to be the highest author- \nit)- on what had been the legislation of Congress on any given subject.\" When the \nWar with Mexico was delared, in opposition to the popular sentiment of his State, he \nassisted in raising a regiment of volunteers, which he led as colonel until appointed \nbrigadier-general. In 1843 he was appointed by President Tyler minister to China, \nreturning in a little over a year with a treaty which was readily ratified by the Senate. \nIn 1852 he was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachu- \nsetts, leaving the bench in 1853 to assume the position of attorney-general in the \ncabinet of President Pierce. During the War of the Rebellion he spent much time in \nWashington, where his services by advice and council were considered indispensable \nin the various departments of the government. He was appointed by President Lin- \ncoln a commissioner to adjust claims pending with Mexico, and by President Grant \nminister to Spam, and of counsel for the United States at Geneva. As he advanced \nin age instead of abandoning work he seemed rather to realize that the fewer the \nyears left to him the more diligent and industrious he must be. A passion for learn- \ning actuated him to the last, and in philology and other branches of learning he \nseemed to be zealously fitting himself for their use in some other sphere of existence. \nHe died at Newburyport, January 2, 1879. \n\nCharles Augustus Dewey, son of Daniel, was born in Williamstown, Mass., March \n13, 1793, and graduated at Williams College in 1811. He studied law with Theodore \nSedgwick and settled in Williamstown, where he remained until 1826, when he re- \nmoved to Northampton. He was district attorney from 1830 to 1837, when he was \n\n\n292 HlSlORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nappointed associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. He remained on the bench \nuntil his death, which occurred at Northampton, August 22, 1860. \n\nThomas Hastings Russell, son of Charles and Persis (Hastings) Russell, was born \nin Princeton, Mass., October 12, 1820, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of his brother, Charles \nTheodore Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1845. He was a rep- \nresentative in 1853-54-:57-59. He has always been associated with his brother in a \nlarge and general practice. He married Maria Louisa Wiswell in Boston, October \n12, 1847, and lives in Boston. \n\nThomas Russell, son of William Goodwin and Mary Ellen (Hedge) Russell, was \nborn in Boston, June 17, 1858, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, \nwhere he graduated in 18711. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the \noffice of his father in Boston, and was one year secretary of Justice Horace Gray of \nthe Supreme Court at Washington. He was admitted to the bar in 1883, and in \n1892 wras chosen representative to the General Court. Residence, Boston. \n\nJames Button Russell, whose original name was James Russell Dutton, was the \nson of Warren and Elizabeth Cabot (Lowell) Dutton, and born in Boston, January \n7, 1810. His named was changed by a special act passed February 21, 1820. He \ngraduated at Harvard in 1829, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in \nBoston in the office of Franklin Dexter. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nOctober, 1832. In 1833 he went to Europe and gave up practice. He died in \nBrighton, June 10, 1861. \n\nJohn Codman Ropes, son of William and Mary Anne (Codman) Ropes, was born in \nSt. Petersburg, Russia, April 28, 1836. He was fitted for college at the Chauncy Hall \nSchool, and with Professor William Watson Goodwin and graduated at Harvard in \n1857. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and finishing his law studies in \nthe office of Peleg Whitman Chandler and George O. Shattuck, was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar November 28, 1861. He was an overseer of Harvard College from 1867 \nto 1876. He has devoted much time to the study of military campaigns in both \nAmerica and Europe, and is doubtless better informed on these subjects than at least \nany other American. He is the author of \" The Army under Pope \" in the Scribner \nseries of Campaigns of the Civil War, \" The First Napoleon,\" published by Houghton, \nMifflin & Company, and numerous other papers in military campaigns. Residence, \nBoston. \n\nCharles Theodore Russell, son of Charles and Persis (Hastings) Russell, was born \nin Princeton, Mass., November 20, 1815. He is descended from William Russell, of \nCambridge, in 1645. He received his early education at Princeton Academy under \nWarren Goddard, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Henry H. Fuller, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in July, 1839. After his admission he was associated two years with \nMr. Fuller and then practiced alone until his brother Thomas was admitted to the \nbar in 1845. He lived in Boston until 1855, when he removed to Cambridge. While \na resident in Boston he was a representative in 1844^5-50 and a senator in 1851 and \n1 852. He was also the Boston Fourth of July orator in 1852. During his residence \nin Cambridge he has been mayor in 1861-62 and senator in 1877-78. He has been \nprofessor in the Boston LTniversity Law School, is, or has been, a member of the \n\n\n\"\" ■ ■■■ ::;'^sss \n\n\nC-^^C-t^- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 293 \n\nBoard of Visitors of the Andover Theological School, and a corporate member of the \nAmerican Board for Foreign Missions. He is the author of a History of Princeton, \nand in 1*59 delivered the centennial address in that town, and in 1886 presided over \nthe centennial celebration of the First Church in Cambridge. He married, June 1, \n1840, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Ballister, of Boston. \n\nCharles Theodore Russell, jr., son of Charles Theodore and Sarah Elizabeth \n(Ballister) Russell, was born in Boston, April 20, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in \n1ST:!. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of his \nfather, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1875. He has been a member of \nthe State Civil Service Commission since 1884, and is the editor of Massachusetts \nElection Cases. His specialty is admiralty practice. Residence, Cambridge. \n\nArthur Hastings Rlssell, son of Thomas Hastings and Maria Louisa (Wiswell) \nRussell, was born in Boston, December 1, 1859, and graduated at Amherst in 1SS1 . \nHe studied law at the Boston University Law .School and in Boston in the office of \nhis father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1884. He married Fan- \nnie E. Hunt at Boston, February IT, 1885, and lives in Winchester. \n\nRufus Dawes, son of Judge Thomas Dawes, was born in Boston, January 26, 1803, \nand entered Harvard in 1820, but did not graduate. He studied law with William \nSullivan and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1826, but never practiced. \nHe was a poet of considerable merit and published in 1830 \" The Valley of the Nash- \naway, and Other Poems,\" in 1839 \"Geraldine, Athenia of Damascus, and Miscel- \nlaneous Poems,\" and a romance entitled \"Nix's Mate.\" In the latter part of his \nlife he held a position in one of the departments in Washington, and died in Wash- \nington November 30, 1859. \n\nSamuel Fales Dunlap, son of Andrew, was born in Boston in 1825 and graduated \nat Harvard in 1845. It is thought by the writer that he was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar and afterwards removed to New York. He was the author of \"The Origin of \nAncient Names\" and \"Vestiges of the Spirit History of Man,\" and edited with \nnotes his father's \" Dunlap's Admiralty Practice.\" He was living in 1890. \n\nJeremiah Evarts was born in Sunderland, Vt. , February 3, 1781, and graduated at \nYale in 1802 and was admitted to the bar in 1806, probably in New Haven, where he \npracticed law about four years. He soon afterwards removed to Boston, but whether \nhe practiced lawT there or not the writer is uncertain. He edited the \" Panoplist,\" a \nreligious monthly magazine, in Boston, from 1810 to 1820, and was at various times \nthe treasurer and secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign \nMissions. He died in Charleston, S. C, May 10, 1831. \n\nWilliam Maxwell Evarts, son of Jeremiah, was born in Boston, February 6, 1818, \nand graduated at Yale in 1837. He studied law partly at the Harvard Law School, \nwhere he was a student in 1841. The writer, at that time a junior at Harvard, was \ndrawn on a jury to serve in a moot court case in the law school in which Mr. Evarts \nwas the senior counsel on one side, and William Davis, of Plymouth, on the other, \nand he remembers well the eloquence displayed by both of these gentlemen on that \noccasion. The style of Mr. Evarts, with which he began his career, was concise, \nfluent and eloquent, and in these respects wholly different from that which in later \nyears has marked his efforts. He was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in Septem- \n\n\n294 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nber, 1841, but it is doubtful if he ever began practice in Suffolk. He soon after en- \ntered the law office of Daniel Lord in New York, and after a period of further study \nwas admitted to the New York bar. From 1849 to 1853 he was assistant district \nattorney in New York. His career is too well known to narrate here. Having re- \ntired from the United States Senate in March, 1891, where he served one term of six \nyears, he is in active practice at the head of a firm of which Joseph H. Choate is a \nmember. \n\nJoseph Hodges Choate, son of Dr. George and Margaret (Hodges) Choate, was \nborn in Salem, Mass., January 24, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1852. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nSeptember, 1855. In 1856 he removed to New York, where he has won a high repu- \ntation, not only as a lawyer but as an orator on occasions of public interest. He \nhas been president of the Union League Club. He is associated in business with \nWilliam Maxwell Evarts. \n\nChaki.es Francis Choate, son of Dr. George and Margaret (Hodges) Choate, was \nborn in Salem, May 16, 1828, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He is descended \nfrom John Choate, who was in Ipswich in 1640. His father died in Cambridge June \n4, 1880. After leaving college he was tutor in mathematics for a time and graduated \nat the Harvard Law School in 1853. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13, \n1855, and soon devoted himself to railroad law. He was counsel for the Boston and \nMaine Railroad for a time, and in 1865 became counsel of the Old Colony Railroad, \nof which in 1872 he became a director, and in 1877 he was chosen president, a posi- \ntion he still holds. He was also chosen in 1877 president of the Old Colony Steam- \nboat Company. He married, November 7, 1855, Elizabeth W. Carlile, of Providence, \nR. I. \n\nCharles Francis Choate, jr., son of the above, was born in Cambridge, Mass., \nOctober 23, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1888. He studied law at the Harvard \nLaw School, and in Boston in the office of Josiah H. Benton, jr., and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in June, 1890. Residence, Boston. \n\nFrancis Brown Hayes, son of William Allen Hayes, of South Berwick, Me., was \na descendant from John Hayes, who settled in Dover, N. H., in 1640. William \nAllen, the father, graduated at Dartmouth in 1805 and married a daughter of John \nLord, and was judge of probate. Francis Brown, the son, graduated at Harvard in \n1839, after having attended the Berwick and Exeter Academies. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School, and with his father, and in Boston in the office of Charles \nGreeley Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1842. He devoted him- \nself to railroad law, and in 1850 was made chairman of a committee to investigate \nthe management and affairs of the Old Colony Railroad. He was many years a di- \nrector of the Old Colony road, president four years of the Atlantic and Pacific Rail- \nroad Company, and counsel for various other roads. He was a representative in \n1873 and senator in 1874, and died in 1884. He married in 1860 Margaret M. Wilson, \nof Baltimore, daughter of Gen. Wm. H. Marriott. \n\nThomas Gold Appleton, son of Nathan, was born in Boston, March 31, 1812, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1831. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in \nBoston in the office of Franklin Dexter, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Oc- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 295 \n\ntober, 1838. He never practiced but devoted himself to literature and art, being not \nonly a liberal patron of authors and artists, but an author and artist himself. He \ndied in New York April 17, 1884. \n\nGeorge Anson Bruce is the son of Nathaniel and Lucy (Butterfield) Bruce, and is \ndescended from George Bruce, who settled in Woburn in 1659. He was born in Mt. \nVernon, N. H., November 19, 1839, and his father, who was a prominent man in the \ncommunity in which he lived, having been town clerk, selectman, representative, \nand county treasurer, afforded him all available facilities for procuring a good edu- \ncation. He fitted for college at the McCollom Institute in Mt. Vernon, and gradu- \nated at Dartmouth in 1861. Soon after his graduation he entered the law office of \nDaniel S. & George F. Richardson in Lowell, where he remained until August, 1862, \nwhen he entered the service of his country as first lieutenant in the Thirteenth New \nHampshire Regiment. In January, 1863, he was made assistant adjutant-general \nof the Third Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Army Corps, and later assistant adju- \ntant general and judge advocate of the First Division, Twenty-fourth Corps, under \nGeneral Devens. His various promotions were to captain, 1864; major, 1864; lieu- \ntenant-colonel, 1865, and he was mustered out July 3, 1865, bearing an excellent \nrecord and the scars of honorable wounds. After his discharge he resumed the study \nof law in Lowell and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in April, 1866. In January, \n1867, he began business in Boston and met with unusual success at a bar already \nseemingly crowded disproportionately to its available business. In 1874 he removed \nhis residence to Somerville and there secured at once the confidence of the people. \nIn 1875 he was chosen alderman, and appointed associate justice of the Police Court; \nin 1878-79-80 he was chosen mayor, and in 1882-83-84 he was a member of the Sen- \nate, being its president the last year of his service. Since his retirement from the \nSenate his general practice has been largely supplemented by the management of \ncases before committees of the Legislature, to which has been accorded unusual suc- \ncess. He married in Groton, January 26, 1870, Clara M., daughter of Joseph F. and \nSarah (Longley) Hall, and resides in Somerville. \n\nCharles Mansfield Bruce, son of Charles E. and Eliza A. Bruce, was born in \nAshtabula, O., November 28, 1863, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School. \nHe studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Henry W. \nBragg, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar August 2, 1887. He has been an \nextensive newspaper correspondent and resides in Maiden. \n\nThomas Tolman was born in Stoughton, Mass., February 20,^1791, and gradiiated \nat Brown University in 1811. He was settled in Canton, Mass., until 1837, when he \nmoved to Boston. He was representative in 1828, and 1836 a member of the Execu- \ntive Council, and died in Boston January 20, 1869. \n\nOwen A. Galvin, son of Patrick and Mary (Hughes) Galvin, was born in Boston \nJune 21, 1852, and studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office \nof Charles Francis Donnelly. He was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county Febru- \nary 29, 1876, and in 1881 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa- \ntives. In 1882-83-84 he was chosen to the Senate, and was the Democratic candidate \nfor president of that body. In July, 1886, he was appointed assistant United States \ndistrict attorney for Massachusetts, under George M. Stearns, and in September, \n1887, on the resignation of Mr. Stearns, was appointed to succeed him. He has been \n\n\n296 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nonce the Democratic candidate for mayor of Boston, and is prominently mentioned \nas the successor of Mayor Mathews, when he shall retire from the mayoralty. He \nmarried in Boston, July 3, 1879, Jennie T., daughter of Timothy K. and Ellen (O'Dris- \ncoll) Sullivan. \n\n|\"ohn II. McDonough, son of Michael and Margaret (Hanlon) McDonough, was \nborn in Portland, Me., March 29, 1857, and was educated in the public schools. He \nbegan at an early age to learn the tailoring trade, but in 1872 began to learn the trade \nof watchmaking, which he followed fourteen years in Portland, Auburndale and \nRoxburv. In 1887 he began the study of law in the office of Charles J. Noyes, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1892. He was a representative from \nBoston in 1886-9, and won an enviable record, both as a member of important com- \nmittees and as a debater in the House. He died March 17, 1893. \n\nSamuel Baker Wolcott was born in Bolton, Mass., March 7, 1795, and graduated \nat Harvard in 1819. His original name, Jesse, was changed to Samuel Baker in \n1821\". After graduating he was a tutor in Greek at Harvard. He studied law with \nDaniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1824. He began \npractice in Boston, but removed to Salem and finally to Hopkinton. He was repre- \nsentative and senator. He died in Boston, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, \nDecember 4, 1854. \n\nErastus Worthington, jr., son of Erastus and Sally (Ellis) Worthington, was born \nin Dedham, November 25, 1828, and graduated at Brown University in 1850. He \nstudied law in Milwaukee in the office of his brother, Ellis Worthington, and at the \nHarvard Law School, and in Dedham in the office of Ezra Wilkinson, receiving the \ndegree of LL,B. at the Harvard Law School in 1853. He was admitted to the bar in \nDedham in February, 1854, and began practice in Boston, forming a partnership \nafter a short time with David A. Simmons, of Roxbury. In 1856 he was chosen \nregister of insolvency of Norfolk county, and remained in office until the Probate \nand Insolvency Courts were consolidated in 1857. He then practiced law in Ded- \nham, holding the office of trial justice eight years, until in 1866 he was chosen clerk \nof the courts. He married, November 25, 1861, Elizabeth Foster, daughter of Robert \nBriggs, of Boston. \n\nMoses Williams, son of Moses Blake and Mary Jane (Penniman) Williams, was \nborn in Roxbury, Mass., December 4, 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1868. He \nstudied law in Boston with Sohier & Welch, George White and William A. Richard- \nson, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county December 22, 1868. He prac- \nticed in Boston until made president of the Third National Bank in that city, a posi- \ntion he still holds, having filled at various times the office of selectman of Brookline \nand of representative to the General Court. He married Martha C. Fininley at \nBrookline, September 10, 1868. Residence, Brookline. \n\nChaki.es W. Whitcomb, son of Benjamin D. and Mary (Mclntire) Whitcomb, was \nborn in Boston, July 31, 1855, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1876. He also at- \ntended lectures after graduation at the University of Gottingen, remaining abroad \nuntil 1878. He studied law in Boston in the office of Josiah H. Benton and in the \nBoston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, \n1880. He has since that time practiced in Boston, serving as common councilman \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 297 \n\nin 1883-84, and as fire marshal of Boston, under an appointment from Governor \nRobinson in 1886. He married Marie M., daughter of James and Dora (Rowell) \nWoodsum, June 26, 1884, and resides in Boston. \n\nWilliam Fisher Wharton, son of William Craig and. Nancy Willing (Spring) \nWharton, was born at Jamaica Plain, Mass., June 28, 1847, and fitting for college at \nthe school of Epes Sargent Dixwell, graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law \nfor a year in the office of John Codman Ropes and John C. Gray, and after gradu- \nating at the Harvard Law School in 1873, was admitted to the Suffolk bar September \n22, 1873. He spent two years in Europe and began practice in Boston in 1875. \nFrom 1880 to 1884 he was a member of the Common Council, a representative in \n1885, and in 1888 was appointed assistant secretary of state of the United States, a \nposition which he still holds with credit to himself and the country. He married \nFanny, daughter of William Dudley and Caroline (Silsbee) Pickman, in Boston, Oc- \ntober 31, 1877, and resides in Washington. \n\nAndrew J. Waterman, son of William and Sarah (Bucklin) Waterman, was born \nin North Adams, Mass., June 23, 1825, and was educated at the public schools and \nvarious institutions of learning. He studied law in the offices of Keyes Danforth and \nDaniel N. Dewey in Williamstown, and was admitted to the bar of Berkshire county \nMarch 18, 1854. Associating himself with Mr. Danforth in Williamstown, he was ap- \npointed in 1855 register of probate, and in 1858, after the Courts of Probate and In- \nsolvency were consolidated, he was chosen register of probate and insolvency, which \noffice he resigned in 1881. In 1880 he was appointed district attorney for the Western \nDistrict to fill a vacancy, and chosen for the three succeeding terms, resigning in \n1887, when nominated by the Republican party for attorney-general, to which office \nhe was chosen in 1887-88-89. He married Ellen Douglas, daughter of Henry H. and \nNancy (Comstock) Cooke, at East Boston, January 7, 1858, and resides in Pittsfield. \n\nThomas Leverett Nelson, son of John and Lois Burnham (Leverett) Nelson, was \nborn in Haverhill, N. H., March 4, 1827, and graduated at the University of Vermont \nin 1846, receiving from that institution the degree of LL.D. in 1879. He studied law \nin Worcester, where he was admitted to the bar in 1855. He was a representative \nin 1869, and m 1879 was appointed judge of the United States District Court for \nMassachusetts, which position he still holds. He married first Anna H., daughter of \nCaleb and Mary Moore (Hastings) Havward, in Mendon, October 29, 1857, and sec- \nond, Laura A., daughter of Samuel E. and Hannah A. (Matterson) Slocum, of Mill- \nbury, March 23, 1865. As a judge, holding his court in Suffolk county, he deserves \na place in this register. \n\nWilliam Henry Niles, son of Samuel W. and Eunice C. (Newell) Niles, was born \nin Orford, N. H., December 22, 1840, and was educated at the public schools and at \nthe Providence Conference Seminary of East Greenwich, R. I. He studied law \nwith Caleb Blodgett in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Lowell in 1870. \nIn that year his name appears on the roll of lawyers in Boston, but he removed to \nLynn, and has since practiced successfully in that city. He married Harriet A. Day, \nin Bristol, N. H., September 12, 1865, and lives in Lynn. \n\nWilliam N. Osgood, son of George Newton and Minerva (Hayward) Osgood, was \nborn in Lowell, June 11, 1855, and graduated at Amherst in 1878. He studied law \n\n38 \n\n\n298 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nat the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex \ncounty in March, 1880. He practiced in Lowell until 1885, when he transferred his \nbusiness to Boston. He married Harriet Leslie, daughter of Henry C. and Augusta \n(Jaques) Palmer, in Tewksbury, January 1, 1884. \n\nHenry Park max, son of Samuel and Mary Eliot (Dwight) Pai'kman, was born in \nBoston, May 23, 1850. His father, a physician in Boston of great promise, died at \nwhat appeared to be the beginning of a brilliant career. The son was fitted for col- \nlege at private schools, and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1873, and further pursuing his studies in Boston in the office \nof Russell & Putnam, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1874. He was a \ncommon councilman from 1879 to 1884, a representative from 1886 to 1888, and a sen- \nator in 1892 and 1893. He married Mary Frances Parker at Perth Amboy, N. J., \nAugust 23, 1890, and lives in Boston. \n\nEdward Lillie Pierce, son of Jesse and Eliza S. (Lillie) Pierce, was born in \nStoughton, Mass., May 29, 1829, and graduated at Brown University in 1850. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in 1852, and was admitted to the bar at Ded- \nham in 1853. He afterwards spent a year or less in the office of Salmon P. Chase at \nCincinnati, O. He continued to practice until the war began, when he enlisted \nin Company I, Third Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, for three months' ser- \nvice, after which he was employed by the government in a service of inquiry into the \ncondition of the negroes at Sea Islands, to which intelligence and skill were essential, \nand his report was an able and exhaustive one. In 1863 he was appointed collector \nof internal revenue for the Third Massachusetts District, and in 1866 he was ap- \npointed district atorney of the Norfolk and Plymouth District, holding the office \nafterwards by election until 1869. In 1869 he was appointed secretary of the Board \nof State Charities, and served until his resignation in 1874. He was a representative \nfrom Milton in 1875 and 1876, and in 1878 was appointed to, but declined, the office \nof assistant treasurer of the United States. Aside from his professional pursuits, he \nhas engaged in literary labors, among which are \"American Railroad Law,\" pub- \nlished in 1857, \"The Law of Railroads,\" 1881, and a memoir of Charles Sumner. \nHe married Elizabeth H., daughter of John Kingsbury, of Providence, R. I., April \n19, 1865, and for a second wife, Laura, daughter of Edward B. Woodhead, of Hud- \ndersfield, England. Residence, Milton. \n\nCharles Greenwood Pope, son of Rufus Spurr and Sarah (Brown) Pope, was born \nin Hardwick, Mass., November 18, 1840, and graduated at Tufts College in 1861. \nAfter teaching several years in Hyannis, Somerville and Charlestown, he studied law \nin the offices of Sweetser & Gardner in Boston, and John W. Hammond in Cam- \nbridge, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1874. He was associated with \nJohn W. Hammond in business in Cambridge, until that gentleman was appointed \njudge of the Superior Court in 1886. In 1878 Mr. Pope was appointed a special \njustice of the police court in Somerville, where he had taken up his residence and \nbecame a member and president of the Common Council. In 1876-7 he was a rep- \nresentative, and has served one or more terms as mayor since 1888. He married \nJosephine H., daughter of Erastus E. and Harriet N. Cole in Somerville, December \n27, 1866. Residence, Somerville. \n\n\nBiographical register. \n\n\n299 \n\n\nJohn Phelps Putnam was born in Hartford, Conn., March 21, 1817, and graduated \nat Yale in 1837, and at the Harvard Law School in 1839. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 12, 1840, and practiced in Boston. He was a representative in \n1851-2, and in 1859 was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He published in \n1852 fifteen volumes of the \"Annual Digest\" of the decisions of the United States \nCourts. He served on the bench until his death in 1882. \n\nRobert Samuel Rantoul, son of Robert and Jane Elizabeth (Woodbury) Rantoul, \nwas born in Beverly, Mass., June 2, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1853, and at \nthe Harvard Law School in 1856. He was a representative from Beverly in 1858, \nand from Salem in 1884-5, and collector of the port of Salem under President Lin- \ncoln. He married Harriet C. , daughter of David A. and Harriet C. (Price) Neal, of \nSalem, May 13, 1858, and has his residence in Salem. He is an officer of the Essex \nInstitute, and has contributed extensively to historical literature. \n\nCharles Robinson, son of Charles and Mary (Davis) Robinson, was born in Lex- \nington, Mass., November 6, 1829, and was educated at the public schools and the \nLawrence and Lexington Academies. He studied law with Dana & Cobb in \nCharlestown, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in June, 1852. He \npracticed in Charlestown until 1868, and since that time has occupied a prominent \nplace in the roll of Boston lawyers. He was mayor of Charlestown in 1865 and 1866, \nand in 1874 and 1875 was city solicitor of Somerville though not residing in that city. \nIn 1874 he was a representative, and also in 1880. He married Rebecca T., daughter \nof Philander and Rebecca (Gibbs) Ames in Charlestown, July 4, 1858. He is a \nbrother of Governor George D. Robinson. \n\nWilliam Eustis Russell, son of Charles Theodore and Sarah (Ballister) Russell, \nwas born in Cambridge, Mass., January 7, 1857, and received his early education at \nthe primary, grammar and high school grades of the public schools of that city. \nHe graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Boston University Law School in 1879, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880. He became at once a member of \nthe firm of C. T. & T. H. Russell, of Boston, and has so continued until the present \ntime. He was first introduced into public life by an election as member of the Com- \nmon Council of Cambridge in 1882, and since that time his career has been one of un- \nsurpassed progress and success. In 1883 and 1884 he was a member of the Board of \nAldermen, and in 1885-86-87-88 mayor of the city. In 1888 and 1889 he was the \nDemocratic candidate for governor, and his defeat in those years was followed by his \nelection in 1890, and his re-election in 1891 and 1892. The feat performed by him dur- \ning the campaign of 1892, of making the tour of Cape Cod and making sixteen speeches \nat the various towns between Provincetown and Boston on the day before elec- \ntion, and adding to these six more speeches in Boston and its vicinity during the \nevening, will become a prominent feature in the political history of Massachusetts. \nHe received the degree of LL.D. from Williams College 111 1891. He married Mar- \ngaret Manning, daughter of Joshua A. and Sarah (Hodges) Swan at Cambridge, June \n3, 1885, and his residence is still in Cambridge. \n\nAlpheus Saneord, son of Joseph B. and Mary C. (Tripp) Sanford, was born in \nNorth Attleboro', Mass., July 5, 1856, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1876. He \nstudied law in Boston with Joseph Nickerson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nOctober, 1879. He has been a member of the Boston Common Council and of the \n\n\n3oo HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHouse of Representatives. He married Mary C. V., daughter of William H. and \nCharlotte E. (Read) Gardiner in Acushnet, September 20, 1883. \n\nChester F. Sanger, son of Warren and Lucy J. (Allen) Sanger, was born in Somer. \nville, Mass., December 22, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied \nlaw in Boston with Morse & Allen, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. In \n1888 and 1889 he was a representative from Cambridge, and in 1889 was appointed \njustice of the Third Eastern Middlesex District Court. He married Gertrude F., \ndaughter of Horace P. and Lydia L. (Flint) Blackmail in Cambridge, June 25, 1884, \nand died in October, 1891. \n\nEdward Olcott Shepard, son of Rev. John W. and Eliza (Burns) Shepard, was \nborn in Hampton, N. H., November 25, 1835, and graduated at Amherst in 1860. \nAfter serving two years as principal of the High School in Concord, Mass., he was in \n1862 commissioned first lieutenant of Company G, Thirty-second Regiment of Massa- \nchusetts Volunteers, and served until 1865. During his service he was present at the \nbattles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, \nand Petersburg, was wounded and taken prisoner, February 5, 1865, and confined in \nLibby Prison until released on parole, February 22, 1865. He was promoted to cap- \ntain, major and brevet lieutenant-colonel. After his discharge he studied law with \nJewell, Gaston & Field, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1867. In 1871 \nhe became a partner with Messrs. Jewell, Gaston & Field, and since the death of Mr. \nJewell and the appointment of Mr. Field to the Supreme Bench, he has had no part- \nner. He was president of the Boston Common Council in 1873 and 1874, and general \ncounsel of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company until it was merged in the West \nEnd Company. He was judge advocate general on the staff of Governor Ames, and \ncontinued on the staff of Governor Brackett. He married Mary C, daughter of \nMicajah and Mary (Johnson) Lunt, of Newburyport, June 18, 1874. \n\nEdgar [ay Sherman, son of David and Fanny (Kendall) Sherman, was born in \nWeathersfield, Vt. , November 28, 1834, and was educated at the public schools of \nWeathersfield, the Wesleyan Seminary in Springfied, Vt. , and under private instruc- \ntors in Lawrence, Mass., which had become the home of his parents. He was admit- \nted to the bar in Essex county in 1858 and became associated with Daniel Saunders \nin Lawrence, and at various other times with John K. Tarbox and Charles U. Bell. \nHe was appointed clerk of the Lawrence Police Court in 1859 and served until 1861. \nIn 1862 he enlisted and became captain in the Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment \nand was brevetted major after the attack on Port Hudson, June 14, 1863. In 1865 \nand 1866 he was representative, and in 1868 was chosen district attorney for the \nEastern Massachusetts District. In 1882 he was chosen attorney-general and served \nuntil 1887, when he was appointed to the seat on the bench of the Superior Court \nwhich he still holds. He married Abbie Louise, daughter of Stephen P. and Fanny \nB. Simmons, of Lawrence, November 24, 1858. \n\nCharles Quincy Tirrell, son of Dr. Norton Q. and Susan J. Tirrell, was born in \nSharon, Mass., December 10, 1844, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1866. After \nserving three years as principal of the Peacham Academy and of the St. Johnsbury \nHigh School, he studied law in Boston with Richard H. Dana, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in August, 1870, and has since practiced in Boston. He was a repre- \nsentative from Weymouth in 1872, and in 1873 removed from Weymouth, where he \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 3oi \n\nhad for a time resided, to Natick. In 1881 and 1882 he was a senator for the Fourth \nMiddlesex District, and in 1888 was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket. \nHe married Mary E., daughter of Elisha P. and Eliza A. Hnllis in Natick, February \n13, 1873, and now resides in Natick. \n\nGeorge Clark Travis, son of George Clark and Rachel Parker (Currier) Travis, \nwas born in Holliston, Mass., August 19, 1S47, and graduated at Harvard in 1869. \nFrom 1869 to 1872 he studied law in Medford with B. F. Hayes and Daniel A. Glea- \nson, at the same time teaching Latin and Greek in the Medford High School. He \nwas admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in February, 1S72, and practiced in \nHolliston until 1874, when. he removed to South Framingham. In 1886 he removed \nto Newton, where he still resides, with an office in Boston. He has been since March, \n1891, first assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts and is a member of the School \nBoard of Newton. He married Harriet March, daughter of Austin G. and Mary \nCharlotte (March) Fitch, in Holliston, April 5, 1871. \n\nWalter Lincoln Bouve, son of Thomas T. and Emily G. (Lincoln) Bouve, was \nborn in Boston, October 28, 1849, and was educated at the public schools of Bo^tmi \nand at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied law at the Harvard \nLaw School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1880, and to the \nUnited States Circuit Court January 14, 1883. In 1890 he was assistant district attor- \nney in the Southeastern District, and since 1885 has been special justice of the Sec- \nond Plymouth District Court. He married Charlotte B. Harden, September 26, \n1885, and lives in Hingham. \n\nHarvey Lincoln Boutwell, son of Eli A. and Harriet W. (Weeks) Boutwell, was \nborn in Meredosia, 111., April .\">, 1860, and was educated at the New Hampshire Col- \nlege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. He studied law in Concord, X. H., with \nJohn Y. Mugridge, and at the Boston University Law School, and in the office of \nW. H. Powers in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Tnlv, 1886. He \nmarried Nellie C. Booth at Natick, December 28, 1886, and lives in Maiden. \n\nJohn Pearse Treadwell, sou of Daniel Hearl and Ann Langdon Treadwell, was \nborn in Portsmouth, N. H., February 26, 1839, and graduated at Harvard in is.\">s. \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJune 3, 1860. He married Emily Marshall Harmon at New York, July 3, 1882, and \nlives in Newton. \n\nWinthrop H. Wade, son of Reuben S. and Almira Howland Wade, was born \nin Boston, February 20, 1860, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Shattuck & Munroe, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar Januarv 23, 1884. Residence, Boston. \n\nFrancis Wales Vaughan, son of Charles and Mary Susan (Abbot) Vaughan, was \nborn in Hallowell, Me., June 5, 1833, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Yose & Norton in Springfield, \nand George M. Brown in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, \n1856. He has been librarian of the Social Law Library since 1870. Residence, \nCambridge. \n\nPayson Eliot Tucker, son of Eliot Payson and Charlotte Whitman (Todd) Tucker, \nwas born in Dorchester, Mass., May 16, 1834, and graduated at Harvard in 1854. He \n\n\n$61 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nstudied law in New York in the office of Bangs & Ketchum and at the Harvard Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the bar in New York city about 1856 and to the Suffolk \nbar April 15, 1859. He was many years associated in business with Benjamin Wins- \nlow Harris, now judge of probate of Plymouth county, and was a member of the \nMassachusetts House of Representatives in 1878 and 1879. He married Adelaide \nThorp Hermann, of St. Louis, Mo., June 12, 1889, and lives in Brookline. He was \ncommissioned second lieutenant in the Sixteenth Massachusetts Regiment, August 1, \n1861, and resigned on account of disability, September 21, 1862. \n\nPeleg Emory Aldrich, born in New Salem, Mass., received his early education at \nthe Shelburne Falls Academy, and after teaching school at the South he attended \nthe Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Richmond, Va., in 1845. \nIn 1846 he was admitted to the Worcester county bar, after further pursuing his \nstudies in the office of Chapman, Ashmun & Norton in Springfield. He settled in \nBarre, Mass., where he remained seven years. In 1853 he was appointed district at- \ntorney for the Middle District and served until 1866. He moved from Barre to Wor- \ncester in 1854 and became associated with P. C. Bacon. In 1862 he was chosen mayor \nof Worcester, and representative in 1865 and 1866. In 1873 he was appointed to the \noffice he still holds of judge of the Superior Court. He married Sarah, daughter of \nHarding P. Wood, of Barre, in 1850, and lives in Worcester. \n\nAlpheus Brown Alger, son of Edwin A. and Amanda M. (Buswell) Alger, was born \nin Lowell, October 8, 1854, and his early education was received at the common \nschools and High School of Lowell. He is descended from Thomas Alger, who \ncame from England about 1665 and settled in Taunton. The name of the ancestor \nwas \"Augur,\" or if \"Alger,\" it was pronounced \"Augur\" in accordance with the \ncustom of ancient times to pronounce the letter L in the middle of a word as if it were \nU. Mr. Alger graduated at Harvard in 1875, and pursued the study of law at the \nHarvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Josiah G. Abbott. He was ad- \nmitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1877, and was at once associated in business \nwith the firm of Brown & Alger, of which his father was a member, in Boston. In \n1SS4 he was chosen alderman of Cambridge, and in 1886 and 1887 he was a member \nof the State Senate. He has always taken an active part in politics, and was in 1886- \n87-88-89 the secretary of the Democratic State Committee. In 1890 he succeeded \nWilliam Eustis Russell as mayor-elect of Cambridge, was re-chosen in 1891, and re- \nnominated in 1892, but defeated by William Amos Bancroft. \n\nEdwin Alden Ai.ger, son of David and Sarah W. (Morse) Alger, was born in Corn- \nish, N. H., June 22, 1820, and after receiving a common school and academic educa- \ntion taught school in Canton, Mass. Leaving Canton he entered a shipping-house in \nBoston as clerk, and afterwards Burnhams' Antiquarian Bookstore in Cornhill, where \nhis access to books gave him a taste which could only be gratified by securing a more \nthorough education. In 1841 he went to Lowell and entered the Dracut Academy, \nand in 1842 entered the law office of Alpheus R. Brown as a student. He was ad- \nmitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1845, and became a partner with Mr. \nBrown. In 1864 the firm of Brown & Alger removed to Boston and has since con- \ntinued in business there. In 1858-62-63 Mr. Brown was an alderman in Lowell. He \nmarried Amanda M. Buswell, of Hartland, Vt. , September 15, 1843, and resides in \nCambridge. \n\n\n£^J-^> \n\n\n1882. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 303 \n\nEdwin Augustus Alger, son of the above, was born in Lowell, October 19, 1846, \nand was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, lie graduated at the Harvard Law- \nSchool in 1869, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1868. \n\nGeorge Thorndike Angell, son of Rev. George and Rebekah Angell, was horn in \nSouthbridge, Mass., June 5, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1846. He taught \nschool in Boston, and studied law in the offices of Richard Fletcher and Charles G. \nLoring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 15, 1851. He soon became \nassociated in business with Samuel E. Sewall and afterwards with Samuel Jennison. \nIn 1868 he founded the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- \nmals, and has been largely devoted to its interests. In 1874 he became a member of \nthe American Social Science Association, and in 1889 he founded \" The American \nHumane Education Society.\" He has made it the prime purpose of his life to kindle \na feeling of tenderness for our dumb animals in the hearts of our people, and his \nefforts have received their reward. He married Mrs. Eliza A. Martin, daughter of \nWarren and Lucy A. Mattoon, of Northfield, November 7, 1872. \n\nHai.sey J. Boardman, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Hunt) Boardman, was born in \nNorwich, Vt, May 19, 1834, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1858. He studied law \nwith Norcross & Snow in Fitchburg, and in Boston in the ofhee of Phillip H. Sears, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 15, isno. He was associated in business \nwith Caleb Blodgett, and subsequently with Stephen H. Tyng and J. Frank Paul. \nFrom 1862 , to 1864 he was United States commissioner of the Board of Enrollment, \nin 1875 president of the Common Council, and in the same year the Republican can- \ndidate for mayor of Boston. He was representative from 1883 to 1885 and senator \nin 1887 and 1888 ; being president of the Senate both years. He married Georgia M. , \ndaughter of George and Maria C. (Moseley) Hinman. Residence, Boston. \n\nGeorge Sewall Boutwell, son of Sewall and Rebecca (Marshall) Boutwell, was \nborn in Brookline, Mass., in what is now a part of the country club house, January \n28, 1818. He is descended from James Boutwell, who came to New England and \nsettled in Lynn about 1638. Mr. Boutwell attended in his early years a public \nschool in Lunenburg, Mass., and at the age of thirteen became a clerk in one of the \nstores in that town. At a later time he taught school in Shirley, and the few years \nsucceeding his manhood were spent in preparing himself for what has proved a bril- \nliant public career. He studied the classics, he thumbed law books, he delivered \nlectures, made political speeches, and was engaged in business in Groton which he \ncontinued until 1855. In 1839 he was chosen a member of the School Committee of \nGroton, and in 1840 he was an active Democrat, advocating the re-election of Martin \nVan Buren to the presidency. In 1841 he was chosen representative from Groton, \nand re-chosen in 1842-43-46-47-48-49. Up to this time he had been also railway com- \nmissioner, bank commissioner, and a member of various other important com- \nmissions. In 1851 he became governor of Massachusetts by a fusion of the Demo- \ncratic and Free Soil members of the Legislature, and was chosen by the people as \ngovernor for 1852. After leaving the executive chair he was appointed a member of \nthe Board of Education, and served five years as its secretary. From 1851 to 1860 \nhe was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard, and in January, 1860, was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar, having studied at various times with Bradford Russell \nin Groton, and with Joel Giles in Boston. In 1853 he was a member of the Consti- \n\n\n3o4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ntutional Convention. In 1856 he was made a member of the American Academy of \nArts and Sciences, and in 1861 a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard. \nIn 1861 he was a member of the Peace Congress, and appointed by President Lin- \ncoln the first commissioner of Internal Revenue. He was a member of Congress \nfrom 1863 to ls'i'.». and in 1869 was appointed secretary of the treasury by President \nGrant. In 1873 he was chosen United States senator from Massachusetts to succeed \nry Wilson, who had been chosen vice-president, and served until 1877 when he \nwas appointed commissioner to revise the statutes of the United States. In 1880 \nhe was appointed counsel for the United States before the International Commission, \nappointed to try claims of citizensof France against the United States, and of citizens \nof the United States against France, under the treaty of 1880 with France. He tried \nseven hundred and forty-six cases, involving $35,000,000. He is the author of \" Ed- \nucational Topics and Institutions,\" \"Tax Acts,\" \"The Lawyer, Statesman and \nSoldier,\" and one or more volumes of orations and speeches. He married Sarah \nAdelia, daughter of Nathan Thayer, of Hollis, N. H., July 8, 1841, and has his resi- \ndence in Groton, with offices in Boston and Washington. \n\nl'i: \\\\< is Marion Boi twell, son of the above, was born in Groton, Mass., February \n26, 1847, and was educated at the Leicester and Lawrence Academies. In 1866 he \nentered the house of Burrage Brothers & Company in Boston, and in 1870 entered \nthe house of John Y. Farwell in Chicago. In 1871 he returned to Boston and entered \nthe store of Norman C. Munson. In 18T4 he studied law with his father, and is now \na member of the Suffolk bar, acting chiefly as a solicitor of patents. \n\nBenjamin Franklin Brickett, son of Franklin and Mehitabel Dow (Bradley) \nBrickett, was born in Haverhill, Mass., April 10, 1846, and graduated at Dartmouth \nin 1867. He graduated at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar April lit, 1X69. He taught school in Ohio, and returning to Haverhill in 1872, \nbegan to practice his profession. He was city solicitor of Haverhill from 1883 to 1885, \na member of the School Board from 1876 to 1882. He married E. Jennie, daughter \nof George and Eliza (Richer) Guptill, and lives in Haverhill. \n\nC w si en Browne, son of William and Sarah Justice (Mclntire) Browne, was born in \nWashington, D. C, October 9, 1828, and was a student two years in Columbian \nCollege, Washington. He then entered the coast survey, and finally at the \nage of twenty-one began the study of law with Charles M. Keller, and after- \nwards with William Curtis Noyes, and was admitted to the bar in New York in \nJune, is.\">2. A few months after his admission he removed to Boston, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar September 30, 1852, and has continued to practice there. \nHe is the author of a treatise on the Statute of Frauds, published in 1857, and has \nbeen president of the Boston Bar Association. He married Katharine Eveleth, \ndaughter of General William and Sarah (Eveleth) Maynadier, and lives in Boston. \n\nGeorge Partridge Sanger, jr., son of George Partridge and Elizabeth Sherburne \n(Thompson) Sanger, was born in Charlestown, Mass., September 6, 1852, and received \nids early education at the Dwight Primary, the Dwight Grammar and Latin Schools \nin Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1874, and studied law in Boston in the office \nof the United States district attorney, being admitted to the Suffolk bar June 2, 1876. \nHe was assistant United States attorney from 1878 to 1882, and has been also com- \nmissioner of the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District, and commis- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n3°5 \n\n\nsioner of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and commissioner of the \nCourt of Claims. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1886 and \n188T, and representative in 1889 and 1890. He married Susan Emily, daughter of \nHarvey Jewell, June 14, 1883, at Boston. \n\nElmer Hewitt Capen, son of Samuel and Almira (Paul) Capen, was born in \nStoughton, Mass., April 5, 1838, and graduated at Tufts College in 18(50. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Thomas S. Harlow, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1863. After practicing a year he \nstudied divinity and was ordained, October 5, 1865, over an independent church in \nGloucester. At the end of four years he went to St. Paul, Minn., and after a year \nthere he was settled over the First Universalist church in Providence, R. I. On the \n3d of June, 1873, he was inaugurated president of Tufts College and now occupies \nthat position. He wras chosen representative in 1860 and is now a member of the \nBoard of Education. He married first Letitia H. Mussey, of New London, Conn., \nand second Mary L. , daughter of Oliver Edwards, of Brookline. \n\nMellen Chamberlain, son of Moses and Mary (Foster) Chamberlain, was born in \nPembroke, N. H., June 4, 1821, and received his early education at the district school \nand- Pembroke Academy. After the removal of his parents to Concord, N. H., in \n1836, he fitted for college and graduated at Dartmouth in 1844. After teaching school \ntwo years or more in Brattleboro, Vt. , he entered the Harvard Law School and grad- \nuated in 1849. He began practice in Boston, and in 1858 and/1859 was a member of \nthe House of Representatives. In 1863 and 1864 he was in the State Senate, in the \nlatter year serving as chairman of the Judiciary Committee. On the 20th of May, \n1866, the Police Court of Boston wras abolished and the Municipal Court of the City \nof Boston was established, consisting of one chief justice and two associate judges. \nOn the 2d of July, 1866, John W. Bacon was commissioned chief justice ; on the same \nday Francis W. Hurd was commissioned associate, and on the 29th of June in the \nsame year Mr. Chamberlain was commissioned the other associate. In 1871 Judge \nBacon was promoted to the Superior Court bench, and on the 1st of December in \nthat year Judge Chamberlain wras promoted to his place. In October, 1878, he was \nappointed librarian of the Boston Library and resigned his seat on the bench. He \nremained in the library until 1891 when, on account of ill health, he resigned the \noffice which he had filled with so much credit to himself and the city. During the \nwhole of his career he has been an indefatigable student of history, and his efforts \nin this direction have been marked by thoroughness, correctness and fidelity. He is \na member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and corresponding member of \nthe Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen. He is now engaged in \nthe preparation of a history of Chelsea, the early publication of which is to be hoped \nfor. His contributions to historical literature are too numerous to mention in detail. \nThe most noted are \"The History of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh and Pullin \nPoint,\" \"The Authentication of the Declaration of Independence,\" \"Address at \nthe Dedication of Wilson Hall of Dartmouth College,\" \"Address at the Dedication \nof the Brooks Library Building at Brattleboro, Vt.,\" and \"The Constitutional Rela- \ntions of the American Colonies to the English Government at the Commencement of \nthe Revolution.\" Notwithstanding the time expended on his official duties, and his \nliterary efforts, the labor which has extended through his whole life has been ex- \n39 \n\n\n3o6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\npended in a collection of autographs which for completeness and methodical arrange- \nment cannot be surpassed. He married .Martha Ann, daughter of Colonel Jesse and \nElizabeth (Merriam) Putnam, of Danvers, Mass., June 6, 1849. His residence is in \nChelsea. \n\nHenry Ai stin Clapp, son of John Pierce and Mary Ann (Bragg) Clapp, was born \nin Dorchester Tidy 17, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He graduated at \nthe Harvard Law School in 1864, and finished his preparation for the bar in the of- \nfices of David H. Mason and Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar July 1, 1865. In 1875 he was appointed assistant clerk of the Supreme Judicial \nCourt in Suffolk county, and in 1888 was appointed clerk of the Supreme Judicial \nCourt for the Commonwealth. In the War of the Rebellion he served nine months \nas a private in Company F, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. Aside from his \nprofessional and official labors he has devoted much time to the study of Shakespeare \nand the drama, and his lectures on those subjects have given him a wide and de- \nserved reputation. He married Florence, daughter of Edwin W. and Charlotte (Am- \nbler) Clarke, in Oswego, N. Y., June 23, 1869. \n\nIsaiah Raymond Clark, son of Ripley and Mary Ann (Raymond) Clark, was born \nin Felchville, Vt., January 1, 1853, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1873. He studied \nlaw in Boston in the office of Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bai- \nrn February, 1876. He married Katherine, daughter of Charles and Jane (Rowley) \nCummings, in Windsor, Vt., November 14, 1878, and lives in Boston. \n\nCharles Russell Codman, son of Charles Russell and Anne (Macmaster) Codman, \nwas born in Paris, France, October 28, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He \nstudied law in Boston in the office of Charles G. Loring and at the Harvard Law \nSchool, from which he graduated in 1852. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Sep- \ntember 29, 1852. He was a representative from Boston from 1873 to 1875, and sena- \ntor in 1864 and 1865. In the War of the Rebellion he commanded the Forty-fifth Mas- \nsachusetts Regiment during its nine months' service in North Carolina. He has been \ntwice chosen overseer of Harvard College, and for several years was president of the \nboard. He married Lucy Lyman Paine, daughter of Russell Sturgis, at Walton on \nThames, England, February 28, 1856, and his residence has been for some years at \nCotuit (Barnstable). \n\nPatrick Andrew Collins, son of Bartholomew and Mary Collins, was born in Fer- \nmov, Cork county, Ireland, March 12, 1844, and when four years old came with his \nmother to Massachusetts, receiving his education at the public schools in Chelsea. \nFirst an office boy, he was afterwards engaged in the upholstery business for a num- \nber of years, at the same time devoting his leisure time to study. He entered the \nHarvard Law School in 1868, graduating in 1S71 with the degree of LL.B., and fin- \nished his preparatory professional studies in Boston in the office of James M. Keith. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1871. While pursuing- his studies he \nwas a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1868 and 1869, and \nin 1870 and 1871 senator. He was judge advocate-general of Massachusetts in 1875, \nmember of Congress in the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, dele- \ngate at large to the Democratic National Conventions of 1876-80-88-92, and president \nof the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1888. He is a man of great \nnatural powers, possessing an eloquent tongue and broad views, and, though foreign \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 307 \n\nborn, a thorough American. With life and health he has a brilliant career before \nhim. He married Mary E. Carey in Boston, July 1, 1873, and resides in Dor- \nchester. \n\nJohn W. Corcoran, son of James and Catharine Corcoran, was born in Batavia, \nX. V., June 14, 1853, and his parents moved to Clinton, Mass., when he was less than a \nyear old. He was educated at the public schools in Clinton and at St. John's Univer- \nsity, New York, and at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. He graduated at \nthe Boston University Law School in 1875, and was admitted to the Worcester county \nbar June 17, 1875, beginning his practice in Clinton, and afterwards opening an office in \nBoston. He was water commissioner in Clinton ten years, member of the School \nBoard fifteen years, and has been judge advocate-general of Massachusetts, and chair- \nman of the Massachusetts Board of Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition. \nHis fidelity and skill were exemplified in his management of the Lancaster Bank, of \nwhich as receiver he paid the creditors including interest one hundred and nine per \ncent. In 1800 and 1891 he was the Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor of \nMassachusetts, and in 1802 was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He married \nMargaret J., daughter of Patrick and Mary McDonald, in Boston, April 28, 1881, and \nhis residence is at Clinton. \n\nCharles Cowley, son of Aaron and Hannah (Price) Cowley, was born in Easting- \nton, England, January 9, 1832, and came with his father to Lowell when a boy. He \nwas educated in the public schools of Lowell, and at an early age entered the office \nof Josiah G. Abbott in Lowell as a student of law. He was admitted to the Middle- \nsex bar in April, 185(5, and has practiced since in Lowell and Boston. In the War of \nthe Rebellion he served as paymaster in the navy and on the staff of Admiral Dahl- \ngren as judge advocate and provost judge in the South Atlantic Squadron. He has \npublished a \" History of Lowell,\" \" Famous Divorces of all Ages,\" \" Our Divorce \nCourts,\" and several other valuable contributions to legal and general literature. In \n1885 he received from the University of Vermont the degree of LL.D. \n\nGeorge Glover Crocker, son of Uriel and Sarah Kidder (Haskell) Crocker, was \nborn in Boston, December 15, 1843, and graduated at Harvard in 1864. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1866, and in the offices of George W. \nTuxburv and Uriel H. Crocker, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1867. \nHe was representative in 1873 and 1874, and senator in 1880-1881-1882-1883, the last \nyear serving as president. He was chairman of the Board of Railroad Commissioners \nfrom February, 1887, to February, 1892. He is the author of a work published in \n1889 entitled \"Principles of Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies.\" He married \nAnnie Bliss, daughter of Dr. Nathan Cooley and Susan Prentiss (Haskell) Keep, in \nBoston, June 19, 1875, and resides in Boston. \n\nUriel Haskell Crocker, son of Uriel and Sarah Kidder (Haskell) Crocker, was \nborn in Boston December 24, 1832, and graduated at Harvard jn 1853. He gradu- \nated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and after further study in the office of Sid- \nney Bartlett in Boston was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1856. He married \nClara G. , daughter of Joseph Ballard, of Boston, and lives in Boston. \n\nGeorge Uriel Crocker, son of the above, was born in Boston, January 9, 1863, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and \n\n\n3o8 H1S10RY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthe Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886. \nHe is or has been treasurer of the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire, and his \nbusiness is confined largely to probate cases. He married Emma L. Aylsworth in \nProvidence, in 1887, and lives in Boston. \n\nCob F. Cronin, son of John and Margaret (McCarthy) Cronin, was born in \n\nCork, Ireland, July 25, 1851, and came with his parents, an infant, to Boston. He \nreceived his education at the Boston public schools and went into business. He af- \nterwards studied law at the Boston University Law School, and in the office of Gar- \ngan, Swasey & Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878. He was \na representative from Boston in 1881-82-83 and senator in 1884. His residence is in \nBoston. \n\nEdwin Upton Curtis, son of George and Martha Ann (Upton) Curtis, was born in \nRoxbury, Mass., March 26, 1861, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1882. He \nstudied law with William Gaston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He \nwas associated in business with William G. Reed, and in 1889 was chosen city clerk \nof Boston. Residence, Boston. \n\nHenry Charles Davis, son of Benjamin and Cordelia (Buffington) Davis, was born \nin Palmer, Mass., October 23, 1843, and was educated at the Wilbraham Academy \nand Williston Seminary. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868 and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, in that year. Not long after he began prac- \ntice in Ware, Mass., where he has been many years a member of the School Commit- \ntee, and in 1873 was chosen representative. He married Jennie A., daughter of Lo- \nrenzo and Jane (Marlen) Demond, in Ware, May 4, 1876. \n\nPhilip J. Doherty, son of Philip and Ellen (Munnegle) Doherty, wyas born in \nCharlestown, Mass., January 27, 1856, and was educated at the Harvard Grammar \nand Charlestown High School. He graduated at the Boston University Law School \nin 1876, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 4, 1877. He was a representative \nin 1884-85-86, an alderman of Boston in 1888, and a member of the Boston Water \nBoard from 1889 to 1891. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Con- \nvention at St. Louis. He married Catherine A., daughter of John and Catherine \n(Doyle) Butler, in Charlestown, August 16, 1878, and lives in Charlestown. \n\nCharles Francis Donnelly, son of Hugh and Margaret (Conway) Donnelly, was \nborn in Athlone, Roscommon county, Ireland, October 14, 1836, and in his infancy \ncame with his parents to Canada, whence they removed to Rhode Island in 1848. In \n1856 he entered the office of Ranney & Morse, in Boston, as a student of law, and in \n1859 graduated at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nSeptember, 1858. In 1875 he was appointed a member of the Board of State Chari- \nties and for four years he was chairman, and his services were exceedingly valuable \nto the .State. He has received the degree of LL.D. from St. Mary's College of \nMaryland, the oldest Catholic educational institution in the country. \n\nLevi Edwin Dudley, son of John Oilman and Mary Clark (Townsend) Dudley, \nwas born in North Troy, Vt, October 18, 1842, and was educated in the public \nschools. After some preparatory experience, he occupied for a time a position in a \ndrug store in Boston, and at the beginning of the war entered the service and re- \nmained until hostilities had ceased. He became hospital steward in the regular \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 309 \n\narmy, and at one time was commissary steward of Lincoln Hospital in Washington. \nAfter the war he was a clerk in the internal revenue department, and in 1866 actively \nsustained President Johnson in his contest with Congress. He then became con- \nnected with the Great Republic newspaper in Washington and was earnest in his \nefforts to organize grand army associations. While engaged in the work of recon- \nstruction in Virginia, and serving as military secretary of the governor, he was ad- \nmitted to the bar in Richmond, and afterwards, in 1869, to the .Supreme Court of \nthe United States. In 1872 he was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs for \nNew Mexico, and afterwards a clerk in the Post-office Department. In 1877 he re- \nturned to Boston, where he has been for some years active as secretary of the Law \nand Order League. As a member of the bar resident in Boston, though perhaps \nnot a member of the Suffolk bar, he is entitled to a place in this register. \n\nSamuel James Elder, son of James and Deborah Dunbar (Keene) Elder, was \nborn in Hope, R. I., January 4, 1850, and graduated at Yale in 1873. He studied \nlaw in Boston with George W. Morse and John H. Hardy, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in June, 1875. He was a representative in 1885, is president of the Yale \nAlumni Association, and has acted in behalf of the International Copyright League \nbefore the United States Senate. He married Lilla, daughter of Cornelius W. and \nMargaret J. (Wyckoff) Thomas, at Hastings on the Hudson, May 10, 1876, and lives \nin Winchester. \n\nWilliam Crowninshield Endicott, son of William Putnam and Mary (Crownin- \nshield) Endicott, was born in Salem, November 26, 1826, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1847. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Salem in the office of \nNathaniel J. Lord, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1850. He began to prac- \ntice in Salem and in 1852 was a member of the Common Council and its president. In \n1853 he associated himself in business with J. W. Perry, and from 1857 to 1864 was \ncity solicitor of Salem. In 1870 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress, and \nin 1871-72-73 the Democratic candidate for attorney-general. In 1873 he was appointed \njudge of the Supreme Judicial Court to take the place of Horace Gray, who in that \nyear succeeded Reuben Atwater Chapman as chief justice. In 1884 he was the \nDemocratic candidate for governor, having resigned his seat on the bench in 1882, \nand in 1885 he was appointed by President Cleveland to a seat in his cabinet as sec- \nretary of war. In 1889, after leaving the cabinet, he resumed law practice and \nopened an office in Boston, still holding his residence in Salem. He married Ellen, \ndaughter of George Peabody, of Salem, December 13, 1859. \n\nM< irton Davis Andrews, son of Henry G. and Elizabeth Bliss (Davis) Andrews, \nwas born in Plymouth, May 5, 1855, and was educated at the public schools and \nunder private instruction. He studied law in Boston in the office of Elias Hasket \nDerby, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He married, October 7, 1885, \nMary Davis, daughter of Timothy Davis and Frances (Judkins) Bond, and died while \ntraveling for his health in Detroit, Mich., August 11, 1892. \n\nWilliam Wisner Dohertv, son of Ross and Sarah Doherty, was born in Boston, \nAugust 16, 1836, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Cumberland \nUniversity, Tennesee. He studied law at the above university and in Boston in the \noffice of C. T. & T. H. Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1859. \nHe has been assistant district attorney for Suffolk county and is now United States \n\n\n310 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nmarshal. He was senior counsel for Joseph Donato and David Mooney, two capi- \ntal eases tried in Boston. He married Catherine L. Chamberlain, nee Thompson, \nin Boston, August 17, 1880, and lives in Boston. \n\nA.ugi i ' - Hi nrv Fiski , son of Isaac and Susan (Hobbs) Fiske, was born in Wes- \nton. .Mass.. September 19, 1805. He fitted for college at the Framingham Academy \nand graduated at Harvard in 1825. He studied law at the Harvard Law School \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 11, 1830. He was for a time associated \nwith his father in Boston, and afterwards for many years with Benjamin Rand, the \npartnership being Fiske & Rand. Their business was largely office and collection \nbusiness, but in 1*44, when Charles Henry Warren resigned his seat on the bench \nof the Common Pleas Court, he removed from New Bedford to Boston, and became \nthe court and jury partner of the firm. The first case tried by the new firm was that \nof the Commonwealth against Rev. Joy H. Fairchild, in which Judge Warren ap- \npeared for the defence and secured, by skillful management and a masterly argu- \nment, an acquittal of the defendant. Mr. Fiske married Hannah Rogers, daughter \nof Captain Gamaliel and Elizabeth (Hickling) Bradford, of Boston, in Concord in \nMay, 1830, and died in Boston, March 22, 1865. \n\nCharles Henry Fiske, son of the above, was born in Boston, October 26, 1840, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1860. He studied law in Boston in his father's office \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 6, 1864. He was a representative in \n1868, and 1*72 from the representative district including the towns of Concord, \nLincoln and Weston. He married Cornelia Frothingham, daughter of Rev. Dr. \nChandler Robbins, of Boston, June 4, 1868, and has his residence in Weston, with \nan office in Boston. \n\nAndrew Fiske, brother of the above, was born in Weston, Mass., June 4, 1854, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1875. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1*7*, \nand after further study in Boston in the office of Ebenezer Rockw-ood Hoar was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1880. He resides in Weston, with an office in \nBoston. \n\nFrederick A. P. Fiske, son of Benjamin M. and Elizabeth A. Fiske, was born in \nChelmsford, Mass., October 4, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston at the office of Hardy, Elder & \nProctor, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1885. He married Harriet \nLydia Locke at Winchester, Mass., July 2, 1890, and has a residence in Somerville, \nwith an office in Boston. \n\nJerome H. Fiske, son of Moses and Susan (Hurd) Fiske, was born in Dover, N. H., \nApril 7, 1S44, and was educated at the public schools, and at the Chicopee, Mass., \nHigh School, under the direction of George D. Robinson afterwards governor of \nMassachusetts. He studied law in Salem in the office of George Wheatland, and \nwas admitted at Salem to the Essex bar October 8, 1875. He was in the Boston \nCustom I louse six years under Thomas Russell, collector and city solicitor of Mai- \nden, where he resides from 1883 to 1887. He was married at Chicopee. In 1884 he \ndelivered an oration on the Fourth of July. \n\nJohn Fiske, son of Edmund Brewster and Mary Fiske (Bound) Green, was born in \nHartford, Conn., March 30, 1*42. His original name was Edmund Fiske Green, \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 3„ \n\nbut in is.\"),\") he received the name of John Fiske after his mother's grandfather. He \nreceived his early education at the public schools, at Stamford, Conn., Academy and \nunder private instruction, and graduated at Harvard in 1863. He graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1N(>5, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 11, 1864. He \nbegan practice in Boston in 1865, but soon abandoned it for the study of and exposi- \ntion of history. He was a lecturer at Harvard on philosophy from 1869 to 1871, in- \nstructor in history there in 1870, assistant librarian from 1*72 to 1879, and overseer of \nHarvard from 1879 to 1891. In 1885 he was made professor of American history at \nWashington University, and is a member of various historical and antiquarian asso- \nciations. His contributions to historical literature have been numerous and valuable, \nand his pen is stdl keepine; the press busy with his publications. He married Abby \nMorgan Brooks, of Petersham, Mass., at Cambridge, September 6, 1864. \n\nJames Augustus Fox, son of George Howe and Emily (Wyatt) Fox, was born in \nBoston, August 11, 1827. He was educated in the public schools, and studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of John C. Park. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar December 24, 1854, and continued his practice in Boston \nuntil 1861, when he entered the service as captain in the Thirteenth Massachusetts Regi- \nment. In 1864 and 1S65 he commanded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- \npany, and in 1867 and 1868 was a representative from Boston, and in 1870 and 1871 \nsenator. He removed to Cambridge in 1872, and has served there as alderman two \nvears and mayor four years. In 1890 he was the Republican candidate for Congress \nagainst Sherman Hoar, the Democratic candidate, who was chosen. He married \nJulia Elizabeth, daughter of Col. James and Julia (Sterry) Valentine, of Provi- \ndence, R. I. \n\nJabez Fox, son of Henry Hodges and Sarah Ann (Burt) Fox, was born in Taunton, \nMass., April 10, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1875, and, after further study in the office of Hillard, Hyde & \nDickinson in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1876. He married \nSusan Elizabeth Thayer at Cambridge, in June, 1879, and resides in Cambridge, with \nan office in Boston. \n\nJames W. Fox was born in Boston, August 15, 1849, and was educated at the pub- \nlic schools. He studied law in Boston in the office of Henry W. Paine, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar March 17, 1874. \n\nWilliam Wesley French, son of William B. and Mary Ann (Torrey) French, was \nborn in Brockton, Mass., January 10, 1849, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1S72. He \nstudied law in Boston in the office of Knapp & Bowman, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in August, 1874. He removed to Gloucester, where he was a member of the \nCommon Council from 1879 to 1883 and mayor in 18.S8 and 1889. He married Lelia \nFenno, daughter of Moses H. and Ellen N. (Low) Shaw at Gloucester, August 1, 1878. \n\nArthur Philip French, son of William R. and Marcia French, was born in Turner, \nMe., May 19, 1854, and fitting for college at the Brunswick High School, graduated \nat Tufts College in 1876. He was admitted to the bar in Bristol county at New Bed- \nford June 24, 1878, but practices in Boston. He married Addie R. Jacobs, of Boston, \nOctober 30, 1884. \n\nDaniel Angell Gleason, son of John Fiske and Maria (Tourtellotte) Gleason, was \nborn in Worcester, Mass. , May 9, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He \n\n\n3i2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nstudied law in Meadville, Perm., where he taught school, and was there admitted to \nthe bar in 1859. Returning to Massachusetts he graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1860, fter further pursuing his studies in Boston in the office of \n\nChandler & Shattuck, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 7, 1860, and began \npractice in Boston. In Medford, where he lives, he has been a member of the School \n1, and water commissioner, and has held the State offices of tax commissioner, \ncommissioner of corporations, and treasurer and receiver general. He has edited \n\" Bouvier's Law 1 tictionary,\" \" Bouvier's Institutes,\" an edition of \" Phillips's Insur- \nance,\" and assisted Emory Washburn in his work on \" Easements.\" He married \nAnnie Louisa, daughter of Richard and Mary A. (Henry) Hall in Roxbury, Jan- \nuarv 7, 1863, and lives in Medford. \n\nDaniel Wheelwright Gooch, son of John and Olive (Winn) Gooch, was born in \nWells, Me., January 8, 1820, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1843. He studied law \nin South Berwick. Me., and in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November \nis, 1S47. He practiced law in Boston with success, but was drawn either by am- \nbition or the force of circumstances into a public career. He was a representative in \nis.\") '2, member of the Constitutional Convention in 1853, and a member of the 35th, \n36th, 37th and 3Sth Congresses. He was chosen to the 39th Congress, but resigned to \ntake the position of naval officer in the Boston Custom House. He resumed the \npractice of law after holding office a year, and was chosen a member of the 43d Con- \ngress. In 1875 he was appointed pension agent at Boston and held the office until \n1886. He married Hannah H., daughter of John S. and Theodore L. Pope, of Wells, \nMe., and died November 1, 1891. \n\nTkssk Morse Gc\\ e, son of Dana B. and Susan (Morse) Gove, was born in Weare, \nN. H., December 11, 1852. He was educated at the Lowell schools, and after study- \ning law in Boston with his father, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1875, and \nhas practiced in Boston. He was a member of the Common Council of Boston in \n1881, a representative from 1883 to 1885, and has been a member of the Board of \nAldermen. He was a delegate to the National Republican Conventions of 1884 and \n1888. He married Agnes E., daughter of James and Jane Ballantyne at Lowell, \nAugust 17, 1882. He resides in Boston. \n\nRobert Gram . son of Patrick and Charlotte Bordman (Rice) Grant, was born in \nBoston, January 24, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He graduated at the \nHarvard Law School m 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in that year. He \nhas been chairman of the Boston Board of Water Commissioners since May, 1889, and \na member since May, 1888. He delivered the poem before the Phi Beta Kappa Asocia- \ntion at Cambridge in June, 1883, and was the poet of the Latin School Alumni on the \ntwo hundred and fiftieth anniversary of that institution, April 23, 1885. In other \nways he has devoted himself to literature and has published various volumes, in \nwhich as a writer of fiction he has excelled. He married Amy Gordon, daughter of \nSir Alexander T. Gait and Amy Gordon (Torrance) Gait in Montreal, July 3, 1S83. \nHis residence is in Boston. \n\nJohn Henry Hardy, son of John and Hannah (Farley) Hardy, was born in Hollis, \nN. H., February 2, 1S47, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1870. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1872. He associated himself in business \n\n\nfc^ J. He \n\n\n^IJ^o^u \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 313 \n\nwith George W. Morse, and afterwards with Samuel J. Elder and Thomas W. Proc- \ntor. On the 3d of June, 1885, he was appointed an associate judge of the Munii \nCourt of Boston, and is still on the bench. He served in the War of the Rebellion \nin the Fifteenth New Hampshire Regiment, being fifteen years of age at the time of \nhis enlistment. He was a representative in 1883, then a resident in Arlington. He \nmarried Anna J. Conant, daughter of Levi and Anna (Whitney) (Mead) Conant in \nLittleton, August 30, 1871. \n\nFrank Ephraim Herbert Gary, son of Ephraim and Sarah A. Gary, was born in \nMontpelier, Vt., October 8, 1858, and graduated at the Vermont Methodist Seminary \nin 1S79. He studied laAv with Heath & Carleton in Montpelier, and was admitted to \nthe Vermont bar in 1882. He afterwards graduated at the Boston University Law \nSchool in 1884 and began practice in Montpelier. In 1888 he removed to Boston, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. He was acting assistant dean and an \ninstructor in the Boston University Law School from 1888 to 1890. His residence is \nin Boston. \n\nRobert Hallowell Gardiner, son of John W. Tudor and Annie Elizabeth Havs \nGardiner, was born at Fort Tejon, Cal., September 9, 1855, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1876. He took the name of his grandfather \" Gardiner.\" He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the offices of Charles P. Greenough \n& Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He \nmarried Alice, daughter of Edward Bangs, of Boston, June 23, 1881, and lives at \n\nNewton. \n\nr \nJohn Edward Galvin, son of David and Mary A. (Dwyer) Galvin, was born in Bos- \nton, November 8, 1857, and was educated at the English and Latin schools of that \ncity. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar of \nMiddlesex county at Cambridge, October 6, ,1879. His residence is in the Dorchester \nDistrict of Boston. \n\nCharles Theodore Gallagher, son of William and Emily C. Gallagher, was born \nin Boston, May 21, 1851, and was educated at the Boston public schools and the Bos- \nton University. He studied law at the Boston Law School and in the office of Ran- \nney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 29, 1875. He was a \nmember of the State Senate from Boston in 1882, and has been twelve years a mem- \nber of the Boston School Board, serving the last three years as its president. He en- \nlisted in 1864 at the age of thirteen as a drummer boy in the First Unattached Regi- \nment. He married Nellie W. Allen at Scituate, February 19, 1880, and resides in \nBoston. \n\nRobert Stetson Gorham, son of Daniel D. and Hannah M. (Stetson) Gorham, \nwas born in Champlain, N. Y. , June 28, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He \nstudied law in 1885-86 in Northampton in the office of John C. Hammond, and from \n1886 to 1888 at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Jan- \nuary, 1889. He married Alvine J. Thomas in Duxbury, Mass., June 27, 1890, and \nlives in Newton with an office in Boston. \n\nDavid Ellsworth Gould, son of David and Lucy (Withington) Gould, was born in \nChatham, Mass., April 14, 1863, and was educated at the public schools and at the \nBoston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was \n40 \n\n\n3 14 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nadmitted b iffolk bar in January, 1887. He was a representative in 1890 and \n\n1891 En nn the Twenty-sixth Representative District of Suffolk county. His residence \nis in Chelsea. \n\nEdward Jenkins Jones, son of Jacob and Mary (Covell) Jones, was born in Boston, \n( ictober 15, 1822, and was educated at the public schools and at Hampden Academy. \nHe was appointed deputy sheriff in Boston in 1845 by Sheriff Eveleth, but after serv- \ning some years in that capacity he studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin October. 1873. During the War of the Rebellion he was captain of the Eleventh \nMassachusetts Battery, and was brevetted major for gallantry at the battle of Fort \nStedman in Virginia. He was chief of the State Police from I860 to 1872, a repre. \nsentative in L873 and 1874, and trial justice for juvenile offenders three years. He \nmarried Emily D., daughter of James and Fanny B. Campbell, of Milton, in Boston, \nApril 26, 1847. He has compiled Massachusetts criminal laws up to 1868, and the \ndecisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts up to 1868 on the liquor laws. He \nlives in Boston. \n\nJohn Davis Long, son of Zadoc and Julia Temple (Davis) Long, was born in Buck- \nfield, Me., October 27, 1838, and receiving his early education at the public schools, \ngraduated at Harvard in 1857. He is descended from old Pilgrim stock, William \nClark, who came to Plymouth in the Ann in 1623, and John Churchill, who came to \nPlymouth in 1643, being among his ancestors. He fitted for college at the Hebron \nAcademy in Maine, and graduated at Harvard in 1857. After leaving college he held \nfor two years the position of principal of the academy in Westford, Mass., and then \nentered the Harvard Law School, which he left to enter as a student the office of \nSidney Bartlett and complete his preparatory studies. He was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1861, and opened an office in Buckfield, his native town, where, it may \nbe readily seen, the field of professional work was too narrow for his expanding tal- \nents and energies. In the autumn of 1862 he returned to Boston, and after remain- \ning for a time in the offices of Peleg W. Chandler and of Woodbury & Andros he be- \ncame a partner with Stillman B. Allen and Thomas Savage in the law firm of Allen, \nLong & Savage, remaining in the firm enjoying a constantly increasing and respon- \nsible business until 1880. His interest in politics began in the Lincoln campaign of \n1860, when he made his maiden speech in Buckfield for the Republican candidates. \nIn 1861, immediately after his settlement as a lawyer in Buckfield, he was nominated \nand defeated as the Republican candidate for the Legislature. After his return to \nBoston he took no further part in political affairs until 1871 and 1872, when as an ad- \nvocate of the election of Horace Greeley, the Democratic candidate for president, he \nwas nominated for representative from Hingham, where in 1869 he had taken up his \nresidence. In 1874 he was chosen representative by the Republicans of the Second \nRepresentative District of Plymouth county, consisting of the towns of Hingham and \nHull. In 1875-76-77 he was rechosen, and in all those years was the speaker of the \n1 1 1 use. In the chair more than on the floor Mr. Long had the opportunity of display- \ning those peculiar traits of intellect, temper and deportment, which have given him \nan unfailing popularity with the people of the Commonwealth. In 1877 and in 1878 \nhe was a candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, but in the conven- \ntion of the former 3rear he was defeated by Alexander H. Rice, who had served two \nyears, while in that of the latter he withdrew his name and was nominated for lieu- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 315 \n\ntenant-governor with Thomas Talbot at the head of the ticket. In 1879 he was cho- \nsen governor and rechosen in 1880 and 1881, retiring in accordance with < I liter \nthree years' service. In 1879 there were four candidates in the field, the democracy \nhaving two candidates, Benjamin F. Butler and John Quincy Adams, and the \nhibitory temperance candidate being Rev. 1). C. Eddy. Mr. Long received 122,751 \nvotes, Mr. Butler 109,149, Mr. Adams 9,989, and Mr. Eddy 1,645, with L08 scattering. \nIn 1880 and 1881 the opposing candidate was Charles P. Thompson, Democrat, and \nin the former year Mr. Long had a plurality of 0S,:;iT, and in the latter 56,824. After \nleaving the executive chair he served in the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth \nCongresses as the representative of the Second Congressional District. After Ins \nretirement from Congress he resumed the practice of law in Boston, associating him- \nself with Stillman B. Allen, his former partner, and Alfred Hemenway, with the firm \nname of Allen, Long & Hemenway. His literary work has been chiefly confined to \nspeeches and a translation of the ^Eneid. which has received the approbation of \ncritics. In 1880 he received from Harvard as governor of the State the degree of \nLL.D., and since May, 1887, has been president of the Pilgrim Society. He married \nfirst Mary W., daughter of George S. Glover, of Hingham, September 13, 1870, and \nsecond, Agnes, daughter of Rev. Joseph D. Peirce, May 22, 1886, and his residence is \nstill at Hingham. \n\nSamuel H. Longley, son of Samuel and Ellen H. Longley, was born in Groton, \nMass., January 11, 1861. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. His residence is at Shirley, Mass., and his office \nin Boston. \n\nJames Russell Lowell, son of Rev. Dr. Charles and Harriet (Spence) Lowell, was \nborn in Cambridge, Mass., February 22, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1838. \nPerhaps no family in Masachusetts has been distinguished in so many generations as \nthat to which he belonged. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, and \nwas admitted to the bar in that year. He began practice in Boston but was soon led \naway from professional efforts into the paths of literature, in which he became so \ndistinguished. In 1841 he published a volume of poems entitled \"A Year's Life,\" \nand in 1843, associated with Robert Carter, he published \"The Pioneer,\" a liter- \nary and critical magazine. In 1844 he published a second volume of poems, and in \n1845 a volume of prose entitled \"Conversations on Some of the Old Poets.\" In 1848 \nhe published a third volume of poems, and in the same year ' ' The Vision of Sir \nLaunfal\" and ■ \" The Biglow Papers.\" He also published in that year \"A Fable for \nCritics,\" and soon after visited Europe. In 1854-5 he delivered a course of lectures \nbefore the Lowell Institute on the British Poets and immediately afterwards went to \nDresden for study preliminary to his accession to the chair of Modern Languages and \nBelles-lettres at Harvard. From 1857 to 18(52 he edited the Atlantic Monthly, and \nin 18(34 published \"Fireside Travels,\" and a new series of the \"Biglow Papers.\" In \n1863, associated with Charles E. Norton, he edited for a time the North American \nReview, and in 1869 published \"The Cathedral,\" a poem, and \"Underthe Willows\" \nand other poems. In 1870 he published \"Among my Books \" and my \"Study Win- \ndows.\" In 1876 he wTas a delegate to the National Republican Convention in Cincin- \nnati and presidential elector. In 1877 he was appointed minister to Spain, and in \n1880 was transferred to the Court of St. James, where he remained until his recall in \n\n\n3i6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n1885 His career in England was a remarkable one. The United States had before \nhim exhibited in the various ministers to the English Court a high order of states- \nmanship, but never before had the literary culture of America been so brilliantly \nillustrated. His speeches on various occasions, scholarly and refined as they were, \nwon the admiration of English scholars and reflected honor on his country as well as \non himself. The degree of T. 'C. D. was conferred on him by the University of Ox- \nford in 1873, and that of LL.D. by the Universities of Cambridge, England, St. \nAndrews and Edinburgh in 1874, and Bologna, 1888. He received also the degree \nof LL.D. from Harvard in 1884. He married first in 1844, Maria, daughter of Abi- \niah and Anna .Maria (Howard) White, who died in Cambridge, October 27, 1853, and \nsecond Frances Dunlap, who died in England in February, 1885. Mr. Lowell died \nat Cambridge, August 12, 1891. \n\nWilliam Minot, son of George Richards Minot, was born in Boston, September 17, \n1783, and graduated at Harvard in 1802. He studied law in Boston in the office of \nJoseph Hall, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1805. The son of an able law- \nyer, he inherited those sterling traits without which no professional man can suc- \nceed, integrity, method, industry and fidelity to his employers. Confining himself \nto his office and the manifold duties there awaiting performance, he not only never \nsought public notice, but was never induced to accept any public position except that \nof a member of the Executive Council during the administration of Governor Everett \nbetween 1836 and 1840. He was particularly devoted to the law of wills and trusts, \nand his services were eagerly sought as executor or trustee where large amounts and \nintricate questions were involved. It was said of him after his death, by one who \nknew him well, that he was \"a man of the purest life, of the highest principles, of \nthe most scrupulous and transparent integrity ; his counsel was eagerly sought dur- \ning a long term of years by those who had estates to bequeath, or trusts to be ar- \nranged and executed, and no one enjoyed a greater share than he did, in these and in \nall other relations, of the esteem and confidence of the community in which he lived. \nAmong other funds committed to his care was that bequeathed to the town of his \nbirth by Benjamin Franklin, with a primary view of encouraging young and merit- \norious mechanics. This fund was placed in his hands by the authorities of Boston in \n1804, and was gratuitously administered by him for the long period of sixty years, \nwhen it had increased from four thousand to one hundred and twenty-five thousand \ndollars.\" In 1814 a court called the Boston Court of Common Pleas was established \nand remained in existence until the Court of Common Pleas for the Commonwealth \nwas established in 1821. In 1814 Harrison Gray Otis was appointed judge of this \ncourt, and Mr. Minot was appointed to succeed him March 2, 1818. He either de- \nclined or resigned after a month's service, as William Prescott was appointed judge \nApril 21 of the same year. He married Louisa,, daughter of Daniel Davis, at that \ntime solicitor-general of the Commonwealth, and died in his house in Beacon street, \nBoston, which he had occupied for sixty years, June 2, 1873. \n\nJohn E. Hanly, son of Michael F. and Almeda S. Hanly, was born in Appleton, \nMaine, August 5, 1851, and was educated at the Waterville, Me., Classical Insti- \ntute. He studied law in Appleton with M. F. Hanly, and in Augusta, Me., with \nWilliam P. Whitehouse, and was admitted to the bar at Augusta in October, 1872. \nHe was afterwards admitted to the bar in California in June, 1875, and in Suffolk \n\n\n' \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 3l7 \n\ncounty in May, 1890. He married Clara A. Hawkes in Appleton, Me., in Decem- \nber, 1872. He lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. \n\nCharles Stedman Hanks, son of Stedman W. and Sarah W. Hanks, was born in \nLowell, Mass., April 10, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law at \nthe Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in L881. He \nwas married in Minnesota, May 17, 1888, to Clarissa B. Shumway, and lives in Man- \nchester, Mass. He has published a treatise on the Law of Tort. \n\nGeorge R. Jones, son of John R. and Mary S. Jones, was born in Lebanon, Me., \nFebruary 8, 1862, and was educated at the Boston University College of Liberal Arts. \nHe studied law in Boston, in the office of Allen, Long & Hemenway, and at the Bos- \nton University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1888. He \nmarried Helen Blanch Jeffery at Melrose, September 10, 1890, and lives in Melrose. \n\nJames Edward Kelley, son of Benjamin F. and Louisa P. (Adams) Kelley, was \nborn in Unity, Me., February 2, 1858, and was educated at the Eastern State Normal \nSchool. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar January \\lx 1888. He married Fannie E. Banks, of Belfast, Me., at \nSomerville, Mass., December 25, 1887, and his home is in Somerville. \n\nCharles Franklin Kittredge, son of Franklin Otis and Mary Ann Kittredge, was \nborn in Mt. Vernon, N. H., February 24, 1841, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1863. \nHe studied law in Boston with John P. Healy, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin October, 1867. He has been a member of the House of Representatives from Bos- \nton, and was assistant city solicitor from 1868 to 1879. He has devoted himself \nchiefly to municipal and corporation law. He married Adelaide L. Lee at Groton, \nMass., September 24, 1872, and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam A. Knowi.ton, son of William W. and Martha E. Knowlton, was born in \nNashville, Tenn., June 24, 1855, and attended Phillips Andover Academy. He \nstudied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex \nbar at Cambridge in June, 1881. He married Elizabeth J. Burks at Natick, Mass., \nJune 27, 1883, and he resides in Natick, with an office in Boston. \n\ns Edward Avery, son of General Samuel and Mary A. W. (Candler) Avery, was \nborn in Marblehead, Mass., March 12, 1828. His father was a native of Vermont, \nand served as an officer in the War of 1812. After removing to Marblehead he com- \nmanded a brigade of militia fifteen years. He was descended from Samuel Avery, \na civil engineer, who had a grant of land in Vermont. In Marblehead he was a man \nof note, serving as selectman and representative in days when the office sought the \nman, and showed the esteem in which he was held by the community in which he \nlived rather than a greed for place and power and a manipulating skill necessary to \nsecure them. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Mar- \nblehead, and in the Brooks Classical School in Boston. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Frederick W. Choate, and was ad- \nmitted to the bar in Worcester county in 1849. He established himself in Barre, \nMass., where he remained about two years, and then removed to Boston, where he \nbecame associated in business with George M. Hobbs, and has secured a place among \nthe leaders of the Suffolk bar. As a jury lawyer he has been signally successful. \nHis arguments at the bar are clear, incisive, logical and strong. He avoids the too \n\n\n3i8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ncommon practice of endeavoring to explain and strengthen the weak points in his \nbut gives his attention only to the strong ones, so fortifying them and increas- \ning their strength that the weaker ones are left out of sight and his victory is won. \nHis devotion to the cause of the Democratic party led him early to take an interest \nin politics, and he has both rendered efficient service to his party and received honors \nat their hands. Few campaigns during the last twenty-five years have passed with- \nout the sound of his voice on the platform and stump, and few conventions, national, \nState or local, have failed to receive his aid or counsel. He was one of the eight \nDemocrats in the House of Representatives in 1867 and in 1868, having been chosen \nto both the Senate and House, and taken his seat in the former. He has also been \nchairman of the Democratic State Committee, and the 'candidate of the Democratic- \nparty for attorney-general and member of Congress. He married, first, in 1852, Su- \nsan Caroline, daughter of Caleb Stetson, of Braintree, and second in Boston, August \n14, 1883, Margaret, daughter of David Greene. \n\nJohn Edward Avery, son of John and Ann Maria Avery, was born in Whitefield, \nMe., November 11, 1848, and was educated at the public schools and at the Maine \nWesleyan Seminary. He studied law at Augusta, Me., in the office of William P. \nWhitehouse and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Cam- \nbridge in June, 1872. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. \n\nGeorge David Ayers, son of David and Martha Elizabeth (Huckins) Ayers, was \nborn in Boston, - August 26, 1857, and received his early education at the common \nschools and the High School of Maiden. He graduated at Harvard in 1879, attended \nthe Harvard Law School from 1879 to 1882, and after further study in the office of \nGaston & Whitney, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1883. He married \nCharlotte E. Carder at Maiden, January 7, 1888, and lives in Maiden. \n\nJames Francis Aylward, son of James and Johanna T. (Maher) Aylward, was born \nin East Cambridge, August 4, 1862, and was educated in Cambridge at the Putnam \nGrammar School and at Boston College. He studied law at the Harvard Law School \nand in Boston in the office of Gaston & Whitney, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar August 2, 1887. He was a member of the Common Council of Cambridge, where \nhe resides, in 1888, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1889-90-91-92. \n\nBenjamin Vaughan Abbott, son of Rev. Jacob Abbott, was born in Boston, June 4, \n1830, and graduated at the New York University in 1850. He was admitted to the \nbar in 1851, but the writer is not certain where and inserts his name in the register \nas a native of Boston and possible member of the Suffolk bar. He devoted himself \nlargely to compilations and digests with his brother Austin. He was appointed \nin 1870 to revise the Statutes of the United States, and aftewards prepared a United \nStates Digest and a Digest of Decisions on Corporations, a Treatise on the Courts of the \nUnited States and their Practice, a Dictionary of Terms in American and English \nJurisprudence, a National Digest of all Important Acts of Congress and Decisions of the \nUnited States Supreme Court, Circuit and District Courts, and Court of Claims, and \nthe Fourth American edition of Addison on Contracts, and other works pertaining to \nlaw and practice. \n\nZabdiel Bovi.s'ion Adams, was admitted to the Supreme Court of Suffolk county \nbefore 1807, and was practicing in Lunenburg about 1813. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 3Ig \n\nJohn H. P. Aherin was born in Boston, April 11, 1838, and graduated at St. Mary's \nParochial School in 1872. He was afterwards clerk in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds \nuntil 1877. He then studied law with F. W. Kittredge, and acted as the conveyancer of \nCrowley & Maxwell until 1885. He then entered the Boston University Law School, \ngraduating in 1886, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year. \n\nSumner Albee, son of Christopher C. and Phebe Albee, was born in Langdon, N. \nH., March 23, 1825, and graduated at Midlebury College in Middlebury, Yt. He \nstudied law in Boston with Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJanuary 2, 1854. He has been a member of the Board of Aldermen in Cambridge, \nwhere he lives, also of the School Board and the Board of Overseers of the Poor. He \nwas a representative from Cambridge in 1881 and 1882. He married Liiey Ann, \ndaughter of Rev. Andrew Rankin, of Chester, Yt., August 28, 1855, and died in Cam- \nbridge, January 12, 1893. \n\nRufus Bradford Allyn, son of Rev. John Allyn, was born in Duxbury, March 27, \n1792, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law in Boston with William \nSullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July- 6, 1815. He removed from Boston \nthe year of his admission to the bar and established himself in Belfast, Me. He \nmarried Rebecca P., daughter of Samuel Upton. \n\nElbridge Roberts Anderson, son of Galucha and MaryT E. Anderson, was born in \nSt. Louis, Mo., and educated at the University of Chicago. He studied law in Chi- \ncago in the office of Barnum, Rubens & Ames, and was admittted to the bar in \nMassachusetts in 1885 at Salem, practicing in Chicago two years before his removal \nto Boston. He married Lizzie Dodge Harris at Salem, Mass., May 15, 1889, and \nlives in the Dorchester District of Boston. \n\nGeorge Weston Anderson, son of David C. and Martha L. Anderson, was born \nin New Hampshire September 1, 1861, and graduated at Williams College in 1886. \nHe studied law in Lowell with William H. Anderson, and in the Boston University \nLaw School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1890. He lives in Boston. \n\nAlgusti/s Andrews, son of William A. and Maria B. (Brown) Andrews, was born \nin Freedom, N. H., June 19, 1852, and was educated at the Boston public schools, \nand studied law at the Boston University- Law School. He was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1873, and was a member of the Boston School Board in 1875. He mar- \nried in 1878.. \n\nWilliam H. H. Andrews, son of Charles and Dolly (Bradstreet) Andrews, was \nborn at Pleasant Ridge, Me., May 10, 1839, and received his early education at the \nHampden Academy^, the Maine State Seminary. He entered Bowdoin College in \n1861, but in 1862 left college and enlisted as a private in the Eleventh Maine Regi- \nment. He was commissioned first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster March \n1, 1864, and captain October 30, 1865. He removed to Boston in 1867 and studied law in \nthe office of Charles Levi Woodbury, and that of Melville E. Ingalls, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar April 20, 1868. He remained with Mr. Woodbury until \n1890. He has served on the School Board of Hyde Park, and was the manager of \nthe Boston Post in 1885 and 1886. He married Elizabeth Wood, of Philadelphia, \nOctober 22, 1873, and died in Philadelphia April 20, 1892. \n\n\n32o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nFran< is Henry Appleton, son of William Appleton, was born in Boston .Septem- \nber 11, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1S42. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1846, and died in Somerville, Mass., May 28, 1854. \n\nJohn Henry Appleton, son of Charles T. P. and Sarah Jane (Merrill) Appleton, \nwas born in Somerville, Mass., and received his early education at the Mayhew Gram- \nmar School and the English High School, in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in \n1875. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1877, and was admitted to the \nbar in Middlesex county in June, 1878. He married Dora E. Shearer in Cambridge, \nMarch 30, 1880, and lives in Cambridge. \n\nThomas Henry Armstrong, son of Elias Benjamin and Abigail (Parkhurst) Arm- \nstrong, was horn in Watertown, Mass., July 24, 1847, and was educated at the Walt- \nham High School and Tufts College, graduating from the latter in 1869. He \nstudied law in Boston in the office of Thomas L. Wakefield, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar March 8, 1872. He has been a trustee of Tufts College since 1877, and \ntreasurer of the corporation, and was city solicitor of Waltham from 1885 to 1889. \nHe married Ellen F. Wellington at Waltham, June 5, 1876, and lives in Waltham. \n\nStillman Boyd Allen, son of Horace O. and Elizabeth Allen, was born in San- \nford, York county, Me., September 8, 1830, and received his early education at the \nKennebunk Academy, the Alfred Academy, and at an educational institution in Yar- \nmouth, Me. At the age of eighteen he shipped as a sailor, and on his return voy- \nage was wrecked on Cape Cod and washed ashore with little of life remaining. \nAbandoning the sea he lived at Kittery, Me., for a time, holding a position in the \nnavy yard, teaching school, and devoting some of his time to the study of law. He \nafterwards entered the office of Daniel Goodnow, of Alfred, as a student, and com- \npleted his law studies with W. H. Y. Hackett, of Portsmouth, N. H. He was ad- \nmitted to the bar in his native county in September, 1853, and began practice in Kit- \ntery. In May, 1861, he removed to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on \nthe 17th of the following June. In 1863 he became associated in business with John \nD. Long, and in 1876 and 1877 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- \nsentatives. His arrival in Boston marked the beginning of a career which, from ex- \ntent of business and its lucrative results, has been rarely surpassed at the New Eng- \nland bar. .The firm of which he was the head was at first Allen, Long & Savage, but \nafter Mr. Savage left it, and Alfred Hemenway entered, it became Allen, Long & \nHemenway. Notwithstanding the large amount of professional work in which he \nwas engaged, he felt a deep interest in other matters connected with the welfare of \nthe community and gave liberally of his means to develop and maintain them. Both \nreligious and secular education he had always at heart, and the church and the school \nwere his constant beneficiaries. The writer has been told that for many years he \nkept constantly at Harvard some poor and deserving young man, educating and sup- \nporting him at his own expense. During almost his entire residence in Boston he \nwas a member of the School Board, and during the same period he was a prominent \nand active member of the Berkeley Street Church, devoting much time to the work \nof the Sunday School. It has been said by a member of this church \"that the ag- \ngregate of his contributions to the church would be a handsome fortune; yet this \nwas less than his private charities, which flowed in a constant stream.\" He married \nat Kittery, September 7, 1854, Harriet S., daughter of Joseph and Mary Seaward, \nand died in Boston June 9, 1891. \n\n\nillllll \n\n\nIL~, \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 321 \n\nStephen Merrill Allen was born in Burton, now Albany, N. II., April 15, 1819. \nAt four vcars of age he removed to Tarn worth, N. II., at eighl to Dover, N. II., and \nat twelve to Corinna, Me. At seventeen he came to Bosto tided the Boston \n\nLatin School. At the age of fifty he removed to Duxbury, and is now again a resi- \ndent of Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 9, 1850, but never \npracticed. He married first, April 15, 1841, Ann Maria, daughter of William Grid- \nley, and second, Ann Maria, daughter of Eli Jones, of Woburn. Horace G. Allen, \na recent candidate for mayor of Boston, nominated by the Republicans, is his son. \n\nFrederick Allen, son of Jonathan, was born in Chilmark, Mass., December 22, \n1780, and studied law with Homes Allen, of Barnstable, and in Pembroke with Kil- \nborn Whitman, and in Boston with Benjamin Whitman, and after admission to the \nSuffolk bar in 1805 removed to Waldoboro, Me., and in 1809 to Gardiner, Me. He \nmarried Hannah Bowen, daughter of Oliver and Abigail (Gardner) Whipple. \n\nJohn Hooker Ashmun, son of Eli P. Ashmun, was born in Blandford, Me., July 3, \n1800, and graduated at Harvard in 1818. In 1828 Nathan Dane, who in founding the \nlaw school at Cambridge had reserved to himself appointments to its professorships, \nappointed Joseph Story Dane professor of law and Mr. Ashmun Royall professor of \nlaw, and he took up his residence in Cambridge. He had previously been associated \nwith Judge Howe and Elijah J. Mills in establishing and conducting a law school in \nNorthampton. It is thought by the writer that after coming to Cambridge he had \nan office in Boston. He died in Cambridge April 1, 1833. \n\nEli Porter Ashmun was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807. He received the \ndegree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1809, and was United States Senator from 1816 to \nis is. He died in 1819. \n\nEdwin Wright, son of Jesse and Philura (Fuller) Wright, was born in North \nCoventry, Conn., March 7, 1821. He is descended from the Wright family of Kel- \nveden Hall at Wrightsbridge, Essex, England, which flourished in the sixteenth and \nseventeenth centuries. His father, educated for a physician, was during the larger \npart of his life an inland trader, and his mother was the daughter of a respectable \nartisan. At four years of age he removed to Lebanon, Conn., and in his youth was \nleft for long periods of time in the sole charge of his father's store and accounts. In \nthe discharge of the duties imposed on him he exhibited a mature and discriminating \njudgment. He was educated in his youth at the public schools, and while pursuing \nhis studies he was for two seasons the assistant of the State surveyor for New London \ncounty, not only helping in the practical work of the survey, but making duplicate \nand often the sole calculations and plans. His later education was received at Bacon \nAcademy in Colchester, Conn., and there he fitted for Yale College, where he gradu- \nated in 1844 with the valedictory, the highest honor of the class. After leaving col- \nlege he was temporarily employed as assistant principal in the Boston English School \nand afterwards was appointed principal of the Medford High School, whence he was \npromoted to the position of grammar master in one of the Boston public schools. In \nthese positions his methods of instruction, though somewhat at variance from the \nordinary formulas, were highly effective in their results and received the most \nemphatic commendation. Having absolved the pecuniary obligations incurred dur- \ning the period of his education, he entered the Harvard Law School and after a sea- \n41 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nson of study in that institution entered as a student the office of Benjamin F. Brooks, \nin Boston, where he soon had charge of the preparation of contracts and other legal \ndocuments and all matters connected with the titles and transfer of real estate. He \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1850, and a year later began practice on \nhis own account. Though securing rapidly a general practice of considerable volume \nhe gradually became more especially a real estate lawyer and as such acquired an \neminence in his profession. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Rep- \nfrom East Boston in 1857 and 1867, and for several years was a member \nof the Boston School Hoard. He has delivered several courses of lectures on com- \nmercial law and has been several years by appointment a lecturer on medical juris- \nprudence in the medical department of the Boston University, as well as a lecturer \nthrough several seasons before the whole school. On the 9th of July, 1861, he was \nappointed a justice of the Boston Police Court to succeed George D. Wells, and \nserved until the court was abolished in 1866. The business of this court was large \nand onerous, consisting of the disposition annually of 15,000 criminal and 3,000 civil \ncases, the inspection of prisons, the pardoning of criminals confined for non-payment \nol\" lines and the jurisdiction of insane cases, and owing to the age of Mr. Wright's \nassociates, much more than his share of labor fell on his hands. The accuracy of his \njudgments while on the bench is attested by the fact that no decision of the court \nduring the term of his service was ever overruled or abridged. On his retirement \nfrom the bench, Mr. Wright resumed practice with a gratifying accumulation of busi- \nness for many years. His recreation has been found in the study of the various \nquestions of the day, social, religious and ethical, and in their solution to apply the \nprinciples of law. On these questions he has written and lectured and always to the \nedification of his readers and hearers. He is a prominent Mason, having received the \nhighest grade recognized by the fraternity in the United States. He married, Oc- \ntober 29, 1850, Helen M. , daughter of Paul Curtis, of Boston, and his residence is in \nBoston. \n\nHosea Kingman, son of Philip D. and Betsey B. (Washburn) Kingman, was born \nin Bridgewater, Mass., April 11, 1843. His early education was received at the \nBridgewater Academy in Bridgewater and the Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, \nX. H. He entered Dartmouth College in 1860, but left college in 1862 and enlisted \non the 22d of September in that year for nine months' service in Company K, Third \nMassachusetts Regiment. He went with his regiment to Newberne, N. C, and in \nDecember was detailed on signal service and went to Port Royal, S. C. , and thence \nto Folly Island in Charleston Harbor, and was discharged at expiration of service, \nJune 22, 1863. He then returned to Dartmouth and joined his class, making up for \nabsent time and graduating in due order in 1864. He studied law with Williams \nLatham in Bridgewater and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth in 1866, associating \nhimself at once in business with his instructor, Mr. Latham, under the firm name of \nLatham & Kingman. Mr. Latham retired in 1871, and since that time Mr. Kingman \nhas practiced alone, constantly strengthening himself in the law, accumulating busi- \nness and securing the confidence of the community. In 1874, and for many years \nafter, he was chosen commissioner of insolvency; November 12, 1878, he was ap- \npointed special justice of the First District Court of Plymouth county; in 1886 he was \nchosen district attorney for the Southeastern District of Massachusetts, which posi- \n\n\nBiographical register. 223 \n\ntion he resigned to assume the duties of a member of the Metropolitan Sewage \nCommission, under an appointment by the governor, of which commission he is chair- \nman. He is trustee of the Pilgrim Society, of the Bridgewater Savings Bank and \nBridgewater Academy, and in the Masonic fraternity, is charter member of Bridge- \nwater Lodge, No. 1,039 of Knights of Honor, of which he is past dictator. In at- \ntempting to describe the traits which characterize him as a lawyer, it is perhaps suf- \nficient to say that he has all the qualifications essential for a good judge, and it is \nnot too much to say that his future appointment to a seat on the bench will depend \nchiefly on his willingness to accept it. He married Carrie, daughter of Hezekiah and \nDeborah (Freeman) Cole, of Carver, Mass., June 21, 1N66. He lives in Bridgewater, \nwith an office in that town and one in Boston. \n\nJonathan White, son of Jonathan and Abigail (Holbrook) White, was born in East \nRandolph, Mass., August 22, 1819, and fitted for college at Phillips Academy, An- \ndover. He graduated at Yale in 1844. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1847. He removed to North Bridge- \nwater, now Brockton, in 1849, and established there a residence and business which \nhe has continued to the present time. He was a representative in 1860, and a mem- \nber of the Senate in 1869-1877-1878. He is a man possessing a clear, logical mind, \nsharp, concise and earnest in its expression, and thoroughly trusted in every position \nin which he has been called to serve. He married Nancy Mehitabel, daughter of \nJohn Adams, of Holbrook, Mass. \n\nEllis Wesley Morton, son of Ellis J. and Abby S. (Anthony) Morton, was born in \nNorth Bridgewater, now Brockton, October 8, 1848. He was educated at the Adel- \nphian Academy, the North Bridgewater Academy and the Classical High School of \nProvidence, R. I. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar on the 8th of October in that year. Practicing in Boston, he \nwas appointed assistant United States attorney for Massachusetts November 1, 1861, \nand was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in March, 1864. He \nwas a representative and senator from Boston, and died in September, 1874, at what \nappeared to be the threshold of a brilliant career. \n\nBradford Kingman, son of Josiah Washburn and Mary (Packard) Kingman, was \nborn in North Bridgewater, now Brockton, January 5, 1831. During his youth he \nattended the common schools, the Adelphian Academy and the Williston Seminary in \nEasthampton, Mass. He studied law with Lyman Mason in Boston and at the Har- \nvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 21, 1863, making Boston \nhis place of business and Brookline his place of residence. His taste for literary and \nhistorical pursuits led him early away from the paths of law, and in 1866 he published \nan elaborate history of his native town. He married Susan, daughter of Thomas and \nSusanna (Bradford) Ellis, of Plympton, Mass., and lives in Brookline. \n\nJacob B. Harris was born in Winchester, Mass., and settled in Abington, Mass., \nin the practice of law. Where he studied law and where he was admitted to the bar \nthe writer has not been able to learn. His name is not on the admission roles of \neither Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, Worcester or Plymouth counties, but he was a mem- \nber of the Suffolk bar in 1873. He was a representative from Abington in 1861 and \n1862, and was appointed judge of the District Court of the Second Plymouth County \nDistrict on the establishment of that court in 1874. He was selected by the Supreme \n\n\n324 J //STORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nI to defend Sturtevant, the Halifax murderer,. and his efforts in behalf of the \ncriminal elicited th 5t praise. He died in January, 1ST.\"). \n\niAMix v on of Zechariah and Abigail (Kilborn) Whitman, was born in \n\nin 1768, and graduated at Brown University in 1788. He established \n\n• bin II , in 1792, and was the first lawyer in that town. He was \n\nadmitted to the Suffolk bar before going to Hanover, and returned to Boston in 1805. \n\nWhile in Hanover he was postmaster, and at the establishment of the Boston Poliee \n\nCourt in 1822 he was ap chief justice. He was a representative from Boston, \n\nibout 1834. \n\nWilliam II. Wood, son of Wilkes and Betsey W. (Thompson) Wood, was born in \nMiddleboro', Mass., October 24, 1811, and was descended from Henry Wood, who \ncame to Plymouth from England in 1(14:!, and pm-chased land in Middleboro' in 1667. \nHe was educated a1 Peirce Academy in Middleboro' and Brown University, gradu- \nting in 1834. After leaving college he was for a year the principal of Coffin Academy \nin Nantucket, and th died law in his father's office, completing his education in \n\nBoston in the office of Horace Mann and at the Harvard Law School. He was ad- \nmitted to the bar at Plymouth in 1842, and associated himself in business with John \nS. Eldridge in Boston. Not long' after, owing to delicate health, he retired to \nMiddleboro', where he resided and practiced until his death. An original member of \nthe Free Soil party he was chosen to the State Senate in 1848. In 1849 he was de- \nfeated by the Whigs on account of his anti-slavery sentiments, but was reehosen in \n1850. In is.\"):! he was a member of the Constitutional Convention, in 185? was a rep- \nresentative, and in 1858 a member of the Executive Council. On the 19th of Septem- \nber, 1858, Aaron Hobart, judge of probate for Plymouth county, died, and Mr. Wood \nwas at once appointed as his successor. He remained in office until his death. \n\nBartholomi u Brown, son of John and Guiger (Hutchinson) Brown, was born in \nDanvers, Mass., Septembers, 1712, and graduated at Harvard in 1799. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807 and established himself in East Bridgewrater. \nHe was through life devoted to music, and was at one time president of the Boston \nHandel and Haydn Society. He was a composer of a large number of pieces of \nsacred and secular music, and was one of the most popular soloists of the society. \nThe last few years of his life were spent in Boston. He married in East Bridgewater, \nNovember 20, 1801, Betsey, daughter of General Sylvanus Lazed, of Bridgewater, \nand died in Boston, April 14, 1814. \n\nSeth Miller was born in Middleboro', Mass., January 10, 1801, and graduated at \nBrown University in L823. He studied law in Middleboro' with Wilkes Wood and in \nton with Thompson Miller, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, \n1826. Not long after he established himself in Wareham, and remained there in \nitant practice during life. He was a trial justice in Wareham many years, a mem- \nber of the Constitutional Convention in 1853, and president of the Plymouth County \nl1 ion from the date of its organization in 1867 until his death. He died at \nWareham, unmarried, August 22, 1876. \n\nWilliam BaylI] % son of Dr. William and Bathsheba (White) Baylies, was born in \nDighton, Mass., Sep L5, 1776, and received his early education in one of the \n\npublic schools of that town under the instruction of John Barrows, a graduate of Har- \nvard in 1776. He graduated at Browui University in 1795, and studied law with \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 325 \n\nSeth Pad elf orcl in Taunton. lie was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county before \n1807, and established himself in Dighton. He was a representative from 1808 to \nis*2(! and in 1831, and a senator in 1825. In 1812 he was chosen member <>( Congress \nand rechosen in 1814, and also in 1830 and is:;-,'. In 1831 In- received the degree \nLL.D. from Harvard. For many years during the latter part of his pri nal life \n\nhe made his home in West Bridgewater, and confined his business to that which \nsought him there. Since the introduction of railroads clients have more and more \nsought counsel in Boston, and as a necessary consequence cottntry lawyers havi \ncompelled to open offices in Boston to intercept them. But in the days of. Mr. Bay- \nlies many of the ablest lawyers in the State had their offices in small towns and \nsmaller hamlets and there lived and flourished and won enviable reputations. In \nPlymouth county there were Mr. Baylies in West Bridgewater, Ebenezer (lav in \nHingham, Kilborn Whitman in Pembroke, Thomas Prince Beal in Kingston, Nahum \nMitchell in East Bridgewater, Abraham Holmes in Rochester and Zeehariah Eddy in \nMiddleboro', all following the county circuits, but never finding any inducement to \nleave their native town for wider fields of effort in the cities of the State. The writer \nof these sketches savs of him, in the History of Plymouth County recently published, \nthat \"his last appearance in court was in January, 1849, in Alden B. Weston and \nothers against Alfred Sampson and others, when he appeared for defendants. On the \nquestion at issue this was a leading case, the decision of which involved extended \ninterests along the seaboard of the Old Colony. It was an action of trespass, quare \nclausum fregit, originally brought before a justice of the peace and submitted to the \nCourt of Common Pleas and finally\" brought by appeal to the Supreme Court on the \nfollowing agreed statement of facts: It was admitted that the plaintiffs were the \nproprietors of a tract of upland described in the writ, with the flats adjoining, at \nPowder Point (so called in Duxbury) bordering on the bay. The defendants, inhab- \nitants of Duxbury, went in their boat on said flats, and there, at low water, dug five \nbushels of clams and carried them away in their boat. The place where the clams \nwere dug was between high and low water mark and within one hundred rods of the \nshore of the plaintiff's upland. If the court shall be of the opinion that the defendants \nhad a right so to dig and carry away said clams, the plaintiffs are to become non- \nsuited, otherwise the case is to be sent to a jury. The court decided that fishing was\" \na common law right as well fishing for shell-fish, as for those swimming in the \nwater, and unless there was some colonial, provincial or State law, which controlled \nor limited that right, the inhabitants had a right to go in boats to flats between high \nand low water mark, and there take shell or other fish. The plaintiffs relied on a law \nof Massachusetts Colony passed in 1641, giving the owner of uplands the propriety so \nfar as the tide ebbs and flows, when it does not ebb more than one hundred rods; but \nthe court held that, notwithstanding the union of the Mas ,achusetts and Plymouth Colo- \nnies in 1692, the absence of any Plymouth Colony law or provincial law after 1692, or \nState law after the adoption of the constitution, keeps the old common law right \nalive, and justifies the defendants in their acts.\" Mr. Baylies died unmarried in \nTaunton, September 27, 1865, and was buried in Dighton, his native town. \n\nWilkes Wood, son of Ebenezer and Sally (Bennett) Wood, was born in Middleboro, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807. He established himself in his \nnative town, and was many years judge of probate. He married flrst Betsey Tink- \nham, and second Betsey W. Thompson. \n\n\n326 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam Josiah Forsaith, son of Josiah and Maria (Southworth) Forsaith, was \nborn in Newport, X. II., April 19, 1836, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1857. \nudied law with Burke & Wait m Newport, and in Boston in the offices of Benja- \nmin 1'\". Hallett and Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1*00. \n.as appointed special justice of the Boston Municipal Court, January '2:!, 1872, \nand promoted to associate March 8, 1882, and is still on the bench. He married \nAnnie Maria Yeazie at Bangor, Me., October 31, ISC).\"), and lives in Boston. \n\norge R. Fowler, son of Asa and Mary C. K. Fowler, was born in Concord, N. \nII., April 25, lsl I. and was educated at the common schools and the High School of \nthat city. He spent a short time at Dartmouth College, and received an honorary \ndegree nt' .Master of Arts from that institution in 1868. He studied law in Concord \nwith his father, at the Harvard Law School and the Albany Law School, receiving \nthe degree of LL.D. from the latter, and was admitted to the bar in Concord in April, \nIsiiT, and in Boston October 8, 1869. He was assistant clerk and clerk of the New \nHampshire State Senate from 186.1 to 1868, has been a member of the Boston city \ngovernment, and is a special justice of the West Roxbury District Municipal Court. \nlie married Isabel Minot at Concord, N. H., April 24, 1878, and lives in Boston. \n\nSi ephen Ai si i\\ Foster, son of Austin T. and Sarah H. Foster, was born in Derby \nLine, Yt, December 23, 1866, and was educated at the Goddard Seminary and Tufts \nCollege, He studied at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of John \nC. ( ' >' nubs, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1*92. He lives in Boston. \n\nStephen Gilman, son of Samuel and Sarah (Goodhue) Gilman, was born in Meredith \nVillage, X. II., September 28, 1*19, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied \nlaw in New York city, with Man & Parsons, and was admitted to the New York bar \nNovember 24, 1*11, and to the Suffolk bar in April, 1879. He married first Lucy \nA. Davis in New York city, March 12, 1870, and second Esther W. Mansfield, of \nLynntield, Mass., August 7, 18*1, and his residence is in Lynnfield. \n\nEmekv Reuben Gibbs, son of Phineas Stearns and Mary Catherine (Meserve) Gibbs, \nwas born in Byron, Me., October 23, 1862, and was educated at the Coburn Classical \nInstitute in the class of 1**4, and at Colby University in the class of 1888. He stud- \nied law in Boston in the office of Joseph Willard, and graduated at the Boston Uni- \nversity Law School in 1891, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. \nHe married Jennie Barbour at Yarmouth, Me., January 13, 1892, and lives in \nBrookline. \n\nLouis Girardin, son of Louis and Sophia Girardin, was born in Philadelphia, May \n1, 1837, and was educated at the Boston Grammar and High Schools, the academy \nat Litchfield, Me., and Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law in Boston in the \noffice of Charles J. Noyes, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 8, 1872. He \nmarried Rachel A. Smith in New York city, April 20, 1862, and lives in Boston. \n\nHerbert Lee Harding, son of Samuel Lee and Catherine Bond Harding, was born \nin Lancaster, Mass., May 10, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Morse, Stone & \nGreenough, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1877. He has been a \nmember of the Boston Common Council. He married Lucy Austin in Charlestown, \nMass., October 13, 1**0, and lives at Jamaica Plain. \n\n\n\"*** \n\n\n/Z4>/^U(/71L \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 327 \n\nJohn Le Grand Harvey, son of John and Susanna Harvey, was bom in North \nFairfield, O., December 5, 1857, and was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University \nand Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and \nin Boston in the office of B. B. Johnson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, \n1888. He has been water commissioner in Waltham, where he resides. He married \nFanny C. Johnson at Haverhill, October 15, 1889. He has written treatises on \"Law \nas a Factor of Civilization,\" and on \"The Torrens System of Land Transfer.\" \n\nAlbert Augustus Gleason, son of Zelotes and Sarah Adelaide (Scott) Gleason, was \nborn October 10, 1863, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard \nCollege, graduating from the latter in 1886. He graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1889 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1890. He is the author \nof several historical papers. Residence, Boston. \n\nWilliam Alanson Abbe, was born in Litchfield, Conn., in is:;.\"), ami fitted for col- \nlege at Phillips Academy, Andover. He graduated at Amherst in 1857 and studied \nlaw in Boston, being admitted to the Suffolk bar November 1, 1802. Shortly after \nhis admission he went to Colorado in the interest of a mining company, and there \nbecame associated with Professor Hill, of Brown Universitv, afterwards United \nStates Senator from Colorado, in the Boston and Colorado Smelting Company. He \nremained in Colorado ten years, and was at one time mayor of Black Hawk in that \nState. He finally established himself in New Bedford, where he resided the last ten \nyears of his life, a director in several of the large mills in that city and in Fall River. \nHe died in New Bedford November 25, 1892. \n\nAugustus Oliver Allen, son of Frederic and Hannah Bowen (Whipple) Allen, was \nborn in Gardiner, Me., December 21, 1826, and graduated at Bowdoin College in \n1848. He studied law in the office of his father at Gardiner and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 14, 1850. He was a representative in 1865 and 1866 from Boston, \nand later a senator. He married Sarah Ann, daughter of Franklin Haven, of Bos- \nton, in 1869, and died in the same year. \n\nCharles Edward Allen, son of Frederick and Hannah Bowen (Whipple) Allen, \nwas born in Gardiner, Me., November 20, 1816, and graduated at Bowdoin College \nin 1835. He studied law in Gardiner in the office of his father, and in Bangor in the \noffice of Judge Appleton, and was admitted to the bar in Augusta, Me. , in 1835, and \nto the Suffolk bar in 1846. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. \n\nFrederic Wright Bliss, son of Cyrus W. and Hannah T. (Munroe) Bliss, was born \nin Rehoboth, Mass., October 14, 1852, and studied law in Providence, R. I., with \nJames Tillinghast, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1881. He \nwas admitted to the bar in New Bedford in June, 1881. He was a representative in \n1891 and 1892 and has been chosen for 1893. He lives in Boston. \n\nHenry J. Wells was born in Charlestown, Mass., November 16, 1823, and from \n1840 to 1848 was engaged in mercantile pursuits. He then went to New Orleans, and \nin 1849 to California. He found employment in San Francisco first as assistant clerk \nand afterwards full clerk of the courts, which position he held until 1853. He then \nstudied law and practiced until 1863, when he was appointed judge of the Municipal \nCourt of San Francisco. He was also a member of the Board of Education, police \ncommissioner, president of the Board of Aldermen, and president of the Young \n\n\n328 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nMen's Christian Association. In 1856 he returned to Massachusetts and married \nMari. oston. Aft. ' he went back to California, where \n\nhc remair il L866, when he again returned to Massachusetts and became a resi- \n\ndent of Arlii: On the >i May, 1871, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar \n\naml | iSs in Boston, with a residence in Cambridge since 1877, \n\ne he removed from Arlington. He was a representative in 1880 and 1881, and \nafterwards two years a senator. \n\n( ,i orge 1 MM i.k R( was born in Lexington, Mass., January 10, 1834, and re- \n\nceived his early education at the Lexington Academy and the. Hopkins Classical \nSchool in Cambridge. He graduated at Harvard in 1856, and afterwards taught for \nnine years the High School in Chicopee, Mass. In 1865 he began the study of law \nand was admitted to the bar in 1866, establishing himself in Chicopee, where he has \nsince remained. He was a representative in lSTd and a senator in 1876. He was \nchosen member of Congress in 1876-78-80-82, and in 1883 was chosen governor. He \nwas rechosen in 1884 and 1885, and has since his retirement resumed his business in \nChicopee, with a considerable practice in Boston. \n\nGeorge A. Flagg was born in Millbury, Mass., May 2, 1845, and was educated at \nPhillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, grad ating from the latter in 1866. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in I860, and was admitted to the Worcester \ncounty baf. He represented the Fifteenth Worcester Representative District in the \nHouse of Representatives in 1877, and was a delegate to the Republican National \nConvention in 1884. He was on the staff of Governor Robinson, and since 1885 has \nhad an office in Boston. \n\nWilliam Henry Whitman, son of Kilborn and Elizabeth (Winslow) Whitman, was \n\nborn in Pembroke, Mass., January 26, 1817. On his father's side he was descended \n\nfrom John Whitman, who settled in Weymouth in 1638, and on his mother's side from \n\nEdward Winslow, one of the Mayflower Pilgrims and governor of the Plymouth \n\nny. He was educated at the public schools, and studied law with Thomas Prince \n\nBeal in Kingston, Mass. He practiced law in Bath, Me., a short time, and then came \n\nto Boston about 1844, and was associated in business with Charles G. Davis. In 1851 \n\nhe was appointed clerk of the courts of Plymouth county, and removed his residence \n\nto that town. After the office of clerk was made elective he was chosen and rechosen \n\nuntil his death, which occurred at Plymouth, August 13, 18*9. He married first in \n\n18 L-6 Ann Sever, daughter of William and Sally W. (Sever) Thomas, of Plymouth, and \n\nrid, Helen, daughter of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell, of Plymouth, and \n\nwidow of William Davis of that town. \n\nJohn W. Mahar was an attorney. at the Suffolk bar in 1860. He was a major in \nthe Ninth Massachusetts Regiment in the War of the Rebellion, and died in Wash- \nington, 1). C, in 1886. \n\nJ \\mi s A. M( < i-EOi i. ii, son of Patrick and Mary Mi gh, was born in county Ca- \n\nvan, Ireland, June 15, 1853, and came in 1859, when a child, to Massachusetts. He \nwas educated at Boston College, and graduated at the Boston University Law School \nin 1S74. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 20, 1874, was a member of the \nCommon Council in 1878, a representative from Boston in 1878-80-81, and a senator \nin Ins:;. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis \nin 1888. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 329 \n\nJohn H. Sherburne, was born in Charlestown, Mass., December 7, L845, and grad- \nuated at the Harvard Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar I >< \ntober 15, 1878. He was a lieutenant in the navy in the War of the Rebellion, and a \nrepresentative in 1879-80. \n\nMichael J. Creed was born in South Boston, August 28, 1856. lie attended the \nBigelow Grammar School and the English High School, and graduated at the Boston \nUniversity Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, \n1879, and was a representative in 1884-85-86. \n\nEken F. Stone was born in Newburyport, Mass., August 3, 1822, and was edu- \ncated at the academy at North Andover and at Harvard College, graduating from \nthe latter in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1847, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1847. He established himself in his native town, where \nhe has continued to practice up to the present time, except during his absence \nin the army, and his residence in Washington in 1865, associated in business with \nCaleb Gushing. In 1851 he was president of the Common Council of Newbury- \nport, in 1867 mayor, in 1857-58-61 a senator, in 1867-77-78-80 representative, \nand a member of the Forty-seventh Congress. In 1862 he enlisted as a private and \nwas chosen captain of a company recruited by him, and commanded for a time a re- \ncruiting camp at Wenham. He was afterwards colonel of the Forty-eighth Massa- \nchusetts Regiment. His home is still in Newburyport. \n\nHorace E. Ware, son of Jonathan and Mary Ann Ware, was born in Milton, Mass., \nAugust 27, 1847, and attended the public schools of Dorchester. He graduated at \nHarvard in 1867, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of \nWilliam S. Leland in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September U>, \n1869. In 1877 he was in Europe, and in 1879-80 was in the Massachusetts House of \nRepresentatives, where he served on the Judiciary Committee both years. \n\nAbraham Burbank Coffin, son of Warren and Hannah Coffin, was born in Gilead, \nMe., March 31, 1831, andat two years of age removed with his parents to Londonderry, \nN. H. He attended Phillips Andover Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth in \n1856. While in college he taught school in Boxford and Andover, Mass., and the \nHigh School in Stoneham. After graduating he taught in Fluvanna county, Va., \nand there studied law, being admitted to the bar in Richmond, January 13, 1858. \nReturning to Boston he studied a short time in Boston in the office of John P. Healy, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 18, 1858. Taking up his residence in \nWinchester, he was a representative in 1876, a senator in 1877-78, and has been a mem- \nber of the Executive Council. He married Mary E. Stevens at Boston, August 14, \n1889, and still lives in Winchester. \n\nWilliam Cogswell was on the roll of Boston lawyers in 1885. He was born in \nBradford, Mass. , August 23, 1838, and received his early education at Phillips An- \ndover Academy, and the Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H. He entered \nDartmouth College in 1855, but leaving college shipped before the mast, and in \n1856-7 made a voyage around the world. He graduated at the Harvard Law School \nin 1860, and in that year was admitted to the Essex bar. In 1861 he raised a com- \npany of volunteers and was commissioned captain of Company C, Second Massachusetts \nRegiment for three years' service. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, October \n42 \n\n\n33o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n23, 1862, to colonel, June 6, 1863, and brevetted major-general, January 17, 1865. He \nwas wounded twice during the war, and has been commander of the Grand Army of \nthe Republic. He was representative in 1870-71-81-83, senator in 1885-86, mayor of \nSalem from 1867 to 1873 inclusive, and has now, in 1892, been chosen for the third or \nfourth time member of Congress. \n\nEdward D. Hayden was born in Cambridge, December 27, 1833, and was educated \nat Lawrence Academy in Groton and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1854. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Springfield in the office of Chief Jus- \ntice Chapman, and in Boston in the office of Ezra Ripley. He opened an office in \nWoburn, Mass., in February, 1858, and his name is found on the list of Boston law- \nyers in I860. In 1862 he was appointed paymaster in the navy. In 1866 he became \nconnected in business with the firm of J. B. Winn & Co., having abandoned the law, \nand continued the connection until 1875. In 1874 he was chosen president of the \nFirst National Bank of Woburn, was in the Massachusetts Senate in 1880-81, and \nafterwards a member of Congress. \n\nGeorge C. Bent was born in Ludlow, Vt. , in 1848, and attended Dean Academy \nin Franklin, Mass. He taught the High School in Machias, Me., and then studying \nlaw in Boston in the office of H. W. Chaplin, was admitted to the Suffolk bar March \n20, 1876. His residence is in Cambridge, where he has been four years in the Com- \nmon Council, and representative in 1884-85. \n\nJohn A. Collins, son of John and Catherine Collins, was born in Boston, February \n29, 1860, and received his early education at the public schools, and the Latin School \nin Boston. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1882, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He was a representative 1885-86, and senator \nin 1888-89. His residence is in Boston. \n\nEzra Wilkinson was born in Attleboro', Mass., February 14, 1805, and receiving \nhis early education at Day's Academy, graduated at Brown University in 1824. \nAfter leaving college he was the principal of Monmouth Academy in Maine, and \nstudied law with Peter Pratt in Providence and Josiah J. Fiske in Wrentham. He \nwas admitted to the bar at Dedham in September, 1828, and after practicing a \nshort time in Freetown and Seekonk, he removed to Dedham in 1835, where he \nresided until his death. He was one of the judges appointed to the bench of the \nSuperior Court at its establishment in 1859, and continued on the bench until his \ndeath in 1882. Previous to his going on the bench he served twelve years, from \n1843 to 1855, as district attorney. The office of attorney-general was abolished in \n1843 and renewed in 1849, and during the interval Mr. Wilkinson conducted ten capi- \ntal trials. He was a representative in 1841-51-56, and a member of the Constitutional \nConvention in 1853. He was not only an able lawyer, but an accomplished scholar. \n\n1 1 i.nry W. Fuller was born in Hooksett, N. H., June 30, 1840, and removed when \nyoung to Concord, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1857, and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1859. In 1860 he began practice in Concord, and in 1861 enlisted as a \nprivate in the First New Hampshire Regiment for three months' service. He was \nafterwards appointed first lieutenant and adjutant of the Fourth New Hampshire \nRegiment for three years' service, and in December, 1863, was made major. He \nwas afterward made lieutenant-colonel of the Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment, \nand finally colonel of the Seventy-fifth United States Regiment of colored troops. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 33i \n\nHe was in the service from April, 1861, to January, I860, and was discharged with \nthe brevet rank of brigadier-general. After his discharge he came to Boston, where \nhe was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 9, 186., August 29, 1841, and was educated in his youth at the public \nschools of Cleveland, and at Union School, Lockport, N. Y. After fitting for college \nhe entered the army and served four years. He then studied law in New York city \nin the office of < >liver Dyer and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar April 24, 1875. During the war he was second lieutenant, first lieutenant \nand adjutant in the One Hundred and Thirtieth New York Regiment of Infantry, \nafterwards made the First New York Dragoons, captain and assistant adjutant-gen- \neral of the Cavalry Reserve of the Army of the Potomac, also assistant adjutant-gen- \neral of the district of West Tennessee and of Mississippi. He was a member of the \nBoston Common Council in 1884 and 1885, and has been judge of the East Boston \nDistrict Court since March, 1886. He married Sarah T. Butler in Boston, Septem- \nber 18, 1866, and lives in Boston. \n\nCharles A. Drew graduated at Harvard in 1870, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in June, 1872, and lives in Boston. \n\nFreeman Emmons, son of Dimon and Mary Ann (Currier) Emmons, was born in \nLyman, Me., March 1, 1845, and was educated at the common schools in Lyman and \nat the High School in Alfred, Me. He studied law in Boston in the office of Daniel W. \nGooch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1880. He was clerk and treas- \nurer of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company previous to its sale to the State \nof Massachusetts in 1884. He is largely engaged in the pension business, and has \nhad at one time as many as four thousand claims in his hands. He married Maria \nRichardson at Watefville, Me., September 2, 1869, and lives in Wakefield, Mass. \n\nHenry Butler Emmons, son of William H. H. and Sarah Tilton (Butler) Emmons, \nwas born in Boston, July 29, 1867, and attended the public schools. He studied law \nwith his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1889. His residence is \nin Boston. \n\nJohn Henry Colby, son of John F. and Ruthey E. (Cloutman) Colby, was born in \nRandolph, Mass., January 13, 1862, and fitting for college at the Boston public schools, \ngraduated at Dartmouth in 1885. He studied law with John F. Colby and at the \nBoston University Law School, where he graduated in 1889, and in June of that year \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar. He married Annie Evarts Cornelius in Boston, Oc- \ntober 8, 1891, and lives in Boston. \n\nMark C. Collins, was born in Boston, September 24, 1849, and was educated at \nthe public schools. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1879 and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. \n\nFreeman Turner Crommett, son of James R. and Betsey (Turner) Crommett, was \nborn in Sebec, Me., October 2, 1850, and was educated at Foxcroft Academy and at \nBates College, where he graduated in 1874. He studied law in South Paris, Me., \nwith George A. Wilson, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1879. \nHe was admitted to the bar at Oxford, Me., in April, 1877, and to the Suffolk bar in \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 335 \n\nDecember, 1879. He was a member of the School Board in South Paris from is;:, to \n1877, and taught school in that town from 1874 to 1877. He married Annie C. , daugh- \nter of Orrin W. and Mar)- Bent, in Paris, Me., October 20, 1880, and lives in \nChelsea. \n\nJohn F. Cronan was born in Boston April 9, 185(5, and was educated at the com- \nmon schools and the Boston English High School. He studied law at the Boston \nUniversity Law School, and in the office of F. A. Perry, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in May, 1879, at the age of twenty-three. He was a campaign speaker \nin 1876, advocating the election of Samuel J. Tilden to the presidency. \n\nGuy Cunningham, son of Sylvester, was born in Gloucester, Mass., April 19, 1867, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1887. He attended the Harvard Law School and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. His residence is at Gloucester. \n\nFrancis P. Curran, son of Patrick and Ellen Curran, was born in Woburn, Mass., \nAugust 31, 1862, and was educated at the Woburn High School. He studied law at \nthe Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar of Middlesex county \nin July, 1885. He has been selectman, city solicitor, water commissioner, and chair- \nman of the Board of Assessors in Woburn, where he has his residence. He married \nIda M. Gilman (Colby). He is editor of the Woburn City Press, with his law office \nin Boston. \n\nNathan Currier, son of Albert and Hannah Currier, was born June 22, 1858, and \nwas educated at the Goddard Seminary and at Tufts College, where he graduated in \n1883. He was admitted to the bar of York county, Me., January 8, 1880, and to the \nSuffolk bar in June, 1890. He married Clara May Smith in Enfield, N. H., July 14, \n1886, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. \n\nCharles H. Crosby, son of Watson and Desire Crosby, was born in Brattleboro, \nVt. , and was educated at the Brattleboro Academy. He studied law with Luther \nAdams in Chester, Vt. , and was admitted to the Vermont bar in Woodstock, Febru- \nary 2, 1848, and to the Suffolk bar November 7, 1878. He is the author of \"Letters \nfrom Abroad.\" He married Mary L. Hart, at Guilford, Vt., November 8, 1849, and \nlives in the Roxbury District of Boston. \n\nJ. Porter Crosby, son of Asa Stone and Eliza Barker (Snow) Crosby, was born in \nBoston, May 23, 1870, and was educated at the Boston public schools. He studied \nlaw at the Boston University Law School, and in the office of Arthur F. Means, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. He lives in Boston. \n\nSimon Greenleaf Croswell, son of Andrew and Caroline Augusta (Greenleaf) \nCroswell, was born in Newton, Mass., August 3, 1854, and was educated at the Cam- \nbridge High School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1875. He stud- \nied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Albert Mason, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1879. He is the author of \"Croswell on \nExecutors,\" and a \"Collection of Patent Cases.\" He has also edited \"Greenleaf \non Evidence,\" \"Washburn on Easements,\" and jointly with J. Willard, \"Wash- \nburn on Real Property.\" He lives in Cambridge. \n\nJames T. Cummings, son of John and Mary R. Cummings, was born in Providence, \nR. I., July 20, 1865, and graduated at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. \nHe studied law with John W. Cummings, and graduated at the Boston University \nLaw School, being admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. \n\n\n336 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nMichael Joseph Canaa an was born in Somerville, Mass., and was educated at the \nSomerville High School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1871. Immediately \nafter leaving college he spent two years in Gottingen, Germany, and entering- the \nHarvard Law School graduated in 1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Febru- \nuarv 12, 1877. He is a trustee of the Somerville Public Library and lives in that \ntown. \n\nIra Osborn C vr i i r, son of Lewis and Sarah (Sawyer) Carter, was born in Berlin, \nNovember 18, 1832, and graduated at Paducah College, Kentucky, in 1853, and \nwas afterwards for a time one of its professors. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 11, 1864. He married March (i, \nI860, Susan French, daughter of Walter and Roxana (Fletcher) Shattuck, of Groton, \nMass., and died at Arlington, Mass., February 13, 1885. \n\nWilliam E. Cassidy was born in Boston in 1856 and was educated at the Lawrence \nGrammar School in that city. He studied law at the Boston University Law School \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He was commissioner of insolvency in \niss| 85-86. \n\nThomas Henderson Chandler was born in Boston, July 4, 1827, and fitting for \ncollege at the Boston Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1848. He graduated at \nthe Harvard Law School in 1853. He taught in the Latin School three years and a \nprivate school three years. In 1857 he began the study of dentistry, and has been \nfor a number of years dean of the dental department of Harvard, and professor of \nmechanical dentistry. He is in the practice of dentistry in Boston. \n\nSalmon Chase was born in Cornish, N. H., in 1761, and graduated at Dartmouth \nin 1785. He studied law with Judge Sherburne, and his name is on the roll of ad- \nmissions to the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court before 1807. He practiced in \nPortland, and died in 1806. \n\nEdward Vernon Childe, son of David Weld and Abigail (Dorr) Child, was born \nin Boston, March 13, 1804. His original name, Ebenezer Dorr Child, was changed \nby act of the Legislature February 8, 1823. He fitted for college at the Boston Latin \nSchool, and graduated at Harvard in 1823. He studied law in Boston in the office of \nDaniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar by the Common Pleas Court in \n< Ictober, 1820, and by the Supreme Judicial Court in October, 1829. He soon aban- \ndoned the law and became a resident of Paris, France, where he devoted himself to \nliterary pursuits. He was the Paris correspondent of the London 'limes from Novem- \nber:!, 1845, to June 7, 1856, and of the New York Courier and Enquirer from October \n17, 184fi, to December 4, 1856. His letters to both journals were published in a \nvolume for private circulation. He married in 1831 Mildred, daughter of General \nHenry Lee, of Virginia, and died in Paris, January 23, 1861. \n\nWalter Lenoir Church, son of Samuel S. and Julia (Lenoir) Church, was born in \nLexington, Kv. , October 17, 1X49, and was educated at the Kentucky. University, the \nMissouri University, and Washington University. He studied law in St. Louis, Mo., \nwith Thomas A. Russell, and at the Washington University Law School. ^He was \nadmitted to the bar in Missouri in 1872, in Colorado in 1880, in Kentucky in 1887, \nand in Massachusetts in 1890. He has devoted himself to literary pursuits, aside \nfrom his law practice, and has published essays, poems and stories. He married \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 337 \n\nSue Alexine Campbell in St. Louis, December 28, 1876, and lives in the Brighton \nDistrict of Boston. \n\nJohn Maitland Brewer Churchill, son of Asaph and Mary (Brewer) Churchill, \nwas born in Dorchester, Mass., January 18, 1858, and was educated at the Boston \nLatin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He is unmarried, \nand lives in Boston. \n\nGeorge Kuhn Clarke, son of Samuel Greeley and Martha (Kuhn) Clarke, was born \nin Cambridge. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1883, and \nbecame a member of the Suffolk bar. He married Ellen M., daughter of Harrison \nDudley, of Cambridge. \n\nAlbe Cady Clark, son of Satchwell W. and Ruth (Folsoml Clark, was born in \nFranklin, N. H., August 31, 1826, and was educated at the Gilmanton Academy and \nat Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law in Lowell in the office of John P. \nRobinson, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nOctober, 1852. He has been a member of the Dorchester School Board, and was a \nrepresentative in 187:3-74. He married at Lowell, October 1, 1855, Josephine Varney, \nand lives in the Dorchester district of Boston. \n\nAlbert E. Clary, son of John and Sybel H. Clary, was born in Troy, Me., March \n15, 1848, and was educated at the public schools and at Wilbraham Academy in Wil- \nbraham, Mass. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1875 and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in the same year. While living in Troy he wTas town \nclerk and chairman of the School Board and is now special justice of the East Boston \nDistrict Court, appointed in 1886. Prior to 1875 he taught school a number of years \nin Maine. He married at Saco, Me., April 14, 1881, Rosalia L. Dunn, and lives in \nEast Boston. \n\nAndrew Jackson Clough, son of Winthrop and Susan (Bryant) Clough, was born \nin Montpelier, Vt, August 3, 1831. He studied law in New Ipswich with John Pres- \nton and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 5, \n1857. He practiced at Groton Junction and lived in Shirley, and was appointed trial \njustice September 28, 1858. He served in the war as captain of Company D, Fifty- \nthird Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged January 22, 1863. He married, \nMarch 6, 1860, Mary Jane, daughter of Lewis and Almira Woods (Hartwell) Blood, \nof Shirley, and died at Shirley, June 14, 1868. \n\nMoses Gill Cokb, son of Elias Hull and Rebecca Buttrick (Gill) Cobb, was born in \nPrinceton, Mass., November 24, 1820, and removed with his parents to Groton in \n1834. He was educated at the Lawrence Academy in Groton and at Harvard, where \nhe graduated in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar January 26 in that year. He was associated in prac- \ntice with James Dana in Charlestown, where he was a member of the Common C< >uncil \nin 1847 and 1848, and an alderman in 1853. In 1855 he removed to Dorchester and \nwas a member of the Executive Council in 1856. He married, October 14, 1846, \nSophia, daughter of Edmund and Sophia (Sewall) Munroe, of Boston, and is now in \nthe practice of his profession in California. \n43 \n\n\n33 8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nfoHN Storer Cobb, son of John Saxelby and Harriett W. Cobb, was born in Eng- \nland, fanuary T, 1842, and was educated in the higher schools of England. He \nstudied law at the Columbia College Law School in New York, and was admitted to \nto the New York bar in 1ST.\"\"), and to the Suffolk bar in 1884. His residence is in \nBoston. \n\nAm\"k\\ Eliot, son of William Prescott and Eleanor (Chapin) Eliot, was born May \n■„»e- \npartment in 1888 and 1889, but is now in active practice. He married, November '-2U, \n1883, in Boston, Mary E. Connell, and has his residence in Cambridgeport. \n\nHorace Hopkins Coolidge, son of Amos and Louisa (Hopkins) Coolidge, was born \nin Boston, February 11, 1832, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at \nHarvard, where he graduated in 1852. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in \n1856, and after further study in Boston in the office of Brooks & Ball was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in June, 1857. He has been commissioner of insolvency and master \nin chancery, was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1865- \n66-67, and a member of the Senate in 1869-70-71-72, serving the last three years as \nits president. He married in Boston, October 27, 1857, Eunice Maria Weeks, and has \nhis residence in Boston. \n\nWilliam Henry Coolidge, son of William Leander and Sarah Isabella (Washburn) \nCoolidge, was born in Natick, Mass., February 23, 1859, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1881. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of \nHyde, Dickinson & Howe, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1885. \nHe is assistant attorney of the Boston and Lowell and Boston and Maine Railroads, and \nlives at Newton, with an office in Boston occupied by the firm of Strout f this solemn occa- \nsion, etc.\" From that moment Mr. Hoar's appeal was dead. Its recall only excited \na smile and the effect which his solemnity usually inspired was lost. \n\nGeorge Morey was born in Walpole, Mass., June 12, 1789, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1811. He read law with Luther Lawrence in Groton, Mass., and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar March 16, 1818. He was an active member of the Whig \nparty, and was a member of both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature, and of \nthe Executive Council. He died in 1866. \n\nTames Temple, son of Benjamin, was born in Concord, Mass., September 20, 1766, \nand graduated at Dartmouth in 1704. He taught school in Concord in 1795 and 1796, \nand read law with Jonathan Fay of that town. His name is on the roll of admissions \nto the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court before 1807. He settled in Cambridge, and \ndied March 10, 1802. \n\nSilas Lee, son of Joseph Lee, was born in Concord, Mass., July 3, 1760, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1784. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and settled in what \nis now Wiscasset, Me. He was a representative in 1800 and 1801, and a member \nof the Sixth Congress. In January, 1802, he was appointed United States district at- \ntorney for Maine, and in 1807 judge of probate of Lincoln county. He died March 1, \n1814. \n\nPeter Clark, son of Benjamin, was born in Concord, Mass., in 1756, and gradu- \nated at Harvard in 1777. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and settled in South- \nboro', where he died in July, 1792. \n\nDaniel Bliss Ripley, son of Rev. Ezra Ripley, was born in Concord in 1788, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1808. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and died at St. \nStephens, Ala., April 30, 1825. \n\nStephen Scales, born in Boston, graduated at Harvard 1763. He was admitted to \nthe bar, and in 1772 removed from Boston to Chelmsford, where he died on the 5th \nof November in that year. \n\nJohn Wesley Titus, son of Asher S. and Betsey N. (Ellsworth) Titus, was born in \nSalem, Mass., and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Josiah W. Hubbard, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar April 25, 1859. He is unmarried and lives in Dedham. \n\nCharles E. Todd, son of Charles A. and Mary A. Todd, was born in Newbury- \nport, Mass., August 21, 1856, and was educated at the Lyme High School and under \nprivate instruction. He graduated at the Boston University Law School, and was \nadmitted to the bar in Salem, Mass., May 1, 1880. He lives in Melrose. \n\nWilliam Nelson Titus, son of William Nelson and Martha J. Titus, was born in \nAlna, Lincoln county, Me., January 12, 1855, and received his early education at the \ncommon schools, afterwards attending the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, and Watervillc \nClassical Institute, and Maine State College. He studied law with William H. Hilton in \nDamariscotta, Me., and with Almore Kennedy in Waldoboro', Me., and was admitted \nto the Maine bar in Lincoln county in April, 1879. He was on the bench in the Rhode \nIsland District Court from 1882 to 1885, and was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1885, \n\n\n344 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nRemoving to Massachusetts he was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in Feb- \nury, lss,i- He has been a frequent contributor of financial and other articles to the \nKennebec Journal and Boston Daily Advertiser. He married Frances Gracia at \nWaldoboro', Me., December 27, L881, and has his residence in Medford. \n\nGeorgi Arno] d Torrey, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Arnold) Torrey, was born in \nFitchburg, Mas-,., May 14, 1838, and was educated at Leicester Academy and at Har- \nvard College, where he graduated in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the Worcester bar at Fitchburg in June, 1861. He was \nsenator from the Fifth Worcester District in 1872 and 1873, and has been general \ncounsel for the Fitchburg Railroad Company since 1887. He married Ellen M. Shir- \nlev at Boston in June, 1861, and lives in Boston. \n\nGeorge Makepeace Towle was born in Washington, D. C, August 27, 1841, and \ngraduated at Vale in 1861. He attended the Harvard Law School, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar November 14, 1862. He was United States consul at Nantes from \n1866 to 1868, and then consul at Bradford, England, till 1870. He was a delegate to \nthe National Republican Convention in 1888, manufacturing editor of the Com- \nmercial Bulletin in 1870-71, and foreign editor of the Boston Post from 1871 to \nL876. \n\nWillliam Warren Towle, son of Dr. William C. and Annie E. Towle, was born in \nFryeburg, Me., August 21, 1860, and was educated at the Fryeburg Academy and at \nBowdoin College, where he graduated in 1881. He graduated at the Boston Univer- \nsity Law School in 1884, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1884. He \nwas a member of the Boston Common Council in 1889 and 1890, and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Ropes Trask, son of Charles Hooper and Martha (Reed) Trask, was born \nin New York city, Jannary 9, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He attended \nthe Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. He is un- \nmarried and lives in Boston. \n\nBentley Wirt Warren, son of William Wirt and Mary (Adams) Warren, was born \nin Brighton, Mass., April 20, 1864, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and \nat Williams College, where he graduated in 1885. Ha\" studied law at the Boston \nUniversity Law School and in the office of Thomas P. Proctor, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in January, 1888. He wras a representative in 1891-92. He lives in \nthe Brighton District of Boston. \n\nGeorue Hill Mullin, son of Arthur and Mary Mullin, was born in the county of \nLondonderry, Ireland, November 17, 1834, and coming to America, was educated at \nthe .Madras and grammar schools of New Brunswick. He studied law with Judge \nDuff, late of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and at the Harvard Law School, \nfrom which he graduated in 18(58. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme \nCourt of New Brunswick October 21, 1869, and as barrister in 1870. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1871. \n\nSherman Leland was born in Grafton, Mass., March 29, 1783, and was educated \nat the common schools. He began to study law in October, 1805, and was admitted \nto the bar in Worcester in December, 1809. He began practice at Eastport, Me., in \nJanuary, 1810, and < )ctober 11, 1811, he was appointed attorney for Washington county. \nHe was a representative m 1812, and from December, 1812, to April, 1813, he served \n\n\nJi \n\n\nCK \n\n\n~7 \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 345 \n\nas first lieutenant on the frontier. He was then made captain in the Thirty-fourth \nUnited States Regiment, and served until January 5, 1*14, when he removed to \nRoxbury and soon after opened an office in Boston. He was a representative from \nRoxbury in 1818-19-21-23-25, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, a \nsenator from Norfolk county in 1823-24-28-29, and president of the Senate in the last \nyear. He was appointed judge of probate for Norfolk county January 26, 1830, and \nserved until his death, which occurred November 19, 1853. He received the degree \nof Master of Arts from Harvard in 1826. \n\nWilliam Sherman Leland, son of the above, was born in Roxbury, October 12, \n1824, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law with his father and \nwas a member of the Suffolk county bar in 1852. He succeeded his father as judge \nof probate for Norfolk county and remained in office until 1858, when the office was \nabolished and that of judge of probate and insolvency was established. He died \nJuly 26, 1869. \n\nS vmuel Haven, son of Rev. Jason Haven, was born in Dedham, April 5, 1771, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1789. His mother was a daughter of Rev. Samuel Dexter, \nof Dedham, and Samuel Dexter, the distinguished lawyer, was his cousin. He \nstudied law in Dedham with Fisher Ames, and in Boston with his cousin, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar. When the county of Norfolk was established in \n1793 he was appointed register of probate and register of deeds. In 1802 he was \nappointed a special justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Norfolk county, and in \n1804 chief justice, serving until the court was abolished in 1811. He held the office \nof register of deeds until 1833, when he removed to Roxbury where he died September \n4, 1847. \n\nThomas Greenleaf was born in Boston May 15, 1767, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1784. He was admitted to the bar in Suffolk county in October, 1809, and early \nin the century removed to Quincy. He was a representative from Quincy from 1808 \nto 1821), a member of the Executive Council from 1820 to 1822, and in 1806 was ap- \npointed a special justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He died January 5, 1854. \n\nEbenezer F. Thayer was born in Braintree June 12, 1784, and studied law with \nHenry Maurice Lisle in Milton, and with James Sullivan in Boston. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1811, and practiced in Boston six or eight years \nassociated with Samuel K. Williams, when he removed to Braintree, where he died \nFebruary 15, 1824. \n\nJohn B. Derby was admitted to the bar in 1821, and practiced in Boston and \nDedham. \n\nDavid Allen Simmons was born in Boston, November 7, 1785, and was educated at \nthe Chesterfield Academy in New Hampshire. He studied law with Thomas Will- \niams in Roxbury, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 28, 1816. He practiced \nlaw in Boston, associated at various times with George Gay, James M. Keith and \nHarvey Jewell. He received the degree of LL.B. from Dartmouth, and died in \nRoxbury, November 20, 1859. \n\nPercy Gardner Bolster, son of Solomon A. and Sarah (Jordan) Bolster, was born \nin Roxbury, August 20, 1865, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He studied law at \n44 \n\n\n346 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthe Harvard Law School, in the office of Hamlin & Holland, of Chicago, and with \nWilliam Gaston in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. \n\nIsaac F. Pail was born in Dedham, November 26, 1856, and was educated in the \npublic schools of that town, and at Dartmouth, where he graduated in 1878. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, but has up to the present time devoted himself \nlargely to teaching. For the last twelve years he has been an instructor in the even- \ning schools of Boston, and for the last six years the headmaster of the Boston Even- \ning High School. Since November 8, 1892, he has resumed the practice of \nlaw, having resigned the position which he held in the schools. He was for several \nyears editor of the ( 'niicd States Digest. His residence is in Boston. \n\nWilliam F. Murray was born in 1859, and studied law at the Boston University \nLaw School. For a time he was a teacher in the Evening High School in Boston, but \nsince about 1880 has been connected with the Boston Herald and other journals. \nHe is the secretary of the Boston Press Club, and resides in the Charlestown Dis- \ntrict. The editor is not sure that he was ever admitted to the bar. \n\nTimothy F. McDonough, son of Michael and Margaret McDonough, was born in \nPortland, Me. , November 2, 1858, and was educated at the Portland public schools \nand at Holy Cross College in Worcester, where he graduated in 1880. He studied \nlaw with William L. Putnam in Portland, and was admitted to the bar in Portland in \nOctober, 1882, and to the Suffolk bar February 5, 1883. He married June 14, 1887, \nat Woonsocket, R. I., Mary F. Feely, and lives in Boston. \n\nTheophilus Parsons Chandler was a descendant from Edmund Chandler, who \ncame to New England and settled in Duxbury, Mass., in 1633. His ancestors lived \nin Duxbury through four generations until 1762, when Peleg, the great -great-grand- \nson of Edmund, removed to New Gloucester in Maine, where he acquired a large \ntract of land at what afterwards became the Lower Corner village, and where he \nlived to a great age. He was a prominent man in the district in which he lived, \nserving as coroner by appointment of Governor Hutchinson, and in 1784 as repre- \nsentative to the General Court of Massachusetts Bay, of which Maine was a part. \nHis son Peleg Chandler, jr., was born in New Gloucester, September 9, 1773, gradu- \nated at Brown University in 1795, and studied and practiced law in his native town \nuntil 1826, when he removed to Bangor, where he continued until his death January \nis, 1847. He married Esther, daughter of Col. Isaac Parsons, of New Gloucester, a \nRevolutionary soldier, a representative in 1783 and 1785, and the first cousin of Chief \nJustice Theophilus Parsons. She died in Brookline, Mass., in her ninety -first year, \nFebruary 10, 1865. Peleg Chandler, jr., and his wife Esther Parsons were the parents \nof ten children of whom the three sons living to maturity were Charles Parsons \nChandler, a lawyer of Foxcroft, Me., who was a State senator in 1857 and died in \nthat year, Theophilus Parsons Chandler, the subject of this sketch, and Peleg Whit- \nman Chandler, who died in Boston, May 28, 1889. Theophilus Parsons Chandler \nwas born in New Gloucester, Me., October 13, 1807, and was educated at the public \nand private schools of his native town, receiving however in 1837 the honorary de- \ncree of Master of Arts from Bowdoin College. He studied law with his father and \nin the office of Frederick Allen, of Gardiner, Me., and was admitted to practice in \nKennebec county, August 13, 1829. He opened an office in Bangor, Me., October 8, \n1829, removed to Gardiner November 19 in the same year, returned to Bangor \n\n\nBiographical register. 317 \n\nNovember 4, 1831, where he remained in full practice until the summer of 1836, when \nhe removed his office to Boston, where it continued more than forty years. For more \nthan fifteen years he occupied the same offices at No. 4 Court street with John A. \nAndrew, with whom at one time he was in partnership, and with whom a warm \nfriendship was of lifelong duration. Among others with whom he was connected by \na strong attachment and by relations of a most confidential character were William \nPitt Fessenden, Charles Sumner and Salmon P. Chase, all of whom often sought by \nan interchange of views to guide and fortify their political courses by the aid of his \ncounsel and advice. The unhesitating and heroic integrity of Fessenden, the fearless \nexpressions of anti-slavery sentiments of Sumner, and the masterly ability of Chase \nas a financial minister received from him unstinted words of praise and an incentive \nto still higher and better efforts. At one time Mr. Sumner says to him, \"My dear \nChandler, cheerfully and often I read all that you write. If I do not acknowledge it \nat once, it is because I am absorbed in other things. Pray write me always. You \nalways go right to the point and I understand you.\" At another he says, \"My dear \nChandler: You are in favor of free banking. Will you put the argument on paper? \nYou always state a case clearly and strongly. Let me have the benefit of your way \nof stating the case.\" Nor did Mr. Chase, full of resources as he was, hesitate to ask \nfor suggestions from Mr. Chandler which might aid him in formulating that system \nof finance including national banks, which made the suppression of the Rebellion \npossible. The preference of Mr. Chandler was for equity principles and practice, \nand he was actively engaged in important cases chiefly on the equity side of the court \nuntil 1849, when he was called by his clients to take the presidency of the Northern \nRailroad of New York, known also as the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Rail- \nroad, an enterprise of great concern to Boston, which office he held for four years. \nWilliam A. Wheeler, of Malone, N. Y., late vice-president of the United States, with \nwhom Mr. Chandler became associated at that time, attributed his success in life to \nMr. Chandler's early recognition and aid. Under a resolve of the Massachusetts \nLegislature, passed February 5, 1861, Mr. Chandler was appointed one of seven com- \nmissioners to attend the peace convention in Washington, and in June, 1863, he was \nappointed United States assistant treasurer for Boston, holding the office until 1868. \nFrom 1836 to 1848 he was a resident of Boston, and in May, 1848, moved to Brookline, \nwhere he remained until his death, always taking a deep interest in the welfare of \nthe town. His efforts were largely the means of establishing the Brookline Public \nLibrary in 1857, and he was one of the trustees until 1866. He organized the \nBrookline Land Co., and was a trustee until his death. In politics he was a Free \nSoiler and Republican, in theology he was first a Calvinist, but the larger part of his \nlife a follower of Emanuel Swedenborg, and was a leading spirit in the erection of \nthe Brookline Swedenborgian church. He married September 20, 1837, Elizabeth J., \ndaughter of William Schlatter, a merchant of Philadelphia, and one of the founders \nof the Swedenborgian church in that city. Mr. Schlatter was a grandson of Rev. \nMichael Schlatter, of St. Gall, Switzerland, whose travels and labors in America pro- \nmoted by the Christian Synod of the Netherlands lasted from 1746 to 1790, and who \nserved as chaplain in the French and Indian wars and in the War of the Revolution, \nwhen in 1777 he was imprisoned and his house in Philadelphia sacked by the British \non account of his loyalty to the colonists. Mr. Chandler died at his home in Brook- \nline, December 21, 1886. He was the father of seven children, four sons and three \n\n\n348 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ndaughters, all of whom together with his wife survive him, except his oldest son, \nCharles Lyon Chandler, lieutenant-colonel of the Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Regi- \nment, who fell in battle near Hanover Court House, Va., May 24, 1864. \n\nFrancis Way] a\\i>, son of Rev. Francis Wayland, D.D., and Lucy Lane (Lincoln) \nWayland, was born in Boston in 1826, and was educated at Phillips Academy, \nAndover, and at Brown University, where he graduated in 1846. He studied law in \nProvidence, Springfield, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in July, L850. He practiced in Worcester about eight years and then \nmoved to New Haven, Conn., where in 1864 he was chosen judge of probate for the \nDistrict of Xew Haven and served two years. In 1869 he was chosen lieutenant- \ngovernor of Connecticut, and in 1872 was appointed professor in the law department \nof Vale University. \n\nOliver P. C. Billings was born in Woodstock, Vt., September 21, 1836, and was \neducated at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at the University of Vermont, where \nhe graduated in 1857. He studied law in Woodstock and at the Harvard Law School \nwhere he graduated in I860, and after studying a short time in Boston in the office \nof Edward F. Hodges, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 26, 1860. In 1861, \nafter a trip to Europe, he began practice in Boston, but in 1864 moved to New York, \nassociating himself in business with Coles Morris. Some years later Michael H. \nCardozo became a member of the firm under the title of Morris, Billings & Cardozo, \nand subsequently Billings & Cardozo. In 1872 he was chosen alderman at large for \nthe city of New York and served four years. He is still in New York city in active \nbusiness. \n\nJohn Shirley Williams was born in Roxbury, May 3, 1772, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1797. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807 and practiced \nchiefly in Roxbury and Dedham. He was appointed clerk of the courts of Norfolk \ncounty in 1811 and was also at one time county attorney. He died while traveling, \nat Ware, Mass., in May, 1843. \n\nEnos Thompson Luce, \"son of Jonathan F. and Sally Luce, was born in Wilton, Me., \nJanuury 27, 1832, and was educated at Kent's Hill Seminary, Readfield, Me., Norway \nAcademy at Norway, Me., Farmington Academy at Farmington, Me., and at Bow- \nQoin College where he graduated in 1856. He studied law with Nathan Clifford in \nPortland, and with Charles W. Walton, in Auburn, Me., and was admitted to the bar \nat Auburn January 27, 1859. He practiced in Auburn until 1874, when he moved his \nresidence to Somerville, Mass., and opened an office in Boston, where he was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar June 16, 1875. In Auburn he was a member of the School \nBoard and of the City Council, judge of the Lewiston Municipal Court, judge of pro- \nbate for Androscoggin county, and United States assessor of internal revenue. In \nSomerville he was a member of the School Board, and since his removal to Waltham, \nwhere he now resides, he has been judge of the Second Eastern Middlesex District \nCourt, an office he still holds, and president of the Waltham Savings Bank. He is \nthe author of \" Maine Probate Practice.\" He married first at Niagara Falls, N. Y., \nJuly 22, 1860, Mrs. Phebe L. Adams, and second at Somerville, Mass., September 9, \n1879, Sarah J. Mills. He was lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-third Maine Regiment \nin the War of 1SUI. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 349 \n\nCharles Mandeville Ludden, son of John M. and Eleveni J. Ludden, was born at \nCanton Point, Me., and graduated at Tufts College in 1880. He graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1889 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 15, 1889. \nHe has been city solicitor of Waltham, where he resides, since January 4, 1891, \nand was associate editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1888-89. He married in \nMedford, Mass., November 24, 1891, Kathleen Hobart Hayes. \n\nRodney Lund was born in Corinth, Vt., and educated at the Corinth and Bradford \nAcademies in Vermont. He studied law with Judge Spencer of Corinth, and Robert \nMcK. Ormsby, of Bradford, and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1852. He was \ndeputy secretary of state in Vermont in 1865 and 1866, and in 1867 removed to Bos- \nton where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 24 in that year. He married \nat Walcott, Vt., in 1854 Elmyra J. Chubb, and lives in Boston. \n\nArthur Lyman, son of Arthur T. and Ella (Lowell) Lyman, was born in Waltham, \nMass., in 1861, and was educated at a private school and at Harvard, where he grad- \nuated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the \noffice of Gaston & Whitney, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1885. He \nmarried Susan C. Cabot in Brookline in October, 1888, and lives in Waltham. \n\nGeorge Hinckley Lyman, son of Dr. George H. and Maria C. R. (Austin) Lyman, \nwas born in Boston, December 13, 1850, and was educated at the Boston Latin \nSchool, St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H., and at Harvard, where he graduated in \n1873. He studied law in Boston in the office of John C. Gray, at the Harvard Law \nSchool, and in Boston in the office of Lathrop, Bishop & Lincoln, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in May, 1878. He married Caroline Amory, April 26, 1881, and \nlives in Boston. \n\nAlonzo V. Lynde, son of Daniel and Prudence A. V. Lynde, was born in Stone- \nham, Mass. , December 28, 1823, and was educated at Gates Academy in Marlboro' \nand the Stoneham High School. He studied law in Woburn with Albert H. Nelson, \nand at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, \n1847. He was register of probate for Middlesex county in 1851-52-53, representative \nfrom Stoneham in 1854, and member of the School Board in that town. He married \nin Stoneham in 1846, A. Julia Sweetser, and lives in Melrose. \n\nForrest C. Manchester, son of Albert B. and Elizabeth M. (Sessions) Manchester, \nwas born in Randolph, Vt., September 11, 1859, and was educated at the Randolph \nVermont State Normal School. He studied law at the Boston University Law \nSchool, from which he graduated in 1884, in the office of Perrin & McWain, of Ran- \ndolph, and with William Gaston in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July \n21, 1885. He was counsel of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange against the \nPennsylvania Railroad before the Inter-State Commerce Commission, where a prec- \nedent of national importance was established and a saving secured of $50,000 \nannually in rates of freight. This was the first case decided by the commission in \nfavor of Boston. He married at Pepperell, Mass., October 22, 1885, Minnie L. Beard, \nand lives in Winchester. \n\nWaldo Colburn, son of Thatcher and Hattie Cleveland Colburn, was born in Ded- \nham, Mass., November 13, 1824. He was descended from Nathaniel Colburn, who \ncame from England in 1637 and received a grant of land in Dedham. He was edu- \ncated at the public schools and at Phillips Andover Academy, and May 13, \n\n\n35o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n1847, entered the office of Ira Cleveland in Dedham as a student of law. He was ad- \nmitted to the Norfolk county bar May 3, 1850, after spending a short time at the \nHarvard Law School, and settled in Dedham, where he continued in practice till May \n27, 1875, when he was appointed by Governor Gaston a judge of the Superior Court. \nIn 1882 he was appointed by Governor Long to a seat on the bench of the Supreme \nJudicial Court, where he remained until his death. He was a representative from \nDedham in 1853-54, and a senator in 1870, and for several years the Democratic can- \ndidate for attorney-general. He was at various times chairman of the Board of \nSelectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor in Dedham, president of the Dedham \nInstution for Savings, and director of the Dedham National Bank. He married first, \nNovember 21, 1 So2, Mary Ellis, daughter of Bunker Gay, of Dedham, and second, \nAugust .->, 1*61, Elizabeth C, daughter of Ezra W. Sampson, of Dedham, and died, \nSeptember 26, 1885. \n\nLoammi Baldwin, son of Loammi and Mary (Fowle) Baldwin, was born in \nWoburn, May 16, 1780, and fitting for college at Westford Academy, graduated at \nHarvard in 1800. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow, and was admitted to the \nMiddlesex bar in September, 1803. After a short practice in Boston and Cambridge \nhe abandoned the law and became a civil engineer. He was a member of the Execu- \ntive Council in 1835, and presidential elector in 1836. The dry dock in the Charles- \ntown navy yard was built under his direction. He married first, May 19, 1816, in \nBoston, Ann, daughter of George and Lydia (Pickering) Williams, and second, June \n22, 1828, in Charlestown, Mrs. Catharine (Williams) Beckford, daughter of Samuel \nWilliams, the distinguished banker. He died June 30, 1838. \n\nJoshua Dorsey Ball, son of Walter and Mary Ball, was born in Baltimore, Md., \nJuly 11, 1828, and was educated in the schools of his native city. He studied law in \nBoston in the office of Theophilus Parsons Chandler and John A. Andrew, associated \nunder the firm of Chandler & Andrew, and also in the office of Peleg Whitman Chand- \nler. During a portion of the period of his study he was an assistant clerk in the Cir- \ncuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar November 13, 1849. From 1852 to July 1, 1881, he was associated as \npartner with the late Benjamin F. Brooks under the firm name of Brooks & Ball. \nHe has been associated also with Moorfield Storey, and from April, 1887, to his death \nhe was associated with Benjamin L. M. Tower under the firm name of Ball & Tower. \nMr. Ball, though an ardent Democrat, never mingled his business with politics, but \npursued unremittingly the paths of his profession. In 1861-62 he was a member of \nthe Boston Common Council and in the latter year president of that body. In the \nearly part of his career he was an assistant to Peleg Whitman Chandler, city solicitor. \nHe continued until his death in an active practice covering a wide range of cases in \nboth the State and United States Courts. He married, July 10, 1856, in Boston, \nEmily A. Cole and died in Boston, Sunday, December 18, 1892. \n\nCiiaki.es M. Barnes, son of Dr. William A. and Eleanor Barnes, was born in Deca- \ntur, Macon county, 111. , October 12, 1854, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy \nand at Harvard, where he graduated in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 22, 1880, and in 1882-83 was \nan instructor in the Law School. He was associated two years in business with \nNathan Matthews, jr., and afterwards was a member of the law firm of Barnes, Bond \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 351 \n\n& Morison, and has edited the thirteenth edition of Kent's Commentaries. He mar- \nried, October 31, 1882, in Philadelphia, Lillian J. Young, and died in Boston in \nMarch, 1893. \n\nJames P. Barlow was born in North Easton, Mass., February 22, 1863, and was \neducated at the public schools, graduating from the North Easton High School June \n28, 1879. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar July 20, 1886, and is now in practice in Boston. \n\nEdward A. Bangs, son of Edward and Anne Outram Bangs, was born in Water- \ntown, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin January, 1887, and lives in Boston. \n\nHarry Hudson Barrett, son of Henry and Lucy T. G. (Stearns) Barrett, was born \nin Maiden, Mass., March 10, 1851, and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, \nPhillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1874. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of E. R. & Samuel Hoar, \nCharles G. Fall and Stearns & Butler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, \n1882. He represented the Ninth Middlesex District in the House of Representatives \nin 1891, and lives unmarried in Maiden. \n\nWilliam Barrett, son of Zimri and Persis (Batchelder) Barrett, was born in Wil- \nton, N. H., July 2, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 8, 1861. He settled \nin Wilton, was a representative in 1861, and in 1871 was on the staff of Governor \nWeston, of New Hampshire. He married, September 24, 1861, Sarah Ellen, daugh- \nter of Christopher and Maria (Leslie) Paige. \n\nThomas J. Barry was born in South Boston, January 1, 1857, and attended at vari- \nous times the Lawrence Grammar School, the English High School, the Latin School, \nthe Chauncy Hall School, Comer's Commercial College, and the College of the Holy \nCross in Worcester. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1881, and after a \nterm of study in the office of J. M. Baker was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, \n1882. He has been prominent in the ranks of the Democratic party, and taken an \nactive interest in the public schools of Boston. \n\nCharles W. Bartlett was born in Boston, August 12, 1845, and graduated at \nDartmouth College in 1869. He studied law in the Albany Law School, and was ad- \nmitted to the New York bar in Albany in 1871. He practiced in Dover, N. H., two \nyears, when he moved to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, \n1873. He served in the war of 1861, and has been commander of the John A. An- \ndrew Post of the Grand Army. \n\nNehemiah Chase Berry, son of Joshua and Patience (Chase) Berry, was born in \nPittsfield, N. H., November 28, 1811, a twin with a mate, Joshua C. Berry, now liv- \ning in Elvaston, 111. He was educated at the common schools, the Pittsfield Acad- \nemy, the Kimball Union Academy, and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated \nm 1839. He studied law in Randolph, Mass., with Aaron Prescott, and was admit- \nted to the bar in Dedham in 1847. . In 1850 he opened an office in Boston, where he \ncontinued to practice until December, 1891. He was the author of a work entitled \n\"Answers and Pleadings in Actions at Law.\" He married first, January 1, 1840, \nElizabeth W. Berry, and second Hannah H. King, and was killed at the Harvard \n\n\n352 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nstreet crossing in Dorchester, where he lived, by a New York and New England \ntrain March 11), 1892. \n\nJoseph Irving Bennett, son of Joseph and Elizabeth R. Bennett, was born in Rox- \nburv, Mass., January 26, 1867, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at \nHarvard, where he graduated in 1888. He studied law at the Boston University Law \nSchool and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1890. He was a member of the \nHouse of Representatives in 1891, and his residence is in the Brighton District of \nBoston. \n\nFrancis Bernard was born in Nettleham, England, in 1714, and graduated at Ox- \nford in 1736. He studied law and became a bencher of the Middle Temple, and af- \nterwards steward and recorder of the city of Lincoln. In 1758 he was appointed \ngovernor of New Jersey, and after two years was transferred to Massachusetts, \nwhere he served until 1769, in which year he was raised to a baronetcy. He died at \nAylesbury, England, June 16, 1779. \n\nSamuel C. Bennett, son of Edward Hatch and Sally (Crocker) Bennett, was born \nin Taunton, Mass., April 19, 1858, and was educated at St. Mark's School in South- \nboro, Adams Academy, Quincy, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He \nstudied law with his father, and at the Boston University Law School, where he \ngraduated in 1882, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1884. He has \nheld the position of assistant dean and professor in the Boston University Law \nSchool. He married in Brookline, Mass., September 9, 1885, Amy Reeder, daughter \nof Edward I. Thomas, and his home is in Weston, Mass. \n\nJohn A. Bennett, son of Alvin W. and Mary Holman Bennett, was born in Wil- \nbraham, Mass., October 23, 1848, and was educated at Monson Academy and at Am- \nherst College, where he graduated in 1873. He studied law in the Boston University \nLaw School and in the office of George S. Hillard, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in June, 187(3. He has been public administrator for Suffolk county since 1889. \nHe married Julia R. Smith, of South Hadley, Mass., December 25, 1877, who died \nJanuary 4, 1886. His residence is in Boston. \n\nJosiah Kendall Bennett, son of Josiah K. and Lucinda (Nutting) Bennett, was \nborn in Groton, Mass., February 4, 1831, and wTas educated at the Lawrence Acad- \nemy in Groton, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1853. He was for a time \nmaster of the Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, and afterwards graduating at \nthe Harvard Law School in 1855, was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 22, 1850. \nHe practiced in Boston three years and then removed to Groton, where, May 15, \n1872, he was appointed standing justice of the First North Middlesex District Court. \nHe married June 29, 1865, Abby Ann, daughter of Reuben Lewis and Lucinda (Hill) \nTorrey, of Groton. He died January 23, 1874, at Ayer, to which place he had moved \nthe previous year. \n\nMark A. Blaisdell, son of David L. and Mary J. Blaisdell, was born in Boston \nJanuary 21, 1842, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar January 28, 1868. At his graduation from the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1867, he received the first prize for an essay on \"The Sources and Limita- \ntions of the American Common Law.\" He married Ellen S. Pearsall June 13, 1887, \nand lives in Boston, \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 353 \n\nLafayette Gilbert Blair, son of David Gilbert and Mary Jane Pierpont, was born \nin Cumberland, Md., May 8, 1849, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and \nat Harvard. He studied law in Boston with George S. Hale, and at the Boston Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1881. He married, June 30, 1887, \nat Cambridge, Emma Augusta Coon, and lives in Watertown. \n\nFrancis Whitney Bigelow, son of Tyler Bigelow, was born in Watertown, Mass., \nJune 4, 1824, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar October 6, 1846, and died in San Francisco, July 11, 1853. \n\nEdwin Moses Bigelow, son of Levi and Nancy (Ames) Bigelow, was born in \nMarlboro', Mass., March 26, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1846. He studied \nlaw in Boston in the office of Edward Blake, and was admitted to the bar in Spring- \nfield in October, 1847. He married in Boston, where he lives, in 1854, Maria Craw- \nford. \n\nFrank Bolles, son of John A. Bolles, was born in Winchester, Mass., October 31, \n1856, and studied law in New York at the Columbia Law School and in Cambridge at \nthe Harvard Law School. He was at one time assistant editor of the Boston Daily \nAdvertiser and was probably a member of the Suffolk bar. He married Elizabeth \nSwan, of Cambridge. \n\nLawrence Bond, son of Edward P. and Sarah (Wight) Bond, was born in Nawili- \nwili Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Benjamin F. Brooks, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He has been a member of the Board of Alder- \nmen, president of the Common Council, and one of the School Board in Newton, \nwhere he lives. \n\nJohn D. Bradley, son of Richard and Sarah Ann (Williams) Bradley, was born in \nBoston, February 9, 1864, and was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., a \nprivate school in Boston and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1886. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and lives in Boston. \n\nHenry W. Bragg, son of Willard and Mary E. (Claflin) Bragg, was born in Hol- \nliston, Mass., December 11, 1841, and was educated at the University of the City of \nNew York and at Tufts College, where he graduated in 1861. He studied law in Nat- \nick, Mass. , with John W- Bacon and George L. Sawin, and was admitted to the \nMiddlesex bar in October, 1864. He was city solicitor of Charlestown from 1867 to \n1869 inclusive, and has been justice of the Municipal Court of the Charlestown Dis- \ntrict of Boston since 1886. He married in Milford, Mass., January 11, 1866, Ellen F. \nHaven, and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam F. Courtney was born in Lowell, Mass., December 10, 1855, and was edu- \ncated at the public schools. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar July 8, 1878. In 1886 he became associated in Boston with \nIsaac S. Morse. In 1887 he was city solicitor in Lowell. \n\nJames Denison Colt, jr., son of Judge James Denison Colt and Elizabeth (Gilbert) \nColt, his wife, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., November 8, 1862, and graduated at \nWilliams College in 1884. He studied law in Worcester with Bacon, Hopkins & \nBacon, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester in \nFebruary, 1887. He lives in Boston. \n45 \n\n\n354 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nAxber'J F. Converse, son of Sherman and Elizabeth C. Converse, was born in \nWoburn, Mass., April 5, 1862, and studied law at the Boston University Law School. \nlie was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and lives in Woburn. \n\nJohn Sheparu Ki.yks, of Concord, had an office in Boston in 1860, and his name \nappears on the roll of lawyers in Boston in that year. The son of John and Ann \n(Shepard) Keyes, he was born in Concord, Mass., September 11), 1821, and graduated \nat Harvard in L841. He studied law with his father in Concord, with Edward Mellen \nin Wayland, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex \nin March, 1*44. He practiced in Concord until 1853, when he was appointed \nsheriff of Middlesex county, serving by appointment and election until I860. In 1860 \nhe was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, which nominated \nAbraham Lincoln tor the presidency, and in April, 1861, he was appointed by Mr. \nLincoln United States marshal for Massachusetts. In 1866 he resigned and returned \nto Concord, where he has always been active in every movement to promote the wel- \nfare of his native town. He has held various town offices, and in 1N79 was appointed \njustice of the Central Middlesex District Court, an office which he still holds. In \n1876 he delivered in Concord an oration on the Fourth of July, and in 1885 presided \nat the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the town. In 1849 \nhe was a State senator from Middlesex county. He married, September 19, 1N44, \nMartha Lawrence Prescott, of Concord, and still resides in his native town. \n\nCharles Edward Powers, son of Charles and Sarah (Brooks) Powers, was born in \nTownsend, May 9, 1834, and was the seventh in descent from Walter Power, wdio \nwas born in England in 1639, and came to Salem in 1654. Walter, the American an- \ncestor, bought of the Indians a tract of land in what is now Littleton, Mass., and set- \ntled there. In the second generation the name of the family became changed to Pow- \ners, and has since remained in that form. Charles Powers, the father of the subject \nof this sketch, first a farmer in Pepperell, where he was born, September 6, 1809, re- \nmoved to Townsend and, associated with Noah Adams, carried on an extensive mill busi- \nness, was at one time sheriff, gradually became a capitalist of considerable importance \nin the community in which he lived. Charles Edward attended the public schools, the \nClassical Institution of New Hampton, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1856. \nAfter leaving college he entered the Harvard Medical School, but after a suspension of \nhis studies caused by his father's death he abandoned the plan of a medical career \nand entered the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1858. He studied \nalso for a time in Boston in the office of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in June, 1858. In 1859 he became associated in the law with Linus \nChild and his son, Linus M. Child. He was many years president of the Middlesex \nStreet Railway Company, and after that company was merged into the West End \nCompany he performed considerable service for the latter corporation in an advisory \ncapacity. In the early days of street railroads, having confidence in their success, he \nmade their affairs a matter of special study and became probably the best authority \nin New England on all questions affecting their interests. He was a member of the \nBoston City Council in 1N73-74, and a member of the Water Board prior to the estab- \nlishment of the Water Commissioners. Asa Free Mason he was active and promi- \nnent, deeply interested in the order and one of its most trusted members. He was at \nvarious limes master of a lodge, eminent commander of Boston Commandery of \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 355 \n\nKnights Templar, and grand master of the Select and Royal .Masons of Massachu- \nsetts. He married in 1858 II. E., daughter of Walter Fessenden, of Townsend, and \ndied at his residence in Boston, September 11, 1892. \n\nSamuel King Hamilton, son of Benjamin R. and Sarah (Carl) Hamilton, was born \nin Waterboro, Maine, July 27, is:',?. He is descended from a Scotch ancestor who \nsettled in Berwick, Me., about 1666. The youngest of six sons, he attended first the \npublic schools, and afterwards Limerick Academy and the Saco High School, and in \nFebruary, 1856, at the age of nineteen, began to teach a district school in his native \ntown. In September of that year he entered the Chandler Scientific Department of \nDartmouth College and graduated in 1859. His education was secured by means \nobtained by teaching school in the winter months, and other employment, and with \na view to the legal profession he entered as a student the office of Ira T. Drew, of \nAlfred, Me., where he remained several years, still pursuing at times the occupation \nof a teacher in Wakefield, Mass., and in the Alfred Academy, to enable him to com- \nplete his preparatory legal education. He was admitted to the bar in Alfred in June, \n1862, and became associated in practice with his instructor, Mr. Drew, with whom he \nremained as a partner until 1867. He then removed to Biddeford, Me., where he had \nhis home and office until December, 1872. While in Biddeford he represented the \ntown in the Maine Legislature, and was chosen a member of the Board of Alder- \nmen. He removed to Wakefield, Mass., on leaving Biddeford, and until 1878 was \nassociated with Chester W. Eaton, with law offices in Wakefield and Boston, having \nbeen admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1872. Since 187s he has managed \nalone a business chiefly confined to Boston. Since he became a resident of Wake- \nfield he has served nine years as chairman of the School Board, two years as chair- \nman of the Board of Selectmen, and several years as chairman of the Board of \nTrustees of the Beebe Town Library. His interest in the welfare of the schools of \nAVakefield has been so conspicuous that the town has recently named a new \nschool house the \"Hamilton School Building.\" Since his removal to Wakefield \nfrom Maine his business has been steadily increasing, and though his office is now in \nBoston his clientage throughout Middlesex county is constantly enlarging. The \nmost important cases in which he has been employed as counsel, with the exception \nof the Wakefield water cases in which he was engaged, have been criminal trials, in- \ncluding a murder trial in Maine in 1S(!7, another in Middlesex county in 1875, a trial \nfor defrauding insurance companies, and the trial of a United States medical exam- \niner in Boston. He married in Newfield, Me., February 13, 1867, Annie E., daugh- \nter of Joseph B. and Harriet N. Davis, and his residence is still in Wakefield. \n\nMarcellus Coggan, son of Leonard C. and Betsey M. Coggan, was born in Bristol, \nLincoln county, Me., September 6, 1847, and was educated in his youth at the public- \nschools and at Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, Me. Before entering the academy he \nfollowed the sea for a time in the coasting trade to southern ports and the West \nIndies. After leaving the academy he entered Bowdoin College and graduated in \n1872. After leaving college he was appointed principal of the Nichols Academy in \nDudley, Mass., where he remained until 1879, serving four years also as a member \nof the School Board. In 1879 he removed to Maiden and entered as a law student \nthe office of Child & Powers in Boston, being admitted to the Suffolk bar in Novem- \nber, 1880. Practicing alone until 1886 with assured success, he then became associ- \n\n\n356 HISTORY OF The. bench and bar. \n\nated with his present partner, William Schofield, at that time an instructor in the \nHarvard Law School, with offices in both Maiden and Boston. In 1880 he was \nchosen a member of the School Committee of Maiden and served three years. In \n1885 he was chosen .Mayor as an independent candidate, and rechosen in 1886 by a \nnearly unanimous vote. Refusing a nomination for a third term, he has since given \nhis undivided attention to the practice of his profession. He has recently been \nbrought into wider notice by his able though unsuccessful efforts in behalf of \nTrefethcn, indicted for murder and tried in Middlesex county. He married in 1872 \nLuella B., daughter of C. C. and Lucinda Robbins, of Bristol, Me. \n\nIsaac ( >. Barnes was in the practice of law in Lowell from 1832 to 1835. In is:;:; \nhe was associated with Francis E. Bond, and in 1835 with Tappan Wentworth. He \nremoved to Boston about 1836, and was United States marshal for Massachusetts \nunder President Polk. \n\nHenry Vose, son of Elijah and Rebecca Gorham (Bartlett) Vose, was born in \nCharlestown, Mass., May 21, 1817, and was educated at the Concord Academy and \nat Harvard, where he graduated in 1837. After leaving college he was private tutor \nin a family in Western New York, and afterwards studied law in Greenfield, Mass., \nwith George T. Davis, and in Springfield with Chapman & Ashmun. He was ad- \nmitted to the bar in Springfield and was a member of the Massachusetts House of \nRepresentatives from that town in 1858. In 1859 he was appointed one of the judges \nof the Superior Court on its establishment in that year, and removed to Boston. He \nmarried October 19, 1842, Martha Barnett Ripley, of Concord, and died in Boston \nJanuary 17, 1869. \n\nWilliam Plumer Fowler, son of Asa and Mary C. K. Fowler, was born in Con- \ncord, N. H., October 3, 1850, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1872. He studied law \nat the Boston University Law School and in the office of Sumner Albee, of Boston, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1875. He is now chairman of the \nOverseers of the Poor of the city of Boston, where he resides. \n\nFrank E. Fitz, son of Eustace C. and Sarah J. (Blanchard) Fitz, was born in Cam- \nbridge November 14, 1857, and graduated at Brown University in 1880. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School, and graduated at the Boston University Law School \nin 1883, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1883. He was associated in \nbusiness with J. Converse Gray from 1884 to 1889, and in the latter year was chosen \ncity solicitor of Chelsea, which office he still holds. He married in Chelsea, where he \nresides, Adeline F. Slade of that city. \n\nDavid Simmons Fisher, son of Warren and Nancy D. (Simmons) Fisher, was born \nin Boston October 2, 1835, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School and at \nHarvard, where he graduated in 1856. He studied law in Boston with George Sils- \nbee Hale and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1861. He died in Roxbury Sep- \ntember 3, 1865. \n\nEugene Fei.lnek, son of Albert and Harriet Fellner, was born in Savannah, Ga., \nXovember 23, 1867, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at the Paris \nLycee, France. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1889. Aside from the practice of law he \nlias been engaged in play-writing and journalism. He married a Miss Allen in New \nYork city and lives in Brookline. \n\n\nvfffbyA I \n\n\n(^UU2^ \n\n\nBiographical register. 357 \n\nHayes Lougee, son of Sylvester T. and Ruhama Lougee, was born in Effingham, \nN. H., September 19, 1848, and was educated at the public schools and the North \nParsonsfield Seminary. He studied law in Laconia, N. H., with Colonel Thomas J. \nWhipple, and was admitted to the Belknap county, N. H., bar in March, 1872, and \nto the Suffolk bar May 29, 1876. He has been a member of the Chelsea City Council. \nHe was one of the counsel in the noted Buswell and Abbott and Cone trials. He \nmarried in Moultonboro', N. H., January 18, 1874, Nettie E. Lee, and lives in \nNewton. \n\nVictor Joseph Loking, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Loring, was born \nin Marlboro', Mass., January 11, 1859, and was educated at the Boston Latin School \nand the Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School \nand in the office of Charles Francis Loring, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar June 13, 1881, and to the bar of the United States Supreme Court March 24, \n1885. He married, December 9, 1891, Emilie Baker, and lives in Boston. \n\nJohn Win slow, son of Eleazer Robbins and Ann Corbett Winslow, was born in \nNewton, Mass, October 24, 1825, and received his early education at the school of M. \nS. Rice in Newton Centre, and with Gardner Rice of Holliston Seminary. He after- \nwards spent two years at Phillips Academy, Andover, and two years at Brown Uni- \nversity. He afterwards graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1852, receiving a \nprize for an essay on \"The Responsibility of a Principal for the Acts and Repre- \nsentations of his Agent.\" He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but shortly after \nremoved to Brooklyn, N. V., where he was admitted to the bar and began practice \nassociated with his brother, D. C. Winslow. In 1853 he was assistant district attorney \nunder General Harmanus B. Duryea, and in 1855 was appointed corporation attorney. \nIn 1859 he was chosen district attorney of Kings county and held the office three \nyears. In 1866 he became a partner with Joshua M. Van Cott in New York city and \ncontinued with him seventeen years. On the 22d of March, 1869, he was admitted \nto practice in the United States Supreme Court. On the 9th of May, 1874, he was \nappointed district attorney by Governor Dix, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the \ndeath of Thomas M. Rodman. In 1873 he was the Republican candidate for judge \nof the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial District. He is a director and the cor- \nresponding secretary of the Long Island Historical Society, is president of the \nBrooklyn Harvard Club, and is ex-president of the Brooklyn New England Society. \nHe married first, December<23, 1855, Sarah M., daughter of John J. Baker, of Bay \nRidge, N. Y., and second at Milton, Mass., January 5, 1888, Grace Eliza, daughter \nof Edward B. Woodhead, of Huddersfield, England. He lives at Bay Ridge. \n\nGeorge Frederick Farley was the grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Farley, one of \nthe settlers of New Ipswich, N. H. This grandfather married, October, 1744, Han- \nnah Brown, and had Ebenezer October 9, 1745, Samuel March 14, 1747, Hannah \nJanuary 27, 1749, Benjamin March 11, 1756, and Anna February 19, 1768. Of these \nchildren Benjamin married Lucy Fletcher, June 18, 1780, and had Sarah and Betsey \ntwins June 3, 1781, Benjamin Mark August 8, 1783, Lucy December 26, 1784, Luther \nDecember 25, 1786, Charles October 13, 1788, George Frederick April 5, 1793, Percy \nSeptember 12, 1798, and Clarissa November 12, 1801. One of the children, George \nFrederick Farley, is the subject of this sketch, and was born in Dunstable, Mass., \nduring a visit of his mother to her father's home. He was fitted for college at West- \n\n\n358 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nford Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He studied law in the office of \nhis brother, Benjamin Mark Farley, in Groton, Mass., and was admitted to the Mid- \ndlesex bar in June, 1820. He established himself in New Ipswich, the home of his \nparents, where he remained until 1832, devoting himself unremittingly to the prac- \ntice of his profession, yielding but once to the attractions of political life, when in \nL831 he occupieda seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. During his \nten years' life in New Ipswich he developed and began to display those peculiar and \nstriking mental traits which were destined to make him one of the ablest and most \nsuccessful lawyers which Xew England has produced. In 1832 he removed to Groton, \nMass.. and as at the New Hampshire bar he measured lances with its ablest and \nmost experienced members, so at the Middlesex bar he found legal warriors worthy of \nhis steel. With these he feared no encounter, and in contests with them all his vic- \ntories were more numerous than his defeats. Asa lawyer his legal instincts were \nunerring, and his use of precedents was rather to confirm and fortify than to frame \nand construct an opinion. Sound in his law, clearly comprehending always the \npoints of his case, forcible and clear in his presentation of facts to the jury, adroit in \nthe examination of witnesses, keen in his ridicule of either witness or opposing coun- \nsel, his arguments were well nigh irresistible. The physical weakness of a trembling \nhand added impressiveness often to his speech, and thus a gift of oratory was con- \nferred on him by nature which many a fervent speaker has sought to imitate in vain. \nThe writer, whose acquaintance with him began while attending the Free Soil Con- \nvention in Buffalo in 1M4S, remembers well the only time it was his good fortune to \nsee him in court, when during a protracted trial his opposing counsel was Tolman \nWilley, of Boston. Probably no man at the Suffolk or any other bar possessed lips \nfrom which words flowed so smoothly and rapidly as from those of Mr. Willey. \nFluency was his marked characteristic, and though a skillful lawyer, this character- \nistic always made a more striking impression on his audience than his logic. It was \na matter of constant wonder to his hearers including the jury how it was possible for \nthe brain and mouth to do their work so rapidly. The question would come up \nwhether the brain would fail first in its supply of thoughts or the mouth in giving \nthem expression. Thus the fluency of Mr. Willey became a weakness, and after \nhearing him a listener was as oblivious of the merits of his efforts as the young lady \nto the speech of Webster, whose only memory was of his form and face. The pur- \npose of Mr. Farley was to call the attention of the jury to this characteristic of Mr. \nWilley, knowing that with that in their mind they would give little thought to his \naddress. He began his peroration by describing Demosthenes and Cicero, and after \na brilliant eulogy of these orators of ancient times he concluded by saying, \" but, gen- \ntlemen of the jury, an orator greater than these will follow me, for I believe that tra- \nil it ion says that even Demosthenes and Cicero had sometimes a slight hesitation in \nspeech.\" In 1852 Mr. Farley opened an office in Boston, and while retaining his \nresidence in Groton made Boston his business headquarters until his death. He \nmarried in Ashby, Mass., November 25, 182:3, Lucy, daughter of John and Lucy \nRice, and died in Groton, November 8, 1855, leaving as surviving members of his \nfamily a son, George Frederick Farley, a Boston merchant, since deceased, a daugh- \nter, Sarah E. Farley, and another daughter Mary F., wife of Edward A. Kellv. a \nnber of the Suffolk bar. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 359 \n\nJohn Quincy Adams Brackett, son of Ambrose S. and Nancy (Brown) Brackett, \nwas born in Bradford, N. H., June 8, 1842, and in his youth attended the public \nschools of Bradford and Colby Academy in New London, N. H. He graduated at \nHarvard in 1865, and at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar February 12, 1868. He established himself at once in Boston, making \nthat city also his residence, and for several years was associated in practice with Levi \nC. Wade. Notwithstanding a successful entrance upon a pr< Sessional career, his \nqualifications for public life were so manifest that he was early called to positions of \nprominence and responsibility. Soon after his admission to the bar he was made \npresident of the Mercantile Library Association, an institution to which he with many \nother public men is indebted for much of that training and discipline which has made \nhis career a successful one. The Republican party, to which he early attached him- \nself, found in him a popular and available candidate for office, and while making him \noften a means of its own success at the polls, enabled him to satisfy an ambition \nwhich in most men proves a hopeless one. From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of \nthe Boston Common Council, and in the last year of his service president of that \nbody. From 1*77 to 1881 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- \nsentatives from Boston, and aided largely in legislation which resulted in the estab- \nlishment of co-operative banks. In 1883 he changed his residence to Arlington, and \nfrom 1**4 to 1886, inclusive, was a representative from that town, serving as speaker \nthe last two years. In 1887-88-89 he was lieutenant-governor of the Commomvealth, \nacting during the larger part of 1889 as governor in consequence of the illness of \nGovernor Ames. In November, 1889, he was chosen governor and served during \n1890, being renominated in November, 1890, but defeated by William E. Russell. \nAfter his defeat, though by no means looked upon as retired from public life, he re- \nsumed the practice of law and enjoys a large and increasing practice, with Walter \nH. Roberts as his partner, with whom he has been associated since 1880. He de- \nlivered the address at the centennial celebration of Bradford, September 17, 1887. \nHe married Angeline M., daughter of Abel G. Peck, at Arlington, where he now re- \nsides, June 20, 1878. \n\nThomas Hf.bkr Wakefield, son of Thomas L. and Jane (Perry) Wakefield, was \nborn in Chelsea, Mass., August 28, 1850, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1S70. He \nstudied law in Boston with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September \n9, 1873. He has been trial justice in Norfolk county. He married at Arlington, \nMass., September 16, 1875, Amelia B. Conant, and lives in Dedham. \n\nJohn Lathrop Wakefield, son of Thomas Lafayette and Frances (Lathrop) Wake- \nfield, was born in Dedham, Mass., July :!, 1859, and was educated at the public \nschools and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School and in Boston with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin January, 1884. He has been for five years manager's assistant of the Massachu- \nsetts Title Insurance Company, and lives in Dedham. \n\nAlfeed Clarence Vinton, son of John Adams and Laurinda (Richardson) Vinton, \nwas born in Stoneham, Mass., July 10, 1844, and was graduated at Harvard in 1866. \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Edward \nS. Rand, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 'l\\ . 1871. lie is a trustee of \nthe town library in Winchester where he resides. lie married Emma Frances Mills \nin Boston, October 11. 1872. \n\n\n36o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nStephen W. Trowbridge, son of Stephen W. and Sarah E. Trowbridge, was \nborn in Newton, Mass., October 5, 1834, and was educated at the Newton public \nschools. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He has been trial justice in Middlesex county. He \nmarried in Cambridge in August, 1856, Mary R. Baird, and lives in the Brighton \n1 Ustricl of Boston. \n\nDarwin Erastus Ware, son of Erastus and Clarissa Dillaway Wardwell Ware, \nwas born in Salem, Mass., February 11, 1831, and was educated at the Salem Gram- \nmar, High and Latin Schools, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1852. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and after a further study in Boston \nin the office of C. T. & T. H. Russell was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16, \n1856. He was a representative from Boston in 1863, a senator in 1864-65, and mem- \nber of the Massachusetts Harbor Commission from 1866 to 1874, when he resigned. \nIn 1866 he was commissioned by the secretary of the treasury to aid in the codifica- \ntion of United States Customs Revenue and Shipping Laws. From 1884 to 1889 he \nwas president of the Boston Civil Service Reform Association, was fourteen years a \nmember of the Board of Overseers of Harvard, and has been director and treasurer \nof the Associated Charities Association since its organization. He married in Wash- \nington, D. C, May 26, 1868, Adelaide Frances Dickey, and lives in Boston. \n\nCharles Hosmer Walcott, son of Joel W. and Martha P. (Hosmer) Walcott, was \nborn in Concord, Mass., November 9, 1848, and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the offices of E. R. Hoar \nand Peleg W. Chandler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872. Since \nthe establishment of the State Board of Arbitration in 1886 he has been a member, \nand the last three years its chairman. He is the author jointly with H. F. Buswell \nof a work on \"Practice and Pleadings in Personal Actions in the Courts of Massa- \nchusetts,\" and also the author of a history of Concord, Mass., from 1639 to 1889. He \nmarried first Florence Keyes at Concord, September 22, 1875, and second Jessie Mc- \nDermott at Washington, D. C, July 21, 1891, and lives in Concord, with offices in \nConcord and Boston. \n\nHenry Warren, son of Dr. John and Abigail (Collins) Warren, was born in Bos- \nton, May 13, 1795. His father was the first professor of anatomy and surgery in Har- \nvard College, and his mother was a daughter of John Collins, of Newport, governor \nof Rhode Island. He was a brother of the late eminent surgeon of Boston, Dr. \nJohn Collins Warren, who was also professor of anatomy and surgery at Harvard. \nHe was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and at a private school kept by \nRev. Dr. Gardiner, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law in Boston \nwith William Sullivan and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1816, opening \nan office in Boston. Socially and in a literary way he was the friend and associate of \nWm. H. Prescott, John G. Palfrey, Jared Sparks, and Theophilus Parsons. At an \nearly period he became engaged in various speculations in lands and coal mines in \nvarious parts of the country, which, occupying so much of his time and attention, pre- \ncluded him from pursuing continuously the practice of his profession. In June, 1869, \nhe came to Boston to attend the musica/1 jubilee, and upon his return to New York, \nwhere he then resided, he was attacked by a disease of the lungs and died unmar- \nried July 6 in that year. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 361 \n\nSamuel Dennis Warren, son of Samuel Dennis and Susan Cornelia (Clarke) War \nren, was born in Boston, January 25, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1875. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School, and in the office of Shattuck, Holmes & \nMunroe, in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1879. Asso- \nciated with Louis D. Brandeis, he was the author of \" Watuppa Pond Cases,\" \" The \nLaw of Ponds,\" and \"The Right to Privacy,\" and has edited the Harvard Law \nReview for December, 1888, April, 1889, and December, 1890. He married in Wash- \nington, D. C, January 25, 1883, Mabel Bayard, of Wilmington, Del. \n\nAndrew H. Briggs, son of Rev. Otis and Ann (Williams) Briggs, was born in \nHampden, Me., October 23, 1820, and graduated at Waterville College, now Colby \nUniversity, in 1839. He studied law with Hamlin (ex-vice-president) &: Hill, and was \nadmitted to the Penobscot bar in 1842, and the Suffolk bar in 1865. He married, De- \ncember 4, 1841, Caroline P. Hopkins at Hampden, Me., and lives at Wyoming with \nan office in Boston. \n\nPercy A. Bridgham, son of Albert and Martha C. (Maddocks) Bridgham, was born \nin East Eddington, Me., November 5, 1850, and attended the public schools of \nBangor, Me. He studied law in the office of Chief Justice Peters in Maine and in \nBoston in the office of A. J. Robinson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November \n8, 1875. He was clerk of the Common Council of Bangor from 1870 to 1872, assistant \nregister of deeds of Penobscot county from 1869 to 1872, and after his removal to Mas- \nsachusetts, was a member of the Common Council of Somerville in 1879. He was coun- \nsel for the receivers of the Mercantile Savings Institution in Boston in 1878-79-80, and \nattended to the foreclosure of more than six hundred mortgages. He has edited a \nlegal column in the Boston Daily Globe since 1887, and published in December, 1890, \n\" One Thousand Legal Questions Answered by the People's Lawyer\" of that journal. \nHe married in Bangor, September 12, 1870, Lydia M. Wentworth, and now resides in \nCambridge. \n\nJames Bridge graduated at Harvard in 1787, studied law with Theophilus Parsons, \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, practiced in Augusta, Me., and died \nin 1834. \n\nEdward W. Brewer was born in West Roxbury, October 19, 1858, and graduated \nat Harvard in 1881. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1884. \n\nDaniel Chauncey Brewer, son of Daniel Chauncey and Mary Ada (Turpin) Brewer, \nwas born in Boston, September 14, 1861, and was educated at Williston Seminary, at \nWilliams College and at Princeton. He studied law at the Boston University Law \nSchool and in the office of Allen, Long & Hemenway, of Boston, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. He is the author of \" Madeleine,\" published by \nthe Putnams of New York. He married, October 18, 1888, at Chicago, Genevieve, \ndaughter of Rev. John L. Withrow, D.D., of Boston, and lives in Boston. \n\nJoseph Bell was born in Bedfoi-d, N. H., in 1787, and was the son of Joseph and \nMary (Houston) Bell. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1807, and received the degree of \nLL.D from his alma mater in 1837. After leaving college he taught the academy in \nHaverhill, N. H., as principal and afterwards studied law with Samuel Bell, of Am- \nherst, N. H., with Samuel Dana, of Boston, and Jeremiah Smith, of Exeter, N. H. \n46 \n\n\n362 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHe established himself in practice in Haverhill where he remained until 1N42, when \nhe removed to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. In the early part of his \ncareer he was for a time the cashier of the Grafton Bank and later its president. He \nwas solicitor for ' rrafton county, State representative, and in lS35candidate for Con- \ngress. For many vears he stood at the head of the Grafton county bar, where he met \nnals such men as George Sullivan, Ezekiel Webster, Ichabod Bartlett, Joel Park- \ner, Levi Woodbury and his old instructor, Jeremiah Smith. It was said by one who \nknew him that \" as a lawyer he was clear-headed, keen, discriminating, logical and \nthoroughly read. His influence with the court and with the jury was very marked, \nand his services were always in demand.\" His success was largely due to the pos- \ni in of that spirit which his advice to his son manifested, ' ' Your standing at the bar \ndepends entirely upon your industry, assiduity and diligence in your profession.\" \nWhen he came to Boston he bought and occupied a house in Summer street below \nWinthrop Place, and the writer remembers him well as he appeared walking to and \nfrom his home, illustrating in his figure andbearing many of those physical traits which \ndistinguished many of the New Hampshire lawyers of the last generation. On his ar. \nrival in Boston he entered into partnership with Henry F. Durant and continued with \nhim until his death. He was representative and senator from Boston and president \nof the Massachusetts Senate in 1849. He married Catherine, daughter of Mills Olcott, \nof Hanover, N. H. , a sister of the wife of Ruf us Choate, and died suddenly at Sara- \ntoga, N. Y., in the summer of 1851. \n\nJoseph Mills Bell, son of the above, was born in Haverhill, N. H., and graduated \nat Dartmouth in 1844. He studied law in Boston with his father and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar August 19, 1847. He became associated in practice with his uncle, \nRufus Choate, and about 1853 married his daughter, Helen Olcott Choate. In the \nWar of 1861 he entered the service and while on the staff of General Butler as judge \nof the Recorder's Court in New Orleans rendered valuable service. A severe injury \nreceived while in the service resulted in mental disturbance, and he died at the asy- \nlum in Somerville, Mass., in 1867. \n\nII. G. O. Colby, son of Rev. Philip and Harriet (Sewall) Colby, was born in Hal- \nlowell, Me., in 1807. His father was born in Sanbornton, N. H., July 80, 1779, and \nmoved to Portland in 1800, and afterwards to Hallowell, being engaged in both places \nin business. He finally removed to Salem, Mass. , where he studied divinity with Rev. \nDr. Worcester perparatory to his settlement as pastor in North Middleboro', Mass., \nwhere he remained from 1817 to the date of his death, February 27, 1851. The sub- \nject of this sketch was educated in his youth by his uncle, Dr. Sewall, in Washington, \nI). C, and graduated at Brown University in 1827. He was admitted to the bar in \nBristol County and settled in Taunton, removing later to New Bedford, where he \nmarried a daughter of John Avery Parker. In 1845 he was appointed judge of the \nCourt of Common Pleas and resigned his seat in 1847. He died February 22, 1853. \n\nJoshua C. Stone, son of Henry B. and Elizabeth (Clapp) Stone, was born in Boston, \nAugust 25, 1825, and fitting for college at the Leicester Academy, graduated at Har- \nvard in 1844. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in New Bedford in the \noffice of John Ham W. Paige, and was admitted to the Bristol county bar. He was \nassociate 1 with Mr. Paige until 1853 when he removed to Boston, continuing his busi- \nness there until L862, when he returned to New Bedford, forming a partnership with \n\n\n'■ \n\n\nBiographical register. 363 \n\nWm. W. Crapo, which lasted until his death. He was judge of insolvency for a time \nand representative in 1866 and 1867. He married, September 17, 1850, Elizabeth, \ndaughter of Nathaniel and Anna Hathaway, and died at New Bedford in 1869. \n\nJohn Mason Williams, son of Gen. James Williams, was born in New Bedford, Mass. , \nJune 24, 1780, and graduated at Brown University in 1801. He was admitted to the \nBristol county bar in 1803, and beginning practice in New Bedford afterwards removed \nto Taunton. In July, 1821, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas \nand in 1839 chief justice to succeed Artemas Ward. He resigned in 1844 and was ap- \npointed commissioner of insolvency. He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown \nin 1843 and from Harvard in 1845. He married Elizabeth Otis, daughter of Lemuel \nWilliams, and died in New Bedford December 26, 1868. \n\nJoseph Otis Williams, son of the above, was born in Taunton in 1820, and gradu- \nated at Harvard in 1840. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was \nadmitted to the bar in Bristol county, but was in 1853 a member of the Suffolk bar. \nHe served as captain m the War of 1861 and was severely wounded at the battle of \nAntietam. He married Emily, daughter of Dr. Keenan, of Springfield, Mass. , and \ndied in 1875. \n\nChester Isham Reed, son of William and Elizabeth Dean (Dennis) Reed, was born \nin Taunton November 23, 1823, and received his early education at the Taunton High \nSchool and the Bristol Academy. He entered Brown University, but left college \nbefore graduating, receiving later an honorary degree. He studied law with \nAnselm Bassett, and in 1863 was chosen attorney-general, holding office from 1864 to \n1867, when he resigned and was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He resigned \nhis seat on the bench in 1871. In 1859 he was a member of the Senate. He married \nat New Bedford, February 24, 1851, Elizabeth Y. Allyn, of New Bedford, and died at \nAVhite Sulphur Springs, W. Va. , September 2, 1873. Judge Reed, who was well \nknown to the writer, was a man universally esteemed for his straightforward honesty \nof judgment and purpose, for his thorough independence, and for his freedom from \nall those influences which so often disturb the moral sight and antagonize the dic- \ntates of conscience. He was a sound lawyer, a most social companion, and a de- \nvoted friend. \n\nOscar A. Marden, son of Stephen P. and Julia (Avery) Marden, was born in \nPalermo, Me., August 20, 1853, and was educated at the Westbrook Seminary in \nDeering, Me. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office \nof Samuel K. Hamilton, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, \n1876. He lives in Stoughton, with an office in Boston. He is judge of the Southern \nNorfolk District Court. \n\nJames Hewins was born in Medfield, Mass., April 27, 1846, and was educated at \nthe high schools of Medfield and Walpole, and studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool and in the office of Robert R. Bishop, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nFebruary 26, 1868. He was a representative in 1884 and has his home in Medfield. \n\nGeorge Winslow Wiggin was born in Sandwich, N. H., March 10, 1841. He was \neducated at Phillips Exeter Academy and studied law with Samuel Warren, of \nWrentham. He began practice in Franklin in 1872, having been admitted to the \nNorfolk bar. He has been county commissioner several terms of three years each \n\n\n364 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nand has been chairman of the board. For the last three or four years he has prac- \nticed in Boston. \n\n| amks E. Cotter, son of James and Margaret (Callahan) Cotter, was born in Ire- \nland, County of Cork, in 1848, and came a boy to Marlboro', Mass. He was edu- \ncated at the public schools of that town and at the Bridgewater Normal School, and \nstudied law at Marlboro' with William B. Gale. He was admitted to the Middlesex \nbar January -, ls^4, and settled in Hyde Park. He was a member of the School \nBoard in Hyde Park five years, in 1877 was the Democratic candidate for district at- \ntorney, and in 1888 was a candidate for presidential elector on the Democratic \nticket. \n\nJames M. Marden, son of Nathan and Sarah J. Marden, was born in Chichester, N. \nH., December 12, 1860, and was educated at the public schools, the School of Prac- \ntice at Penacook, N. H., and in Olivet, Mich. He studied law in the office of Charles \nAllen Taber, of Boston, but the editor is not sure that he has been admitted to the \nbar. His residence is in Boston. \n\nAndrew Wiggin, son of Zebulon and Mary (Odell) Wiggin, was born in Stratham, \nN. II., October 9, 1827, and was educated at New Hampshire academies.. He studied \nlaw with Judge William W. Stickney, of Exeter, N. H., and was admitted to the \nNew Hampshire bar at Exeter in April, 1861, to the Suffolk bar in March, 1870, and \nto the bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1881. He married in Bostont \nMarch 6, 1886, Elvira L. Hamlin, and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Howard White, son of Francis A. and Caroline (Barnett) White, was \nborn in Brookline, Mass., September 4, 1858, and was educated at the public schools \nand at Harvard, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool and in the office of Robert D. Smith, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in July, 1884. He is secretary of the Brookline Civil Service Reform Asso- \nciation and clerk of the Boston Children's Aid Society. He lives in Brookline. \n\nGeorge Warner White, son of George Warner and Harriet Randall (Farrar) \nWhite, was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 3, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in \n1*74. He studied law in the office of Charles J. Noyes and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in May, 1878. He married, January 28, 1882, in Boston, Emma Louise, \ndaughter of William T. Adams, who died May 25, 1884. He lives in Melrose. \n\nEverett C. Bumpus, son of C. C. Bumpus, was born in Plympton, Mass., Novem- \nber 28, 1844. He attended the High School in Braintree, to which town his parents \nhad moved, and in 1861 entered the army, serving under various enlistments as \nofficer and private during a larger part of the war. At the close of the war he \nstudied law in the office of Edward Avery in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar May 10, 1867. He was a trial justice in Weymouth from 1868 to 1872, when he \nwas appointed judge of the East Norfolk District Court, resigning October 1, 1882, \nand succeeding Asa French by election in the office of district attorney for the South- \neastern District. He lives in Quincy, but his law business, which, since his resigna- \ntion as district attorney has been a rapidly increasing one, is conducted in Boston. \n\nJohn Loring Eldridge was born in Provincetown, Mass., December 25, 1842, and \nfitting for college at the Boston Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1864. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School and after further study in the office of Joseph \nNickerson, of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 365 \n\nJames E. Tirrell was born in Weymouth, March 28, 1883, and was educated in \nthe public schools of his native town. He studied law with Fisher A. Kingsbury and \nElijah F. Hall in Weymouth, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1856. \n\nMoses Draper, son of Philip and Mehitable (Kingsbury) Draper, was born in \nDedham, Mass., January 5, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1808. After leaving \ncollege he taught school a year in Marblehead and then entered on the study of law \nin Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813 and continued practice in \nBoston until his death, with a home in Dorchester. He married, in 1841, Sabrina \n(Waill) Draper, the widow of his brother Jeremiah. He died November 5, 1870. \n\nEdward Haven Mason, son of David H. and Sarah W. (White) Mason, was born \nin Newton, Mass., June 8, 1849, and was educated at the Newton public schools and \nat Harvard, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law with his father and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1872. He was a member of the Newton Common \nCouncil from 1882 to 1884 inclusive, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1885 and 1886. \nHe married at Newton, February 1, 1877, Lelia S. , daughter of Thomas and Sylvina \nNickerson, and lives in Boston. \n\nJohn Murray Marshall, son of Benjamin De Forest and Catharine Russell \nMarshall, was born in Lockport, N. Y. , June 11, 1859, and studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar in October, 1885. He has \nbeen assistant United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts since 1890. \nHe married Margaret Rowland Clapp at Pawtucket, R. I., November 4, 1886, and \nlives in Winchester. \n\nJohn Alden Loring, son of Bailey and Sally Pickman (Osgood) Loring, was born \nin Andover, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School and in the offices of William Stevens, of Andover, and William \nBrigham, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 16, 1847. He \nlives at North Andover, with his office in Boston. \n\nJohn White Browne, son of James and Lydia (Vincent) Browne, was born in \nSalem, March 29, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in the offices of Rufus Choate and Leverett Saltonstall, and \nwas admitted to the Essex county bar. He practiced in Lynn until about 1848, when \nhe removed to Boston and continued there his business as a conveyancer. He was \na representative from Lynn in 1837. He married in 1842, Martha Ann Gibbs, daugh- \nter of Captain Barnabas Lincoln, of Hingham, and was killed by falling off a rail- \nroad car, May 1, 1860. \n\nLouis D. Brandeis, son of Adolf and Fredericka (Dembitz) Brandeis, was born in \nLouisville, Ky., November 13, 1856, and was educated at the Louisville High School \nand at the Anneureal Schule in Dresden, Saxony. He studied law at the Harvard \nLaw School and was admitted to the Missouri bar at St. Louis, Mo., in December, \n1878, and to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He married Alice Goldmark, March 23, \n1891, and lives in Boston. \n\nJames Albert Brackett, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Small) Brackett, was born \nSeptember 28, 1867, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School and the Boston \nUniversity. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and graduated \nfrom that institution with the degree of LL.B. After further study in the office of \n\n\n366 HISORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nEdmund II. Bennet in Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889. \nHis residence is at Jamaica Plain. \n\nRob] ki II. Bowman, son of Robert and Annable (Guthrie) Bowman, was born in \nYonkers. X. V., September 26, 1*5.\"), and was educated at the High School in Rock- \nville, Conn., and in Germany. He studied law at the Boston University Law School \nand in the office of Bordman & Blodgett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in July, 1888. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1887-88, and \na representative in 1889-90. In 1881 he assisted in editing a list of city council con- \nd election cases from 1*27 to that date. He lives in Boston. \n\nJohn Lo< ke, son of Jonathan and Mary (Haven) Locke, was born in Hopkinton, \nMass., February 14, 1764, and with his parents moved to Framingham in 1769, to \nFitzwilliam, X. H., in 1770, and to Ashley, Mass., in 1772. He spent one year at \nDartmouth, and graduated at Harvard in 1792. In 1793 he entered the office of \nTimothy Bigelow, of Groton, as a student of law, and was admitted to the Middlesex \nbar in 1796. He settled in Ashley, Mass. ; was a representative in 1804-05, '13, '23, \na member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, a member of Congress from the \nWorcester XTorth District from 1823 to 1829, State senator in 1830, and member of \nthe Executive Council in 1831. In 1837 he moved to Lowell, and in 1849 to Boston, \nwhere he died March 29, 1855. He married Hannah, daughter of General Nathaniel \naud Molly (Jackson) Goodwin, of Plymouth, Mass. \n\nJ \\mks Brown Lord, son of Aaron P. and Sarah (Sawyer) Lord, was born in \nIpswich, Mass., June 6, 1835, and graduated at Amherst College in 1855. He studied \nlaw with Otis P. Lord in Salem, and at the Harvard Law School, where he gradu- \nated in 1860, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1860. He married at \nMethuen, Mass., April 11, 1866, a daughter of Darius Hibbard, and lives in Boston. \n\nAuci sti s Peakody Loring, son of Caleb William and Elizabeth S. Loring, was \nborn in Boston, December 7, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He gradu- \nated at the Harvard Law School in 1881, and after further study in the office of \nBenjamin F. Brooks in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1881. \nHe married Ellen Gardner, June 3, 1884, at Boston, and has his home at Beverly \nFarms. \n\nFrank P. Magee was born in Boston, January 27, 1859, and was educated at the \npublic schools. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1882. He was commissioner of insolvency \nthree years from January 1, 1887. \n\nCharles Francis Loring, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Loring, was \nborn in Marlboro', Mass., February 25, 1853, and was educated at Phillips Andover \nAcademy. He studied law with E. D. Loring, of East Boston, and Barron C. \nMoulton, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1873. He was a member \nof the Executive Council in 1892, and a member of the School Board in Melrose six \nyears. He married at Woonsocket, R. I., Caroline P. Thatcher, May 28,, 1885, and \ndied at Melrose, January 26, 1892. \n\nBenjamin Rank was born in Weston, Mass., April 18, 1785, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1808, receiving a degree of LL.D. from that institution in 1846. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813 and was many j^ears associated in the practice of \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 367 \n\nlaw in Boston with Augustus H. Fiske, also a native of Weston, He was considered \none of the best read lawyers at the bar. He died in Boston, April 2(5, 1852. \n\nJohn P. Reynolds was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 30, 1859, and was edu- \ncated at the public schools and at Boston College. He graduated at the Boston \nUniversitv Law School in 1886 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in that year. \n\nEzra Ripley, son of Rev. Samuel Ripley, of Waltham, was born August 10, 1826, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1S40 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August \\x \n1850. He settled in East- Cambridge, where he married, May 14, 1853, Harriet M. \nHayden. He served as first lieutenant in Company B, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts \nRegiment, in the War of 1861, and died near Vicksburg, July 28, 1*63. \n\nGeorge H. Russ, son of Capt. James A. and Laura Abbie (Weymouth) Russ was \nborn in Belfast, Me., March 17, 1863, and was educated at the Boston University, \nwhere he studied law, as also in the office of Edwin C. Gilman, of Boston. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar August 31, 1886, and married in Boston, December 15, \n1882, Lilla E. Houghton. Residence in Somerville. \n\nHiram McKnight Burton, son of Smith P. and Elizabeth Burton, was born in East \nGreenbush, N. Y. , and was educated at the Boston University. He studied law with \nW. E. L. Dillaway, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1880. \nHis residence is in Boston. \n\nWilliam W. Burrage, son of Josiah and Abigail (Studley) Burrage, was born in \nCambridge, Mass., February 7, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 25, \n1857. He lives in Cambridge. \n\nJohn H. Burke, son of John and Mary Burke, was born in Chelsea, Mass., Septem- \nber 6, 1856. While an infant his parents moved to Ohio, and two years afterwards \nto South Boston. He attended the Boston public schools and in 1872 entered Boston \nCollege. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1877, and after \nfurther study in the office of Patrick A. Collins, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nOctober, 1878. In 1886 he became associated in practice with Mr. Collins. In 1888 \nhe was president of the Charitable Irish Society, and February 11, 1891, was appointed \nassociate judge of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston. He married Mary E. \nFord, of Boston, and lives in the Dorchester District of that city. \n\nFrancis Burke, son of James and Catherine Burke, was born in the Brighton Dis- \ntrict of Boston, March 8, 1861, and was educated at the Boston public schools and \nunder the private instruction of Dr. Humphrey, an Oxford, England, scholar. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in 1882, and after further study in the office of \nJewell, Field & Shepard, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1883. He has \nbeen an instructor in Greek and Latin and is the author of a sketch of the Life and \nWorks of Thomas Carlyle. He lives in the Brighton District. \n\nWilliam Augustus Crafts, son of Ebenezer and Sarah H. (Spooner) Crafts, was \nborn in Roxbury, Mass., October 28, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Willard Phillips \nand Richard Robins, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1844. He was a mem- \nber of the City Council of Roxbury, and its president several years, a member of the \nSchool Board, and at one time the editor of the Norfolk County fournal. He has \n\n\n$68 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nbeen almost continuously the clerk of the Board of Railroad Commissioners since its \nestablishment, and much of the ability displayed in the reports of that board has been \ndue to his experience and skill. He married November 2, 1842, Emily, daughter of \nSamuel Doggett. \n\nJohn Di ncan Bryant, son of John and Mary A. (Duncan) Bryant, was born in \nMeriden, X. IT., October 21, 1829, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy, \nthe Boston Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1853. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of William Dehon, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1857. He has been a director in various \nrailroad corporations, and has been largely engaged as counsel for fire and marine \ninsurance companies. He married in Boston, October 18, 1864, Ellen M. Reynolds, \nof Boston, and lives in Boston. \n\nWalter Darling Buck, son of John A. and Charlotte M. Buck was born in Orland, \nMe. . June 8, 1865, and was educated at the East Maine Conference Seminary at Bucks- \nport, Me. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1891, and was admitted to the \nMaine bar in Portland, in October, 1890, and to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1891. He \nlives in Boston. \n\nAugustus Russ, son of Daniel and Sarah (Bateman) Russ, was born in Hawkins \nstreet, Boston, February 6, 1827. His father was a shoemaker, and his mother was \na native of Castine, Me. He attended the old Boylston School on Fort Hill, and the \npublic school in East street, but on account of a trouble with his eyes abandoned \nschool before he was twelve years of age. He then entered the hardware store of \nOliphant Bros., in Pearl street, and in 1851 went to California, where he was associ- \nated in business with Moses Ellis. A little later he went to the Sandwich Islands \nwith a general cargo, and remained there about two years engaged in a general trad- \ning business. On returning to San Francisco he came to Boston to purchase goods \nfor the firm of which he and Mr. Ellis were the members, and on reaching that city \nwas induced by friends to abandon business and prepare himself for a legal career. \nHe studied law in the office of John C. Park, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJanuary 29, 1855. At various times since his admission he has been associated in \npractice with John C. Danforth, Melville O. Adams, R. W. Nason, John W. McKim, \nM. F. Howard and W. G. A. Pattee. He was, as the above meagre record shows, a \nself-made man, and like all such men, his life was one of continuous study, without a \ncollegiate education, which is so often thought by those whose privilege it is to enjoy \nit, the be all and end all of mental instruction and discipline. His practice was of an \nunusually diverse character, now engaging his attention as counsel for the Faneuil \nHall or Maverick National Bank, now for the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Rail- \nroad, now for the American Express Company, and again for the Globe or Hollis or \nHoward Theatres, and all the while in real estate work, questions of title and the \nmanagement of important trusts. Nor did he confine his interest to the limits of his \nprofession. He was president of the Boston Old School Boys' Association, one of the \nfounders and promoters of the Boston Yacht Club, trustee of the Warren Street Chapel, \nand though watching with a sharp eye the movements of the political current, bound \nhimself with no permanent shackles to any administration or party. He died un- \nmarried at the Hotel Bellevue, Beacon street, Boston, Tuesday, June 7, 1892, and his \nfuneral service was held at Warren Street Chapel on the following Thursday. \n\n\nh-cC* \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 369 \n\nAmbrose Arnold Ranney, son of Waitstil R. and Phebe (Atwood) Ranney, was \nborn in Townshend, Vt. , April 16, 1821, and graduated at Dartmouth College in \n1844. He taught school two years in Chester, Vt., and studied law with Tracy & \nConverse, of Woodstock, Vt. , where he was admitted to the Vermont bar, December \n2, 1S47. He soon after moved to Boston where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJuly 15, 1848. With a mind thoroughly disciplined by education and with unerring \nlegal instincts he was not long in securing by the aid of mental and physical capacity \nfor unremitting work, an extensive and lucrative practice. He was solicitor for the \ncity of Boston in 1855 and 1856, a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- \nsentatives in 1857-58 and '63, and member of Congress from 1881 to 1887. In the \nNational House of Representatives his legal attainments were early recognized, and \nfew members were accorded a more general and attentive hearing in the discussion \nof questions requiring legal study to unravel and expound. For many years he has \nbeen associated in practice with Nathan Morse, and no firm title in the profession is \na more familiar one than that of Ranney & Morse. He married Maria D. Fletcher, \nof Cavendish, Vt. , and has his home in Boston. \n\nIsaac Homer Sweetser, son of Isaac and Elizabeth S. Sweetser, was born in \nCharlestown, Mass., September 3, 1846, and fitting for college at the Charlestown \nHigh School, graduated at Harvard in 1868. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool, and in Boston in the office of Dehon, Bryant & Goodwin, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in September, 1871. \n\nRobert P. Clapp was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and practices in Boston. \n\nSamuel Bradley Noyes, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Morrill) Noyes, was born in \nDedham, April 9, 1817, and received his early education at a private school in Ded- \nham kept by Francis W. Bird, now living in Walpole, Mass. , and at Phillips Andover \nAcademy. He graduated at Harvard in 1844, and studied law in Worcester with \nIsaac Davis, in Dedham with Ezra Wilkinson, and in Canton with Ellis Ames. He \nwas admitted to the Norfolk bar in April, 1847, and settled in Canton, where he has \nalways lived, with the exception of two years which he spent in Florida, and where \nhe has carried on his law business in connection with an office in Boston. He was \nappointed trial justice in 1850, commissioner of insolvency, 1853; chosen special \ncounty commissioner in 1856, was a member of the Canton School Board from 1849 \nto 1871, superintendent of public schools in 1857-58-61-64 and 1867 to 1871. In 1864 \nhe was appointed by the secretary of the treasury a special agent and acting collector \nof the customs at Fernandina, Fla. , and remained there two years. On his return \nhe was appointed in 1867 a register in bankruptcy for the Second Congressional Dis- \ntrict in Massachusetts, which office he still holds. His partial retirement from \nbusiness has been necessitated by a somewhat serious impairment of his sight. He \nmarried, in January, 1850, Georgiana, daughter of James and Abigail (Gookin) \nBeaumont, and still resides in Canton. \n\nAbel Gushing graduated at Brown University in 1810 and studied law with Eben- \nezer Gay in Hingham. He was admitted to the Plymouth county bar and settled in \nDorchester, where he continued to practice until June 30, 1843, when he was ap- \npointed one of the justices of the old Police Court of Boston, which office he held \nuntil shortly before his death, which occurred in 1866, \n47 \n\n\n370 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nAbner L. Ci suing, son of the above, was born in Dorchester and graduated at \nHarvard in 1838. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar, April 15, 1841. He began practice in Boston, but soon removed to Randolph \nand practiced extensively in Norfolk and Plymouth counties. In 1863 he removed \nto New York, where he is believed by the editor to be still living. \n\nGeorge C. Wii.de, son of Judge Samuel S. Wilde, was admitted to the Norfolk \ncounty bar in October, 1826. He practiced in Wrentham until 1835, when he was \nappointed clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in the county of Suffolk, and died in \nis::,. \n\nFrank L. Washburn, son of George and Abby M. (Cheney) Washburn, was born in \nPeterboro', N. H., May 1, 1849, and was educated at New Hampton, N. H., and at \nBates College. He studied law in Boston with Horace R. Cheney, his cousin, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He has been associated with \nGeneral Butler about fourteen years. He married in Candia, N. H., June 14, 1877, \nAnnabella E. Philbrick, and lives in Melrose. \n\nAlexander Calvin Washburn, son of Calvin and Lydia Washburn, was born in \nRaynham, Mass., November 6, 1819, and fitting for college at the Boston Latin School, \ngraduated at Harvard in 1839. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in \nBoston in the offices of Charles B. Goodrich and Edward S. Rand, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar August 4, 1845. His home is at Norwood. \n\nJoseph Bangs Warner was born in Boston in 1848, and graduated at Harvard in \n1869. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1873, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1874. \n\nCharles Everett Washburn, son of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Ann (Gifford) \nWashburn, was born in Minot, Me., and graduated at Cornell University in 1876. He \nstudied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Hyde, Dickin- \nson & Howe in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He married in \nBradford, Mass. , in 1889, Helen Chadwick Webster, a graduate of Bradford Acad- \nemy, and lives in Wellesly. \n\nEmory Washburn, son of Joseph Washburn, was born in Leicester, Mass., Feb- \nruary 14, 1800, and was descended from John Washburn, who lived in the Plymouth \nColony in its early days. He spent two years at Dartmouth College, and graduated \nat Williams College in 1817, receiving a degree of LL.D. from both Williams and \nHarvard, in 1854. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to \nthe Berkshire bar in Lenox in 1821. He settled in his native town and practiced \nthere until 1828, when he removed to Worcester and became the partner of John Da- \nvis. He was a representative from Worcester in 1826-27 and 1838, and a member of \nthe Senate in 1841-42. He was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas and \nresigned in 1847, and was governor of Massachusetts in 1854. In 1856 he was ap- \npointed Buzzy professor of law at the Dane Law School in Cambridge and resigned \nin 1876. He then opened an office in Cambridge, and was a representative from Cam- \nbridge at the time of his death, March 18, 1877. He was the author of \"Judicial \nHistory of Massachusetts,\" \" History of Leicester,\" a \"Treatise on the American \nLaw of Real Property,\" and a \" Treatise on the American Law of Easements and \nServitudes.\" \n\n\nBiographical register. 37 1 \n\nSolomon Lincoln is the son of Solomon Lincoln, of Hingham, and was born in that \ntown August 14, 1838. His father was a man of prominence and possessed various \naccomplishments, having been a noted lawyer at the Plymouth county bar, a pains- \ntaking and accurate historian, a conservative and sagacious bank commissioner by \nexecutive appointment, and during the last years of his life the chief manager of the \naffairs of the Webster Bank in Boston. The subject of this sketch graduated at Har- \nvard in 18.57 and at the Harvard Law School in 1864, having served for a time as \ntutor in the college. He pursued his law studies further in the office of Stephen B. \nIves in Salem, and was admitted to the Essex county bar at Lawrence in October, \n1864. He established himself in Boston, where he enjoys a large and increasing \npractice, the result of the possession of large intellectual gifts, a thorough prepara- \ntion for a legal career, and assiduity and faithfulness in the pursuit of his profession. \nOne of the most noted cases with which he has been connected was that of the (Hop- \nkins) Searle will, involving the division of an estate of many millions of dollars. \nColonel Lincoln derives his title from the occupancy of a position on the staff of Gov- \nernor Thomas Talbot in 1879. He married, February 15, 1865, at Haydenville (Wil- \nliamsburg) Ellen B., daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Joel Hayden, and lives in \nBoston. \n\nDaniel Clark Linscott, son of Jonathan and Hannah Linscott, was born in Jef- \nferson, Me., March 17, 1828, and was educated at the Lincoln and Yarmouth Acade- \nmies in Maine, and at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1854. He studied \nlaw in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 3, 1860. He was a member \nof the City Council of Chelsea in 1864, and has been president of the Phi Beta Kappa \nSociety of Bowdoin College. He married at Topsham, Me., July 29, 1855, Annie \nBarron, and lives in Boston. \n\nFrederick E. Litchfield, son of George A. and Sarah M. (Gurney) Litchfield, \nwas born in Winchester, Mass., September 2, 1866, and studied law at the Harvard \nLaw School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1890. He is a member \nof the city council of Quincy, where he has his home, with an office in Boston. \n\nGeorge Sherman Littlefield, son of George Thomas and Ann (Thorpe) Little- \nfield, was born in Watertown, Mass., April 27, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in \n1870. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of E- \nR. Hoar, O. S. Knapp, and Selwyn Z. Bowman, and was admitted to the Middlesex \nbar at Cambridge in October, 1872. He was a member of the School Board of Win- \nchester thirteen years, trial justice of Middlesex county seventeen years, and special \njustice of the Fourth District Court of Eastern Middlesex ten years. He married in \nSomerville, June 29, 1874, Georgiana Stevens, and makes Winchester his home. \n\nCaleb William Loring, son of Charles Greeley Loring, an eminent lawyer of Bos- \nton, whose sketch may be found elsewhere in this register, was born in Boston, July \n31, 1819. The maiden name of his mother was Anna Pierce Brace. He graduated \nat Harvard in 1839 and at the Harvard Law School in 1841, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar July 6, 1842, becoming associated in business with his father and William \nDehon. He has been largely interested in various real estate and manufacturing \ncompanies, among which may be mentioned the Fifty Associates and the Plymouth \nCordage Company, of the latter of which he is president. He married in 1847, Eliza- \nbeth Smith, daughter of Augustus Peabody, of Salem, and has his residence at Bev- \nerly Farms (Beverly). \n\n\n372 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam Caleb Loring, son of the above, was born in Beverly, August 24, 1851, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1872. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in \nis; I. and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year. From December, \n1876, to fuly, is;s, he was assistant attorney-general of the Commonwealth. He \nmarried Susan Mason Lawrence in 1883, and lives in Boston. \n\nH. Ski don Loring, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Loring, was born in \nMarlboro', Mass.. and was educated at Andover. He studied law at the Boston Uni- \nversity Law School and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge July 1, \n1885. He was seven years in the United States consular service and three years as \na commissioned officer in the War of 1861. He married at Marlboro', October 19, \n1864, Sarah Howard Allen, and lives at Allston, a district of Boston. \n\nPeter S. Maher was born in South Boston, December 21, 1847, and after attend- \ning the public schools entered the employ of James M. Beebe & Company, with whom \nhe remained five years. He was then clerk in the banking house of William Chad- \nborn and afterwards studied law in Worcester with George F. Very, and was ad- \nmitted to the Worcester bar in 1882. He came from Worcester to Boston in 1885, \nand became associated with Charles J. Noyes. \n\nJohn P. Manning was born in Boston, June 17, 1851, and was educated at the \npublic schools. He studied law in the office of John W. Mahan and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk county bar January 1, 1874. In September, 1868, he entered the office of \nthe clerk of the Superior Criminal Court as copyist, and in May, 1874, he was ap- \npointed assistant clerk. On the death of the clerk, Henry Homer, John C. Park \nwas appointed to fill the vacancy, but at the next election Mr. Manning was chosen \nclerk, and still holds the office. \n\nFrank Atlee Mason, son of David Haven and Sarah (White) Mason, was born in \nNewton, Mass., April 12, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and the Boston University Law School, and with William \nH. Orcutt, Albert T. Sinclair, and Edward H. Mason, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in the autumn of 1888. He is unmarried and lives in Newton. \n\nHarry White Mason, son of David Haven and Sarah (White) Mason, was born in \nNewton, May 20, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He married Ida \nP. Dawes at Boston, June 30, 1884, and lives in Newton. \n\n• Edmund Hatch Bennett, son of Milo Lyman and Adeline (Hatch) Bennett, was \nborn in Manchester, Vt., April 6, 1824. His father, a jurist of note, was born in \nSharon, Conn., in 1790, and graduated at Yale in 1811. He studied law at the Law \nSchool in Litchfield, Conn., and establishing himself in practice in Burlington, Vt., \nbecame in 1839 an associate justice of the Supreme Court in Vermont, and died in \nTaunton, Mass., July 7, 1868. The subject of this sketch was educated at Vermont \nUniversity in Burlington, where he graduated* in 1843, and where he received the \ndegree of LL.D. in 1872. He studied law with his father and was admitted to prac- \ntice in Vermont in September, 1847. He soon after came to Boston and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1848. Not long after his admission to the bar he \nremoved to Taunton, where he has continued to reside, with for many years an \noffice in Boston. A thorough student of law, faithful and assiduous in the perform- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 373 \n\nance of every duty, he soon became a marked and trusted man at both the Bristol \nand Suffolk bars. At the time the offices of judge of probate and judge of insolvency \nin the several counties were merged and the office of judge of probate and insolvency \nwas created by law in 1858, he was appointed to that office for Bristol county, and \nheld it until his resignation in 1883. He was mayor of Taunton from 1865 to 1867 \ninclusive, lecturer at the Harvard Law School from 1869 to 1871, and is now dean \nand professor in the Boston University Law School. In 1889 he delivered the his- \ntorical address on the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the \nsettlement of Taunton, a production illustrating the thoroughness and exactness of \nresearch and statement which characterize all his efforts. His labors in the literature \nof the law have been constant and valuable. He has edited all of the law works of \nJudge Story, Brigham on Infancy, Blackwell on Tax Titles, Cushing's Massachusetts \nReports, volumes 9 to 12 inclusive, Digest of Decisions, Goddard on Easements, \nGreenleaf s Reports, 8 volumes, English Law and Equity Reports, 30 volumes, Ben- \njamin on Sales, Poperoy's Constitutional Law, Leading Criminal Cases, 2 volumes, \nIndermauer's Principles of Common Law, Fire Insurance Cases, 5 volumes, has been \nco-editor of the American Law Register several years, and contributor to the Al- \nbany Law Journal and the Boston Law Reporter. He married, June 23, 1853, at \nTaunton, where he still has his residence, Sally, daughter of Samuel L. Crocker, of \nthat city. \n\nCharles Brooks Brown, son of Major Wallace and Mary (Brooks) Brown, was born \nin Cambridge, Mass., September 29, 1835, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He \nstudied law in the office of Griffin <£r Boardman in Charlestown, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar January 28, 1858. He first practiced in Springfield, then in Charles- \ntown, and finally in Boston. He delivered an oration, November 14, 1860, before \nthe Cambridge High School Association. In the War of 1861 he was a private in \nCompany C, Third Massachusetts Regiment, during a three months' service, and a \nprivate in Company G, Nineteenth Massachusetts three years' Regiment, and was \n'killed in the Wilderness, May 13, 1864. \n\nEdward Everett Blodgett, son of Warren K. and Minnie P. Blodgett, was born \nin Boston, January 22, 1865, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Gaston & Whitney, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1889. He married, November 17, 1891, \nMabel L. Fuller, and lives in Brookline. \n\nJoseph Cummings, son of Joseph and Susan T. (Howland) Cummings, was born in \nTaunton, Mass., October 21, 1856, and was educated at the Taunton High School \nand at Tufts College, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at the Boston \nUniversity Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1883. He was \na member of the Common Council of Somerville in 1888-89. He is unmarried, and \nlives in Somerville. \n\nSamuel W. Creech was born in Boston, November 7, 1839, and was educated at \nthe public schools. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1862, and was associated \nfor a time with Wm. J. Hubbard. \n\nJay Boyd Crawford, son of Nathaniel B. and Lucretia R. Crawford, was born in \nTrumbull county, O., February 1, 1850, and was educated in Michigan. He studied \nlaw in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1875. He is engaged \n\n\n374 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nwholly in civil business. He is the author of a History of the Credit Mobilier. He \nmarried in Baltimore, Md., November 4, 1880, Eva J. Hunter, and lives in the Rox- \nbury District of Boston. \n\nHiram Burr Crandall, son of Hiram T. and Elberia (Jenks) Crandall, was born \nin Adams, Mass., October 21, 1834, and was educated at the Adams High School, \nthe Fort Edward Institute, and at Williams College, where he graduated in 1859. He \nstudied law with Jarvis N. Dunhamy, of Adams, and John Albion Andrew, of Bos- \nton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 8, 1861. He was appointed commis- \nsioner of insolvency for Suffolk county, June 15, 1861 ; inspector of Rainsford Island \nhospital, < >ctober 13, 1865; public administrator for Suffolk county October 15, 1872; \nmember of the Common Council of Boston in 1867, and adjutant of the Sixty-first \nMassachusetts Regiment November 30, 1864. He lives in Boston. \n\nFrebekk' Cunningham, son of Frederic and Sarah M. (Parker) Cunningham, was \nborn in Cohasset, Mass., and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har- \nvard, where he graduated in 1874. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in \n1877, and after further study with Lewis S. Dabney in Boston, was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in November, 1878. His business is confined chiefly to marine cases. \nHe married in Brookline, December 11, 1877, Hetty S. Lawrence, and lives in \nBrookline. \n\nThomas Florian Currier, son of Thomas Sargent and Betsey Currier, was born in \nNewbury, Mass., about 1835, and attended public and private schools. He studied \nlaw with A. L. Cushing in Randolph, Mass. , and was admitted to the Norfolk county \nbar at Dedham in 1862. He lives in Boston, where he has his office. \n\nJohn Henry Bi/tler, son of William and Hannah (Paine) Butler, was born in \nThomaston, Me., October 11, 1819, and fitting for college at Sandwich, N. H., and \nFryeburg, Me., graduated at Dartmouth in 1846. After leaving college he was usher \nin the Brimmer School in Boston three years and master three years. He studied \nlaw in Boston with Lyman Mason and with Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in the winter of 1852-3, and was associated for a time with Aaron \nKingsbury. He married in 1849, Charlotte P. Libbey, of Portland. \n\nWilliam Henry Brown, son of Daniel H. and Anna Maria (Abbot) Brown, was \nborn in Ashland, Ky. , and was educated at the Bridgewater Normal School. He \nstudied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in June, 1886. He is unmarried and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. \n\nCharles Browne, son of Moses and Mary Browne, was born in Beverly, Mass., \nMay 24, 1793, and studied law in Beverly with Nathan Dane. After his admission \nto the bar he came to Boston and became a partner in the book firm of Hilliard, Gray \n& Co., and was a director in the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. He \nmarried, December 14, 1825, Elizabeth Isabella, daughter of Bryant P. Tilden, and \ndied in Boston, July 21, 1856. \n\nEdward Ingersoll Browne, son of the above, was born in Boston, February 11, \n1833, and was educated at the English High and Latin Schools in Boston, and at \nHarvard, where he graduated in 1855. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, \nwhere he graduated in 1857, and in Boston in the office of Edward D. Sohier and \nCharles A. Welch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 21, 1858. He is un- \nmarried and lives in Boston. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 375 \n\nWarren Preston Dudley, son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, was \nborn in Auburn, Me., June 25, 1852, and was educated at the public schools in New \nBedford. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in \n1877, and in Boston in the office of Sanford Harrison Dudley, and was admitted to \nthe Middlesex bar October 31, 1877. He has been secretary of the Massachusetts \nCivil Service Commission since its inauguration August 15, 1884. He is unmarried, \nand lives in Cambridge. \n\nGeorge Addison Brown, son of James S. and Polly Frazier Brown, was born in \nPlymouth, Vt., November 24, 1854, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1877. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and at Bellows Falls in the office of J. D. Bridgemart, \nand was admitted to the Windham county bar in Vermont, and to the Suffolk bar \nMarch 3, 1891. He married Flora E. Pierce in Springfield, Vt., July 18, 1877, and \nlives in Everett. \n\nHoward Kinmonth Brown, son of George Bruce and Marrianne E. (Sprague) \nBrown, was born in Boston, September 25, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of George V. \nLeverett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1883. \n\nJohn F. Brown was born in Douglas, March 20, 1848, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in July, 1874. He was a representative in 1887-88. \n\nGeorge Erastus Curry, son of James C. and Minnie (Young) Curry, was born in \nCleveland, Tenn., February 13, 1854, and was educated at the Boston Latin School \nand Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He married Clara A. Neal in Dorchester, \nJuly 16, 1880, and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. \n\nHenry Otis Cushman, son of George F. and Luella M. Cushman, was born in Lis- \nbon, N. H., and graduated at Dartmouth in 1887. He studied law with H. C. Ide \nand W. P. Stafford, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., and at the Boston University Law School, \nand was admitted to the Vermont bar at Montpelier, and to the Suffolk bar October \n20, 1891. He was a lecturer on commercial law at the Howard University Law \nSchool in Washington, D. C, in 1890. He married in Boston Isabel Poland Rankin, \nand lives in Boston. \n\nFrancis Lowell Dutton, son of Warren and Elizabeth Cabot (Lowell) Dutton, was \nborn in Boston, June 21, 1812, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He graduated at \nthe Harvard Law School in 1834, and was a member of the Suffolk bar. He died in \nBrookline, December 15, 1854. \n\nRichard Sylvester Dow was born in Davenport, la., May 2, 1863, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1891, and lives in Boston. \n\nMarquis Fayette Dickinson, son of Marquis F. and Hannah S. (Williams) Dickin- \nson, was born in Amherst, Mass., January 16, 1840. ^ He received his early education \nat the public schools, at the Amherst and Monson Academies, and at Williston Semi- \nnary in Easthampton, from which he graduated in 1858. He then entered Amherst \nCollege, and after graduating in 1862 he was a teacher in the Williston Seminary un- \ntil 1865, after which he studied law in Springfield in the office of Wells & Soule, in \nBoston in the office of George S. Hillard and at the Harvard Law School. He was \nadmitted to the bar in Boston in 1867, and was assistant United States attorney from \n\n\n37 6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n1869 to 1871. He then became associated in practice with George S. Hillard and \nHenry D. Hyde, as a member of the firm of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson, and after \nthe death of Mr. Hillard the firm was changed to Hyde, Dickinson & Howe, it now \nbeing Hyde & Dickinson. The business of the firm was early established, and \nthrough its various changes has maintained a leading position at the Suffolk bar. It \nhas been specially prominent in the management of a large number of important \ncases for the West End Street Railway Company: The process of merging a number \nof companies in that corporation, the changes from horse to electric power, the ac- \nquirement of new rights and privileges from the Legislature, from the city govern- \nment, and the authorities of towns contiguous to Boston, together with the numer- \nous questions and claims necessarily attending the life and maintenance of a com- \npany on whose methods and acts the rapid transit of suburban travel depends, have \nimposed on this firm constant and increasing responsibilities, which have been met \nand discharged with fidelity and skill. Mr. Dickinson has been a member of the \nBoston School Board, trustee of the Boston Public Library, trustee of the Williston \nSeminary, overseer of the Charity Fund of Amherst College, was a member of the \nBoston Common Council in 1871 and 1872, and during the latter year the president of \nthe board. He delivered the centennial address in Amherst in 1876. He married at \nEasthampton, Mass., November 23, 1864, Cecilia R., an adopted daughter of Samuel \nWilliston, and has his legal residence at Cohasset, with a winter residence in Brook- \nline. \n\nThomas Amokv Dexter was born in Boston May 16, 1790, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1810. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813, and died in Boston, March \n!i, 1873. \n\nArthur Lithgow Devens, son of Charles and Mary (Lithgow)Devens, and brother \nof General Charles Devens, was born in Charlestown, Mass., April 27, 1821. He fitted \nfor college under the instruction of Joseph Lovering and Abiel Abbot Livermore, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1840. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, \nand after admission to the bar began practice in Walpole, N. H., moving afterwards \nto Northfield and Ware, Mass., and remaining in the latter place until 1850. In 1848 \nhe was a representative from Ware. In 1850 he was appointed agent of the Otis Man- \nufacturing Company, and continued\"in that position until 1859, when he became a \npartner in the firm of James W. Paige & Co., of Boston. In 1862 he was appointed \ntreasurer of the Appleton and Hamilton Manufacturing Companies, and so continued \nuntil his death. He married Agnes H., daughter of Abijah White, of Watertown, \nand died at Nahant July 22, 1867. \n\nIsaac Jones Cutter, son of Daniel and Sally Cutter, was born in Jaffrey, N. H., \nMay 21, 1830, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1852. He studied law with Edward S. \nCutter in Peterboro', N. H., and with John Q. A. Griffin in Charlestown, Mass., and \nwas admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in 1855. He married at Boston in \n1858, Margaret F. Wood, and lives in Boston. \n\nLouis Thomas Cushing, son of Thomas and Elizabeth A. (Baldwin) dishing, was \nborn in Boston May 31, 1849, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School and at \nHarvard, where he graduated in 1870. He studied law in Boston in the office of Ly- \nman Mason and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in June. 1875, He was a representative in 1883, and has been chairman of the \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 377 \n\nSchool Committee and trustee of the Cohasset Public Library a number of years. He \nmarried at Cohasset February 14, 1871, Mary Rebecca Johnson, and lives in Cohasset. \n\nHenry Codman, was born in Portland October 1, 1789, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1808. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1811, and practiced in Bos- \nton. He died in Roxbury May 4, 1853. \n\nRobert Orne Burnham, son of John and Sarah (Choate) Burnham, was born in \nEssex, Mass., October 28, 1849, and was educated at Colby Academy, New London, \nN. H., and at Brown University, where he graduated in 1875. He studied law in \nSalem with George F. Choate and William D. Northend, and in Boston with Edgar \nJay Sherman and E. B. Hagar, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 8, 1884. \nSoon after leaving college he was attacked by a disease of the eyes, which, until re- \nlieved by an operation about two years since, threw a serious obstacle in the way of \nhis preparation for the bar, and subsequently in the way of his entrance upon his pro- \nfession. The relief so fortunately secured has enabled him to advance rapidly towards \nsuccess in his career. \n\nJames W. McDonald, son of Michael and Jane McDonald, was born in Marlboro', \nMass., May 15, 1853, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law in Marl- \nboro' with William B. Gale, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge m \nJuly, 1876. He has been a member of the School Committee in Marlboro' twelve \nyears, special justice of the Marlboro' Police Court, city solicitor, representative in \n1880, and senator in 1891-92. He lives in Marlboro'. \n\nSamuel W. McDaniel, son of Joseph A. and Hannah McDaniel, was born in Phila- \ndelphia, November 18, 1833. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar March 12, 1878. He was a representative in 1873, a \nmember of the Cambridge School Board from 1874 to 1877, a councilman in Cambridge \nin 1882-83, aldet-man in 1884, has been trustee of the Cambridge Public Library, spe- \ncial justice of the Third District Court of Cambridge, and trustee of the State Reform \nSchool, which office he now holds, for five years from July, 1890. He lives in Cam- \nbridge. \n\nJames E. Maynadier, son of General William Maynadier, was born in Baltimore, \nNovember 23, 1839, and was educated in Maryland and Washington. He came to \nBoston in 1856, and entered as a student the office of Causten Browne, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar November 28, 1859, at the age of twenty years. He served \none year in Company K, Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, in the War of 1861. His \npractice is chiefly connected with patents. \n\nJames Audley Maxwell, son of Joseph Edward and Sarah Holmes Maxwell, was \nborn in Sunbury, Ga., and was educated at Franklin College, University of Georgia \nand the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied law with Chief \nJustice Lumpkin, of Georgia, and T. R. R. Cobb, author of the \" Digest of the Law \nof Georgia,\" and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1874. He is the author of a work \non the \" Causes and Consequences of the Civil War.\" He married Kathleen Came- \nron, of Ridgewood, N. J., February 24, 1870, and lives in the Roxbury District of \nBoston. \n\nGerard Curtis Tobey, son of Joshua B. and Susanna K. (Pratt) Tobey, was born \nin Wareham.Mass., October 16, 1836, and was educated at the public schools in Ware- \n48 \n\n\n378 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nham, the Bridgewatei Academy, the Pierce Academy in Middleboro', at Paul Wing's \nprivate school in Sandwich, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1858. He grad- \nuated at the Harvard Law School in I860, and after further study in the office of \nBrooks & Ball in Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 4, 1863. He be- \ncame associated with Brooks & Ball as partner and continued with them in active \npractice until 1872. Since that time he has been extensively engaged in a business \ncombining the departments of banking, manufacturing, and shipping. He is un- \nmarried and lives in Wareham. \n\nHenry Childs Merwin, son of Elias and Anne (Childs) Merwin, was born in Pitts- \nfield, Mass., August 5, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nMay, 1877. He is associate justice of the Central Middlesex District Court, and lect- \nurer in the Boston University Law School. He is the author of a work on the ' ' Pat- \nentability of Inventions,\" and a book entitled \" Road, Track and Stable.\" He mar- \nried Anne Amory Andrew in Boston, April 22, 1884, and has his residence in Con- \ncord, with an office in Boston. \n\nBenjamin Lowell Merrill Tower, son of Dr. George and Adelane (Lane) Tower, \nwas born in Boston, June 17, 1848, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and \nat Harvard, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law at the Harvard Law School \nand in Boston with Brooks & Ball, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, \n1871. In 1874 he became a partner in the firm of Brooks, Ball & Storey, and in 1887, \nafter the death of Mr. Brooks and the departure of Mr. Storey from the firm, the \nfirm name has been Ball & Tower. \n\nThomas French Temple was born in Canton, Mass., May 2, 1838, and was educated \nat the public schools of Dorchester. He was clerk and treasurer of the town of Dor- \nchester before its annexation to Boston in 1869, when he was appointed judge of the \nMunicipal Court of the Dorchester District of Boston. Since 1871 he has been regis- \nter of deeds of Suffolk county. \n\nBenjamin Frank Watson was born in Warner, N. H., April 30, 1826, and was \neducated chiefly in the public schools of Lowell, where he lived from 1835 to 1848. \nHe studied law in Lowell, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1849. He settled in \nLawrence, was the editor and proprietor of the Lawrence Sentinel, postmaster under \nPierce, Buchanan and Lincoln, and as major and lieutenant-colonel served with the \nSixth Massachusetts Regiment three months at the beginning of the war. He was in \ncommand of the detachment of the Sixth Regiment which was attacked in its passage \nthrough Baltimore in April, 1861. In 1867 he removed to New York. \n\nPaul Barron Watson, son of Dr. Barron C. and Julia (Willis) Watson, was born \nin Morristown, N. J., March 25, 1861, and was educated at the St. Mark's School in \nSouthboro', Mass., and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and in Worcester in the office of Frank P. Goulding, and \nwas admitted to the Worcester county bar in March, 1885. He is the author of \n\" Bibliography of the Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America,\" \"Marcus Aurelius \nAntoninus\" and the \"Swedish Revolution under Gustavus Vasa.\" He married \nKatharine H., daughter of Henry M. Clarke, and lives in Boston. \n\nFrancis Osborn Watts, son of Francis and Mehitable (Lord) Watts, was born in \nKcnnebunk, Me., August 9, 1803, and attended Thornton Academy in Saco from 1815 \n\n\nBiographical register. 379 \n\nto 1818, when his family removed to Boston. He fitted for college at the Chauney \nHall School and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He studied law at the Northampton \nLaw School and with Augustus Peabody in Boston, and after his admission to the \nSuffolk bar, October 8, 1825, was for six years associated with Mr. Peabody in busi- \nness. In 1831 he formed a partnership with William J. Hubbard, which was only \nterminated by death. He was a senator in 1846. He married, Mayl, 1826, Caroline, \ndaughter of Thacher and Lucy Goddard, and died in Roxbury, September 28, 1860. \n\nJohn M. Way, son of Lorin and Lettice C. Way, was born in Rochester, Vt., and \nwas educated at the Brandon Seminary. He studied law in Boston with Edward \nAvery, and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar in 1858. He married in Boston \nin 1859 Fannie D. Thomas, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. \n\nTolman Willey, son of Isaac and Susan (Ryan) Willey, was born in Campton, N. \nH., May 25, 1809. His family was among the oldest in the town and associated with \nits settlement. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and studied law in \nLowell with Samuel H. Mann, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar. He began \npractice in Lowell, but removed in 1837 to Charlestown, and in 1844 to Boston. \nAfter establishing himself in Boston he was associated for a time with Horace G. \nHutchins, but during the lai'ger part of his career was alone. He married, Septem- \nber 7, 1844, Phebe L. , daughter of Captain William and Hettie (Langdon) Lithgow. \nAbout the year 1875 he was compelled to retire from business by a mental disease \nfrom which he never recovered. After a short residence at the Insane Asylum in \nSomerville he was removed to the asylum in South Boston, where he died, July 4, \n1883. At the centenial celebration of the town of Campton, September 12, 1867, he \nwas selected as its most distinguished living son for president of the day. \n\nNathan Clifford was born in Rumney, N. H., August 18, 1803, and was educated \nat the Haverhill, N. H., Academy and the Hampton, N. H., Academy. He was ad- \nmitted to the bar in York county, Me., and began practice there at the age of twenty- \nfour. He was a representative from 1830 to 1834, and speaker of the House two \nyears. From 1834 to 1838 he was attorney-general of Maine, and in the latter year \nwas chosen member of Congress, serving four years. In 1846 he entered the cabinet \nof President Polk as attorney-general, and at the close of the Mexican War was sent \nto Mexico to negotiate a treaty. In 1858 he was appointed by President Buchanan \nassociate justice of the United States Supreme Court. After the presidential cam- \npaign of 1876, owing to conflicting certificates of election from the States of Florida, \nLouisiana, Oregon and South Carolina, an act of Congress was passed, January 29, \n1877, establishing an electoral commission consisting of five senators chosen by the \nSenate, five members of the House chosen by that body, four justices of the Supreme \nCourt designated in the act, and a fifth selected by the four. To this commission the \nconflicting certificates were to be referred and its decision was to be final. Its mem- \nbers were Justices Clifford, Strong, Miller, Field and Bradley ; Senators Edmunds, \nMorton, Frelinghuysen, Thurman and Bayard, and Representatives Payne, Hunton, \nAbbott, Garfield and Hoar. Justice Clifford presided and the commission decided \neight to seven in such a way as gave Mr. Hayes a majority of one over Mr. Tilden \nin the electoral college. Justice Clifford died at Cornish, Mass., July 25, 1881. \n\nLeslie C. Wead, son of Samuel C. and Mary E. (Kasson) Wead was born in Malone, \nN. Y., February 17, 1852 and was educated at the Franklin Academy in Malone and \n\n\n3S0 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nat Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1872 from the C. S. Department. He \nstudied law at the Albany Law School, and was admitted to the New York bar \nat Album- in is;:;, and to the Suffolk bar February 3, L891. He was president of the \nWead Paper Company from 1880 to 1886, vice-president of the National Bank of \nMalone from 1877 to 1885 — president after 1885 — and represented the principal legatees \nin the contest of the will of Willam A. Wheeler, late vice-president of the United \nStates. He is now a member of the firm of Whitcomb, Wead & Company, real estate \nand investment brokers in Boston. He married Kate H. Whitcomb in Boston, Octo- \nber 4, 1 s ? 7 , and his residence is in Brooklme. \n\nSi in Webb, son of Seth and Eliza (Dunbar) Webb, was born in Scituate, Mass., \nFebruary 1-1, 1823, and was educated at a private school in Hingham, Bridgewater \nAcademy, Phillips Exeter Academy, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1843. \nHe studied law with George T. Bigelow and Manlius S. Clarke, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar July 2, 1845. He began business associated with Ozias Goodwin \nChapman, with whom he remained until 1848, when he opened an office alone in \nBrighton. In 1851 he became a partner in Boston with Charles G. Davis, and con- \ntinued with him until the removal of Mr. Davis to Plymouth. In 1858 he went to \nNew York, where he spent one year in practice, and returned home to Scituate in \npoor health. In July, 1861, he was appointed commercial agent at Port Au Prince, \nbut did not remain there long. He married, November 18, 1852, Helen, daughter of \nGeorge M. and Mary D. (Billings) Gibbons, and died at Scituate, August 31, 1862. \n\nDaniel Fletcher Webster, son of Daniel and Grace (Fletcher) Webster, wTas born \nin Portsmouth, N. H., July 23, 1813, and fitted for college at the Boston Latin \nSchool, graduating at Harvard in 1833. He studied law with his father in Boston \nand with Samuel B. Walcott in Hopkinton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc- \ntober 5, 1836. He wrent to Detroit in 1837 and then to La Salle, 111., where he re- \nmained until 1840. While his father was secretary of state under Harrison and Tyler, \nhe was private secretary and assistant secretary of state. In 1843 Caleb Cushing \nwas sent United States commissioner to China and Mr. Webster was his secretary of \nlegation, returning in January, 1845. In 1845 he was a representative from Boston, \nand in 1850 was appointed surveyor of the port, holding the office until 1861. In \n1846 he delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston. In June, 1861, he raised the \nTwelfth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, for three years' service, in three \ndays, and was commissioned colonel June 21. The regiment consisted of five com- \npanies from Boston, one from North Bridgewater, now Brockton, one from Wey- \nmouth, one from Stoughton, one from Abington, and one from Gloucester. He mar- \nried Caroline Story, daughter of Stephen White, of Salem, and was killed at the sec- \nond battle of Bull Run, August 30, 1862. \n\nPrentiss Webster, son of William P. and Susan H. Webster, was born in Lowell, \nMass., in 1851. His father was for thirty years an active attorney-at-law in Middle- \nsex county, and died in 1877 at Frankfort on the Main, where he went in 1869 as con- \nsul-general of the United States. He was educated at the schools of Lowell and at \nthe Universities of Heidelburg and Strassburg in Germany, where he also pursued \nthe study of law with Professor Bluntschli, of Heidelburg. On his return home he \nstudied with Henry W. Paine, of Boston, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in \n1880. Since his admission he has been in active practice in Suffolk county associated \n\n\nrviWx^AMoklL \n\n\nCkX> \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 3&1 \n\nwith Benjamin F. Butler. In 1873 he was appointed consular agent of the United \nStates to Mayenee in the Grand Duchy of Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, and held \nthat position until 1877. He is the author of \"The Law of Citizenship,\" published in \nAlbany in 1891, and \"Acquisition of Citizenship in the United States,\" published in \nthe American Law Reporter. He married Sarah Maria Burlingame in Providence, \nR. I., in 1881, and has his residence in Lowell, with his office in Boston. \n\nAlonzo Rogers Weed, son of Alonzo S. and Esther A. (Marston) Weed, was born \nin Bangor, Me., January 22, 1867, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied \nlaw at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Stiff oik bar July \n29, 1890. His residence is in Newton. \n\nGeorge Marston Weed, brother of the above, was born in Bangor, Me., Septem- \nber 14, 1864, and was educated at the High School in Newton, Mass., and at Har- \nvard, where he graduated in 1886. He studied law at the Boston University Law \nSchool and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1889. He was a member in \n1891-92 of the city government of Newton, where he has his residence. \n\nGeorge Leverett Weil, son of Louis and Anna M. (Tuttle) Weil, was born in \nNorth Andover, Mass., November 5, 1857, and was educated at Phillips Andover \nAcademy and at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law in \nLawrence with Edgar J. Sherman and W. Fiske Gill, and was admitted to the Essex \nbar in Salem in November, 1882. He was selectman in North Andover, where he \nlives, in 1890-91-92, and has been trial justice. He married Emma A. Brown at \nConcord, Mass., June 24, 1885. \n\nCharles H. Welch, son of Charles F. and Kate H. Welch, was born in that part \nof Marlboro\" now Hudson, Mass., September 6, 1861, and was educated at the com- \nmon and high schools of Hudson. He studied law at the Boston University Law \nSchool and in the office of Burbank & Lund, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar January 13, 1884. His residence is at Lynn, with his office in Boston. \n\nBenjamin L. Weld was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1814, and died in 1828. \n\nBenjamin Welles, son of Samuel and Isabella (Pratt) Welles, was born in Boston, \nAugust 13, 1781, and graduated at Harvard in 1800, after fitting at the Boston Latin \nSchool and under the instruction of Rev. Thomas Prentiss, of Medfleld, Mass. He \nstudied law in Worcester with Levi Lincoln and in Boston with Harrison Gray Otis^ \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1803. After admission he went to Eng- \nland and continued his professional studies there, returning to Boston in 1804. In \n1807, associated with Stephen Higginson, William Parsons, and Thomas H. Perkins, \nhe engaged in iron mining in Vergennes, Vt. , and in 1812 was appointed agent of \nthe company and moved to Vergennes. In 1816 he became a partner with John \nWelles in the corresponding Boston house of Welles & Company, Paris, France, and \ncontinued the business twenty-eight years. He married first, August 1, 1815, \nMehitable Stoddard, daughter of Governor Increase Sumner, and second, Susan, \ndaughter of William Codman, and died in Boston, July 21, 1860. \n\nArthur Holbrook Wellman, son of Joshua W. and Ellen M. Wellman, was born \nin East Randolph, now Holbrook, Mass., October 30, 1855, and was educated at the \nHigh School in Newton, Mass., and at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1878. \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nUv studied law at the Harvard and the Boston University Law Schools, and was \nadmi the Suffolk bar in 1882. He was a member of the council of Maiden, \n\nwhere he lives, in L885, was city solicitor in 1889-1891, and representative in 1892. \n3 now a professor in the Boston University Law School. He married Jennie L. \nFaulkner at Maiden, October 11, 1887. \n\nAlonzo Bond Wentworth, son of Amasa and Susan W. (Nowell) Wentworth, was \nImrn in Somersworth, X. H., March 28, 1840, and was educated at Phillips Exeter \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Jordan & \nRollins, Great Falls, X. H., and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in \nNovember, 1802. He was a representative from Cambridge in 1870, and in 1884 from \n1 >edham, where he has his residence. He was a trial justice from 1885 to 1891, and \ndistrict attorney for the Southeastern District in 1890, and has edited several law \nhooks. He married Isabel Sewall Goodwin, November 1, 1866, at Berwick, Me. \n\nGeorge Littlefield Wentworth, son of Stacy H. and Rebecca L. Wentworth, \nwas born in Ellsworth, Me., May 24, 1852, and was educated at the common schools \nand under private instruction. He studied law at the Boston University Law School \nand was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in October, 1881. He has been \na member of the School Committee of Weymouth, where he has his residence, three \nyears, and special commissioner of Norfolk county. He married Annette Small in \nDecember, 1881. \n\nSamuel Hidden Wentworth, son of Paul and Lydia (Cogswell) Wentworth, was \nborn in Sandwich, N. H., and was educated at New Ipswich, N. H., Appleton Acad- \nemy, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1858. His father was a brother of \nHon. John Wentworth, late of Chicago, 111. He studied law with John H. George, \nat Concord, N. H., and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1861. He has been a representative from Boston two \nyears, and a member of the School Board. He received an honorary degree of Master \nof Arts from Dartmouth in 1879. His residence is in Boston. \n\nClarence Percival Weston was born in Skowhegan, Me., and graduated at Colby \nUniversity in 1873. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and was a member \nof the Common Council of Boston, where he resides, in 1891-92. \n\nJohn T. Wheelwright, son of George W. Wheelwright, was born in Roxbury, \nMass., February 26, 1826, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School and at \nHarvard, where he graduated in 1876. He studied law at the Harvard Law School \nand in Boston in the office of Brooks, Ball & Storey, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar ill May, 1879. He has been during the last two years on the staff of Governor \nRussell as assistant quartermaster-general, with the rank of colonel. \n\nThomas Wetmore, son of William and Sarah (Waldo) Wetmore, was born in Bos- \nton, August 31, 1795, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 21, 1817, and practiced in Boston. He was a member of the \nCommon Council from 1829 to 1832, and alderman in 1833-34-35-37-38-39-41-42-43- \n44-47. He died unmarried in Boston, March 30, 1860. \n\nWill) \\m B. F. Wiiall, son of William J. and Anne Whall, was born in Boston, \nMarch 10, 1856, and was educated at Boston College and at College of Holy Cross, \nwhere he graduated in 1874. He studied law at the University of Maryland and at \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 383 \n\nthe Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Maryland bar at Balti- \nmore in July, 1876, and to the Suffolk bar in November, 1877. He was commissioner \nof insolvency for Suffolk county from 1888 to 1889, and a member of the Boston Com- \nmon Council in 1886-87. He married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 18, 1888, Helena \nAngela L. Blanc, and lives in East Boston. \n\nWilliam Abijah White, son of Abijah and Anne Maria (Howard) White, was born \nin Watertown, Mass., September 2, 1818, and fitting for college at the school of Rev. \nSamuel Ripley in Waltham, graduated at Harvard in 1838. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in Boston 111 the office of Charles P. and Benjamin R. Cur- \ntis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 1841. He lived on his father's farm \nin Watertown until his father's death in 1845, and took an active interest in the anti- \nslavery cause. In 1853 he moved to Madison, Wis., and on the 7th of October, 1856, \nwent to Milwaukee to attend the State Fair, on the 8th to Chicago by steamboat, and \nreturned to Milwaukee on the 9th. On the 10th he left the hotel and was never seen \nuntil his body was found May 1, 1857, near the lake shore above North Point in Mil- \nwaukee. He married, May 7, 1846, Harriet T., daughter of Nathaniel R. Sturgis, of \nBoston, and May 15, 1855, Ada, daughter of Justin Littlefield, of Chicago. \n\nEdmund Allen Whitman, son of Edmund Burke and Lucretia (Clapp) Whitman, \nwas born in Lawrence, Kan., June 11, 1860, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Jan- \nuary, 1886. He is the author of the titles \" Estates,\" \"Infants,\" \" Parent,\" \" Child,\" \n\" Novation,\" and \" Seduction\" in the American and English Encyclopedia of Law. \nHis residence is in Cambridge. \n\nCharles Wheeler, son of Daniel Prescott and Mary Ann Wheeler, was born in Or- \nford, N. H., February 8, 1839, and was educated at Orford and Kimball Union Acad- \nemies and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1860. He studied law in \nWorcester with Charles Devens and George F. Hoar, at the Harvard Law School, and \nin Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nOctober 11, 1863. He was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1878 to \n1881, and representative from Boston in 1882-83. His residence is in Boston. \n\nCharles H. Whittemore, son of Benjamin B. and Martha E. Whittemore, was born \nin Cambridge, Mass., January 24, 1864, and was educated at the Cambridge High \nSchool and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1885. He studied law at the Harvard \nLaw School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. He married, De- \ncember 11, 1888, Evelyn C. Bullard, of Cambridge, where he resides. \n\nFrancis Alfred Fabens was born in Salem, Mass., July 10, 1814, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1835. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1838, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died at Sauceleto, Cal., June 10, \n1873. \n\nLewis Grieve Farmer, son of Thomas and Henrietta C. Farmer, was born in Rox- \nbury, Mass., November 5, 1849, and was educated at the Boston public schools, the \nRoxbury Latin School and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1872. He \nstudied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Ambrose A. \nRanney in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1875. He was a \nmember of the Boston Common Council in 1884, and an alderman in 1891. He mar- \nried, May 28, 1879, Marian S. Foss, and lives in Boston, \n\n\nHISORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nMich vej F. Farrell was born in Kilkenney, Ireland, September 13, 1848, and came \nto New York in 1862, and to Boston in 1864. He was educated in this country in the \npublic S( iv York and at Boston College. He was admitted to the Middle- \n\nK l)ar 1871. He was a member of the School Board of Somerville from \n\nHi i.i.i ki Melancthon Federhen, jr., son of Herbert M. and Georgiana P. Feder- \nhen, was born in Boston, May 1, 1867. He studied law at the Boston University Law \nSchool and in the office of John B. Goodrich, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in June, 1890. He was a member of the City Council of Quincy, where he \nhad his residence in 1891-92. He is unmarried. \n\nAndrew Fiske was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1880, and is a partner \nwith George S. Hale, under the firm name of Hale & Fiske. \n\ntNCis C. Foster, son of Leonard and Lydia Geaubert Foster, was born in Bos- \nton, March 17, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar December 13, 1860. He has never practiced. He married in November, \n1857, Marion, daughter of Edward Padelford, of Savannah, Ga. \n\nAs \\ Palmer French, son of Asa and Sophia B. (Palmer) French, was born in Brain- \ntree, Mass., lanuary 'J!>, 1860, and was educated at the English High School and at \nVale, where he graduated in 1882. He studied law at the'Boston University Law \nSchool and in the offices of his father and George Fred Williams in Boston, and was \nadmitted to the Norfolk bar in 1884. He was clerk to the judges of the Court of \nCommissioners of Alabama Claims at Washington from 1884 to 1886. He married, \nDecember 13, 1887, at Randolph, Mass., Elizabeth A. Wales, and has his residence \nin Randolph. \n\nLewis Pierce Frost, son of Varnum and Sarah R. (Pierce) Frost, was born in Bel- \nmont, Mass., January 1, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He graduated at \nthe Harvard Law School in 1889, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, \nL889. He lives in Belmont. \n\nRoberi W. Frost, son of William S. and Ann Elizabeth Frost, was born in Craw- \nley, Sussex county, England, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at \nHarvard, where lie graduated in 1887. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1890. He lives in the Brighton \n1 Ustrict of Boston. \n\nWalter Spr vgue Frost, son of George and Elizabeth A. Frost, was born in Rox- \nbury, Mass., August 7, 1855, and was educated at the Boston public schools and at \nthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied law with Bolster «S: Dexter in \nBoston and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar February 16, 1880. He has been a special justice of the Municipal Court of the \nRoxbury District of Boston since April 29, 1885^ He married in Indianapolis, Ind., \nMay 23, L883, Salome A. Waite, and lives in Boston. \n\nCh vrles Fry, son of Joseph Reese and Cornelia (Nevins) Fry, was born in Phila- \ndelphia, Penn., December 6, 1850, and was educated at the University of Pennsyl- \nvania. He studied law with John J. Ridgway, of Philadelphia, and was admitted \nto the bar in that city April '.Ml, 1876, and to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He married in \nBoston, April 15, L885, Maria D. Burnham, and has his home in Manchester, Mass. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 385 \n\nGeorge Pope Furber, son of George E. and Maria L. Furber, was born in Boston, \nAugust 16, 1864, and was educated at the Dwight Grammar School and the Roxbury \nLatin School. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar July 29, 1890. He lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Gaston, son of Alexander and Kesia (Arnold) Gaston, was born in Kill- \ningly,Conn., October 3, 1820. He is descended from Jean Gaston, who left France in the \nearly part of the seventeenth century and settled in Scotland, and whose sons moved \nover to the North of Ireland about 1675. John Gaston, the American ancestor, came \nto America about 1730 and settled in Connecticut. Dr. Alexander Gaston, of North \nCarolina, an ardent Whig, who was shot by the loyalists August 20, 1781, and his son \nWilliam Gaston, of Newbern, N. C, a member of Congress and judge of the Supreme \nCourt, were members of the same family. The father of the subject of this sketch \nwas a merchant of repute, and gave his son a liberal education at academic schools \nand at Brown University, where he graduated in 1840, receiving later a degree of \nLL. D. from his alma mater and the same degree from Harvard in 1875. He studied \nlaw in Roxbury with Judge Francis Hilliard and in Boston -with Charles P. and \nBenjamin R. Curtis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 16, 1844. In \n1846 he opened a law office in Roxbury and soon secured a position in the front \nrank of lawyers at the Norfolk county bar. In 1865 he associated himself in Boston \nwith Harvey Jewell and Walbridge A. Field with a firm name of Jewell, Gaston & \nField, the partnership continuing until 1874. He was city solictor of Roxbury five \nyears, and in 1861 and 1862 its mayor. The annexation of Roxbury to Boston \ntook place in 1867, and in 1871 and 1872 he was mayor of Boston. He was a repre- \nsentative from Roxbury in 1853-54-56, and senator from Boston in 1868. In Novem- \nber, 1874, he was chosen governor of the Commonwealth, and served in 1875, the first \nDemocratic governor since George S. Boutwell in 1852, with a Republican lieutenant- \ngovernor, Horatio G. Knight, of Easthampton. As both mayor and governor, \nthough chosen by Democratic votes in opposition to Republican candidates, his ad- \nministrations were marked by no extreme partisanship, and won almost universal \napproval. In 1879 he took as a partner Charles L. B. Whitney, and in 1883 his son, \nWilliam Alexander Gaston, who was in that year admitted to the bar. He married, \nMay 27, 1852, Louisa Augusta, daughter of Laban S. Beecher, and resides in \nBoston. \n\nJames Gerrish, son of George and Elizabeth Thompson (Furbush) Gerrish, was \nborn in Lebanon, Me., May 3, 1813, and studied law at South Berwick, Me., at Great \nFalls, N. H., and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex \nbar in Lowell. He practiced in Lowell and Boston until about 1848, when he re- \nmoved his residence to Shirley village and opened an office at Groton Junction. He \nmarried first, Anna R. Foster, of Bristol, Me., who died at Shirley, March 5, 1859, \nand second, Mrs. Sarah (Brooks) Powers, daughter of Benjamin and Betsey (Wallace) \nPowers, and died at Shirley, July 30, 1890. \n\nJohn B. Goodrich, son of John and Mary Ann (Blake) Goodrich, was born in \nFitchburg, Mass., January 7, 1836, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1857. He studied \nlaw with Norcross & Snow of Fitchburg, and was admitted to the Worcester bar at \nWorcester in February, 1859. He represented Newton, where he lives, in the Legis- \nlatures of 1860 and 1861, and was district attorney for Middlesex county from 1872 to \n49 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHe was the senior counsel of Sarah J. Robinson, convicted of murder in \nin 1886. He married at Newton, April 25, 1865, Anna L. Woodward, of \nthat city. \n\nAn i \\ Crocker Spooner, son of Nathaniel and Lucy (Willard) Spooner, was born \nin Plymouth, Mass.. .March !), 1814, and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar September 3, 1839. He married in 1840, Susan Leach, \ndaughter of John and Anna (Burgess) Harlow, of Plymouth, and died in Boston June \n28, 1853. \n\nEvelyn Bonn Goodsell was born under the British flag at sea, between Ham- \nburgand England, his father being of Roman descent and his mother a German. \n1 [e came to America at the age of twelve to live with Renfield B. Goodsell, then pub- \nlisher and proprietor of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, who subsequently \nadopted him and gave him his family name. He was educated at the English High \nand Latin Schools in Boston, at the Adams Academy in Quincy, under private instruc- \ntion and in Europe. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and the Boston \nUniversity Law School, and in the offices of Ambrose A. Ranney and J. B. Richard- \nson in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879. He was the first petitioner \nto the Legislature for a change in the law relatingto employers' liabilities, which re- \nsulted in the statute of 1887, was of counsel for the plaintiff in the action of Page \nRichardson against the Fall River, Warren and Providence Railroad, involving a liabil- \nity of more than $20,000, and which on its decision for the plaintiff, after twenty \nyears' litigation, resulted in five other suits. He was sole counsel for the plaintiff in \nthe suit of Collamore against Collamore, involving a question of title under a will in \nwhich as much as $200,000 was at stake. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. \n\nJohn Mark Gourgas, son of John Mark and Margaret (Sampson) Gourgas, was born \nin Milton, Mass., March 25, 1804, and graduatad at Harvard in 1824. He studied law \nwith Lemuel Shaw and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1828. He settled in \nincy, Mass., and died in Roxbury unmarried, June 28, 1862. \n\n|i 'UN Chipman Gray, son of Horaceand Sarah Russell (Gardner) Gray, was born in \nBrighton, Mass., July 14, 1839, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 18, \n1862. He married Anna S. L. Mason, and lives in Boston. \n\nJ. Converse Gray, son of Joseph H. and Maria L. D. Gray, was born in Boston \nJune 3, 1855, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School, Noble's School, and at \nAmherst College, where he graduated in 1877. He studied law at the Boston Univer- \nsity and in the office of Hyde, Dickinson & Howe, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar November 21, 1881. He married in Rochester, N. Y., October 22, 1885, Helen \nHart Brewster, and lives in Boston. \n\nMorris Gray, son of Dr. Francis H. and H. Regina Gray, was born in Boston, \nMarch 7, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard \nLaw School and in the office of Bryant & Sweetser, of Boston, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in 1880. He is the author of a treatise on the law of communication \nby telegraph. He married at Nahant, Mass., in September, 1883, Flora, daughter of \nPatrick Grant. His home is in Boston. \n\n( >rin T. Gray, son of Robert D. and Lurana D. Gray, was born in Norridgewock, \nMe., June 2. 1839, and was educated at Maine academies and under private instruc- \n\n\nY\\ U) orrJ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 387 \n\ntion. He studied law at Waterville, Me., with J. H. Drummoml, and was admitted \nto the bar in Augusta, Me., in 1860, and to the Suffolk bar in 1863. He has been \nchairman of the School Board of Hyde Park where he has his residence. He married \nLouise B. Holmes at Waterville, Me., in 1860. \n\nEugene Fuller, son of Timothy and Margaret (Crane) Fuller, was born in Cam- \nbridge May 14, 1815, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law with George \nF. Farley in Groton, to which place his father had moved in 1833, and was admitted \nto the Middlesex bar in June, 1839. He practiced two years in Charlestown, now \nBoston, and then went to New Orleans. He married, May 31, 1845, at NewOrleans, \nMrs. Anna Eliza Rotta, and wras drowned on the passage to New York from New- \nOrleans, January 21, 1859. \n\nArthur E. Gage, son of Arthur A. and Mary F. Gage, was born in Stratham, N. \nH., December 2, 1858, and graduated at Brown University. He studied law with \nRopes, Gray & Loring in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 2, 1887. \nHe married Marilla M. Sanborn in Tilton, N. H., December 8, 1883, and lives in \nWoburn. \n\nGeorge Lunt was born in Newburyport, December 31, 1803, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1824. He was admitted to the Essex county bar in 1833, having pre- \nviously held the position of principal in the Newburyport High School. He practiced \nlaw in his native town until 1848, when he moved both his residence and business \nto Boston. From 1849 to 1853 he was United States attorney for Massachusetts, and \nat a later period he was the editor of the Boston Courier. He published a book of \npoems in 1839, another in 1843, and at various later times occasional poems of much \nmerit. He died May 17, 1885, in Boston, where in the latter part of his life he spent \nhis winters, residing in summer at Scituate, Mass. \n\nNathan Matthews, jr., son of Nathan, born in Boston, March 28, 1854, wras edu- \ncated at public and private schools and at Harvard, where he graduated with mathe- \nmatical honors in 1875. After leaving college he spent two years in Leipsic studying \npolitical economy and jurisprudence, and on his return entered the Harvard Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880. He associated him- \nself in business with Charles M. Barnes, devoting himself chiefly to equity cases, and \nacting for a time as law editor of the American Architect. In 1888 he was a dele- \ngate to the national convention of Democratic clubs held in Baltimore, and the same \nyear was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket. He presided at the Demo- \ncratic State Convention in 1889, was chairman of the Executive Committee of the \nDemocratic State Committee in 1890, and was chosen mayor of Boston in December \nof 1890, 1891 and 1892. He married in 1884 Ellen B., daughter of Colonel Manlius \nSargent. \n\nEdwin Guthrie McInnes, son of John and Elizabeth Jane (Morrow) Mclnnes, was \nborn in Washington, Penn., July 14, 1862, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin \nSchool and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1883. He attended the Harvard Law \nSchool, also studying in the offices of Charles S. Lincoln and Samuel N. Aldrich, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1886. He married Mabel Hook Folsom in \nBoston, June 5, 1888, and lives in Boston. \n\nRichard J. McKelleget, son of Patrick and Hannah (O'Connell) McKelleget, was \nborn in Cambridge, Mass., April 10, 1853, and was educated in the Cambridge schools. \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles J. Mclntire, \n; admitted to the Middlesex bar in Cambridge June 26, 1877. He was a mem- \nber of the School in Cambridge, where he lived in 1888-89-90. He was a part- \nner of IsaacS. Morse from L877 to 1881. He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 20, \n1881, Emma L. Hanlon. \n\nToii\\ ]). M< Laughlin, was born in Boston, December 3, 1864, and graduated at \nGeorgetown College in 1883. He studied law at the Boston University, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. \n\nHi \\m Slade Mii i«>\\, son of George Bruce and Lucy Kidder (Slade) Milton, was \nborn in Boston, September 28, 1855, and was educated at the Boston Latin School \nand at Harvard, where he graduated in 1875. He studied law at the Boston Uni- \nversity and in the office of Proctor, Warren &Brigham, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar ( >ctober 31, 1S<(>. He has been a member of the School Board of Waltham, \nwhere he resides, was a representative in 1889-90, and has been a special justice of \nthe Second Eastern Middlesex Court since its establishment. He married in Wes- \nton, Mass., November 7, 1877, Lilias Constance Haynes. \n\nWii i [AM Minot, jr., son of William and Katharine (Sedgwick) Minot, was born in \nWest Roxburv, Mass., now a part of Boston, May 7, 1849. He graduated at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1869, and after further study with Minot & Balch was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar May 9, 1870. He has been a member of the Boston Common Coun- \ncil, and is the author of \"Taxation in Massachusetts,\" 1877, \" Local Taxation and \nMunicipal Extravagance\" and other treatises. He married Elizabeth Veredenburgh \nVan Pelt at Trumansburg, N. Y, June 24, 1882, and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Ingalls Monroe, son of George Harris and Alice Maria (Ingalls) Monroe, \nwas born in Boston, August 1, 1854, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied \nin the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston, of Josiah W. Hubbard, of Boston, \nof Josiah H. Benton, jr., of Boston, and at the Boston University Law School, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. \n\nGeorge Barrell Moody, son of Joseph and Maria (Barrell) Moody, was born in \nKennebunk, Me., July 17, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He studied law \nin Boston with James Sullivan, and after his admission to the bar, practiced in \nKennebunk, Gardiner, Brewer, Oldtown, and Bangor. He married Mary, daughter \nof John Barker, of Bangor, and died in Bangor, July 6, 1856. \n\nEl gene H. Moore, son of Hobart and Ellen R. Moore, was born in Boston, Feb- \nruary 17, L864, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the \nBoston University and in the office of Solomon A. Bolster, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar, July 21, 1885. He lives unmarried in Boston. \n\nGeorge \\V. Moore, whose name appears on the roll of lawyers in Boston for 1892, \nis engaged in newspaper work. He was admitted to the bar in Nebraska. \n\nI towARD Dudley Moore was born at Moore's Mills, in New Brunswick, November \n\n21, 1854, and was educated at the High School in Lewiston, Me. He studied law at \n\nBoston University and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1887. He \n\nmarried Maud E. Roberts at Worcester, May 27, 1891, and has his home in Somer- \n\nville. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 389 \n\nMichael J. Moore was born in South Boston, May 20, 1864, and was educated at \nthe public schools. He studied law at the Boston University and was admitted to \n\nthe Suffolk bar in 1888. \n\nCharles Carroll Morgan, son of Charles and Sarah Ann (Robinson) Morgan, was \nborn in Meredith Bridge, now a part of Laconia, N. H., July 25, ls;>'2, and was edu- \ncated at the public schools, at Guilford Academy, N. H., and at Brown University. \nHe studied law in Nashua, N. H., Saco, Me., New York city, and Indianapolis, Ind., \nand was admitted to the bar in Marion county, Ind., February 17, 1880, and to the \nSuffolk bar in 1885. He has been the editor of revised editions of Colton & Fitch's \nIntroductory Geography and Modern School Geography; editor of Lloyd's Battle \nHistory of the Rebellion ; editor and author of revised and enlarged editions of \nFitch's Physical Geography and Descriptive List, of Colton' s Parlor and Library \nAtlas; author of American School Geography, and of various other works. He \nmarried, at Toledo, O., October 12, 1859, Marianna Robinson Gove, and has his home \nin Nashua, N. H., with an office in Boston. \n\nWilliam Moir Morgan, son of Edwin and Harriet (Tyler) Morgan, was born in \nGriswold, Conn., May 13, 1862, and was educated at the Milford High School, Mass. \nHe studied law at the Boston University, and with Frederick D. Ely and Charles G. \nKeyes in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1887. He lives in \nWaltham, with an office in Boston. \n\nJohn Holmes Morison, son of Nathaniel H. and Sidney (Brown) Morison, was born \nin Baltimore, Md. , January 21, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and with George Hawkins Williams, of Baltimore, \nand was admitted to the Baltimore bar in 1881 and to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He \nmarried Emily Marshall, daughter of Samuel Eliot, of Boston, where he has his \nhome. \n\nAlbert Gordon Morse, son of Albert and Ellen R. (Webster) Morse, was born in \nBoston, August 29, 1855, and was educated at the Dorchester High School and Rox- \nbury Latin School. He studied law at the Boston University and in the office of \nRobert M. Morse, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880. \nHe lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. \n\nIsaac S. Morse, son of Rev. Bryant and Susannah (Stevens) Morse, was born in \nHaverhill, N. H., December 27, 1817, and was educated at the public schools, re- \nceiving an honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth College in 1857. He studied \nlaw with Elisha Fuller in Lowell, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted \nto the Middlesex bar at Lowell, September 25, 1840. He was seventeen years district \nattorney in Middlesex county, his term expiring in 1871, when he declined further \nservice. In 1849, while residing in Lowell, he was a member of the City Council, and \nfor a time was city solicitor. He married, at Lowell, September 25, 1844, Eloise \nLa Barte, of Groton, daughter of John J. and Mary La Barte, of South Carolina. \nHe now resides in Cambridge, with an office in Boston. \n\nEllis Loring Motte, son of Mellish Irving and Marianne (Alger) Motte, was born \nin Boston June 30, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied law in the \noffice of Ellis Gray Loring and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar December 9, 1862. He married, January 20, 1863, Annie L. Lobdell, and \nlives in Boston. \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\\k Brownell Mowry, son of Warren B. and Hannah A. (Brownell) Mowry was \nhorn in Woonsocket, R. I,, and graduated at Brown University in 1863. He studied \nlaw at Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of C. T. & T. H. Russell, and \n,vas admitted to the Suffolk bar March 17, 1866. He has served three years in the \nBoston Common Council. He married Georgianna J. Goodwin at Boston in 1879, \nand has his home in Brookline, Mass. \n\nHi ,, , Coolidge Mi lligan, son of Simon and Almaria (Coolidge) Mulligan, was \nhorn in Xatiek, Mass., March 6, 1854, and was educated at Adams Academy, Quiney, \nand at Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 14, 1883. He married at Wor- \ncester 1 lecember 22, L886J Minna Rawson, and has his home in Natick. \n\nWilliam Adams Munrge, son of William Watson and Hannah Foster (Adams) Mun- \nroe, was born in Cambridge November 9, 1843, and graduated at Harvard in 1864. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Chandler, Shat- \ntuek & Thayer, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 25, 1868. He began to \npractice in 1869, and in 1870 became associated as partner with Shattuck & Holmes. \nHe was several years a member of the School Committee of Cambridge, where he \nresides, was one of the commissioners to revise the Cambridge charter in 1890, presi- \ndent of the Boston Baptist Social Union in 1882, and president of the Cambridge Club \nin 1890. He married, November 22, 1871, at Plymouth. Mass., Sarah D. Whitney, a \nnative of Salem. \n\nThomas Russell, son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Goodwin) Russell, was born in \nPlymouth, Mass., September 26, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1845. He studied \nlaw in Boston with Whiting & Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Novem- \nber 12, 1S49. He was appointed justice of the Police Court of Boston February 26, \n1852, and on the establishment of the Superior Court in 1859, was appointed one of \nits judges. He sat on the bench until his resignation in 1867, and after the accession \nof General Grant to the presidency, was appointed collector of the port of Boston. \nWhile collector he was one of the trustees of the Massachusetts Nautical School by \nappointment from the governor. During General Grant's second term as president \nhe resigned the collectorship and was appointed minister to Venezuela, where he re- \nmained until the domestic troubles of that country caused his return. In 1879 he was \nchosen president of the Pilgrim Society, and continued such until his death. He \nmarried Nellie, daughter of Rev. Edward T. Taylor, many years the preacher at \nthe Seamen's Bethel in Boston, and died in Boston, February 9, 1887. \n\nJohn W. Mason, son of Judge Albert and Lydia F. (Whiting) Mason, was born in \nPlymouth August 18, 1861, and was educated at the schools of Plymouth and Brook- \nline. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nCharles Henry Drew, son of Abijah and Sally (Faunce) Drew, was born in Plym- \nouth, Mass., November 4, 1838, and was educated at the Plymouth schools. He \nstudied law in Plymouth and was admitted to the Plymouth bar in 1860. In August, \n\n1861, he was commissioned as first lieutenant in Company H, Eighteenth Massachusetts \nRegiment for three years' service. At the battle of Fredericksburg he was severely \nwounded. When the Thirty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment was recruited in July, \n\n1862, he was designated as captain of Company D, then first lieutenant in Company \nII, Eighteenth Regiment, but the War Department refused to muster him out to enable \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 30I \n\nhim to receive his commission. He was, however, afterwards promt >ted to a < aptaincy \nin his own regiment. After the war he settled in Boston, where he has continued \nto the present time with a constantly increasing practice. lie lives in Brook \nwhere he is the justice of the Brookline Police Court. He married Mary A., dai \nter of Samuel Bradford, of Plymouth. \n\nCharles Tracy Murdoch, son of John, was born in Havana, January.\"), L804, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1828. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in < >ctober, L832, \nand practiced there. He died in Cambridge, November 25, 1853. \n\nJames J. Myers, son of Robert and Sabra (Stevens) Myers, was born in Frewsburg, \nN. Y., November 20, 1842, and graduated at Harvard in 1869. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1ST:;. He lives, \nunmarrried, in Cambridge. \n\nBradley Webster Palmer, son of Henry Wilbur and Ellen (Webster) Palmer, was \nborn in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., June 28, 1866, and was educated at Phillips Exeter \nAcademy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1888. He studied law at the I Iar- \nvard Law School and was admitted to the bar at Wilkes-Barre in March, 1890, and \nto the Suffolk bar in July, 1892. He lives, unmarried, in Boston. \n\nGrant M. Palmer, son of Calvin G. and Elizabeth H. Palmer, was born in Repub- \nlic, O., September 21, 1861, and was educated at the High School in Lynn, Mass. \nHe studied law at the Boston LTniversity and in the office of W. H. Anderson in \nLowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He married, October 29, 1891, \nMarion K. Breed, of Lynn, and has his home in Weston, Mass. \n\nBowdoin Strong Parker, son of Alonzo and Caroline G. Parker, was born in Con- \nway, Mass., August 10, 1841, and was educated at the common schools, the Green- \nfield High School, and at Boston University. He studied law in Greenfield with \nWendell Thornton Davis and in Boston with Thomas William Clarke, and gradu- \nated at the Boston University Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nDecember 20, 1875. He served during the war in the Fifty-second Regiment of \nMassachusetts Volunteers, was representative in 1891, and has been three years a \nmember of the Boston Common Council. He married in New York city, June 25, \n1867, Kate H. Eager, and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Ellison Parmenter, son of William and Mary (Parker) Parmenter, was \nborn in Boston, March 12, 1816, and was educated at Framingham Academy, at the \nAngier School in Medford, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1836. He studied \nlaw. with John Mills, United States district attorney at Boston, and at the Harvard \nLaw School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 1, 1842. He has lived in \nArlington many years, and has been a member of the School Board in that town \nnearly a quarter of a century. He was appointed special justice of the Municipal \nCourt of the city of Boston in March, 1871, associate justice December 12, 1871, and \nchief justice January 24, 1883, which position he still holds. He married Helen \nJames at South Scituate, now Norwell, June 30, 1853. \n\nJames Parker Parmenter, son of William Ellison and Helen (James) Parmenl \nwas born in West Cambridge, now Arlington, Mass., November 29, 1859, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1885. He lives in Arlington. \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nFrank Parsons, son of Edward P. and Alice B. (Rhees) Parsons, was born in \nMount Holly, X. I-, November 14, 1855, and was educated at Aaron's Academy at \nMount Holly, and at Cornell University. He studied law in Southbridge, Mass., \nwith A. J. Bartholomew and at Worcester with F. P. Goulding, and was admitted to \nthe bar at Worcester in 1881. He has rewritten \"Morse on Banks and Banking,\" \nedited enlarged editions of \"May on Insurance,\" \"Perry on Trusts,\" and \"Black- \nwell on Tax Titles.\" He has now in press \" Herbert Spencer and Nationalism,\" and \n\" < >ur Country's Need, or the Development of a Scientific Industrial System.\" He is \nalso a lecturer in Boston University on insurance law. He is also the author of \n\" The World's Best Books, or a Key to the Treasures of the Great Literatures.\" He \nlives, unmarried, in Boston. \n\n[oseph Nicholas Pastene, son of Louis and Clara Catherine (Moltedo) Pastene, \nwas born in Boston, October 3, 1863, and was educated at public schools and under \nprivate instruction of Professor J. B. Torricelli. He studied law at the Boston Uni- \nversity, graduating in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 1888. He \nwas appointed April 29, 1891, a public administrator for Suffolk county. He married \nPauline M. Ceppi at Boston, April 21, 1889, and lives in the Roxbury District of Bos- \nton. \n\nCharles H. Pattee, son of Asa D. and Laura B. Pattee, was born in Charles- \ntown, Mass., ( ictober 8, 1843, and was educated at the Boston Latin School. He \nstudied law in Boston with George E. Betton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJanuary 7, 1865. He is the author of \" Recollections of Old Play Bills.\" He lives, \nunmarried, at Winthrop. \n\nYVii i i \\m Grj ini eaf Appleton Pattee, son of Dr. William S. and Mary E. (Apple- \nton) Pattee, was born in Quincy, Mass., August 28, 1854, and was educated at the \nChauncy Hall School in Boston. He studied law7 at the Harvard Law School and \nin the office of Augustus Russ, of Boston, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar at \nDcdham May IT 1879. He was a representative in 1883-84 from Quincy and was \ncity solicitor during the first two years of its city government. He married at New- \nton, February 16, 1887, Laura Saltonstall, and has his home in Quincy, with an office \nin Boston. \n\nF. Alaric Pii ion, son of Florentine W. and Mary (Reed) Pelton, was born in \nNewton; Mass., January 2, 1K64, and attended Williams College two years and Bos- \nton University two years. He studied law at the Boston University and in the office \nof Edmund H. Bennett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, \nL890. He married in Boston, October 17, 1891, Mabel S. Clarke, and lives in Boston. \n\nSidney Perley, son of Humphrey and Eunice (Peabody) Perley, was born in Box- \nford, Mass.. March (i, 1858, and after studying law at the Boston University, was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He is the author of a History of Boxford. \n\nGeorge Hoi cm Perry, son of Baxter E. and Charlotte (Hough) Perry, was born in \nMedford, Mass., July 25, I860, and was educated at the public schools. He studied \nlaw in Boston with his father and at the Boston University, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in August, L888. He lives unmarried at Medford. \n\nLemuel Ward Peters, son of Lemuel E. D. and Maria (Wescott) Peters, was born \nat Blue Hill, Me., July 29, 1860, and was educated at the Wesleyan University in \n\n\nBllllil \n\n\n&/~?n \n\n\ncnsz-tf \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 393 \n\nMiddletown, Conn. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in June, 1887. His home is in Boston. \n\nGilbert A. A. Pevey, son of Abiel and Louisa (Stone) Pevey, was born in Lowell, \nAugust 22, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law in Boston with \nSweetser & Gardner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. He has been \nfor two years assistant district attorney for Middlesex, and is a director in the Cam- \nbridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He married at Lowell, November 28, 1876, \nand lives in Cambridge, with an office in Boston, \n\nEdwin Alexander Phelps, son of Alexander Steele and Laura (Waterman) Phelps, \nwas born in Waitesfield, Vt., October 29, 1841, and was educated at Kimball Union \nAcademy in Meriden, N. H., and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1870. \nHe studied law in Boston with Charles G. Keyes, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJuly 5, 1876. He married in Boston, January 10, 1877, Laura E. A. Smith, and has \nhis home in Cambridge. \n\nCassius Clay Power's, son of Arba and Naomi (Mathews) Powers, was born in \nPittsfield, Me., January 23, 1846, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1869. He studied law \nin Augusta, Me., with Artemas Libby, and was admitted to the Maine bar in 1871, \nand to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1872. He was a member of the Boston Common \nCouncil from 1886 to 1888, and makes a specialty of commercial law and patent cases. \nHe married, October 24, 1876, Annie M., daughter of Rev. John Orr, and lives in the \nRoxbury District of Boston. \n\nEdmund W. Powers, son of Richard K. and Clarissa A. Powers, was born in Ster- \nling, Mass. , September 18, 1856, and was educated at Lancaster Academy and at \nTufts College, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at the Boston University \nand in the office of Samuel C. Darling, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \n1883. He was admitted also to the New York bar in 1888. He was attorney for the \nplaintiff in Duff vs. Hutchinson et al., involving $3,000,000, with Joseph H. Choate on \nthe other side. His home is in New York city, with offices there and in Boston. \n\nSamuel Leland Powers, son of Earned and Ruby (Barton) Powers, was born in \nCornish, N. H. , October 26, 1848, and was educated at Kimball Union Academy in \nMeriden, N. H., and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1874. He studied \nlaw in the University of New York, with Jordan, Stiles & Thompson, of New York, \nand with Very & Gaskill, of Worcester, Mass. , and was admitted to the Massachu- \nsetts bar in Worcester November 17, 1875. At Newton, where he has his home, he \nhas been a member of the City Council three years, and an alderman one year. Since \n1887 he has made a specialty of electrical matters, and been connected as counsel \nwith the American Bell Telephone and New England Telephone Companies. He \nmarried at East Dennis, Mass., June 21, 1878, Eva Crowell. \n\nErastus Barton Powers, brother of the above, was born in Cornish, N. H, Jan- \nuary 31, 1841, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. II., \nand at Dartmouth, where he graduated in 1865. He studied law at the Harvard Law- \nSchool, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 19, 1867. He married at Wor- \ncester, Mass., in 1871, Emma Frances Besse, and has his home in Maiden. \n\nJames Loren Powers, son of Loren O. and Jane (Oakes) Powers, was born in \nAthens, Vt., and was educated at Chester Academy, Vermont. He studied law at \n50 \n\n\n394 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nows Falls, Vt, with Winslow S. Myers and in Boston with Burbank & Lund, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar March 13, 1875. He married, February 9, 1879, at \nBoston, Mary E. Davis, and has his home in Maiden. \n\nJames C. Whitney, son of John A. and Sarah E. Whitney, was born in Natick, \nMass., September 5, 1863, and was educated at the Natick High School. He studied \nlaw in Boston with John D. Bryant, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 14, \nL890. He married at St. John, N. B., September 18, 1890, Louise M. Horton, and has \nhis home at Xcedham, Mass. \n\nEbenezer Stowell Whittemore was born in Rindge, N. H., September 4, 1828. \nWhile a child his parents with their family moved to Illinois, traveling by team the \nwhole distance. He received his early education at Elgin and Kalamazoo, and grad- \nuated at the University of Michigan. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School \nin 1855, and after studying two years in Boston in the office of Charles Grandison \nThomas, was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 6, 1857. After his admission he \ntaught school in Barnstable and Provincetown, and July 19, 1858, opened an office in \nSandwich, Mass., where he afterwards, until his death, had his home, with an office \nfor fifteen years in Boston. He was a commissioner of Barnstable county nine years, \ntrial justice thirty-one years, and special justice of the First Barnstable District Court \nfrom its establishment in 1890 until his death. He was for a time chairman of the \nSchool Board of Sandwich, and employed his leisure hours in the investigation of his- \ntorical matters. He died at Sandwich, Mass., February 27, 1892. \n\nGeorge Whittemore, son of George and Anna (Mansfield) Whittemore, was born \nin Boston, December 19, 1836, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at \nHarvard, where he graduated in 1857. He studied law with John J. Clarke and \nLemuel .Shaw, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 3, 1861, on the \nmorning of his departure for the war as a private in the First Unattached Company \nof Massachusetts Sharpshooters. He was promoted to corporal and sergeant, and \nkilled at Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862. \n\nHenry L. Whittlesey, son of C. M. and Maria L. (Ayer) Whittlesey, was born in \nChelsea, Mass., November 30, 1862, studied law at the Boston University, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886. He is clerk of the Police Court of Newton, \nwhere he has his home, with an office in Boston. \n\nBenjamin Whitwell was born in Boston about 1770, and graduated at Harvard in \n1790. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793, and settled in Augusta, Me. He \nreturned to Boston in 1820, and, in a year unknown to the writer, delivered a poem \nhe fore the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, entitled \" Folly as it Flies.\" He \ndied in 1825. \n\nGeorge Wigglesworth, son of Edward and Henrietta May (Goddard) Wiggles- \nworth, was born in Boston, February 3, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He \nwas admitted to the bar in July, 1879. \n\nSidney Willard, son of Joseph and Susanna Hickling (Lewis) Willard, was born in \nLancaster, Mass., Februarys, 1831, and was educated at the Boston Latin School \nand at I larvard, where he graduated in 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool and in the offices of Edmund dishing, of Charlestown, N. H., and Charles G. \nLoring, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 19, 1856. After his ad- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 395 \n\nmission he went to St. Paul with the view of settling there, but returned to Boston \nand began practice. He entered the service as captain in the Thirty-fifth Massachu- \nsetts Regiment, August 13, 1862, and married, August 21, the day before his depart- \nure for the war, Sarah R., daughter of Augustus H. Fiske, of the Suffolk bar. He \nwas promoted to major August 27, 1862, and died December 14, 1862, of wounds re- \nceived the day before in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va. \n\nBenjamin Payson Williams, son of Benjamin and Margaret (Childs) Williams, was \nborn in Roxbury, February 6, 1827, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1853, and died in West Roxbury, May 17, \n1856. \n\nFrederick Homer Williams, son of Virgil Homer and Nancy R. (Briggs) Williams, \nwas born in Foxboro', Mass., January 7, 1857. and graduated at Brown University \nin 1877. He studied law in Taunton with W. H. Fox, and at the Boston University, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 18, 1882. He was a representative \nfrom Foxboro' in 1883-84. He married J. Annette Blake at Whitman, Mass., July \n19, 1881, and has his home in Brookline \n\nGeorge Frederick Williams, son of George W. and Henrietta (Rice) Williams, \nwas born in Dedham, Mass., July 10, 1852, and graduated at Dartmouth College in \n1872, and afterwards attended the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg. He \nstudied law in Boston with Thomas L. Wakefield, and at the Boston University, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875. He was a member of the Massa- \nchusetts House of Representatives in 1890, and a member of Congress from 1891 to \n1893. He taught school in Brewster, Mass., in 1872-73; was a reporter for the \nBoston Globe in 1873. He delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston in issi;, \nand in 1889 an address before the faculty and students of Dartmouth College. He \nis the author of \"Williams' Massachusetts Citations,\" and the editor of United \nStates Digest, volumes ten to seventeen inclusive. His home is at Dedham, with an \noffice in Boston. \n\nGorham D. Williams, son of George A. and Sarah (Deane) Williams, was born in \nEast Bridgewater, Mass., January 10, 1842, and was educated at Phillips Exeter \nAcademy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1865. He studied law in Green- \nfield, Mass., with Charles Mattoon, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar at \nGreenfield in March, 1868. He was trial justice in Franklin county from 1876 to \n1890; has been one of the trustees of Deerfield Academy since 1871, and president of \nthe Board since 1888. He is the author of \" The Penal Statutes of Massachusetts,\" \nand of the \" Massachusetts Peace Officer.\" He married at Greenfield, January 17, \n1871, Ella C. Taylor, and has his home in Arlington, with an office in Boston. \n\nHenry Webb Williams, son of Benjamin W. and Clarissa R. Williams, was born \nin Taunton, Mass., June 6, 1847, and was educated at the Boston public schools and \nthe Boston Latin School. He studied law with Arthur H. Wellman in Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Norfolk bar at Dedham in 1886. His specialty is patent practice. \nHe married at Jamaica Plain, Mass., 1869, Emma R. Robinson, and has his resi- \ndence in Milton, with an office in Boston. \n\nWilliam J. Williams, son of James Munroe and Maria Williams, was born in \nToronto, Canada, December 25, 1863, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy. \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \n1889. His residence is in Chelsea. \n\nSamuel Williston, son of Lyman Richards and Anne (Gale) Williston, was born \nin Cambridge, September 24. lsiil, and was educated at the Cambridge High School \nand at Harvard, where he graduated in 1882. He graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. In 1888-89 he \nwas law clerk of justice Horace Gray of the United States Supreme Court, and in \nSeptember, 1890, was appointed assistant professor of law in the Harvard Law \nSchool. He has written articles in the Harvard Law Review and American Law \nReporter, and lias been connected in the courts with Goodwin vs. Trust Company, \n[52 Massachusetts, 189 ; Corlin vs. West End Railway, 154 Massachusetts; Kneeland \nvs. Trust Company, 136 United States, 89; and Batcheller vs. Bank of Republic, \nargued in November, 1891. He married at Roxbury, September 12, 1889, Mary \nFairlie Wellman. \n\nBi 1 1 i.k Roland Wilson, son of John R. and Mary Jane Wilson, was born in \nGreensboro', Ga., July 22, 1860, and was educated at Atlanta University, Atlanta, \nGa. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1884. His residence is in Boston. \n\nWilliam Power Wilson, son of James Hamilton and Margaret McKim (Marriott) \nWilson, was born in Baltimore, Md., November 15, 1852, and was educated at Phillips \nAndover Academy. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar October 16, 1877. He was a member of the Boston Common \nCouncil in 1886-87; an alderman in 1888-89-90, being chairman in 1890, and was a \nrepresentative in 1891. He received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from \nDartmouth College in 1880. He married in Boston, where he lives, April 30, 1884, \nLouise Keith Kimball. \n\nJohn Winthrop, jr., son of Governor John Winthrop, was born at Groton Manor, \nin England, February 12, 1606, and was educated at Bury St. Edmund's and at \nTrinity College, Dublin. He entered Inner Temple and became connected with the \nnaval service. In 1631 he came to New England and was chosen assistant \neighteen years while living in the Massachusetts Colony. In 1640 he received a grant \nof Fisher's Island in Long Island Sound, and in 1641 went to England, returning in \n1643 with men and machinery for iron works in Lynn and Braintree. In 1646 he \nbegan the New London plantation and moved to Connecticut in 1650. In 1657 he \nwas chosen governor of Connecticut, and with the exception of one year continued \nin office until his death. From 1661 to 1663 he was in London and obtained the \ncharter of Connecticut and New Haven. He married first in 1631, his cousin Mar- \ntha, daughter of Thomas Fones, of London, and second, in 1635, Elizabeth, daugh- \nof Edmund Reede, of Wickford, Essex. He died in Boston, April 5, 1676, while \nattending a meeting of the commissioners of the United Colonies, Plymouth, Massa- \nchusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven. \n\nHerbert L. Baker, son of Gideon H. and Olive E. Baker, was born in Falmouth, \nMass., August 9, 1859, and was educated at the public schools,, at Bryant & Strat- \num's Business College, and at Boston University. He studied law at the Boston Uni- \nversity and was admitted to the bar in Barnstable, Mass., in June, 1885. He is a \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 397 \n\nsenator the present year, 1898, from Boston, where he now resides and practices law. \nHe married in Wareham, Mass., October 22, 1886, Mary Alice Handy. \n\nThomas Weston, jr., son of Thomas and Thalia (Eddy) Weston, of Middleboro', \nMass., was born in that town, June 14, 1834. His father was many years a select- \nman and representative. He is descended from Edmund Weston, who came from \nEngland to Boston in the Elizabeth and Ann in 1635, and settled in Duxbury. His \nfather and grandfather were extensively engaged in the iron manufactory in Middle- \nboro'many years, and both occupied prominent positions in that town. He was \neducated at the Pierce Academy in Middleboro, and in 1864 received the honorary \ndegree of A. M. from Amherst College. Before entering on his professional career \nhe was some years engaged in teaching and was two years the principal of the \nPlympton Academy. He studied law in Middleboro' in the office of William H, \nWood and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, \n1859. He first opened an office in Fall River, Mass., where he soon secured an ex- \ntensive practice. In 1865 he removed to Boston, and has there largely added to both \nhis business and reputation. In addition to his labors at the bar he has made a \nspecialty of historical studies and matters relating to the history of the Congrega- \ntional Church and Polity. He is the author of a small volume entitled \"A Sketch of \nPeter Oliver, the Last Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in the Prov- \nince of Massachusetts Bay,\" \"A Genealogy of the Descendants of Edmund Wes- \nton,\" and many short articles in various papers and magazines. His residence is in \nNewton, from which place he was sent representative to the General Court in 1883 \nand 1884, and he has been president of the Congregational Club of Boston. He is \na member of various historical associations, a lover of books, the owner of a good \nlibrary, and finds relief from his professional work in antiquarian study. \n\nCharles Grandison Thomas was born in Denmark, N. Y., the son of poor parents, \nand was brought up as a charcoal burner. The history of the Massachusetts bar can \nshow among its members no career more picturesque than his. After reaching man- \nhood he determined to gratify a passion for learning which had been growing \nstronger with his years, and in some mysterious way succeeded in reaching the sea- \nboard and securing an humble position as an assistant and man of all work under \nthe keeper of the East Chop Light on Martha's Vineyard. Here he found his way to \nbooks of various kinds, and as he studied their contents a still higher ambition was \nexcited to obtain a collegiate education. In entire ignorance of the necessary quali- \nfications for admission to Harvard, he groped along, from reading to geography, \nfrom geography to mathematics, from mathematics to Latin, from Latin to Greek, \nand when he thought himself equipped for a trial, he went on foot to Cambridge and \npresented himself for examination. Being probably favored by the faculty, to whom \nthe peculiar circumstances of his case were made known, he was admitted, and pass- \ning through his collegiate course, always known under the sobriquet of Light- \nhouse Thomas, he graduated creditably in 1838. He then entered the Law School \nat Cambridge, graduating in 1841, and the writer remembers him well, often seeing \nhim walking into Boston studying a law book on the way. Precisely by what means \nhe was enabled to pass through the various stages of his education the writer has \nnever been informed. It is probable, however, that he was a beneficiary of one or \nanother college fund and received also aid from some one of the many benevolent \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\npersons in Boston and Cambridge, who are always ready to assist those seeking a \nbetter position in life. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 28, 1841, and un- \ntil his death practiced in Boston, with a residence in Cambridge. He married a very \nworthy attendant at a restaurant in Tremont Row, where for many years he was an \nhabitug, and outlived his wife a number of years. The writer is under the impres- \nsion thai he died in Cambridge about 1872. \n\nDaniel Wells was born in Greenfield, Mass., in 1792, and graduated at Dart- \nmouth College in 1810. In 1837 he was appointed district attorney, and in 1844 was \nappointed to succeed John Mason Williams as chief justice of the Court of Common \nPleas. He continued on the bench until his death. In 1849 he removed to Cam- \nbridge, where he died, June 23, 1854. \n\nHoratio Byington was the son of Isaiah Byington, a farmer in Stockbridge, Mass. \nHe studied law in Stockbridge and with Judge Howe in Worthington, and was ad- \nmitted to the Berkshire bar in 1820. He began practice in Plainfield, but returned to \nStockbridge and continued in practice there until he was appointed in 184(3 a judge \nof the Common Pleas Court. He continued on the bench until his death, which \noccurred at Stockbridge, February 5, 1856. He lived at one time in Lenox. \n\nJi mis Hall, son of Hon. John Hall, of Ellington, Conn., graduated at Yale in 1831, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 26, 1846. He settled first in Alton, 111., but \nreturned to Boston and died there, August 2, 1851. \n\nGeorge Gorham Williams, son of Samuel K. and Eliza Winslow (Whitman) Will- \niams, was born in Boston in 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Peleg W. Chandler, and died in \nBoston the year of his admission to the bar, June 25, 1851. \n\nJoshua Holyoke Ward was born in Salem in 1809, and graduated at Harvard in \n1829. He studied law with Leverett Saltonstall, and was admitted to the Essex bar \nin 1832. He was appointed a judge of the Common Pleas Court in 1844, and contin- \nued on the bench until his death, which occurred at Salem, June 5, 1848. \n\nCharles Worthington was born in Lenox in 1822, and graduated at Williams \nCollege in 1840. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the \noffice of Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 19, 1844. \nHe died in Stockbridge, Mass., May 28, 1848. \n\nEdward Cruft, jr., was born in Boston about 1811, and graduated at Harvard in \n1831. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1834, and after praticing a short time \nin Boston went to St. Louis, and there died, April 22, 1847. \n\nSamuel Gay, a brother of Ebenezer Gay, sr., already referred to in this register, \ngraduated at Harvard in 1775. He studied law and after admission, being a loyal- \nist, retired to New Brunswick, where he became chief justice of the Court of Common \nPleas. He died at Fort Cumberland, N. B., January 21, 1847, at the age of ninety- \nthree. \n\nFisher Ames Harding was born in Dover, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in \n1833. He studied law with Daniel Webster in Boston, and after admission to the \nbar removed to Detroit, Mich, where he died in 1846. At the time of his death he \nwas assistant editor of the Detroit Daily Advertiser. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 399 \n\nGeorge Gay, son of Willard Gay, was born in Dedham, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1810. He was admitted to the bar as early as 1817, as his name appears on the \nroll of Boston lawyers in that year. He died in Andover, November 9, 184:!. His \nresidence and office were in Boston, and the writer, who remembers his death, is un- \nder the impression that he died suddenly in the cars. \n\nWilliam Simmons was born, the writer thinks, in Hanover or Scituate, Mass., about \n1782. He graduated at Harvard in 1804. His name appears on the roll of Boston \nlawyers in 1811. He was appointed, June 10, 1822, one of the justices of the Police \nCourt of Boston, which was established in that year. His associates were Benjamin \nWhitman, senior justice, and Henry Orne. He died June 17, 1843, in Boston, unci \nAbel Gushing was appointed to succeed him. He married in 1810, Lucia, daughter of \nAbraham Hammatt, of Plymouth. \n\nPeter Oliver Aldf.x was born in Middleboro', Mass., August 20, 1772, and \ngraduated at Brown University in 1792. He studied law with Seth Padelford, of \nTaunton, and was admitted to the bar in 1797. His name appears on the roll of ad- \nmissions to the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court. He removed to Maine and died \nin Brunswick, February 14, 1842. \n\nAlbert Baker was born in Bow, N. H., in 1810, and graduated at Dartmouth in \n1834. He studied law with Franklin Pierce in Hillsboro', N. H., and with Richard \nFletcher in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1837. He settled \nin Hillsboro', N. H., was a representative in 1839-40-41, and died in that town Octo- \nber 17, 1841. \n\nRobert Wormsted Trevett was born in 1788, and graduated at Harvard in 1S0S. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1811, and died in Lynn, January 13, \n1841. \n\nDaniel Parkman was born in Boston in 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. \nHe studied law with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October \n1, 1816. He soon abandoned the law for mercantile pursuits. At a later period he \nwas a deputy sheriff and city marshal of Boston. He died at Cambridge, February \n25, 1840. \n\nHenry C. Simonds was born in 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835, and died in Boston, April 3, 1840. \n\nCaleb Alexander Buckingham, son of Joseph Tinker Buckingham, for many years \neditor of the Boston Courier, was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in \n1834. He studied law, and after admission to the Suffolk bar removed to Geneva, N. \nY. He died in Chicago, January 13, 1840. \n\nEzekiel Hersey Derby was born, perhaps, in Hingham in 1799, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1818. He was a member of the Suffolk bar, and died in Boston, Novem- \nber 14, 1839. \n\nEdward Preble, son of William Pitt and Sarah A. Pjeble, was born in Portland, \nMe., April 1, 1855, and was educated at Hanover, Germany, at Phillips Andover \nAcademy and the Pennsylvania Military Academy. He studied law in Boston in the \noffice of L. C. Southard, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1890. He \nwas in Paris during the siege of 1870-71, and was the author of interesting articles in \nthe magazines describing its incidents. His home is in Boston. \n\n\n4oo HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam Henry Preble, son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth M. (Freeman) Preble, was \nborn in Charlestown, Mass., August 12, 1856, and was educated at the public schools. \nHe studied law with F. Hutchinson and George E. Smith in Boston, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880. He was a representative in 1888 and \nL889. He married, December 8, 1880, Amy Bertha Nash, and lives in the Charles- \ntown District of Boston. \n\nAlbert Jerome Pratt, son of C. T. and Mary (Post) Pratt, was born in Saybrook, \nConn., January 31, 1857, and was educated at Wibraham Academy and at Boston \nUniversity. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in June, 1881. His home is in Boston. \n\nCharles Edward Pratt, son of Rev. Joseph H. and Martha E. Pratt, was born in \nVassalboro', Me., March 13, 1845, and graduated at Haverford College, Penn., in \nL870. He studied law in Boston with Leonard A. Jones and Albert B. Otis, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1871. He wTas a member of the Boston Common \nCouncil in 1X77-79-80-81-82, and president of the board the last two years. He \nmakes a specialty of patent causes, and has been the attorney of the Pope Manufact- \nuring Company and connected corporations since May, 1881. He is the author of \n\"The American Bicycler,\" he founded and edited The Bicycling World, edited \n( hi ting two years, and for a number of years has been a writer of pamphlets, essays, \nstories and poems for magazines and newspapers. He married at Worcester in 1872 \nGeorgiana E. Folie, and lives in Boston. \n\nNathan H. Pratt, son of Nathan and Sarah E. Pratt, was born in Norwich, Conn., \nAugust 31, 1848, and was educated at the public schools of Weymouth, Mass., the na- \ntive town of his father, who returned to it from Norwich. He studied law with \nEverett C. Bumpus, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar in Dedham, January 1, \n1880. He was of counsel for the mill owner's in their suits against the town of Wey- \nmouth to recover damages for taking water from Weymouth Great Pond, in which \n$30,000 or more was recovered. He lives unmarried in East Weymouth, with an of- \nfice in Boston. \n\nSamuel Jackson Prescott, son of Dr. Oliver and Lydia (Baldwin) Prescott, was \nborn in Groton, March 15, 1773, and graduated at Harvard in 1795. He studied law \nwith William Prescott, but left the profession not long after admission on account of \ndeafness, and went into business with Aaron P. Cleveland. He was subsequently a \nnotary public in Boston for thirty years. He married, November 13, 1804, Margaret, \ndaughter of Joseph Hillier, of Salem, and died in Brookline, February 4, 1857. \n\nWilliam Morton Prest, son of William and Rebecca (Morton) Prest, was born in \nBlackburn, Lancashire county, England, February 22, 1862, and graduated at Am- \nherst in 1888. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1891, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in August of that year. He married at Uxbridge, Mass., \nin 1X80, Emma A. Day, and his home is in Hudson, Mass., with an office in Boston. \n\nJohn Preston, son of Dr. John and Elizabeth (Champney) Preston, was born in \nNew Ipswich, N. H., April 12, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1823. He studied \nlaw with (leorge F. Farley in New Ipswich, and with Samuel Hubbard in Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1827. He settled in New Ipswich and \nand there and at Townsend passed his life. He was a representative seven years, \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 4or \n\nand senator in 1848-49. He married in Townsend, October 27, 1828, Elizabeth S., \ndaughter of Abram and Elizabeth (Kidder) French, of Billerica, and died at New \nIpswich, March 5, 1867. \n\nGeorge Henry Preston, son of Marshall and Maria (Parker) Preston, was born in \nBillerica, Mass., June 6, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1846. He studied law \nin Boston with Peleg W. Chandler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar and practiced \nin Boston until his death. He married, January 1, 1850, in Billerica, Catherine \nRogers, daughter of James K. Faulkner, and died in Boston, May 29, 1868. \n\nWinfield Forrest Prime, son of Oliver and Emma F. Prime, was born in Charles- \ntown, Mass., November 22, 1860, and was educated at the Boston public schools and \nat Boston University. He studied law at Boston University and in the office of \nJoseph H. & H. W. B. Cotton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1886. \nHe was a representative in 1890. He married Mary A. Fontaine, May 12, 1891, at \nBoston, and lives in the Charlestown District of Boston. \n\nJames Perrott Prince, son of James P. and Eliza T. (Burns) Prince, was born in \nRockport, Mass., June 7, 1861, and graduated as Bachelor of Science at Amherst \nCollege in 1881. He studied law in Boston with Wm. F. Slocum and Wm. A. Herrick, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2, 1883. He married in Chelsea, Septem- \nber 20, 1885, Carrie E. Hodgdon, and has his home in Lexington. \n\nJoseph Hardy Prince, son of Henry and Sarah (Millet) Prince, was born in Salem, \nJune 7, 1801, and graduated at Harvard in 1819. He studied law in Salem with John \nPickering, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1824. He settled in Salem and was \na representative in 1825. In 1834 he was an inspector in the Boston Custom House, \nand in 1835 was private secretary of Commodore Eliot on board the Constitution on \na voyage to France to bring home the American Minister, Edward Livingston. In \n1848 he was appointed to an office in the surveyor's department in the Boston Custom \nHouse, and on leaving that position resumed the practice of law in Boston. He \nmarried Mary Hunt, of Salem, and died in Boston November 18, 1861. \n\nThomas William Proctor, son of Thomas and Susan R. (Pool) Proctor, was born \nin Hollis, N. H., November 20, 1858, and receiving his early education at the public \nschools and at Groton Academy, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1879. He studied \nlaw at the Boston University and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1883. \nHe was first a member of the firm of Hardy, Elder & Proctor, and later of the firm of \nElder & Proctor. He was first appointed second assistant district attorney for Suffolk \ncounty, then first assistant, and in May, 1891, he was appointed city solicitor, which \noffice he still holds. \n\nGeorge Putnam, son of Rev. Dr. George and Elizabeth Ann (Ware) Putnam, was \nborn in Roxbury, Mass., October 28, 1834, and fitting for college at the Roxbury \nLatin School, graduated at Harvard in 1854. He graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1858, and after further study in the office of Chandler & Shattuck, of Boston, \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar September 18, 1858, and is now associated in business \nwith William G. Russell. He married in Cambridge, where he has his home, June \n9, 1860, Harriet Lowell. \n\nHenry Ware Putnam, brother of the above, was born in Roxbury, April 29, 1847, \nand fitting for college at the Roxbury Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1869. \n51 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in ( (ctober, 1872. He has been overseer of Harvard College. He married Flor- \nence Haven Thwing, in October, 1873, and Mary Nelson Williams, in August, 1882, \nand lives in the Highland District of Boston. \n\nWilliam Lowell Pi tnam, son of George and Harriet (Lowell) Putnam, was born \nin Roxbury, November 22, 1861, and fitting for college at the Cambridge High \nSchool, graduated at Harvard in 1882. He studied law at the Harvard Law School \nand in Boston in the office of Ropes, Gray & Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar January 26, 1886. He married Elizabeth Lowell, June 9, 1888, and has his home \nin Boston. \n\nHenry Orne was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1816. He was ap- \npointed an associate justice of the Boston Police Court, June 10, 1822, at the time of \nthe establishment of the court. \n\nJohn Winslow Whitman, son of Kilborn and Betsey (Winslow) Whitman, was born \nin Pembroke, Mass., in 1798. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1830. \nHe married in 1828 Sarah Helen Power, of Providence, R. I., a lady well known in \nher day as a poet. He died in Boston in 1833. \n\nJohn Gallison, a nephew of Chief Justice Sewall, was born in Marblehead in \nOctober, 1788, and graduated at Harvard in 1807. He was admitted to the Essex \nbar in 1810, and after practicing a short time in his native town, removed to Boston, \nand had an extensive practice. He died December 25, 1820. \n\nChristopher Charles List came to Boston from Philadelphia, and studied law \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1847. He married, in 1848, Harriet \nWinslow, a native of Portland, the author of the \" Stanzas to the Unsatisfied,\" be- \nginning with the lines: \n\n\"'Why thus longing, thus forever sighing, \nFor the far off unattained and dim, \nWhile the beautiful, all around thee lying, \nOffers up its low, perpetual hymn ! \" \nI [e died in Boston not many years after his marriage. \n\nI'iiii ir Sidney Rust, son of Dr. William Appleton and Sarah J. (Goodenow) Rust, \nwas born in South Paris, Me., and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1890. \nI le lives in Boston. \n\nGeorge Holton Ryther, son of William E. and Delia P. Ryther, was born in \nBrattleboro', Vt, April 20, 1852, and was educated at Powers Institute, Bernards- \ntown, Mass., and at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. He graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1880, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November of \nthat year. He has been a member of the Cambridge Common Council. He married \nin Cambridge, in 1883, Martha R. Dickinson, and has his home in Cohasset, with an \noffice in Boston. \n\nGeorge Abboi i Saltmarsh, son of Gilman and Harriet E. Saltmarsh, was born in \nBow, X. II., October 18, 1858, and having received his early education at the public \nschools of Concord, X. II., at the Tilton, N. H., Seminary, and under private in- \nstruction, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1884. He studied law in Concord, \nII., with Chase & Streeter, and at the Boston University, and was admitted to \n\n\nc^ t^/ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 403 \n\nthe Suffolk bar in February, 1889. He married Nellie Gertrude Soule at Everett, \nMass., June 6, 1890, and has his home in Everett. \n\nFranklin Benjamin Sanborn, was born in Hampton Falls, December 15, 1831, and \nwas educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in \n1855. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and after admission, practiced \nfor a time in Boston. He began, however, to devote himself to social science and \nsanitary and reformatory ethics, and was appointed secretary of the the State Board \nof Health and Charities in 1863, and from 1874 to 1876 was its chairman. He was \nappointed, July 1, 1879, inspector of charities, and served some years in that capacity, \nbringing to the performance of his duties a wisdom and judgment of great value to \nthe State. He has been secretary of the American Social Science Association and was \npresident of the National Conference of Charities from 1888 to 1891. He is now in \nAthens, Greece, and is the writer of \"The Breakfast Table,\" in the Boston Daily \nAdvertiser, a series of interesting papers on topics of special interest to people of \ntaste and culture, which he has not permitted his departure and temporary absence \nfrom home to interrupt. He married Louisa Leavitt. \n\nM. Lendsley Sanborn, son of Ephraim and Sarah Sanborn, was born in Baldwin, \nMe., September 30, 1859, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1882. He studied \nlaw in Portland, Me., with Mattock, Coombs & Neal, and was admitted to the Maine \nbar at Portland, May 20, 1886, and to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1886. He lives, un- \nmarried, in Boston. \n\nCaleb Saunders, son of Daniel and Phebe T. Saunders, was born in Andover, \nMass., September 4, 1838, and was educated at the High School in Lawrence, Mass., \nand at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1859. He studied law with Daniel \nSaunders, of Lawrence, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1863. He has been \nalderman and mayor of Lawrence, each three years. He married, February 8, 1865, \nCarrie F. Stickney, and has his domicile in Lawrence. \n\nCharles Gurley Saunders, son of Daniel and Mary J. (Livermore) Saunders, was \nborn in Lawrence, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School, and was admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in 1S70. He lives \nin Lawrence. \n\nThomas Savage, son of Rev. Thomas and Sarah Webster Savage, was born in Bed- \nford, N. H. , January 20, 1852, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1873. He \nstudied law in Manchester, N. H., with David Cross, and was admitted to the Florida \nbar at Key West in January, 1874, and to the Suffolk bar in October of the same year. \nHe has been United States district attorney for the Southern District of Florida, city \nsolicitor of Key West, and city solicitor of Maiden, Mass., where he has his residence. \nHe married, August 20, 1891, Lucy Burkhalter Curtiss. \n\nWilliam Schofield, son of John and Margaret (Thompson) Schofield, was born in \nDudley, Mass., February 14, 1857, and was educated at the public schools, at Nichols \nAcademy, Dudley, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He graduated at \nthe Harvard Law School in 1883, and after serving two years 1884-85 as private sec- \nretary of Justice Horace Gray in Washington, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, \n1885. He has been instructor in torts in the Harvard Law School and in Roman law \nin Harvard College, and a contributor to the Harvard Law Review. He married \nEdnah May Green at Rutland in December, 1890, and has his residence in Maiden. \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n[ami - S. inn iik, son of William and Francis E. (Warren) Schouler, was born in \nArlington, formerly West Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied \nlaw in Boston in the office of George D. Guild, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin the Supreme Court January 0:!, 1862, and to practice in the Supreme Court of the \nUnited States December in, 1867. In the War of the Rebellion he enlisted as a pri- \nvate jn the Forty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment August 4, 1862, was pro- \nmoted to second lieutenant September 6, 1862, and assigned to the Signal Corps, and \nmustered out fury :!<>, 1863. Mr. Schouler has been a prolific writer in the fields of \nboth legal and historic literature. He. is the author of a \" History of the United \nStates under the Constitution,\" which has been pronounced by, a no less competent \nauthority than the New York Nation to be \" the most real history of the United \nStates yet produced for the period which it covers.\" It comprises in five volumes \ntlie period from ITS?) to 1861. In the field of law he is the author of \" Schouler on \nI >omestic Relations,\" of which four editions have been published, \" Schouler on Per- \nsonal Property,\" \"Schouler on Bailments, including Carriers, etc.,\" \"Schouler on \nExecutors and Administrators,\" \" and \" Schouler on Wills.\" Concerning these works \nthe . llbany Law Journal says that \" to Mr. Schouler must be given the praise of \nbeing the best law writer of our day in point of style.\" Mr. Schouler has mingled \nwith his labors as a writer the occupation of lecturer on American Political History \nat the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and on various lawr topics at the Na- \ntional University in Washington, and the law school of the Boston University in \nBoston. He married at Boston, December 14, 1870, Emily F. Cochran, and has his \nresidence in Boston. An impaired hearing, perhaps fortunately, prevents the inter- \nference of general practice with his occupation as a writer, and he is still at work \nwith his pen with the promise of further enriching the shelves of both the lawyer and \nhistorian. \n\nCharles P. Searle, son of Richard and Emily Searle, was born in New7 Marlboro', \nMass., and graduated at Amherst College in 1876. He studied law in Boston with \nHenry F. Buswell, and at the National Law School in Washington, D. C, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He married Cora A. W. Hogg in 1885, and lives \nin Boston. \n\nNorman Sea\\ er, son of Heman and Elizabeth (Week) Seaver, was born in Groton, \nMass., April 7, 1802. He spent one year at Middlebury College, and graduated at \nHarvard in hsi'2. He studied law with Luther Lawrence in Groton, and was admitted \nto the Middlesex bar in October, 1827. He settled in Boston, was a member of the \nBoston Common Council in 1828, and in 1834 abandoned the profession. He was \nlater a member of the mercantile firm of Stone, Seaver & Bush. He married, Decem- \nber 1, 1829, Anna Maria, daughter of Luther and Lucy (Bigelow) Lawrence, of Gro- \nton, and died at St. Louis, May 12, 1838. \n\nGeorge Henry Parsons Shaw, son of Parsons and Mary (Kearsley) Shaw, was born \nin Manchester, England, January 31, 1869, and was educated at Owens College, Vic- \ntoria University in Manchester. He graduated at the law school of the Columbian \nUniversity, Washington, D. C, and was admitted to the bar of South Dakota at \nSioux Falls March 2, 1890, and to the Massachusetts bar at Cambridge January 29, \n1891. His domicile is in Somerville. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGlSlF.R. 405 \n\n\nJohn Oakes Shaw, son of John O. and grandson of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, \nwas born in Milton, Mass., in August, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He \nstudied law with his uncle, Lemuel Shaw, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May \n23, 1876. \n\nJohn F. Shea was born in Boston, June 2, 1859, and was educated at the public \nschools. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1NN2, was a representative in 1886, \nand a senator in 1887-88. \n\nJoseph W. Sheeran, son of Thomas W. and Annie M., was born in East Boston, \nMass., February 6, 1876, and was educated at the Boston public schools. He studied \nlaw with William C. Williamson and at Boston University, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar August 4, 1891. He lives in Boston. \n\nJohn Goddard Jackson, son of Abraham and Harriet Otis (Goddard) Jackson, was \nborn in Plymouth, Mass., March 8, 1823. He was descended on his father's side from \nAbraham Jackson, who married at Plymouth in 1657 Remember, daughter of Na- \nthaniel Morton, the secretary of Plymouth Colony, and on the mother's side from \nJohn Otis, who was born in 1581, and came from Barnstable in England and settled \nin Hingham in 1635, and also from Benjamin Goddard, an early emigrant from \nEngland. He fitted for college at the Plymouth High School, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 19, 1846, and practiced in \nBoston many vears. About 1880 he removed to Aiken, S. C, and there died unmar- \nried in 1884. «> \n\nWilliam Hedge, son of Thomas and Lydia Coffin (Goodwin) Hedge, was born in \nPlymouth, Mass., February 26, 1840, and was fitted for college at the Boston Latin \nSchool. He graduated at Harvard in 1862. He enlisted September 12, 1862, as cor- \nporal in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment for nine months' service in the \nWar of 1861, was made sergeant October 1, 1862, first lieutenant January 15, 1863. \nand was mustered out June 18, 1863. He then studied law in Boston in the office of \nWhiting & Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 27, 1866. He is \nin active practice as a conveyancer with a business extending from Suffolk into Plym- \nouth, Bristol. Norfolk, Middlesex and Essex counties. He married at Plymouth, Oc- \ntober 11, 1871, Catherine Elliott, daughter of Nathaniel and Catherine (Elliott) Rus- \nsell. He lives in Plymouth, with an office in Boston. \n\nEdwin Day Sibley, son of Edwin and Hannah Elizabeth (Day) Sibley, was born in \nBoston, April 18, 1857, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in \nthe office of George V. Leverett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 22, 1882. \nHe married in Boston, October 28, 1886, Ellen M. Ayers, and has his domicile in \nSomerville. \n\nHenry R. Skinner, son of Hiram D. and Eliza A. Skinner, was born in Foxboro', \nMass., and studied law in Boston with George S. Littlefield, Frank T. Benner and \nMontressor T. Allen, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar July 3, 1890. His resi- \ndence is in Watertown. \n\nWilliam F. Slocum, son of Oliver E. and Polly Mills Slocum, was born in Tolland, \nMass., January 31, 1822, and was educated at the public schools and at the academy \nin Winsted, Conn. He studied law in Sheffield, Mass., in the office of Billings Palmer, \nand was admitted to the Berkshire bar at Lenox, then the shire town of the county, \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nin October 1846. He has been a representative, selectman and member of the \nSchool Committee in Grafton, but now he has his residence in Newton. He married \nMargaret Tinker at Tolland, Mass., April 21, 1847. \n\nW'im •iKi.ii S. Sum i m, son of the above, was born in Grafton, Mass., May 1, 1848, \nand graduated at Amherst College in 1869. He studied law in Boston in the office \nof Slocum & Staples, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1871. He has been a \nmember of the School Committee of Newton, where he has his residence, city solicitor \nand representative in 1888-89. He married at Newtonville in 1873, Annie A. \nPulsifer. \n\nGeorge Edwin Smith, son of David H. and Esther (Perkins) Smith, was born in \nNew Hampton, N. H., April 5, 1849, and was educated at Bates College, Lewiston, \nMe. He studied law in Lewiston in the office of Frye, Cotton & White, and of \nHorace R. Cheney in Boston, and at Boston University, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar April 30, 1875. He was a representative in 1883-84, and is trustee of the \nPublic Library, and a member of the School Committee in Everett, Mass., where he \nresides. He married Sarah F. Weld at Buxton, Me., October 31, 1876. \n\nHenry Barney Smith, son of Barney and Ann (Otis) Smith, was born in Boston, \nOctober 26, 1789, and after fitting for college under the instruction of Rev. Nathaniel \nThayer, of Lancaster, graduated at Harvard in 1809. He studied law at the Litch- \nfield, Conn., Law School, and in Boston with William Sullivan, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar November 19, 1812. In 1822 he delivered an oration on the Fourth of \nJuly in Dorchester at a democratic celebration of the day, another in Boston in 1824, \nand in 1830 another befoi-e the Washington Society. He died unmarried in Boston, \nApril 1, 1861. \n\nHenry Hyde Smith, son of Greenleaf and Nancy (Churchill) Smith, was born in \nCornish, Me., February 2, 1832, and was educated at the Parsonsfield Seminary, the \nBridgeton Academy, the Standish Academy and at Bowdoin College, where he grad- \nuated in 1854. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and after further \nstudy in Portland in the office of Fessenden & Butler, he was admitted to the Cum- \nberland bar at Portland February 2, 1860. He came to Boston m 1867, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar July 18 of that year, and has since practiced at that bar. \nHe married, December 24, 1861, at Portland, Mary Sherburne, daughter of John \nWinchester and Eliza Ann (Osgood) Dana. His domicile is at Hyde Park. \n\nJoseph R. Smith, son of Joseph E. and Charlotte (Richardson) Smith, was born in \nHollis, N. H., August 18, 1856, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1879. He studied \nlaw at the Boston University and in Nashua, N. H., with General H. F. Stevens \nand in Boston with John O. Teele, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1883. \nHe has been an instructor since 1886 in the Boston University Law School. He \nmarried at Epsom, N. H., May 26, 1881, Annie E. Towle, and has his residence in \nBoston. \n\nCh v.uncev Smith, son of Ithamar and Ruth (Barnard) Smith, was born in Waites- \nfield, Vt., January 11, 1819, and was educated at the Waitesfield public schools, at \nGouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, Gouverneur, N. Y. , at the University of Vermont \nin Burlington, and in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1849, \nand has since that time been engaged in active practice in Boston. In later years he \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 407 \n\nhas been connected as counsel with telephone and other patent cases. He married \nat Cambridge, where he has his residence, December 10, 1856, Caroline E. Marshall. \n\nClarence Cheney Smith, son of David H. and Esther S. (Perkins) Smith, was \nborn in New Hampton, N. H., March 1, 1865, and educated at the Edward Little \nHigh School and at Bates College in Lewiston, Me. He studied law at the Boston \nUniversity Law School and with George E. Smith in Boston, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in July, 1890. He has been principal- of the York, Me., High School, \nand is now principal of the Evening School in Everett, where he has his residence. \n\nEdward Irving Smith, son of Cyrus G. and Emily M. Smith, was born in Lincoln, \nMass., October 20, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied at the Har- \nvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889. He married \nLucia G. Campbell, and has his domicile in Waltham. \n\nRobert Dickson Smith, son of Dr. John De Wolfe and Judith Wells (Smith) Smith, \nwas born in Brandon, Miss., April 23, 1838. His parents removed in his youth to \nHallowed, Me. , where he passed his boyhood, and he graduated at Harvard in 1857. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in I860, and began practice in Boston with \nHenry W. Paine. In 1882 he became associated with his brother-in-law, Melville \nM. Weston. He was a representative in 1876, and declined a nomination for Congress \nas well as appointments to the benches of the Superior and Supreme Courts. He de- \nlivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston in 1880, and was an overseer of Harvard \nCollege from 1878 until his death. He married Paulina Cony Weston, daughter of \nGeorge Melville Weston, of Washington, D. C, and cousin of Chief Justice Fuller of \nthe United States Supreme Court. He died in Boston, May 30, 1888. \n\nHerbert Milton Sylvester, son of Ezekiel J. and Miriam T. Sylvester, was born \nin Lowell, Mass., February 20, 1849, and was educated at the Bridgeton Academy in \nMaine. He studied law in Portland with William Pitt Fessenden, and was admitted \nto the Cumberland bar in April, 1872. In 1886 he removed to Boston and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar February 24 in that year. Aside from his professional \nwork he has done much in the field of literature. He is the author of \"Prose Pas- \ntorals\" and \"Homestead Highways,\" and has at the present time in press two \nnovels, a book of boys' adventure and a series of articles from the New England \nMagazine. He married at Portland, August 5, 1872, Clara M. Elder, and has his \nhome in Boston. \n\nFreeerick Crosby Swift, son of Charles F. and Sarah A. Swift, was born in Yar- \nmouth, Mass., December 18, 1856, and was educated at the public schools and under \nprivate instruction. He studied law in Barnstable with Joseph M. Day and at the \nBoston University, and was admitted to the Barnstable bar at Barnstable in October, \n1880. He was for two years the editor of the 1 'ar mouth Register. He married in \nBrookline, Mass., June 2, 1890, Stella Nichols Hobbs, and lives in Boston. \n\nErdix Tenny Swift, son of Phineas and Deborah Swift, was born in Corinth, Vt., \nand educated at the public schools. He studied law in Boston with Nathaniel Rich- \nardson, and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in 1859. He was a member of the \nCommon Council four years and chief of police five years of Charlestown before its \nannexation to Boston, but has now his office in Boston, and his domicile at Reading, \nMass. He married at Foster, R. I., March 17, 1836, Waty A. Rounds. \n\n\n4o8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nSami i i Swi.i i, son of Dr. John Barnard and Charlotte (Bourne) Swett, was born \nin Newburyport, |une 9, 1782, and graduated at Harvard in 1800. He studied law \nwith Jeremiah Smith in Exeter and with Charles Jackson and Edward Livermore. \nlit- began to practice in Salem in 1803, and in 1810 removed to Boston. He was a \nmember of the Boston Common Council in 1823, representative three years, and \nsoon alter coming to Boston abandoned the law and became a partner in the house \nof William B. Swett & Company. He married at Salem, August 25, 1807, Lucia, \ndaughter of William Gray, and died in Boston, October 28, 1866. \n\nFrancis Kittridge Sweetser, sou of Francis K. and Myra A. Sweetser, was born \nin Stoneham, Mass., January 21, 1865, and graduated at Tufts College in 1886. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles Robinson, jr., \nand was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1889. He married, October \n21, 1891, at Saco, Me., Jennie M. Clement, and lives in Stoneham, with an office in \nBoston. \n\n1 vmes F. Sweeney, son of Michael and Johanna Sweeney, was born in Stow, now \nMaynard, Mass., and was educated at Boston College. He was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar January 18, 1888. He lives in Maynard, with his office in Boston. \n\n( rEi (RGB R. Swasey, son of Horatio J. and Harriet M. (Higgins) Swasey, was born in \nStandish, Me., and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1875. He studied law with his \nfather in Standish and at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Maine bar \nin 1879 and to the Suffolk bar February 24, 1879. He lives, unmarried, in Boston. \n\nHai.es Wallace Sri kr, soh of John and Sarah (Wallace) Suter, was born in Bos- \nton, December 30, 1828, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har- \nvard, where he graduated in 1850. He studied law with William J. Hubbard and \nFrancis O. Watts in Boston, at the Harvard Law School, and in the office of John J. \n& Manlius S. Clarke in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1852. He \nlias been a member of the Boston Common Council and president of the Massachu- \nsetts Title Insurance Company. \n\nJoseph Lewis Stackpole, son of Joseph Lewis and Susan Margaret (Benjamin) \nStackpole, was born in Boston, March 20, 1838, and graduated at Harvard in 1857. \nlb graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1859 and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar September 3, 1860. He was first assistant city solicitor of Boston from 1870 to \n1876, and United States general appraiser from August to December, 1891. In the \nWar of the Rebellion he was commissioned captain in the Twenty-fourth Massachu- \nsetts Regiment September 2, 1861, captain and C. S. of United States Volunteers \nAugust 3D, 1862, major and judge advocate July 10, 1863, brevet lieutenant-colonel \nMarch 13, 1865, and resigned April 20, 1865. He has appeared in the Norih Ameri- \ncan Review for November, 1865, as the author of \"Military Law,\" and in the \nAmerican Law Review as the author of \" Rogers vs. Attorney-General,\" October, \n1866; \"Law and Romance,\" April, 1867; \"Book about Lawyers,\" October, 1867: \n' Lord Plunket,\" April, 1868; \"Campbell's Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham,'' \nJanuary, 187(1; \" Howland Will Case,\" July, 1870, and \"Early Days of Charles Sum- \nner,\" April, 1879. He married, March 3, 1863, at Cambridge, Martha Watson Par- \nsons, and has his domicile at Mattapoisett, with his office in Boston. \n\nArthur Langdon Spring, son of John Langdon and Ellen M. Spring, was born in \nSalmon Falls, N. H., February 25, 1857, and was educated at Kimball Union Acad- \n\n\n-t^^U^ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 4o9 \n\nemy and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law at \nBoston University and with John L. Spring at Lebanon, N. H., and was admitti \nthe New Hampshire bar in August, 1883, and to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He has \nbeen a member of the Common Council three years in Boston, where he has his \nresidence. \n\nCharles H. Sprague, son of Homer B. and A. E. Sprague, was born in New \nHaven, Conn., July 21, 1856, and studied law at the Boston University Law School. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 26, 1879, and was a member of the Common \nCouncil of Newton, where he has his domicile, in 1891, and an alderman in 1892. \nHe married Jennie Starbuck, of Cincinnati, O., August 11, 1877. \n\nCharles Franklin Sprague, son of Seth Edward and Harriet B. (Lawrence) \nSprague, was born in Boston, June 10, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School and at Boston University, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in 1889. He was a member of the Common Council of Boston, \nwhere he lives, in 1889-90, and a representative in 1891-92. He married in Boston, \nin November, 1891, Mary B. Pratt. \n\nWilliam Jones Spooner, son of William and Mary Phillips Spooner, was born in \nBoston, April 15, 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law at Litch- \nfield, Conn., and with Peter O. Thacher in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in October, 1816. He died in Boston, October 17, 1824. \n\nWilliam Edward Spear, son of Archibald G. and Angelica Spear, was born in \nRockland, Me., January 2, 1848, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1870. He \nstudied law with A. P. Gould, of Thomaston, Me., and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1878. He was of counsel for the LTnited States in the Alabama Court of \nClaims, and is at present counsel for the United States in the French Spoliation \nClaims. He married in 1878 in Boston, Marie Josephine Graux, and lives in Boston. \n\nSamuel Snow, son of Caleb Hopkins and Sarah (Drew) Snow, was born in Dux- \nbury, Mass., November 18, 1832. His father was the author of a history of Boston, a \nphysician of note, who died in 1835. He graduated at Brown in 1856, and after at- \ntending the Harvard Law School and studying in the office of Caleb William \nLoring, of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1858. Before entering Brown \nhe went to California, one of the first at the breaking out of the gold fever, sailing \nin the ship Niantic, July 5, 1849. He has been a member of the Common Council of \nCambridge, where he resides. He married in Cambridge, August 20, 1861, Ophelia \nA. Smith. \n\nCharles Armstrong Snow, son of Franklin and Anna E. (Armstrong) Snow, was \nborn in Boston, September 23, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, since \nwhich time he has been associated in business with E. W. Burdett, and makes a \nspecialty of corporation law. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Christopher Smith, son of Christopher and Sally T. Smith, was born in \nChatham, Mass., September 16, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He at \ntended the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He \nmarried in Chelsea, October 31, 1889, Florence Ilsley, and has his residence in Mel- \nrose, with his office in Boston. \n52 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nTheophilus Gilman Smith, son of Theophilus Staniells and Mary Burley (Oilman) \nSmith, was born in Stratham, N. H., December 29, 1848, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1871. He studied law with E. Rockwood Hoar in Boston, and at Boston Uni- \nversity, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13, 1874. In 1887 he moved to \nGroton. He married. May 11, 1875, at Somerville, Julia Warton, daughter of George \nand Marie (Warton) k'aan, of New York. \n\nSi hi P. Smith, son of Samuel and Ruth T. Smith, was born in Hollis, Me., Janu- \nary 4, 1857, and was educated at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and at Dartmouth \nCollege, where he graduated in 1882. He studied law at the Boston University and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1885. He has served two years in \nthe Common Council of Boston, where he lives. \n\nSamuel Herbert Smith, son of Samuel Abbott and Maria E. (Edes) Smith, was \nborn in Arlington, Mass., April 5, 1864, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nDecember, 1888. His residence is in Arlington. \n\nSami el Emerson Smith, son of Manasseh and Hannah (Emerson) Smith, was born \nin Hollis, N. H., March 12, 17SS, and flitting for college at Wiscasset, Me., and at \nLawrence Academy in Groton, Mass., graduated at Harvard in 1808. He studied \nlaw with Samuel Dana, of Groton, and with his brothers Manasseh and Joseph Em- \nerson, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 25, 1812. He re- \nmoved from Boston to Wiscasset, and represented that town in the Legislature of \n.Massachusetts in 1819, before the incorporation of Maine, and in the Legislature of \nMaine in 1820. He was chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Maine from \nL822 to 1830; governor from 1831 to 1833; reappointed justice of the Common Pleas \nCourt in 1835, and resigned in 1837. In 1837 he was appointed one of the commis- \nsioners to revise the laws of Maine. When chosen governor he removed to Augusta, \nbut in 1836 returned to Wiscasset. He married, September 12, 1832, Louisa Sophia, \ndaughter of Henry Weld Fuller, of Augusta, and died in Wiscasset, March 3, 1860. \n\nSami el Sw \\<;e Shaw, son of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, was born in Boston \nand graduated at Harvard in 1853. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in \n1855 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1856. \n\nJohn L. Swift, was born in Falmouth, Mass., May 28, 1828. He came to Boston \nin 1 843 and entered a store as clerk. He was an active member of the Mercantile \nLibrary Association from 1848 to 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, \nwas a representative in 1855-57, was appointed pilot commissioner in 1858, and United \nStates storekeeper in June, 1861. He enlisted in August, 1862, in the Thirty-fifth \nMassachusetts Regiment, and was made sergeant, lieutenant, and then captain in the \nForty-first Regiment. He was provost judge at Baton Rouge, captain and judge ad- \nvocate on the staff of General Grover, and adjutant-general of Lousiana in 1863. In \n1866 he was appointed naval officer of the port of Boston, and in 1867 deputy collector, \nholding that office till 1869, when he went into business in New York. Afterwards \nreturning to Boston he was reappointed in 1874 deputy collector, and remained in \ne till 1885. From 1886 to 1887 he was editor of the State, a weekly journal, and \nfrom lss; to 1890 was with the Evening Traveller. In March, 1890, he was reap- \npointed deputy collector, and is still in office, ■ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 4ti \n\nElisha Greenwood was born in Dedham, Mass., July 15, 1863, and was educated \nat the public schools. He studied law at the Boston University and in the office of \nHenry W. Bragg, of Boston, and was admitted to the St. Louis bar February 1, 1884, \nand to the Suffolk bar January 18, 1885. He has been a representative from Ded \nham, where he lives. He has been counsel in many important cases to be found in \nthe reports of the Supreme Court, was editor of the Central Law Journal in 1883 84, \nand is the author of \" Public Policy in the Law of Contracts,\" and two volumes on \n\"Constitutional Law\" for \" Federal Decisions.\" \n\nWilliam Cahoone Greene, son of Samuel D. and Susan (Gibbs) Greene, was born \nin Batavia, N. Y., October 8, 1828, and was educated at the Monson, Westfield and \nEasthampton Academies in Massachusetts and at Amherst College and Brown Uni- \nversity. He studied law with Bates, Beach & Gillett in Westfield, Mass., and with \nBeach & Bond, and Henry Morris in Springfield, and was admitted to the bar in \nSpringfield in October, 1852. He married first, Virginia Croll, of Philadelphia, and \nsecond, Maria H., daughter of Noah Lincoln, of Boston. He lives in Boston. \n\nReginald Gray, son of Francis Henry and Hedwiga Regina (Shober) Gray, was \nborn in Boston, March 19, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1875. He studied law \nat the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He \nlives in Boston. \n\nSamuel Jackson Gardner, son of Caleb Gardner, was born in Brookline, July 9, \n1788, and graduated at Harvard in 1807. After his admission he practiced law in \nRoxbury, now Boston, and in 1838 moved to Newark, N. J., where in 1850 he became \neditor of the Newark Daily Advertiser. He died at the White Mountains, N. H., \nJuly 14, 1864. \n\nWilliam Parkinson Greene, son of Gardner and Elizabeth (Hubbard) Greene, was \nborn in Boston, September 7, 1795, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied \nlaw in Boston with Samuel Hubbard, who married his sister, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar March 14, 1820. He became a partner with Mr. Hubbard and con- \ntinued in practice in Boston seven years. In 1824 he moved to Norwich, Conn. He \nmarried, July 14, 1819, Augusta Elizabeth, daughter of Leonard Vassall Borland, and \ndied in Norwich, June 18, 1864. \n\nWilliam B. Gale, son of John Gale, was born in Southampton, N. H, August 8, \n1829, and after fitting for college under private instruction, spent two years at Har- \nvard. He studied law with Franklin Pierce at Concord, N. H., and Asa Fowler at \nthe same place, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1853, and to the \nMiddlesex bar in Massachusetts in June, 1860. He has practiced in Boston many \nyears, coming to that city from Marlboro, where he had previously practiced. \n\nJohn P. Gale, son of the above, and born in Marlboro' in 1856, was a member of \nthe Suffolk bar as early as 1885, but moved to Seattle, Wash, and died at Redlands, \nCal., May 11, 1892. \n\nRobert Dickson Weston-Smith, son of Robert Dickson and Paulina Cony (Weston) \nSmith, was born in Newton, Mass., May 8, 1864, and was educated at the Boston \nLatin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1886. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School and in Boston in the office of his father, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in January, 1888. In 1890 he was associate counsel of the New York \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nand New England Railroad Company. He married in Cambridge, October 4, 1888, \nAnstiss Walcott, and lives in Cambridge. \n\nGeorgi A. Griffin, son of George A. and Eliza T. Griffin, was born in Lowell, \nAugust 28, 1842, and graduated at Tufts College in 1864. He studied law in Lowell \nand was admitted to the Middlesex bar in Cambridge in February, 1866. He married \nin Maiden, August 28, 1*7:!, Victoria \\V. Hutchings, and has his residence in Mel- \nrose. \n\nf ames Wn son Grimes, son of James Fprsaith and Sarah (Jones) Grimes, was born \nin Hillslx.io', X. H., November 21, 1865, and was educated at Phillips Andover Acad- \nemy. He studied law at the Boston University and with John F. Colby, of Boston, \nand was admitted to the bar at Des Moines, la., October 8, 1890, and to the Suffolk \nbar in January, 1892, I lis residence is in Boston. \n\nCharles Edward Grinnell, son of Charles Andrews and Anna (Almy) Grinnell, \nwas born in Baltimore, Md., May 7, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He \nstudied divinity at the Vale Divinity School and the Divinity School in Cambridge, \nand also pursued a course of study at the university of Gottingen, 'Germany. After \npreaching for a time he studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the \noffice of Chandler, Ware & Hudson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November \n28, 1876. He has been master in chancery in Suffolk county since 1878, and was edi- \ntor of the American Law Reviewra 1881-82. He has written editorials in the above \nReview in 1880-81-82, a book entitled \"A Study of the Poor Debtor Law of Massa- \nchusetts,\" another entitled \" The Law of Deceit,\" and a third entitled \"Points in \nPleading and Practice under the Massachusetts Practice,\" an article in the Ameri- \ncan Law Review on \"Cross Bills by Assignees,\" and one in the Harvard Law \nReview on \" Subsequent Payments under Resulting Trusts.\" He married in Boston \nJuly 11, 1865, Elizabeth Tucker Washburn, and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Penn Harding, son of Isaac and Abigail (Young) Harding, was born in \nDuxbury, Mass., February 15, 1831, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied \nlaw in Boston with Richard F. Fuller and at the Harvard Law School, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar October 1, 1856. He married, December 25, 1861, in Can- \nton, Mass., Abby Anceline Morse, and lives in Cambridge. \n\nCu \\ri.ks Nathan Harris, son of John L. and Sarah E. Harris, was born at Port \nByron, 111., October 6, I860, and was educated at the Boston Latin School. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School in 1884 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJune 22, lss-2. He was appointed second assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts \nJanuary 21, 1891. He has been engaged in the preparation of portions of \"Gould \nand Tucker's Notes on the Revised Statutes of the United States,\" of the second edi- \ntion of Keller's \"Index Digest,\" and portions of the ninth American edition of \n\"Smith's Leading Cases.\" He married at Cambridge, September 30, 1890, Sarah \n\\V. Bird of that city, and has his residence in Cambridge. \n\nDavid Greene Haskins, jr., son of Rev. David Greene and Mary Cogswell \n(Daveis) Haskins, was born in Roxbury, Mass., March 5, 1845, and was educated at \nthe Roxbury Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduatedin 1866. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Henry W. Paine, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1870. He has been secretary of the Massa- \n\n\n'■£-*> \n\n\n^ \n\n\nBiographical register. .m3 \n\nchtisetts Society of the Cincinnati, and recording secretary of the New England His- \ntoric Genealogical Society. He is unmarried and lives in Cambridge. \n\nSimon W. Hatheway, son of Thomas G. and Harriet E. (Bates) Ilatheway, was \nborn in St. John, N. B., September 10, 1837, and graduated at Amherst College in \n1857. He studied law in Worcester with Dwight Foster and George \\V. Baldwin, \nand was admitted to the Middlesex bar in Cambridge in ( >ctober, 1866. He has his \ndomicile in Dedham. \n\nGustavus Hay, jr., was born in Boston in 1866, and graduated at Harvard in inns. \nHe studied law at Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Janu- \nary 20, 1891. He lives in Boston. \n\nCharles William Storey, son of Charles William and Elizabeth (Burnham) \nStorey, of Newburyport, was born in Claremont, N. H., July 18, 1816, and was \neducated at the Newburyport Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy and at Har- \nvard, where he graduated in 1835. He studied law at the Harvard Law School \nand in Boston with C. P. & B. R. Curtis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June \n15, 1840. He was clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1844 \nto 1850, has been register of insolvency for Suffolk county, and clerk of the Superior \nCriminal Court. He married in Newburyport, Elizabeth Eaton Moorfield, and lives \nin Brookline. \n\nMoorfield Storey, son of the above, was born in Roxbury, Mass., March 19, \n1845, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard, wdiere he grad- \nuated in 1866. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Washington \nwith Charles Sumner, and in Boston with Benjamin F. Brooks and Joshua D. Ball, \nand was admitted. to the Suffolk bar August 28, 1869. He has been assistant dis- \ntrict attorney of Suffolk county and an overseer of Harvard College. He married in \nWashington, D. C, January 6, 1870, Anna Gertrude Cutts, and lives in Brookline. \n\nDavid Thaxter, son of Joseph B. and Sally (Gill) Thaxter, was born in Hingham, \nMass., March 24, 1824, and was educated in his native town. He studied law in \nBoston with Sidney Bartlett and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 21, 1848. \nHe practiced in Boston, and died in Hingham, June 10, 1878. \n\nEdward Ellerton Pratt, son of George and Abigail H. (Lodge) Pratt, was born \nin Boston, December 24, 1830, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at \nHarvard, where he graduated in 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law School \nand in Boston with John J. Clarke, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He mar- \nried in 1856, Miriam Foster, daughter of Rufus Choate. \n\nWilliam Bates, a native of Wareham, Mass., was a soldier in the War of 1812, and \ndistinguished himself in the battle of Bladensburg. He practiced law and taught \nschool in Wareham, and in 1850 opened an office in Boston. He became conspicuous \nin the early days of the Free Soil party, and was at one time its candidate for secre- \ntary of state. \n\nThomas Lafayette Wakefield, son of Thomas and Submit (Ross) Wakefield, was \nborn in Londonderry, Vt, June 15, 1817, and graduated at Darmouth College in \n1843. He studied law with Horace E. Smith in Broadalbin, N. Y., and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar April 27, 1849, and became a partner of Mr. Smith, his instructor, \nwho had removed to Boston. Before coming to Boston he was admitted to the bar \n\n\n4i4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nin New York and was the first district attorney chosen tinder the law making the \noffice elective. On coming to Massachusetts he resided first in Chelsea, then in \nDedham, then in Chelsea again, and finally in Dedham in 1854, where he lived un- \ntil his death. He married first at Fayetteville, Vt, about 1845, Jane, daughter of \nD. Perry, and second at Dedham, Frances A. L., daughter of Rev. John Lathrop. \nHe made a specialty in the latter part of his career of patent cases. He was an \nassociate of the writer on a commission appointed by the Supreme Court under an \nact of the Legislature to widen the draws of the Charlestown bridges, and was also \non a commission to construct the State Prison, now the Reformatory, at Concord. \nHe died at Dedham, June 21, 1888. \n\nFrancis S. Fiske was born in Keene, N. H., in 1825, and graduated at Dartmouth \nCollege in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was admit- \nted to the New Hampshire bar and settled in Keene. He was commissioned lieu- \ntenant-colonel of the Second New Hampshire Regiment in 1861, and afterwards \nwhile in command of a Pennsylvania regiment, he contracted the army fever and \nresigned in 1862. He resumed practice in Keene, but came to Boston in 1865, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in May of that year. He has been auditor and clerk \nof the United States Bankruptcy Court, and is now, as commissioner of the United \nState, conducting the business of Henry L. Hallett, recently deceased. \n\nA. W. Gates Fairbanks was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 23, 1874, and is now \nin Boston. He was previously admitted to the Connecticut bar in New Haven and \nto the New York bar in New York city. In these places he was admitted as A. W. \nGates. \n\nGeorge Silsbee Hale, son of Salma and Sarah Kellogg (King) Hale, was born in \nKeene, N. H., September 24, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1850, and is now in active practice in Boston. \nHe married, November 25, 1868, Ellen, daughter of Colonel John and Ann (Dana) \nSever, of Kingston, Mass., and widow of Rev. Theodore Tibbetts. \n\nGeorge Dwight Guild, son of Moses and Juliette (Ellis) Guild, was born in Ded- \nham, Mass., March 17, 1825, and fitting for college at the Wrentham Academy, grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1845. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in \nBoston in the office of Charles M. Ellis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August \n9, 1848. He married in 1860, Mary M., daughter of William Thomas, of Boston, and \ndied in Brookline, Mass., May 5, 1862. \n\nJohn Edward Hannigan, son of William and Anne Hannigan, was born in Brigh- \nton, Mass., September 24, 1868, and was educated at the Brighton High and Boston \nLatin Schools. He studid law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in August, 1890. He married Annie M. Judson, May 21, 1891, in Bos. \nton, and lives in the Brighton District of that city. \n\nAlbert Fearing Hayden, son of Edward B. and Anna (Goodspeed) Hayden, was \nborn m Plymouth, Mass., May 5, 1865, and was educated at the Plymouth High \nSchool. He studied law at Boston University and in the office of Gaston & Whitney, \nwith which firm he is still connected, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, \nL888. He married in Boston, December 23, 1891, Lucy Seaver Parker, and lives in \nthe Roxbury District of Boston. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 415 \n\nAndrew Wavland Hayes, son of Andrew and Caroline (Gowell) Hayes, was born \nin Lebanon, Me., August 9, 1857, and was educated at the East Lebanon Academy \nand at Boston University. He studied law at Boston University and in Ouincy, \nMass., in the office of Judge E. Granville Pratt, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar \nat Dedham in May, 1879. He married in Quincy in September, 1879, Hattie Louise \nLincoln, and has his domicile in Revere. \n\nGeorge Edward Head, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Frazier) Head, was born in \nBoston, February 25, 1793, and after studying at Phillips Academy, at the Boston \nLatin School and with Rev. S. J. Gardiner, D. D., of Boston, graduated at Har- \nvard in 1812. He studied law at Litchfield, Conn., with Judges Reeve and Gould, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1815. He was a representative \nfrom Boston in 1836-37-47^8, alderman in 1846-47-48, and permanent assessor from \n1848 to 1855. He married, February 26, 1815, Hannah, daughter of Grove Catlin, of \nLitchfield, Conn., and died in Boston, July 5, 1861. \n\nCharles Edward Hellier, son of Walter S. and Eunice (Bixby) Hellier, was born \nin Bangor, Me., July 8, 1864, and was educated at the Bangor High School and at \nYale, where he graduated in 1886. He attended law lectures at the University of \nBerlin, and after completing his studies with Robert M. Morse, was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in January, 1889. He married in New Haven, Conn., July 8, 1886, \nMary L. Harmon, and lives in Boston. \n\nSamuel A. Fuller, jr., son of Samuel A. and Susan E. Fuller, was born in Dres- \nden, Me., February 22, 1859, and was educated at the Pinkerton Seminary, N. H., \nand the Berlin University. He studied law in Salem with Otis P. Lord and Stephen \nB. Ives, jr., and was admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in May, 1883. \n\nHenry Day was born December 25, 1820, in South Hadley, Mass., and graduated \nat Yale in 1845. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to \nthe bar in 1848. He soon after went to New York and became a partner of Daniel \nLord, whose daughter he married. He was a member of the Presbyterian Assem- \nbly of St. Louis in 1867, and of Albany in 1868. In 1865 he became a director in the \nPrinceton Theological Seminary, and a trustee of the Union Seminary in New York. \nHe was the author of ' ' The Lawyer Abroad, or Observations on the Social and Po- \nlitical Condition of Various Countries,\" and \" From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of \nHercules.\" He died in New York city, January 9, 1893. \n\nHorace Green Hutchins, was born in Bath, N. H., July 20, 1811, and graduated at \nDartmouth in 1835. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1839, and prac- \nticed in Boston, associated at different times with Theodore Otis and Tolman Willey. \nHe died in the Roxbury District of Boston, April 7, 1877. \n\nCyrus Woodman, son of Joseph, was born in Buxton, Me., in 1814, and graduated \nat Bowdoin in 1836. He studied law in Boston with Samuel Hubbard and Hubbard & \nWatts, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1839. He went west as the agent \nof the Boston and Western Land Company, and became a partner of C C. Washburn \nat Mineral Point, Wis. , remaining with him eleven years. He returned to Cambridge \nin 1863, and was for a time an overseer of Bowdoin College. He married in 1842 \nCharlotte, daughter of Ephraim Flint, of Baldwin, Me., and died in Cambridge, \nMarch 30, 1889. \n\n\n4i 6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam Bolton was an attorney in Boston in the last century. He married Fran- \nces, daughter of Governor William Shirley, and was sent to England in 1760 by the \nProvince of Massachusetts Bay to obtain reimbursements for expenses in the capture \nof Louisburg. He was also with Franklin in London in 1774-5. \n\nS vmuel Upham, a native of Worcester county, graduated at Dartmouth in 1801, was \nadmitted to the bar in Worcester county, and settled in Bangor in 1804. In 1806 he \ncame to Boston and soon abandoned the law and entered the counting-room of the \nfirm of Gassett & Upham. \n\nJob Nelson was born in Middleboro in 1766, and graduated at Brown University in \n1790. He settled in Castine, Me., in 1793, was a representative from 1801 to 1803, \nand judge of probate from 1804 to 1836. In the latter year he came to Boston, where \nhe practiced two years, and returned to Castine in 1838. In 1845 he moved to Or- \nland, Me., and there died July 2, 1850. \n\nHenry C. Hubbard was born in Boston, and graduated at the Boston University. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1873, and is in active practice in Bos- \nton. \n\nArthur E. Jones, son of L. S. and Sophia E. (Gould) Jones, was born in Green- \nfield, Mass., August 7, 1846, and attended the Boston Latin School, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1867. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and after \nfurther study with Henry W. Paine, of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc- \ntober 18, 1870. He was a member of the Common Council in Cambridge in 1881-83. \nHe married, February 14, 1879, Elizabeth B. Almy. \n\nJohn Charles Kennedy was born in Bedford, N. H., July 7, 1854, and was edu- \ncated at Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law at the Boston University and in \nthe office of George W. Morse, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in No- \nvember, 1880. He was a member of the city government of Newton, where he lives, \nfive years, and was appointed June 12, 1889, justice of the Newton Police Court, \nwhich office he still holds, with his law office in Boston. \n\nFred H. Kidder, son of Francis H. and Julia T. Kidder, was born in Medford, \nMass., May 5, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law at the Bos- \nton University and in the office of Thomas L. Wakefield, of Boston, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He married in Medford, February 9, 1881. \nCarrie Edith Farnsworth, and has his residence in Medford. \n\nPatrick Bernard K.iernan, son of Peter and Ann Jane Kiernan, was born in Bos- \nton, March 2, 1851, and was educated at the Boston public schools and at a private \nschool in South Reading. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He married \nCatherine Kiernan, of Maiden, and has his home in Chelsea. \n\nBenjamin Kimball, son of Otis and Lucy (Savill) Kimball, was born in Boston, No- \nvember 18, 1849, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School and in the office of Peleg W. Chandler, of Boston, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar October 31, 1874. He married in 1880 Helen M. Simmons, and \nlives in Boston. \n\nD. Frank Kimball, son of Charles and Mary Sibley Kimball, was born in Boston, \nDecember 4, 1846, and was educated in the schools of Chelsea and under private in- \nstruction. He studied law in the office of Ambrose A. Ranney, of Boston, and at \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 4,7 \n\nthe Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 22, 1872. He \nhas been a member of the Common Council of Chelsea two years, representative two \nyears, and senator two years. He has been connected as counsel in several impor- \ntant cases, among which may be mentioned that of Captain Mosher, charged with \nlarceny of the bark Western Sea, and that of the failure of Charles W. Copeland \n& Company. His home is in Chelsea. \n\nEdgar L. Kimball, son of Daniel B. and Charlotte C. (Tenny) Kimball, was born \nin Bradford, Mass., December 6, 1S44, and was educated at Phillips Andover Acad- \nemy. He studied law with Alfred Kittredge in Haverhill and Lyman Mason in Bos- \nton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 29, 1868. He is unmarried, and \nhas his domicile in Bradford. \n\nEdmund Kimball was born in Ipswich, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He \nstudied law with Asahel Stearns, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, \n1817. He died in 1873. \n\nW. Frederick Kimball son of Charles and Mary F. Kimball, was born in Chelsea, \nMass., July 18, 1851, and was educated at the Chelsea High School and at Harvard \nCollege. He studied law at the Boston University and with Alfred Hemenway, of \nBoston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 18, 187S. He has been a coun- \ncilman and alderman in Chelsea, where he resides. He married Hattie T. Nealley, \nof Cambridge, September 6, 1879. \n\nGeorge H. Kingsbury, son of Henry and Julia Bowene Kingsbury, was born in \nKennebunk, Me., March 4, 1827, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 184.\"). He \nstudied law in Kennebunk in the office of Judge Bowene and in Boston in the office of \nDaniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He has been deputy collector \nof the port at Boston, and collector of internal revenue. He married Marion Win- \nchester, in Boston, December 30, 1859, and lives in Boston. \n\nMarshall Kittredge Abbott, son of Thomas S. Abbott, of Portland, was born in \nConway, N. H., October 6, 1820, and studied law at the Harvard Law School, and \nsettled in Boston, from which place he was a representative. He married Hannah \nKittredge, of Andover, and died in Boston January 11, 1859. \n\nCharles Swift Knowles, son of James and Caroline Munroe Knowles was born in \nYarmouth, Mass., and was educated at the Yarmouth and Cambridge High Schools \nand at Harvard. He studied law at the Boston University and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1886. He married at Yarmouth, September 25, 1890, Kate Sears, and \nlives in Boston. \n\nWarren Ozro Kyle, son of Amos M. and Sarah G. (Bacheller) Kyle, was born in \nLowell, October 30, 1855, and graduated at Amherst College in 1877. He studied law \nat the Boston University and in the office of William Gaston, of Boston, and J. M. \nMarshall, of Lowell, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge, in Decem- \nber, 1H79. He married Ellen J. Parsons at Northampton, Mass., October 24, 1883, \nand has his residence in Brookline. \n\nJames Harris Wolff, son of Abraham and Eliza Wolff, was born August 4, 1849, \nand was educated at the Kimball Union Academy and College of Agriculture and \nthe Mechanic Arts of New Hampshire. He studied law in the office of Daniel Wheel- \nright Gooch in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the \n53 \n\n\n4i8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nSuffolk bar June 26, 1875. He married in Boston, January 21, 1880, Mercy A. Bir- \nmingham, and lives in the Brighton District of Boston. \n\nEzra Weston, son of Ezra Weston, was born in Duxbury, Mass., December 23, \n1809, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He graduated at the Harvard Law School \nin L832, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October of that year. He was at one \ntime city marshal of Boston. He died in Duxbury unmarried, September 6, 1852. \n\nCharles Mavo. son of John and Lydia (Laha) Mayo, was born in Brewster, Mass., \nFebruary 10, 1809. In 1N12 his parents removed to Andover, and he was educated \nin the common schools of that town. At the age of eighteen he began teaching \nschool, and taught in Natick and other places. At twenty he went on a fishing voy- \nage to the coast of Labrador, and then studied medicine one summer. In 1831 he \nwent on a whaling voyage into the South Atlantic from Fairhaven in the ship Co I a Di- \nbits, Gustavus A. Bailies, master, sailingjune 1, 1831, andreturning to New Bedford \nin March, 1833, with thirty-five right and three sperm whales, making twenty-two \nhundred barrels of whale oil and two hundred and sixty barrels of sperm oil, and \ntwenty thousand pounds of bone. After settling up his voyage he learned and worked \nat the trade of carriage painting in Chatham, Charlestown and Newton, and then, \nconcluding to study law, he entered the office of J. P. Bishop, in Medfield, October 1, \n1839. He remained there until April 1, 1840, and then entered the office of Peter S. \nWheelock, in Roxbury, and afterwards the Harvard Law School, July 26, 1841. He \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1842, and settled in Boston. In 1851 \nhe was appointed by Governor Boutwell inspector-general of fish, and was a mem- \nber of the Common Council of Boston in 1854-55. From January 1, 1851, to January \n1, 1856, he was recording secretary of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. \nOn the 22d of December, 1856, he left Boston with the expressed intention of going \nWist. After reaching New York he sailed for Nicaragua, and for a time followed \nWalker, the filibuster, in his expeditions. Afterwards coming North he stopped in \nKansas during the unsettled affairs of that State, and was appointed school superin- \ntendent in Olathe, and judge of probate, and died at Olathe January 2, 1859. He \nmarried first at Newton, August 21, 1834, Lucinda Ware, and second, July 6, 1844, \nLydia Lyncoln Ball, of Northboro'. \n\nFrederick Hokks, son of Isaac and Mary (Baldwin) Hobbs, was born in Weston, \nMass., February 28, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law with \nIsaac Fiske in Weston, and Daniel Webster in Boston, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 31, 1820. In 1821 he went to Maine to assume at Eastport the \nbusiness of Francis E. Putnam, who was coming to Boston. On his way he was ad- \nmitted to the Maine bar at Portland in July, 1821. In 1836 he removed from East- \nport to Bangor, where he died October 10, 1854. He married at Bangor, July 10, \nL823, Mary Jane, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Harrod) Coombs. \n\nFrancis E. Putnam is thought by the writer to have come to Boston from East- \nport, Me., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, April 13, 1810. \n\nStephen Fales, son of Stephen and Hannah (Smith) Fales, was born in Boston, \nMay 3, 1780, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He was tutor two years at Bowdoin \nCollege, and the writer is not certain that he ever practiced at the Suffolk bar. He \nstudied law with Jeremiah Mason; went to Cincinnati in 1819, to Dayton in 1821, and \niu 1S31 back to Cincinnati, where he died September 3, 1854. \n\n\nX/cri^y& sic. ^C \n\n\nBiographical register. 4U) \n\nGeorge Alexander Otis, son of George Alexander- Otis, was born in Boston in \n1804, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nMay, 182(5. He married Anna M. Pickman, and died in 1831. He was a scholar of \nrepute and the translator of Botta's History. \n\nEdmund Burke Otis, brother of the above, was born in Boston, March 18, 1822, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the .Suffolk bar January 13, \n1847, and died in Boston in 1884. \n\nGeorge Nixon Briggs, son of Allen and Mary (Brown) Briggs, was born in Adams, \nMass., April 12, 1796. After learning the hatter's trade, he studied law at Adams am' \nwas admitted to the Berkshire bar in October, 1818. He practiced in Adams, Lanes- \nboro' and Pittsfield; was register of deeds from 1S24 to ls:J,| ; member of Congress \nfrom 1831 to 1843, and governor of Massachusetts from 1N44 to 1850 inclusive, and \njudge of the Common Pleas Court from 1854 to 1859, when the court was abolished. \nHe received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard, Williams and Amherst. His death, \nwhich occurred at Pittsfield, September 12, 1861, was occasioned by the accidental \ndischarge of a gun. \n\nWilliam Croswell Tarbell, son of John P. Tarbell, graduated at Harvard in INTO \nand was an attorney in Boston in 1885, associated in business with Freeman Hunt. \nHe died in Boston, December 6, 1886. \n\nGeorge W. Adams was a native of Cambridge. He studied law with Timothy Fuller, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 22, 1828. He was a good classical \nscholar, and as remembered by the writer in 1850, devoted much of his time to the \nstudy of Shakespeare and other poets. He has been dead many years. \n\nThompson Miller, son of Seth Miller, of Middleboro', was an attorney at the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1809, and was living in Boston in 1849. He died unmarried. \n\nAmos B. Merrill was born in Lyman, N. H., March 6, 1815, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in February, 1841. He married a daughter of Rev. John Goldsbury, \nof Hardwick, Mass., and died in Boston, August 30, 1872. \n\nAnnis Merrill, brother of the above, was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 8, \n1844. He was associated with Rufus Choate in the defence of Albert J. Tirrell, \ncharged with murder. The ground taken by the counsel, that the homicide was \ncommitted while the defendant was in a state of somnambulism, makes the record of \nthe trial a remarkable and interesting one. Mr. Merrill went from Boston to Cali- \nfornia. \n\nAlfred Dupont Chandler, son of Theophilus and Elizabeth Julia (Schlatter) \nChandler, was born in Boston, May 18, 1847. William Schlatter, the father of his \nmother, was an eminent merchant in Philadelphia in the early part of the century, \nwhile on his father's side he is descended in the eighth generation from Edmund \nChandler, who settled in Duxbury in 1633. When a year old his parents removed to \nBrookline, where he now resides, and he received his early education in the public \nschools of that town. He graduated at Harvard in 1868, and studied law in the \noffices of his father and of Abbot & Jones and of Richard H. Dana in Boston, and \nof Porter, Lowrey & Soren in New York city. He was admitted to the Middlesex \nbar at Cambridge, December 13, 1869, on examination after about eighteen months' \npreparation, and to the Supreme Court of the United States April 1 7. 1877. In pur- \n\n\n\\±o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nsuing his profession his preference has been for chamber practice, and his attention \nhas been given chiefly to corporation law, though at times directed to admiralty, \ntariff, will and patent cases. He has aided in perfecting inventions and exploiting \npatents for patentees, and in arguing corporation receivership questions in the \nUnited States Courts. He drafted the bill for the creation of national savings banks, \noffered by Mr. Windorn in the United States Senate in 1880, and his arguments be- \nfore the Senate Finance Committee on the subject of these banks have been published. \nHe advocated, in 1882, before a committee of the Massachusetts General Court, \nthe creation of a tribunal to decide that the necessity for a railroad exists before \nproperty can be taken for its construction, and to his efforts the act of 1882 on that \nsubject is largely due. As a resident of Brookline he has been one of its most active \nand progressive citizens. The construction of the Riverdale Park, between Brook- \nline and Boston, is due mainly to his skill and energy in surmounting legal and \npractical difficulties. The financial methods of the town, now perfected, were \nmodeled and established in accordance with plans suggested and urged by him. He \nwas chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Surveyors of Highways, Board of Health, \nand Overseers of the Poor in 1884—85-86, and was a trustee of the Public Library in \n1874-75-76. It may be further mentioned that he was one of the first to import and \nencourage the use of bicycles in America, and was sustained by the United States \nCourt, June 28, 18T7, in his appeal to have bicycles subject to the duty on carriages, \nand to all laws relating to the same. He is the author of a \" Bicycle Tour in Eng- \nland and Wales,\" published in Boston and London in 1881. Though holding no \npolitical office outside of his own town, he has been prominent in social organizations, \nhaving served during the last year as president of the Brookline Republican Club, \ncomposed of business and professional men of that town. He married in Brookline, \nDecember 27, 1882, Mary Merrill, daughter of Henry V. and Mary W. (Pierce) Poor, \nand is the father of four children. \n\nStephen Bradshaw Ives, son of Stephen B. Ives, was born in Salem, March 9, \n1827, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He taught school in Newbury one season \nand afterwards had charge as principal of one of the Salem Grammar Schools. He \nstudied law in the office of Northend & Choate in Salem, and was admitted to the \nEssex bar in March, 1851. For a year or two he was clerk of the Salem Police Court, \nand in 1853 began practice. After some years' practice in Salem, his enlarging busi- \nness demanded a wider field, and as early as 1867 his name appears on the roll of \nBoston lawyers. He died at Salem, February 8, 1884. \n\nOris Phillips Lord, son of Nathaniel and Eunice (Kimball) Lord was born in Ips- \nwich, July 11, 1812, and was educated at Dummer Academy and at Amherst College, \nwhere he graduated in 1832. He studied law with Oliver B. Morris, judge of pro- \nbate in Hampden county, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1836. He was \nadmitted to the Essex bar in Salem in December, 1835, and settled in Ipswich, his native \ntown. In 1844 he removed to Salem, where he continued until death. He was a \nrepresentative in 1847-48-52-53-54, and in the last year he was speaker. In 1849 he \nwas a State senator, and in 1853 a member of the Constitutional Convention. In 1859, \nupon the organization of the Superior Court, he was appointed one of the judges and \nheld that position until December 21, 1875, when he was appointed an associate jus- \ntice of tlie Supreme Judicial Court. He resigned his seat on the bench, December 8. \n1882, and died in Salem, March 13, 1884. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 42 1 \n\nDavid Cummins, son of David and Mehitabel (Cave) Cummins, was born in Tops- \nfield, August 14, 1785, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1806. He studied law with \nSamuel Putnam in Salem, aud was admitted to the Essex bar at Salem in September, \n1809. He began practice in Salem, but afterwards removed to Springfield and \nfinally to Dorchester. He was appointed justice of the Court of Common Pleas in \n1828 and resigned in 1844. He married first, August 13, 1812, Sally, daughter of \nDaniel and Sarah (Peabody) Porter, of Topsfield, and second, Catherine, daughter of \nThomas Kittredge, of Andover, and died in Dorchester, March 30, 1855. \n\nWilliam C. Endicott, jr., son of William Crowninshield and Ellen (Peabody) \nEndicott, was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1XN:J>. He was admitted \nto the Essex bar in Salem in 1886, and has an .office in Boston. \n\nStephen Hooper, son of Stephen, a merchant of Newburyport, was born in that \ntown in 1785, and graduated at Harvard in 1808. He was admitted to the Essex bar \nin 1810, and began practice in his native town. He was a representative in 1810, \nand a senator in 1816. In 1818 he removed to Boston, where he practiced his \nprofession, and was for several years an alderman, and died in Boston in 1825. \n\nJohn William Bacon was born in Natick, Mass., in 1818, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1843. After leaving college he taught for a time in the Boston High School, \nand was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1846. H practiced law in Natick fourteen \nyears, and from 1859 to 1862 was a member of the State Senate. Upon the establish- \nment of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston in 1866, he was appointed July 2 \nof that year its chief justice, and in 1871 was appointed an associate justice of the \nSuperior Court. He died while holding court at Taunton, March 21, 1888. \n\nSamuel Dexter Ward, son of Chief Justice Artemas and Maria (Dexter) Ward, \nwas born in Weston, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 6, 1813. \nHe continued in practice in Boston until his death. \n\nFranklin Goodridge Fessenden was born in Fitchburg, Mass., in 1849, and studied \nlaw in Greenfield, Mass., and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, in \nwhich year he was admitted to the bar in Worcester county. He was appointed in \n1891 an associate justice of the Superior Court, and is now on the bench. \n\nJohn Hopkins was born in Gloucester, England, in 1840, and graduated at Dart- \nmouth College in 1862. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1804, and practiced \nin Worcester and Millbury until his appointment in 1891 to the Superior Court \nbench. \n\nDaniel Webster Bond was practicing law in Northampton, Mass., when he was \nappointed in 1890 an associate judge of the Superior Court. He is now on the bench. \n\nFrancis Henshaw Dewey was born in Williamstown, Mass., in 1821, and grad- \nuated at Williams College in 1840. He was admitted to the Worcester bar and \npracticed in Worcester until 1869, when he was appointed associate justice of the \nSuperior Court. He resigned in 1881, and died in 1887. \n\nDavid Aiken was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1856, and re- \nmained on the bench until the court was abolished in 1859. He is now in practice in \nGreenfield. \n\nHenry Walker Bishop, of Berkshire county, was appointed associate justice of the \nCourt of Common Pleas in 1851, and remained on the bench until the court was abol- \nished in 1859. He died in 1871. \n\n\n422 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nS ami ii, Howe was appointed an associate justice of the Court of Common Pleas in \n1821, and died in 1828 while on the bench. \n\nSolomon Strong, sun of Judge Simeon Strong, was born in Amherst in 17N0, and \ngraduated at Williams College. He was admitted to the bar in 1800 and practiced \nin Royalston, Atliol, Westminster, and Leominster. He was a State representative \nand served two terms in Congress. He was appointed judge of the Circuit Court of \nCommon Pleas in 1818 and in 1821 a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He re- \nsigned in 1842, and died in Leominster in 1850. \n\nJames Madison Morton was practicing law in Fall River when he was appointed in \n1890 a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. He is now on the bench. \n\nDwight Foster was born in Worcester in 1828, and graduated at Yale College in \n1848. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1849, and practiced in Worcester and \nBoston. He was attorney-general of the State from 1861 to 1864, and judge of the \nSupreme Court from 1866 until his resignation in 1869. He died in 1884. \n\nBenjamin Franklin Thomas was born in Boston, February 12, 1813, and graduated \nat Brown University in 1830. He was a grandson of Isaiah Thomas, well known \namong the printers of Massachusetts. He studied law in Worcester, and was ad- \nmitted to the Worcester bar in 1834. He was a representative from Worcester in \n1842, and judge of probate for Worcester county from 1844 to 1848. In 1853 he was \nappointed associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, remaining on the bench \nuntil his resignation in 1859. He then removed to Boston and there resumed the \npractice of his profession. He was in Congress from 1861 to 1863, and in 1868 was \nnominated by the governor to the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court, but \nfailed to be confirmed by the Council. He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown \nUniversity in 1853, and from Harvard in 1854. He died September 27, 1878. \n\nNathaniel Wood was born in Holden, Mass., in 1797, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1821, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 12, 1827. He settled in Fitch- \nburg, and died in 1876. \n\nFrancis William Sprague, son of Caleb H. and Isabel A. Sprague, was born in \nBarnstable, Mass., October 14, 1862, and was educated at the Boston English High \nSchool. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar July 21, 1885. He was a member of the Common Council of Boston, his place \nof residence, in 1888-89. He married in Augusta, Me., June 29, 1887, Sarah W. \nChick. \n\nPhilip Howes Sears, son of John and Mercy (Howes) Sears, was born in Brewster, \nMass., December 30, 1822, and is descended from Richard Sears, one of the founders \nof the town of Yarmouth in 1639. He traces his indirect descent also from William \nBrewster and John Howland, of the Mayflower, from Thomas Prince, governor of \nPlymouth Colony; Constant Southworth, treasurer of that colony; Rev. John Mayo, \nfirst minister of Yarmouth and minister of the second church in Boston ; and Thomas \nHowes, one of the original grantees of the township of Yarmouth. The original \nhomestead and land grant of Richard Sears, situated in East Dennis and West Brews- \nter, formerly part of Yarmouth, have come to him by inheritance, and are now in his \npossession. Mr. Sears fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy, and gradu- \nated at Harvard in 1844. He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1849, and \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 423 \n\nwas admitted to the bar in Cambridge in October of that year. While in the law school \nhe was tutor of Mathematics in the University. After a visit to Europe he began \npractice in Boston in 1851, as a partner of Henry A. Scudder, and continued with him \nuntil the appointment of Mr. Scudder to the bench of the Superior Court in L869. He- \nwas for a number of years solicitor of the Old Colony Railroad Company, and en- \njoyed a large general practice. He was a representative from Boston in 1861 and \naided efficiently in the measure for sending delegates to the peace convention in Wash- \nington, and in that for arming and equipping the State militia for immediate service. \nIn 1880 he retired from active practice, having some years previously suffered from \nan injury to his eyes, which rendered that step necessary. Since his retirement he \nhas devoted his time chiefly to literary pursuits and foreign travel. In five visits to \nEurope he has visited every European country except Portugal, and the winter of \n1891-92 he passed in Egypt. He delivered the historical address at the dedication of \nthe new academic hall of Phillips Andover Academy in 1867, and the quarter mil- \nlenial address at the celebration of the settlement of Yarmouth, September 3, 1889. \nHe was a member of the Common Council of Boston, and of the Board of Trustees of \nthe Public Library in 1859, a representative in 1860-61, and an overseer of Harvard \nUniversity from 1860 to 1866. He is a member of the American Archaeological In- \nstitute, and takes a deep interest in the aims and purposes of that organization. He \nmarried, April 23, 1861, Sarah Pratt, a daughter of George W. Lyman, of Boston* and \nhas his winter residence in that city, with a summer residence in Waltham. \n\nJohn Jackson Russell, son of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell, was born in \nPlymouth, Mass., July 27, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He studied law \nin Plymouth in the office of Jacob H. Loud and in Boston in the office of Allen Crocker \nSpooner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar-October 3, 1848. While studying law \nhe taught school in Barnstable for a time, and made a visit to Europe. He began \npractice in Boston, but in 1850 removed to Plymouth, and continued practice in that \ntown until his occupation as assistant treasurer of the Plymouth Savings Bank com- \npelled him to retire from the profession. In 1872, on the death of Allen Danforth, \nthe treasurer of that institution, he was appointed to succeed him, and he still holds \nthat office. He married, November 14, 1855, Mary A., daughter of Allen Danforth \nabove mentioned. \n\nHugh Montgomery was born in Middleboro', Mass., in that part of the town now \nwithin the limits of Lakeville, and graduated at Brown University in 1825. He was \nadmitted to the bar in 1830 and settled in Boston. He was a trustee with Alpheus \nHardy and Horatio Harris of the estate of Joshua Sears for the benefit of J. Mont- \ngomery Sears, now living in Boston, until he came of age. He died in Boston since \n\n1880. \n\nEdward Pickering was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. He \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1828. He died in 1876. \n\nEdward Blake was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. He studied \nlaw with Lemuel Shaw, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1827. He was presi. \ndent of the Boston Common Council in 1843. He died in 1873. \n\nJonathan Chapman was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1825. He \nstudied law at the law school in Northampton and in the office of Lemuel Shaw, of \nBoston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1828. He was mayor of Boston in \n1840-41-42, and died in 1848. \n\n\n424 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nEi i i- Gra\\ Loring was born in Boston in 1800, and after studying at the Harvard \nLaw School, was admitted to the .Suffolk bar in 1827. He was intimately connected \nwith the anti slavery movement, and died in Boston, May 24, 1852. \n\nWashington P. Gregg was born in Boston in 1802, and admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1829. In 1830 he was chosen a member of the Boston Common Council and served \ntwo years. In 1843 he was chosen clerk of the council, and continued in office until \nhis resignation in 1885. He was the third clerk of the council since the incorporation \nof the city in 1822, having been preceded by Thomas Clark and Richard G. Waitt. \nlie died in Milton, March 7, 1892. \n\nRichard Robins, son of Jonathan and Frances (Crafts) Robins, was born in Boston \nin March, 1807, and graduated at Harvard in 1826. He studied law at the North- \nampton Law School and in the office of Lemuel Shaw in Boston, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in 1829. He was associated for a time with Willard Phillips. He \nmarried Susan Parkman, daughter of Edward Blake, of Boston, and died on a voy- \nage from Fayal, July 11, 1852. \n\nH. Gardiner Gorham was born in Boston and studied law with Willard Phillips. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829. \n\nSamuel H. Walley, son of Samuel H. Walley, was born in Boston and graduated \nat Harvard in 1826. He studied law in Boston with .Samuel Hubbard, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831. He was speaker of the House of Representatives \nof Massachusetts in 1844-45-46, and served one or more terms in Congress. He died \n\nin 1877. \n\nGeorge H. Whitman was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He \nstudied law with Benjamin Whitman and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831. \nHe died in 1890. \n\nJohn Codman was born in New York, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1827, \nstudied law with Benjamin Merrill and Leverett Saltonstall, and was admitted to \nthe Essex bar in 1830. He practiced in Boston, and died in 1879. \n\nGrenville T. Winthrop was born in Boston and graduated at Columbia College \nin 1827. He studied law with Joseph Heard and William C. Aylwin, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831. \n\nArnold Francis Welles was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1827. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1830, and died in 1844. \n\nFrancis Caleii Loring was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1828. He \nstudied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831. \nHe died in 1874. \n\nSamuel King Williams, son of George Williams, was born in Raynham, Mass., \nNovember 17, 1785, and graduated at Brown University in 1804. He was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in 1807. He married Eliza Winslow, daughter of Kilborn and \nBetsey (Winslow) Whitman, in Pembroke, Mass., October 27, 1817, and died in \nBoston, November 20, 1874. \n\nHenry J. Sargent was born in Boston, and after admission to the bar became a \n\nmerchant. \n\nThomas Power graduated at Brown in 1808 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1812. He was many years the clerk of the Boston Police Court, and died in 1868. \n\n\nCTc 1^ C \n\n\nI- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 425 \n\nHoratio Bigelow was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1809. \nHe studied law with Loammi Baldwin and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813. \nHe died in 1824. \n\nWilliam Little, jr., son of William Little, was born in Boston and graduated at \nHarvard in 1809. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1814. He died in 1833. \n\nWilliam Gale was born in Waltham, and graduated at Harvard in IS 10. He \nstudied law with George Blake, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S14. He \ndied in 1839. \n\nPhineas Blair studied law with E. P. Ashmun, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1810. \n\nDavid Stoddard Greenough was born in Roxbury, and graduated at Harvard in \n1833<. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1836. He died in 1877. \n\nWilliam Dehon was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He \nstudied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, \n1836. He died in 1875. \n\nEben Smith, jr., son of Eben Smith, was born in Boston and graduated at Brown \nUniversity in 1830. He studied law with Richard Fletcher and Rufus Choate, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829. He died in 1856. \n\nGeorge Sparhawk was born in Brighton and graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1836. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1836, and died in 1879. \n\nFrancis Josiah Humphrey was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. \nHe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1836 and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in August of that year. He died 111 1883. \n\nGeorge Edward Winthrop was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1825. \nHe studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829. \nHe died in 1875. \n\nO. W. Withington was born in Boston and graduated at the University of Ver- \nmont in 1829. He studied law with Willard Phillips and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1835. He died in 1853. \n\nGeorge Barstow was born in Haverhill, N. H. , and studied law with William J. \nHubbard and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1838. \n\nHiram Wellington was born in Lexington, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in \n1834. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1838 and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in July of that year. He died in 1890. \n\nCharles Henry Parker, son of Samuel Dunn and Eliza (Mason) Parker, was born \nin Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He studied law with his father, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1838. He is now treasurer of the Suffolk \nSavings Bank. \n\nHarrison Gray Otis, jr., son of Harrison Gray Otis, was born in Boston, August \n7, 1792, and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He studied law with his father, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1814. He married Eliza Henderson, daughter of Will- \niam H. Boardman, of Boston, and died in Springfield, January 3, 1827. \n54 \n\n\n426 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nfoHN Richardson Adan graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law with Will- \niam Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1816. He died in 1849. \n\nJohn Gray Rogers was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He \nstudied law with William Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, \n1817. He was appointed, August 10, 1831, an associate judge of the Boston Police \nCourt, and remained on the bench until the court was abolished by an act passed May \n29, L866. He died in 1875. \n\nWilliam Hickling Prescott, son of Judge William and Catharine (Greene) Pres- \ncott, was born in Salem, May 4, 1796, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied \nlaw with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1818. His contributions \nto American literature are too well known to be related here. They may be consid- \nered due to an injury to his eyes while in college, which prevented his pursuit of the \nlegal profession, in which he would have acquired lesser honors, and his country \nlost at least a part of its reputation for a high standard of education and culture. He \nreceived a degree of LL. D. from Columbia College in 1840, from Harvard in 1843, and \nfrom Oxford, England, in 1850. He married in May, 1820, Susan Amory, and died in \n1859. \n\nWilliam H. Eliot was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1815. \nHe studied law with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August \n31, 1818. He married Margaret, daughter of Alden and Margaret (Stevenson) Brad- \nford, and died in 1831. \n\nJohn Brazer Davis was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1815, and \nwas a tutor in the college after his graduation. He studied law with William Pres- \ncott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1821. He died in 1832. \n\nWilliam Augustus Warner was born in Hardwick, Mass., and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1815. He studied law with Peter O. Thacher, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar October 26, 1818. He died in 1830. \n\nJohn T. Winthrop was born in Boston, and studied law with William Prescott. \nHe was admitted to the bar September 9, 1818. \n\nWilliam Joseph Hukhard was born in New York, and graduated at Yale in 1820. \nHe studied law with Samuel Hubbard, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October \n20, 1823. He was many years associated with Francis O. Watts. He died in 1864. \n\nWilliam Howard Gardiner was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc- \ntober 11, 1819. He married a daughter of Col. Thomas Handasyd Perkins, of Bos- \nton, and died in 1882. \n\nHoratio Shipley was born in Pepperell, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1828. \nHe studied law with Richard Fletcher, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Oc- \ntober, 1831. He died in 1872. \n\nAukklius D. Parker was born in Princeton, Mass., and graduated at Yale in 1826. \nHe studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and with Samuel Hubbard in \nBoston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1829. He died in 1875. \n\nJoseph Lewis Stackpole was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. \n1 1 e graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1828, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in January, 1830. He died in 1847. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 427 \n\nCharles Lowell Hancock was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. \nHe studied law with Franklin Dexter, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October \n20, 1832. He died in 1890. \n\nHorace Gleason was born in Petersham, Mass., in 1802, and graduated at Williams \nCollege in 1828. He studied law with Bradford Sumner, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in April, 1832, He died in 1877.. \n\nBenjamin Halsev Andrews was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. \nHe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1833, and was admitted to the Middle- \nsex bar in the same year. \n\nGeorge William Phillips, son of John Phillips, the first mayor of Boston, and the \nthe brother of Wendell Phillips, was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in \n1829. He studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and in the office of \nSamuel Hubbard in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in October, \n1834. \n\nThomas Dwight was born in Springfield, and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Cambridge \nin December, 1832. He died in 1867. \n\nPatrick Riley was born in Boston, and studied law with Andrew Dunlap. He \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar November 2, 1836. \n\nJoseph Jenkins, jr., son of Joseph Jenkins, was born in Boston, and graduated at \nYale in 1828. He studied law with Samuel Hubbard, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in April, 1833. He died in 1843. \n\nJohn Pickering, jr., son of John Pickering, was born in Salem, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1830. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1834. He died in 1882. \n\nWilliam John Alden Bradford, son of Alden and Margaret (Stevenson) Bradford, \nwas born in Wiscasset, Me., in 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He studied \nlaw with James Savage, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1820. \n\nOliver William Bourn Peabody was born in Exeter, N. H., July 9, 1799, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1816. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1822, \nand was admitted to the bar in the same year. He settled in Exeter, and removed \nto Boston in 1830. From 1836 to 1842 he was register of probate in Suffolk county, \nand in 1842 became professor of English literature in Jefferson College, Louisiana. \nHe returned to Boston in 1845, and was licensed to preach by the Unitarian Associ- \nation. He was settled as minister in Burlington, Vt., and there died July 5, 1848. \n\nWilliam Rounsville Pierce Washburn was born in Middleboro', Mass., and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1816. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1820, and \nwas admitted to the bar in the same year. He died in 1870. \n\nSamuel Edmund Sewall was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1817. \nHe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1820, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar March 5, 1823. He died in 1888. \n\nHenry Hugle Huggeford was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1S1 ;. \nHe studied law with Lemuel Shaw and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1820. He \ndied in 1841. \n\n\n428 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nJohn Everett was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1818. He studied \nlaw with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1823. He \ndied in 1826. \n\nGeorge Henry Snelling was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1819. \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the .Suffolk bar \nMay 12, 1825. He was living in 1890. \n\nWilliam Bradley Dorr was born in Roxbury, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1824, and died in 1875. \n\nEdward Grekly Loring was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. \nHe studied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nOctober, 1824. He was appointed, December 17, 1847, judge of probate for Suffolk \ncounty, and in 1858 was removed by address, as is explained in the introductory \nchapter of this volume. He was afterwards appointed chief justice of the United \nStates Court of Claims. He died at Winthrop, Mass., June 19, 1890. \n\nEdward Jackson Lowell was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. \nHe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1825 and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in October of that year. He died in 1830. \n\nFrederick Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 9, 1838. \n\nTheodore Otis was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Union College in 1834. \nHe studied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1838. \nHe resided in Roxbury, of which city he was mayor in 1859-60. He was associated \nin business for a time in Boston with Horace G. Hutchins. \n\nGeorge F. Homer was born in Boston and graduated at Amherst in 1836. He \nstudied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 11, 1839. \nHe died in 1876. \n\nElijah DwighT Williams graduated at Harvard in 1835, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar February 7, 1839. He died in 1842. \n\n\"Charles Mason graduated at Harvard in 1834 and at the Harvard Law School in \n\n1839. He also studied with Hubbard & Watts in Boston, and was admitted to the \n1 Suffolk bar in September, 1839. While studying law he was tutor in Latin at Har- \nvard. He settled in Fitchburg, and was living in 1890. \n\nWilliam Porter Jarvis was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7, 1840, and died in 1880. \n\nGeorge Cabot, son of Henry and Anna Sophia (Blake) Cabot, was born in Boston \nand graduated at Harvard in 1835. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7, 1840, \nand died in 1850. \n\nGeorge Griggs was born in Brookline, and graduated at Brown University in 1837 \nand at the Harvard Law School in 1839. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 29, \n\n1840, and died in 1888. \n\nI. S. Putnam was born in Hartford, and graduted at Yale in 1837. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1840. \n\nEdward Sprague Rand was born in Newburyport, and graduated at Harvard in \n1S2S and at the Harvard Law School in 1881. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nOctober, 1831, and settled in Boston, where he practiced chiefly as a conveyancer. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 429 \n\nHe was lost on the steamer City of Columbus, wrecked in Vineyard Sound in Janu- \nary, 1884. \n\nEdward Sprague Rand, jr., son of the above, was born in Boston, October 20, \n1834, and graduated at Harvard in 1855. He graduated from the Harvard Law- \nSchool in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 4th of May in that year. \nHe is the author of \"Life Memories and other Poems,\" \" Flowers from the Parlor and \nGarden,\" \"Garden Flowers — How to Cultivate Them,\" and a volume on greenhouse \nplants and orchids. \n\nPeter S. Wheelock was born in Vermont, and was admitted to the bar and prac- \nticed there until 1838, when he came to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJune 16 in that year. \n\nEdward Hutchinson Robbins, born in Milton, Mass., February 19, 1758, graduated \nat Harvard in 1775. He studied law in Bridgewater with Oakes Ames, and is men- \ntioned as a member of the Suffolk bar in 1780. He was speaker of the Massachusetts \nHouse of Representatives from 1793 to 1802, lieutenant-governor for 1802 to 1806, \nand judge of probate in Norfolk county from 1814 until his death, December 29, 1829. \nThe town of Robbinston in Maine received its name from him. He owned large \ntracts of land in Maine, and the columns in front of the State House in Boston and \nin its Doric Hall were made from trees cut on his land for the purpose. The trees \nwere cut by Thomas Vose, of Robbinston, near West Maguerrawock Lake, in town- \nship No. 5, now Calais. \n\nGeorge Alexander Otis was born August 29, 1781, and married Lucinda, daugh- \nter of Barney Smith. He was the translator of Botta's History of the American War \nof Independence. \n\nBarney Otis, son of the above, was born in Boston in 1808, and was a member of \nthe Suffolk bar. He died in 1834. \n\nSamuel Dunn Parker, son of Bishop Samuel and Anne (Cutler) Parker, was born \nin Boston in 1780, and graduated at Harvard in 1799. He studied law with Rufus \nG. Amory, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1803. He was a member \nof the Senate two years, and on the 5th of July, 1830, was appointed county attorney \nfor Suffolk .county, holding that office until his resignation in February, 1852. He \nmarried Eliza, daughter of Jonathan Mason, and died in Boston, July 3, 1873. \n\nJa*ies Gushing Merrill, jr., son of Judge James Cushing Merrill, was born in Bos- \nton, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law School. \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 6, 1848. He died in 1869. \n\nJohn Goldsbury, son of Rev. John Goldsbury, was born in Hardwick, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 16, 1846, \nand practiced as a conveyancer. He died in 1878. \n\nJames Egan was born in Ireland, and came to America when a boy and lived in \nLowell. By his own efforts he secured an education and studied law. He was \nadmitted to the bar m 1847, and settled in Boston. He was the first Irish born law- \nyer at the Suffolk bar, and was a man of ability and scholarship. He died unmar- \nried in 1872. \n\nEdward Young was born in Boston of poor Irish parents, but obtained a good \neducation at the public schools. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 19, \n\n\n43o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n1845, and aside from his position at the bar won an enviable rank among men of \nlearning and culture. The writer knew both him and Mr. Egan, and can attest the \nenthusiasm with which they explored the fountains of knowledge. He died in 1859. \nAlexander Strum; Wheeler, son of Asa and Emily (Strong) Wheeler, was born \nin Wayland, Mass., August 7, 1820, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1840. \nHe studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of John G. Britton, of \nTroy, X. Y., and Sidney Bartlett, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJanuary 1, 1844. Since that date he has been associated in business with his college \nclassmate, Henry Clinton Hutchins. He has been many years a director and the at- \ntorney of the Second National Bank of Boston, is director of the Dwelling House \nInsurance Company, and of several manufacturing companies, president of the Mas- \nsachusetts Congregational Society, president of the Boston Farm School, member \nof the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of \nother charitable and educational associations. He married in Charlestown, January \n6, 1848, Augusta Hurd, and lives in Boston. \n\nCharles T. Perkins, son of Charles Anderson Simeon and Ann Eliza (Brown) \nPerkins, was born in Plymouth, Mass., May 6, 1855, and was educated in the public \nschools. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and in the office of \nAlbert Mason, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1877. He \nis a special justice of the Police Court in Brookline, where he has his residence. He \nmarried Cynthia L. Hopkinson, of Boston, at Brookline, May 28, 1879. \n\nGeorge W. Morse was born in Lodi, Athens county, O., August 24, 1845. His \nfather, Peter Morse, born in 1800, at Chester, N. H., and for nearly forty years a \nfollower of the sea, was the captain for a long time of a Mediterranean trading ves- \nsel, and later of an East Indiaman owned by Robert G. Shaw, of Boston. Captain \nMorse was noted as a man of great firmness and decision. On one of his trips from \nthe East Indies, while he was acting as chief mate, the ship took aboard at the Cape \nof Good Hope a young missionary who afterwards became the celebrated President \nFinney of Oberlin College. The vessel, soon after leaving the Cape, encountered a \ncyclone, and the captain, while in a drunken condition, gave orders that if carried \nout would probably have resulted in the loss of the ship. Mr. Morse directed the \nsailors not to obey the orders, and an altercation between himself and the captain \nresulted in his placing the captain in irons and bringing him to Boston. A complaint \nwas about to be made against him on his arrival in port for mutiny on the high seas. \nThe young missionary, Mr. Finney, interfered, however, with the result that the \ncaptain was relieved of his command and Mr. Morse was promoted to his place. Mr. \nFinney, who was about to enter an educational career, stated to Captain Morse that \nhe felt that he owed his life to him, and requested that if he ever had a son while he \nwas in a position to receive him, he would send him to his school or college, and as \nwill be seen hereafter in this narrative, this request was acceded to. Mr. Morse is \ndescended from Anthony Morse, who came from Marlboro', England, and settled in \nNewbury, Mass., about 1635. The site of the original Morse mansion is still called \nthe \"Morse Field,\" adjacent to the farm of Michael Little. Rev. Jedediah Morse, \nthe geographer, and his son Professor Samuel Finlay B. Morse, the inventor of the \nelectric telegraph, were cousins respectively in the second and third generation of \nCaptain Peter Morse. The mother of Mr. Morse was Mary E. Randall, who was \n\n\nL^L^fy \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 43i \n\nborn in Dorchester, Mass. Her mother was Sarah Page, a descendant of Nathaniel \nPage, who settled in Bedford, Mass., in 1638, and whose original residence, known \nas the \" Page Place,\" is still owned by the family. Ensign Page of this family \ncarried the colors at the battles of Lexington and Concord, and Captain Page com- \nmanded a company at Bunker Hill. Mrs. Ruhamah Lane, the great-aunt of Mr. \nMorse, and the mother of Jonathan A. Lane, of Boston, who died some years since \nat the age of ninety-five, used to tell the story of her mother's recollection of the \nsharp rap made upon her father's door in the early morning of April 19, 1775, by \nPaul Revere on his famous midnight ride. An old flag dating back of the Revolu- \ntion which was carried in the earlier wars, called \" The Flag of the Three Counties,\" \nis now in the possession of the Bedford Public Library. It contains a mailed arm \nand hand with a sword, and is the coat of arms of the present Commonwealth of \nMassachusetts, except that the hand is set sidewise on the banner instead of perpen- \ndicularly. This banner was in the Page house for a century, and had originally a \ngilt fringe, which Ruhamah Page took when a young lady for the trimming of a \ndress. Mrs. Morse was a college graduate and the recipient of a degree from a \nmedical university. The parents of Mr. Morse emigrated in 1838 to the Ohio Valley, \nwhere he was born, and for nine years his father was the postmaster of Lodi. Twice \neach week the mail was carried to Pomeroy, a distance of seventeen miles over rough \ncountry roads, and transportation wras done in the saddle. It Avas the habit of young \nMorse to start at three o'clock in the morning, on horseback with the mail for Pom- \neroy, and bring the return m^il, attending school at nine o'clock, after riding thirty- \nfour miles in the saddle. In 1855, at the age of ten, he was placed under the charge \nof President Finney, at the preparatory school of Oberlin College, but at the end of \ntwo years he came to Massachusetts with his parents and attended school at Haver- \nhill and Andover, and entered Chester Academy in New Hampshire, where he \nremained until the spring of 1861. On the 11th of May in that year, in his six- \nteenth year, he enlisted as a private in the Second Massachusetts Regiment of In- \nfantry, the first regiment from Massachusetts in the field, for three years' service. \nAt the end of his term he re-enlisted in the field for the war, serving continuously in \nthis regiment from May, 1861, to July, 1865, and of the original thousand men who \nleft Massachusetts in 1861, he wras one of less than one hundred who returned with \nthe regiment in 1865. The regiment during the war received seventeen hundred \nrecruits, making in all twenty-seven hundred men on its list, and of this number only \nabout four hundred returned with it at the end of the war. The Second Regiment \ncovered the retreat of the army of General Banks in the Shenandoah campaign of \n1862, and those who remained alive of the rear guard on skirmish line in this retrea^ \nwere captured, including Mr. Morse. After confinement four months at Belle Isle \nand in other prisons, he was exchanged and returned immediately to service. With \nthe exception of the campaign carried on during his absence as a prisoner, he was in \nevery campaign and battle participated in by his regiment during the war. He was \npromoted to sergeant and first sergeant, and at the close of the war was first lieu- \ntenant commanding Company I, at the age of nineteen yfears. • This company, \ncommanded at first by Adin Ballou Underwood, afterwards General Underwood, \ndistinguished itself in defence of a bridge against Jackson's army in the Banks \nretreat. Mr. Morse was the only original member of Company H of the Second \nRegiment who ever received a commission, although the youngest in the regiment \n\n\n432 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nby two years. The regiment served in all the important campaigns of the Army of \nthe Potomac until September, 1863. At Cedar Mountain a third of the regiment fell \ntogether with more than half of its officers; at Antietam and Chancellorsville it \nsuffered severely, and at Gettysburg half of the regiment fell in less than ten minutes \nof contest in carrying the Confederate works at the base of Culp's Hill, on the right \nnear Spangler's Spring, over which the regiment charged. The officers of this \nregiment erected the first regimental monument on the battlefield of Gettysburg, and \nwhen the monument was proposed it was suggested that a boulder, if one could be \nfound between the lines, would be an appropriate base for a monument in the form \nof a section of a parapet cut from granite. Mr. Morse remembered such a boulder, \nand although he saw it but for a moment, he could almost describe its angles, for as \nthe regiment advanced to assault the Confederate works, part of his company went \non one side and part the other, and as he looked across at his comrades on the other \nside of the rock, he saw them cut down almost to a man by a volley. On an exam- \nination of the field the rock was found, and the monument was set on it as suggested. \nIn September, 1863, the Second Regiment was sent south to join General Hooker, \nand participated in the battle of Lookout Mountain. At the fall of Atlanta it was \nthe first to enter the city and act as the provost guard during the occupation. The \nregiment had charge of the destruction of the public buildings of Atlanta previous to \nthe evacuation, and was the last to leave the city on the \" March to the Sea.\" In \nrecent years Mr. Morse has been counsel for the Thomson-Houston Company, and \nin his repeated visits to Atlanta in that capacity he has been welcomed as one of \nthose who have given that city an opportunity to expand and flourish as it could \nnever have done under the old regime. At the close of the war, Mr. Morse attended \nPhillips Andover Academy, and in 1866 entered the C. S. D. Dartmouth College, in \nthe junior year, where he remained two years. In his senior year, feeling unable to \nspend time and money in finishing his course, he left college and studied law first \nwith Chai-les G. Stevens, of Clinton, Mass., and afterwards with Chandler, Shattuck \n& Thayer, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1869. Dartmouth \nCollege has since conferred upon him the degrees of Master of Science and Master \nof Arts. He opened offices in Boston and Ashland, in which latter place he fixed \ntemporarily his residence. He established a weekly paper in Ashland called the \n. Xshland Advertiser, and in connection with it a printing office carried on by him- \nself and William Walker, under the firm name of Morse & Walker, which, when it \nbecame well grounded and profitable, he sold out to devote his whole time to his in- \ncreasing professional business, with a residence in Hyde Park. For the first few \nyears the most remunerative part of his practice was connected with bankruptcy \ncases. He took up the Boston, Hartford & Erie litigation ; later was counsel for N. \nC. Munson, the railroad contractor, whose failure involved millions of dollars, and \nafterwards had charge of the affairs of F. Shaw & Bros., which, in connection with \nthe affairs of other houses which followed them into bankruptcy, involved ten mill- \nions of dollars. In 1887, with health somewhat impaired by the labors attending \nthese matters, he went with his family to Europe, visiting before his return Palestine, \nSyria, Asia Minor, and attending lectures at the School of Law in Paris. With re- \nstored health he resumed practice, and has been largely engaged in corporation \nwork. He has organized, among other things, the several street railways now oper- \nating in Newton, Waltham and Watertown, of which he was the president during \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 433 \n\ntheir legal stages. He is also one of the special counsel of the Thomson-Houston \n\nElectric Company, which has brought him into contact with electric railway matters \nof the country and especially in the South. He married Clara R. Boit, of Newton , \nwhere he now has his residence. \n\nHenry Tallman Davis, son of John Watson and Susan Hayden (Tallman) Davis, \nwas born in Boston in 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar November 29, 1847, and settled in Boston. He was commissioned \nsecond lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, October 31, lstil ; first lieuten- \nant, May 1, 18(j2 ; captain in the Tenth United States Cavalry, and brevet major in \n1866. He died in New York, April 10, 1869. \n\nEdwin Morton, son of Edward and Betsey T. (Harlow) Morton, was born in Plym- \nouth, Mass., in 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1855. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar June 27, 1867. He has been living some years in Europe. \n\nMicah Dyer, jr., son of Micah Dyer, was born in Boston, September 27, 1829, and \nwas educated at the Eliot School in Boston, where he received the Franklin Medal, \nat the Wilbraham Academy and the Tilton Seminary. He graduated at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1850, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 13th of May in that \nyear. He established himself in Boston, and his entire devotion to his profession, \ntogether with the personal interest he took in the cause of his clients, advanced him \nrapidly in his professional career. He was chosen a member of the Massachusetts \nHouse of Representatives in 1855 and served two years — the youngest member of the \nHouse. In one of these sessions he plead successfully the cause of aged citizens of \nBoston, to postpone the stoppage of burials in the city grave yards until such a time \nas might permit them to be laid by the side of the partners of their lives. He became a \nmember of the Mercantile Library Association in 1849, is a life member of the Ameri- \ncan Bible Society, and secretary \"of the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance and of \nthe New England Conference Missionary Society. He was for several years chair- \nman of the committee of the Eliot School District, and during that time it became \nhis duty to pursue a bold and determined course in the suppression of a rebellion \nagainst the rules of the school. Four hundred Catholic boys refused to obey the rule \nwhich required the recitation of the Lord's prayer and the decalogue. He at once, \nwhen called on to aid the masters, declared that the rules of the school must be obeyed \nas long as they existed, and if they were wrong the responsibility rested on those who \nmade them, and not on the teachers, whose only duty was to enforce them. The ex- \npulsion of the whole number of four hundred, by his direction, was a proceeding \nwhich excited a feeling of bitterness against him for a time, but was finally acknowl- \nedged to have been wholly justifiable, and the only method of restoring a spirit of \nobedience in the school. The scholars all returned with the promise of themselves \nand their parents of no further disturbance. Mr. Dyer was the first president of the \nFemale Medical College, at a time when \" women doctors,\" as they were called, were \nalmost universally frowned upon by the medical faculty. In the early days of the \ncollege the diplomas of the graduates bore the title of LL.B., instead of M.D., in \nconsequence of the determined opposition to the institution. He was admitted to \npractice in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1861. As executor or trus- \ntee he has had the management of many large estates, and the promptness and \nfidelity of his administrations have secured the entire confidence of interested parties. \n55 \n\n\n434 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHe is a member of the Bostonian Society, taking great interest in their proceedings, \nand is an associate member of Post 58 of the Grand Army and participates enthu- \nsiastically in their camp fires. He is also an honorary member of the Ladies' Aid \nAssociation, of the Massachusetts Soldiers' Home, and of the Boston Woman's Char- \nity Club, being a member of the Advisory Board of the latter in the care of the \nGifford Fund donation to its hospital. Being also high in the rank of Free Masonry, \nand president of the Eliot School Association and of the Old School Boys' Association, \nit will be seen that he has abundant opportunities for relief from the routine of pro- \nfessional work. He married in May, 1851, Julia Knowlton, of Manchester, N. H., a \nlady well known in Boston as an active and able organizer of charities, which the well \nremunerated labors of her husband in his profession enable both husband and wife \nto generously dispense. \n\nGeorge W. Cooley came to Boston from Bangor, Me. He was admitted to the \nMaine bar in 1835, and to the Suffolk bar April 13, 1843. He was appointed attorney \nfor Suffolk county as the successor of George P. Sanger, September 5, 1854, and \nserved until February 26, 1861, when Joseph H. Bradley was appointed. Mr. Brad- \nley, however, declined, and on the 21st of March Mr. Sanger was again appointed. \n\nDaniel Sargent Curtis, son of Thomas B. Curtis, was born in Boston, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar August 1, 1849. \n\nJohn Clark Adams was born in New York State, and graduated at Harvard in \n1839. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar September 20, 1844. While studying law he was a tutor in rhetoric and \nelocution at Harvard. He died in New York in 1873. \n\nWilson Jarvis Welch graduated at Harvard in, 1839, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1842. He died in \n1885. \n\nJohn Davis Washburn, son of John Marshall and Harriet Webster (Kimball) Wash- \nburn, was born in Boston, March 27, 1823. When five years old his parents removed \nto Lancaster, Mass., where he received his early education. He graduated at Har- \nvard in 1853, and at the Harvard Law School in 1856, having previously studied in \nthe offices of Emory Washburn and George F. Hoar in Worcester. He was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar May 27, 1856, and established himself in Worcester in partnership \nwith H. C. Rice. In 1866 he succeeded Alexander H. Bullock, on his accession to the \ngovernor's chair, as general agent and attorney of insurance companies, and also \nserved on Governor Bullock's staff from that year until 1869. He was a represent- \native from 1876 to 1879, and senator in 1884, and has represented the United States \nas minister to Switzerland. He married in 1860 Mary F., daughter of Charles L. \nPutnam. \n\nWinslow Warren, son of Dr. Winslow and Margaret (Bartlett) Warren, was born \nin Plymouth, Mass., March 20, 1838, and graduated at Harvard in 1858. He is de- \nscended from Richard Warren, of the Mayflower, and is a great-grandson of James \nWarren, the successor of Dr. Joseph Warren as president of the Provincial Congress. \nHe studied law with his uncle, Sidney Bartlett, in Boston, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool, where he graduated in 1861, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 12 \n\n\nBIOGRAPHfCAL REGISTER. 43$ \n\nin that year. He married, January 3, 1867, Mary Lincoln, daughter of Spencer and \nSarah (Lincoln) Tinkham, of Boston, and lives in Dedham, with his office in Boston. \nAs attorney of the Boston and Providence Railroad Company he had charge of the \nsettlement of the claims arising from the Buzzey bridge accident, and out of a million \ndollars paid, only fifty thousand dollars was paid on suits brought against the com- \npany. \n\nIra D. Van Duzee was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1S5T. He married Jane \nSturtevant, daughter of Atwood Lewis and Jane (Harlow) Drew, of Plymouth, and is \nin active practice in Boston. \n\nFrancis Tukey graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar March 6, 1844. He was at one time city marshal of Boston. \n\nAlanson Ticker was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835, but abandoned the law for business \npursuits. He died in 1881. \n\nNathaniel Russell Sturgis, son of Nathaniel Sturgis, was born in Boston and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1827. \n\nCharles F. Shimmin, son of William Shimmin, was born in Boston in 1822, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and died July 5, \n1891. He married Mary Harriot, daughter of Daniel Parkman, of Boston. \n\nBenjamin Bussey, son of Benjamin Bussey, was born in Boston about 1783, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1803. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1807, \nand died in 1808. His father, who died in 1842, leaving a widow, one grandchild, \nand several great-grandchildren, provided by his will that on the death of the last \nsurvivor his estate, estimated at $350,000, should pass to Harvard University, one- \nhalf to endow a farm school, and the other half to be devoted to the support of the \nlaw and divinity schools. \n\nRobert I. Burbank was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He has been \nmany years justice of the Municipal Court for the South Boston District. \n\nJohn Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Abiel and Sarah (Wendell) Holmes, was born in \nCambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1839. He has been prevented by illness from continuous work in his pro- \nfession, but his name is found in the list of Boston lawyers in 1853. With a humor \nquite equal to that of his brother, the autocrat of the Breakfast Table, he has kept it \nrather for home consumption than public display, and only his friends, among whom \nJames Russell Lowell was one of his most devoted, have had the privilege of its en- \njoyment. \n\nWilliam Burley Howes was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1838. \nHe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar December 27, 1841. He died in 1878. \n\nBernard Rolker was born in Germany, and graduated at the Harvard Law School \nin 1833. He was many years tutor in German in Harvard, but was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar April 19, 1841, and not long after established himself in practice in New \nYork. He received the degree of Master of Arts at Harvard 111 1848. \n\nWilliam Sigourney Otis, son of William Church and Margaret (Sigourney) Otis, \nwas born at Nahant, Mass., July 3, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He \n\n\n/ \n\n\nA$G HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nstudied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Ropes, Grey & \nLoring and others, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He married Pauline, \ndaughter of James E. and Adelaide Root, of Boston. He died April 20, 1893. \n\nFrank T. Morton, son of Edwin and Betsey T. (Harlow) Morton, was born in \nPlymouth, and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth, June 19, 1801. He established \nhimself in Boston, and is there in active practice. \n\nSami el Foster McCleary was born in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in July, 1807, and was many years clerk of the city of Boston. He married Maria \nLynde Walter. \n\nWilliam Kapsur, a German by birth, was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1840. \nHe married Sally Gorham, daughter of Salisbury and Sally (Goodwin) Jackson, of \nPlymouth, and has been dead many years. \n\nBela Farwell Jacobs, brother of Justin Allen Jacobs, mentioned in this register, \ngraduated at Harvard in 1839, and at the Harvard Law School in 1844, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar November 23, 1846. \n\nAlfred Rodman, son of Alfred and Anna (Preble) Rodman, and grandson of Will- \niam R. Rodman, of New Bedford, graduated at Harvard in 1870. He was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in November, 1879, and is now the actuary of the Bay State Trust \nCompany in Boston. \n\nEdward William Hooper, son of Dr. Robert William and Ellen (Sturgis) Hooper, \nwas born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1859, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 30, 1868, and has been \ns< irae years treasurer of Harvard College. \n\nGeorge Blake was born in Hard wick, Mass., in 1769, and graduated at Harvard in \n1789. He studied law with William Caldwell, of Rutland, Mass., and James Sulli- \nvan, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1792. He began practice in \nNewburyport in partnership with Dudley Atkins Tyng. After remaining in New- \nburyport one year he removed to Boston, and in 1801 was appointed United States \nattorney, holding office until 1829. He was a representative in 1801-1829-30-31-32- \n:>,.-,_36-37-38, and senator in 1833-34 '39. He died in Boston, October 6, 1841. \n\nFreeman Hunt, the son of Elizabeth and Thompson (Parmenter) Hunt, was born \nin Brooklyn, N. Y., September 4, 1855. His father, well known in connection with \ntinnt's Merchants' Magazine, was born in Quincy, Mass., March 21, 1804, and \nwas the son of Nathan and Mary (Turner) Hunt. He was descended from Enoch \nHunt, who emigrated to America from Berks county, England, and died in \nWeymouth, Mass., about 1652. Until he was twelve years of age Freeman Hunt, \nthe father of the subject of this sketch, attended the public schools, and never \nafter that time enjoyed the advantages of any other education than that secured \nby his own efforts. At that age he entered as a boy the office of the Boston \nEvening Gazette, and was soon after apprenticed to the trade of a printer. Having \nsecured his trade he went to Springfield, where he was employed for a time as com- \npositor, and then returned to Boston, where he obtained a position in the same \ncapacity in the office of the Boston Traveller. While in this office he was the \nanonymous author of articles which the editor of that paper accepted and published. \nIn 1828, at the age of twenty-four, he formed a partnership with John Putnam, un- \n\n\nm \n\n\n'/^}JM^ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 43l \n\nder the firm name of Putnam & Hunt, printers and publishers, having a place of busi- \nness where the Globe Theatre now stands. Previous to the formation of this part \nnership he published the Juvenile Miscellany, edited by Lydia Maria Child, which \nreaders, as old as the writer, will remember as one of the joys of their childhood, the \nfirst number of which was issued in September, 1826. In January, 1828, the new \nfirm began to publish the Ladies' Magazine, edited by Sarah J. Hale, and soon \nafter the early tales of Samuel G. Goodrich. In 1831, having removed to New York, \nhe there started a paper called the Traveller, but again returned to Boston and be- \ncame the managing director of the \"Boston Bewick Company,\" an association of \nartists, printers and bookbinders. In September, 1834, he projected the American \nMagazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, and in 1835 engaged in New \nYork in the publication of \" A Comprehensive Atlas,\" edited by Thomas Gamaliel \nBradford. In 1837 he projected the Merchants' Magazine, with which his name has \nbeen so prominently associated, and the first number appeared in July, 1839. In \n1852 he received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard. He married first, May \n6, 1829, Lucia Weld Blake, of Boston; second, January 2, 1831, Laura Phinney, of \nBoston, and third in 1853, Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of Hon. William Parmen- \nter, of East Cambridge, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 2, 1858. After the \ndeath of his father in 1858, the subject of this sketch was carried by his mother to her \nfather's home in Cambridge, and he received his early education at the public schools \nin that town. He graduated at Harvard in 1877, and in 1881 received the degree of \nLL.B. from the Harvard Law School. He further pursued his law studies in the \noffices of George S. Hale and William E. Parmenter, of Boston, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in January, 1882. He was first associated in practice with H. \nEugene Bolles, and afterwards with William C. Tarbell, who died December 6, 1886. \nHe is at present associated with Charles J. Mclntire, city solicitor of Cambridge, and \nhas acted for that city in matters connected with the new Harvard Bridge. He is \nengaged in general practice with a success commensurate with his earnest efforts to \nestablish himself honorably and prominently in his profession. In Cambridge, where \nhe has his home, he has served four years on the School Committee, and one year in \nthe Common Council, and in 1890 was a member of the State Senate. He married, \nJune 8, 1887, Abby Brooks, daughter of Sumner J. and Jane (Bullard) Brooks, of \nCambridge. \n\nEdward Bangs was born in Hardwick, Mass., in 1756, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1777. His name appears on the roll of the Supreme Court admissions in Suffolk \ncounty before 1807. It is probable that he was admitted in 1780. He settled in Wor- \ncester. He died in 1818. \n\nBenjamin Adams was born in Mendon in 1764, and graduated at Brown University \nin 1788. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and settled in Uxbridge. \nHe died in 1837. \n\nJoseph Ai.len was born in Lancaster in 1773, and graduated at Harvard in 1792. \nHe was admitted to the bar in 1795, and praticed in Worcester county. \n\nFrancis Linus Childs was born in Millbury in 1849, and graduated at Brown Uni- \nversity in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December. 1873, and settled \nin Worcester. \n\n\n438 Hf STORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHenry J. Clarke was born in Southbridge, Mass., and graduated at the Boston \nUniversity in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875, and settled in \nWebster, Mass. \n\nLeon F. Chomecin was born in Philadelphia in 1861, and was admitted to the bar \nin 1882. He practiced in Boston and Templeton, and died before 1889. \n\nJohn Adams Dana was born in Princeton, Mass., in 1823, and graduated at Yale in \n1S44. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1848, and practiced in Wor- \ncester. \n\n| a.mes J. Down, was born in Worcester, and graduated at St. Michael's College in \n1880. He was admitted to the bar in 1882, and has practiced in Worcester, Brook- \nline and Boston. \n\nJ. W. Drai-f.r was admitted to the bar in Worcester county in 1851, and was in \npractice in Boston in 1853. \n\nJohn Danforth Dunbar, son of Elijah and Sarah (Hunt) Dunbar, was born in \nWorcester county in 1771, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. He was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar, and before 1794 established himself in Plymouth, Mass. He married \nin 1794 Nancy, daughter of William Crombie, of Plymouth, and died in Plymouth in \n1810. \n\nFarwell F. Fay was born in Athol in 1835, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. \nHe was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1885, but died before 1889. \n\nWaldo Flint was born in Leicester in 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 1, 1821, and died in 1879. \n\nGeorge Folsom was born in Kennebunk, Me., in 1802, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1822. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 21, 1834. He received the de- \ngree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1860, and died in 1869. \n\nHenry Clinton Hutchins, son of Samuel and Rosanna (Child) Hutchins, was born \nin Bath, N. H., August 7, 1820, and fitted for college at the academy at Haverhill, N. \nH., and other academies. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1840, and studied law first \nin the office of Joseph Bell, of Haverhill, N. H., second at the Harvard Law School, \nand third in the office of Hubbard & Watts, of Boston. He was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar November 14, 1843, and has been associated in business since January 1, \n1844, with his college classmate, Alexander Strong Wheeler, under the firm name of \nHutchins & Wheeler. He married, October 9, 1845, at Bellows Falls, Vt., Louise \nGrout, and lives in Boston. He was chosen in 1869 an honorary member of the Phi \nBeta Kappa Society, and in 1887-88 was president of the Boston Bar Association. \n\nJohn W. Low came to Boston from the British Provinces and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1883. He is in active practice in Boston. \n\nWilliam J. Gaynor was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1872, and is \nenjoying a lucrative practice in Brooklyn, N. Y. \n\nCharles C. Beaman, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1861 and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar November 23, 1865. He is in extensive practice in New York city. \n\nAlmon W. Griswold was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1847, and secured a \nlarge business in suits against the government to recover duties illegally paid. He \nremoved to New York city, and there died about 1890, leaving a son, a member of \nthe New York bar. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 439 \n\nErasmus Babbitt was born in Sturbridge in 1765, and graduated at Harvard in \n1790. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar about 1795, and practiced in Charlton, \nGrafton, Oxford, Sturbridge and Westboro'. He died in 1816. \n\nGeorge W. Baldwin was born in New Haven, Conn., and graduated at Yale in \n1853. He was admitted to the \"Worcester bar in 1858, and practiced in Worcester \nuntil his removal to Boston about 1864, in which year his name appears among the \nBoston lawyers. \n\nAndrew J. Bartholomew was born in Hardwick, Mass., in is:;:;, and graduated \nat Yale in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 1, 1858, and settled \nin Southbridge, where he now practices. \n\nNelson Bartholomew was born in Hardwick in 1834, and graduated at Yale in \n1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 22, 1858, and settled in Oxford. \nHe died in 1861. \n\nLiberty Bates graduated at Brown in 1797 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nbefore 1807. He practiced in Grafton, and died in 1853. \n\nArthur G. Biscoe was born in Grafton, Mass., in 1842, and graduated at Amherst \nCollege in 1862. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1884, and was a member \nof the Suffolk bar in 1878. He practiced in Westboro'. He died in 1879. \n\nJ. Foster Biscoe was born in Grafton, Mass., and graduated at Amherst College \nin 1874. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1877, and was later a member of \nthe Suffolk bar, at which he is now practicing. \n\nLewis H. Boutelle was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1848, and settled \nin Wrestboro'. \n\nAlbert C. Burrage was born in Ashburnham, Mass., in 1859, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1883, and was admitted to the bar in 1884, and is now practicing in \nBoston. \n\nStillman Cady was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1849, and practiced in \nTempleton. He died before 1889. \n\nWilliam Caldwell graduated at Harvard in 1773, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1805. \n\nJerome F. Manning was born in Merrimack, N. H., in 1838, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar May 25, 1863. He practiced formerly in Worcester, but is now prac- \nticing in Boston. \n\nLuther Perry was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and settled in Barre. \nHe died many years since. \n\nJohn B. Ratigan was born in Worcester in 1859, and graduated at Holy Cross \nCollege in Worcester in 1879. He was admitted to the bar in 1883, and settled in \nWorcester. \n\nWilliam Sever, son of William and Sarah (Warren) Sever, was born in Kingston, \nMass., in 1755, and graduated at Harvard in 1778. He was admitted to the Suffolk \ncounty bar, and established himself in Rutland, Mass., and afterwards in Worcester. \nHe married about 1780 Mary Chandler, and his daughter, Penelope Winslow Sever, \nmarried Levi Lincoln. He died in 1798. \n\n\n440 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nBradford Sumner was born in Taunton, Mass., and graduated at Brown University \nin 1808. He studied law with James Richardson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1813. He practiced in Worcester county, and afterwards, until his death, in Bos- \nton. In 1843 he was appointed master in chancery, and in 1852 commissioner of in- \nsolvency. He died in 1855. \n\nMarvin M. Taylor was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., in 1860, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in 1885, and settled in Worcester. \n\nJohn Todd graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar November 18, 1845. He practiced in Westminster and Fitchburg. \n\nEarnest H. Vaughan was born in Greenwich in 1858, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk liar in 1884. He settled in Worcester. \n\nRichard George was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and practiced in West \nBrookfield, where he probably died. \n\nJohn S. Gould. was born in Webster, Mass., in 1856, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1884. He settled in Webster. \n\nHenry F. Harris was born in West Boylston, Mass., in 1840, and graduated at \nTufts College in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1873, and settled in \nWorcester. \n\nSeth Hastings was born in Cambridge in 1762, and graduated at Harvard in 1782. \nHe was admitted to the bar in 1786, and settled in Mendon. He was at one time a \nmember of Congress, and died in 1831. \n\nHenry E. Hill was born in Worcester in 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1872. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1875, and settled in Worcester. \n\nSamuel Hinckley graduated at Yale m 1781, and received the degree of A. M. from \nHarvard in 1785. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, practiced in Brookfield, and \ndied in 1840. \n\nWilliam S. B. Hopkins was born in Charleston, S. C, in 1836, and graduated at \nWilliams College in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 10, 1858, and \nhas practiced in Ware and Greenfield and Worcester, Mass., and in New Orleans. \nHe is now in Worcester. \n\nGeorge W. Johnson was born in Boston in 1827, and admitted to the Suffolk bar \nApril 10, 1863. He settled in Brookfield. \n\nFrancis L. King was born in Boston in 1827, and admitted to the Suffolk bar April \n10. 1803. He settled in Brookfield. \n\nHenry W. King was born in North Brookfield in 1856, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in February, 1880. He practiced in North Brookfield and Worcester. \n\nWilliam Pratt was born in Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1806, and graduated at Brown \nUniversity in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1827, and prac- \nticed in Shrewsbury and Worcester. He died in 1839. \n\nEdward Rogers was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1845, and finally set- \ntled in Chicago. \n\nArthur P. Rugg was born in Sterling in 1862, and graduated at Amherst College \nin 1883. He was admitted to the bar in 1886, and settled in Worcester. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 44 x \n\nNathan Tyler graduated at Harvard in 1779, and settled in Uxbridge. He died \nin 1792. \n\nJohn L. Utley was born in Brimfield, Mass., in 1837, and was a member of the \nSuffolk bar in 1890. \n\nJacob Willard graduated at Brown University in 1805, and was an attorney in \nBoston in 1817. He died in 1818. \n\nG. R. M. Withington was born in Boston, and graduated at the University of \nVermont in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1828, and practiced \nin Boston and Lancaster. \n\nEdward Webster Hutchins, son of Henry Clinton and Louise (Grout) Hutchins, \ngraduated at Harvard in 1872. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1875. \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1877. He is associated in business with \nthe firm of Hutchins & Wheeler, of which his father is a member. \n\nHenry Wheeler, son of Alexander Strong and Augusta (Hurd) Wheeler, grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He is asso- \nciated in business with the firm of Hutchins &- Wheeler, of which his father is a mem- \nber. \n\nJoseph Warren Warren, son of George Washington and Georgiana Whitney \n(Thompson) Warren, was born in Charlestown, Mass., June 5, 1851, and entered \nHarvard in 1870. After remaining in college a year he entered a banking house as \nclerk, visited Europe, and finally studied lawT with his father and at the Boston Uni- \nversity Law School. The writer is in doubt whether he was ever admitted to the \nbar. In 1880 he was appointed Liberian consul at Boston, and died, August 24, 1885, \nunmarried in a hospital in New South Wales. \n\nHenry Ware, son of Rev. Dr. Henry Ware, jr., was born in Cambridge, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He died in 1885. \n\nThornton Kirkland Ware, son of Rev. Dr. Henry Ware, sr. , was born in Cam- \nbridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1844, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1846. He settled in \nFitchburg, Mass. , and was many years justice of the Police Court. He died in 1892. \n\nSolomon Jones Gordon, son of Dr. Timothy and Jane Binney (Jones) Gordon, was \nborn in Weymouth, Mass., September 24, 1826. He was descended from Alexander \nGordon, a young Scotchman, who, in 1650, during the English and Scotch wars, was \nreleased from prison in the camp at Tuthill Fields in London, on condition of his \nemigration to New England. This American ancestor crossed the ocean in 1651, and \nfinally settled in New Hampshire. Timothy Gordon, the father of Solomon, was \nborn in Newbury, Mass., March 10, 1795, and after studying medicine at Bowdoin \nCollege and with his brother in Hingham, Mass., settled in Weymouth. In 1837 he \nremoved to Plymouth, where the remainder of his life was spent. The subject of \nthis sketch was fitted for college at the high school in Plymouth, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1847. He studied law in the office of Jacob H. Loud in Plymouth and at \nthe Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 18, 1850. In \n1853 he became associated in business with Orlando B. Potter, and took charge tem- \n56 \n\n\n442 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nporarilyof his practice in Boston after he removed to New York to give his attention \nmore exclusively to the affairs of the sewing machine company with which he was \nconnected. Mr. Gordon not long after followed Mr. Potter to New York, and, \nabandoning general practice, became intimately connected with the legal affairs of \nthe sewing machine enterprises. He married Rebecca, daughter of David Ames, of \nSpringfield, and after leaving Boston he made Springfield his home, with his office in \nNew York. He died in 1890. \n\nWilliam Sohier Dexter, son of George M. Dexter, was born in Boston, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1849. He married a daughter of George \nTicknor, the author, and lives in Boston. \n\nWendell Davis, son of Thomas and Mercy (Hedge) Davis, was born in Plymouth, \nMass., in 1776, and graduated at Harvard in 1796. He was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar about 1800, and settled in Sandwich. He was many years high sheriff of Barn- \nstable county, and was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate from 1803 to 1805. He \nmarried in 1802, Caroline Williams, daughter of Dr. Thomas Smith, and was the \nfather of George T. and Wendell T. Davis, of Greenfield. He died in Sandwich in \n1830. \n\nWilliam Cogswell, son of Dr. George and Abigail (Parker) Cogswell, was born in \nBradford, Mass., August 23, 1838, and received his early education at Phillips An- \ndover Academy and at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H. After entering \nDartmouth College he left and went to sea. On his return he studied law at the \nHarvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1860, in which year he was ad- \nmitted to the Essex county bar. In 1861 he enlisted as captain in the War of the \nRebellion and was afterwards colonel of the Second Massachusetts Regiment and \nbrevetted brigadier-general December 15, 1864. In 1885 he was a member of the \nSuffolk bar. He has been State Senator, and is now serving his third term in Con- \ngress. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth in 1878. \n\nSigourney Butler, son of Peter Butler, graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880. \n\nMartin Brimmer, son of Martin Brimmer, was born in Boston, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1849. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 3, 1855, but is not in \npractice. He is one of the Fellows of Harvard. \n\nEugene Batchelder graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1848. He died in 1878. \n\nSidney Bartlett, jr., son of Sidney Bartlett who is mentioned in this register, was \nborn in Boston, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1851. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1851, and died in 1871. \n\nFrancis Bartlett, brother of the above, was born in Boston, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16, 1860, but is \nnot in practice. \n\n.Sherman Hoar, son of Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, was born in Concord, \nMass., and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex \ncounty in November, 1885, and has an office in Boston. He was chosen a member \nof Congress in 1890 for the term ending March 4, 1893. \n\n\nbiographical register. 443 \n\nSamuel Hoar, brother of the above, was born in Concord, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 29, 1870, and is in practice \nwith his father in Boston. . \n\nWilliam Turell Andrews was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1812. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1815. He was treasurer of Harvard \nCollege from 1858 to 1857, and died in 1879. \n\nCharles Greely Loring, son of Caleb Loring, an eminent Boston merchant, was \nborn in Boston, May 2, 1794. His mother was Anne Greely, daughter of Captain \nJohn Greely, who was killed while defending his ship, a letter-of-marque, against an \nEnglish frigate near Marblehead, in the War of the Revolution. He was descended \nfrom Thomas Loring, who came from Axminster, England, in 1635, and settled in \nHingham. Caleb Loring, a grandson of Thomas, married Lydia, daughter of Ed- \nward Gray, a merchant of Plymouth, whose gravestone, bearirig the date of 1681, is \nthe oldest on Burial Hill in Plymouth. Caleb Loring settled in that part of Plymouth \nwhich in 1707 was set off from Plymouth and incorporated as the town of Plympton. \nAt a town meeting held on the 1st of March, 1707-8, he was chosen one of the first \nBoard of Selectmen of that town. From him Caleb Loring, of Boston, the father of \nthe subject of this sketch, derived his name. Mr. Loring attended the Boston Latin \nSchool, leaving it as a medal scholar, and entering Harvard as a sophomore in 1809, \ngraduated in 1812, with the Latin salutatory oration as his part in the ceremonies of \ngraduation. At that time the only law school in the country was that at Litchfield, \nConn., and there he began his study of law immediately after leaving college with \nPeleg Sprague, who had been his classmate, for a companion. He finished his \nstudies in the office of Charles Jackson, at that time an associate justice of the \nSupreme Judicial Court, and was admitted to practice in the Common Pleas Court \nin September, 1815, and in the Supreme Court in December, 1817. Samuel Hubbard, \nwho became in 1842 a justice of the Supreme Court, came to Boston from Maine in \n1810 and associated himself with Mr. Jackson, and on the appointment of the latter \nto the bench in 1813, continued the business of the office and was in charge while \nMr. Loring was a student. During a temporary abandonment of business by Mr. \nHubbard, occasioned by sickness, his young student conducted the affairs of the \noffice, and with the consent of clients, appeared before the Supreme Court and \nargued their cases. In 1816 Mr. Loring formed a partnership with Franklin Dexter, \nwho had been also a classmate in college, which continued until 1819. Until the \nyear 1825 he advanced steadily in the estimation of the business community, at which \ndate he may be said to have been in full practice, or in other words, to have secured \nall the business which it was possible for a man conscientiously devoted to the in- \nterests of his clients to thoroughly comprehend and manage. From that time until \n1855, it has been said by Professor Theophilus Parsons that \" the published reports \nof decisions will show that, taking this whole period of thirty years together, no \nother man had so large a number of cases in court, and of the cases of no other was \nthe proportion so large of those which by the novelty of the questions they raise, or \nof the peculiar circumstances to which they require the application of acknowledged \nprinciples, may be considered as establishing new law, or giving new scope and \nmeaning to recognized law.\" To every case entrusted to him he gave unremitting \nattention, and in its preparation for trial no pains were spared to make its present- \n\n\n444 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nation both as to f act and law thorough and complete. The writer remembers him \nwell as he appeared in court and was always impressed with his serious earnestness, \nhis apparent entire belief in the justice of his cause, and his elaborate, well con- \nstructed, compact and logical addresses to the jury. In these addresses he read \nlargely from full and carefully prepared briefs, sifted and analyzed the whole testi- \nmony, not only dwelling upon and enforcing the strong points but recognizing and \nexplaining the weak ones, and all the while impressed his hearers, including the jury, \nwith the conviction that his claim for the plaintiff or his denial for the defence was \nvalid and just. During nearly all the years of his professional life he was subject to \nattacks of sickness, incapacitating him for a time, from which he seemed to recover \nwith a power of labor, like Artaeus after touching the earth, seemingly increased \nrather than diminished by an interval of weakness and pain. At a later period he \nsuffered from a disease in his eyes, and from 1832 to 1840, while at the height \nof his professional career, he was obliged to carry on his work by the aid of the \neyes and the pen of others. In 1854 he had abandoned much of his lesser busi- \nness, and was offered the position of actuary of the Massachusetts Hospital Life In- \nsurance Company. Though he accepted this position he continued in charge of his \nold law cases, and argued them both in the courts of Massachusetts and in the \nSupreme Court at Washington. He held this office until his death, bringing to the \nperformance of his duties not only the prudence and wisdom of a man of affairs, but \nthat familiarity with law so essential to the proper administration of the concerns \nof such an institution. The life of Mr. Loring was crowned with appropriate honors \nin the several stages of its progress. At the age of thirty he was the commander of \nthe New England Guards, and in accepting that post he was only following the cus- \ntom among rising lawyers which prevailed nearly up to the time of the War of 1861. \nChief Justice Bigelow of the Supreme Court, and Chief Justice Brigham of the \nSuperior Court, were both militia captains, one in Boston and the other in New \nBedford, and many other leading lawyers might be named in proof of the preva- \nlence of the custom. In 1849, when Mr. Webster resigned his seat in the United \nStates Senate, Mr. Loring was asked by Governor Briggs to permit his appoint- \nment to fill the vacancy, and in 1853, when Mr. Everett resigned his senatorial \nchair, he was again invited by Governor Washburn to accept an appointment. In \n1862 he was a member of the State Senate, and a seat on the bench of the Supreme \nJudicial Court was many times within his reach had he chosen to accept it. In 1835 \nhe was appointed a Fellow of Harvard College, and retained that office until 1857, \nand in 1865 he was chosen to preside at the reception given by the college to her sons \non their return from the war. In 1850 he received the degree of LL. D. from his alma \nmater, and he was a member of the American Antiquarian and the Massachusetts \nHistorical Society. In 1853 he visited Europe, and from the members of the legal \nprofession in England he received marked attention. Absorbed as he was in his \nprofessional pursuits, he yet found time to make important contributions to the press \non leading subjects of the day, and to take an active interest in the affairs of his \nchurch and in the various charitable and reformatory movements agitating from time \nto time the popular mind. A strong opponent of slavery, though not a member of \nthe anti-slavery party, in 1851 when the trial of Sims, an escaped slave, took place \nbefore the United States Commission, he appeared as his counsel and made the closing \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 445 \n\nargument. Among his literary productions the last was a pamphlet published in \n1866 bearing the title of \"Reconstruction — Claims of the Inhabitants of the States \nengaged in the Rebellion to Restoration of Political Rights and Privileges under the \nConstitution,\" in which he declared in its concluding paragraphs \" that none can be \nmore profoundly impressed than he believes himself to be with the essential im- \nportance and inviolability of the rights intended to be secured to the several States \nunder the Constitution. He accounts their individual independence and sovereignty \nover the domestic relations and municipal law and the internal governments of their \nrespective inhabitants as the very foundation stones of the national government. The \npreservation of this sovereignty and independence to the fullest extent warranted \nby the constitution, he considers to be the chief among the fundamental principles of \nAmerican statesmanship ; as the only means possible of maintaining a free and ener- \ngetic government over territories of extent so vast as those already comprised within \nour national boundaries; as the safest barrier against attempts at executive usurp- \nation ; as the main bulwark against the natural tendency of the general government, \nas of all others, to consolidation and centralization of its authority, and which, not \nthus controlled, attaining at first to the exercise of arbitrary power by the many, \nwould, as all history prophesies, eventually terminate in practical despotism.\" In \n1818 Mr. Loring married Anna Pierce Brace, of Litchfield, Conn., who died in 1836. \nIn 1840 he married Mary Ann, daughter of Judge Samuel Putnam, who died in 1845. \nIn 1850 he married Mrs. Cornelia Goddard, widow of George A. Goddard, and \ndaughter of Francis Amory, of Boston. He had a winter home in Boston, and after \n1844 a summer home on the shore of Beverly. At the summer home he died October \n8, 1867, leaving a widow and two sons and two daughters. The sons are Caleb \nWilliam Loring, mentioned in this register, and Charles Greely Loring, a graduate \nof Harvard in 1848, who was mustered out in July, 1865, after three years' service in \nthe war, with the rank of brevet major-general. \n\nJohn Singleton Copley, as a native of Boston, and considered a Bostonian while \npreparing in England for the bar, may with no impropriety be included in this regis- \nter. Richard Copley married in Limerick, Ireland, a Miss Singleton about 1730, and \nemigrated to America. After his death his widow kept a small store on Long Wharf \nin Boston, where she sold tobacco and other small articles. In 1748 she married Peter \nPelham, who was one of the founders of the Charitable Irish Society about the year \n1737. John Sullivan and Thomas Amory were cotemporaries of Pelham, and came \nto America from Limerick, the first settling as a schoolmaster in Berwick, Me. , and \nthe last settling m South Carolina, but both afterwards coming to Boston. Peter \nPelham was a painter and engraver, probably the son of Peter Pelham, an English \nengraver, who was born about 1864. After his marriage with Mrs. Copley he com- \nbined with his profession as a painter and engraver the occupation of teaching school, \nwhile his wife continued to carry on her store. John Singleton Copley, the son of \nRichard Copley, was born in Boston, July 3, 1737, and undoubtedly received instruc- \ntion in painting from his stepfather, Peter Pelham, who died in 1751. In 1769 he \nmarried Susanna, daughter of Richard Clark, a descendant from Mary Chilton, one \nof the Plymouth Mayflower passengers in 1620. His son, John Singleton Copley, \nthe subject of this sketch, afterwards Lord Lyndhurst, was born in Boston, May 21, \n1772. In 1774, when two years of age. his father was induced to visit Europe, and \n\n\n446 HISTORY OE THE BENCH AND EAR. \n\nafter he had concluded to remain in London he was joined by his wife and infant \nson, taking a house in George street, Hanover Square, which he occupied until his \ndeath in 1814, and which his son, Lord Lyndhurst, continued to occupy until his death \nin ISO:'). It was at first the intention of the father to educate his son as an artist, and \nwith that view he at one time attended a course of lectures. His education in other \nrespects was received at a private school in the Manor House, at Chiswick, under Dr. \nHome, the father of Sir William Home, the attorney-general. At the age of eighteen, \nan artist's career having been abandoned, he was sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, \nwith the following entry of matriculation: \"July 8, 1790. — Admissus est Pensonarius \nJohannis Singleton Copley, filius Johannis Singleton Copley, de Boston in America \ne schole apud Chiswick in Middlesexta sub praesides Doctoris Home, annos natus 18. \nMagistro Jones Tutore.\" In 1794 he came out second wrangler and Smith's prize- \nman, and on the 17th of May entered as a student Lincoln's Inn. Returning to Cam- \nbridge he was appointed in 1795 one of the \" Traveling Bachelors \" of the univer- \nsity. He visited America with Volney, the author, and was required by the terms of \nhis appointment to observe everything of importance, and address letters in Latin to \nthe vice-chancellor. His first letter described Washington, Georgetown, and Alex- \nandria; his second, the president and Mt. Vernon; and his third, general incidents of \ntravel and the Indians. Returning to England in 1798 he was called to the bar of \nLincoln's Inn in Trinity term 1804, and joined the Midland Circuit, of which he soon \nbecame the leader. He was raised to the dignity of the coif in 1813, and rung out \nof Lincoln's Inn, in accordance with the custom of ringing the chapel bell when a \nmember of the Inn was made sergeant at law, and of presenting him with a purse of \nmoney as a retaining fee for any future service in behalf of the society. At that time \nhe was in politics an advanced liberal or radical, and after a noted trial in which his \nability was recognized by the Duke of Wellington and Lord Liverpool, he was made \na member of Parliament for the pocket borough of Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. \nHe took his seat in March, 1818, and by his first address in favor of the extension of \nthe duration of the Alien bill won from his opponents the name of turn-coat. After \nhis membership for Yarmouth he was returned to Parliament for Ashburton in \nDevonshire, and in 1826 for the University of Cambridge with Palmerston. In 1819 \nhe was appointed solicitor-general and knighted, and in 1824 attorney-general as the \nsuccessor of Sir Robert Gifford. In 1827 he became chancellor and was raised to the \npeerage as Baron Lyndhurst, of Lyndhurst. In 1830 Lord Grey was made premier \nand he resigned the seals and was appointed chief baron of the Court of Exchequer, \nholding the office four years. In 1834 he became again lord chancellor, resigning \nthe position of chief baron, and remained in office one year. In 1834 he received \nfrom Cambridge the degree of D.C.L. In 1840 he was appointed lord high steward \nof the University of Cambridge, and in 1841, under the premiership of Sir\" Robert \nPeel, was again made lord chancellor. He remained in office until his resignation \nwith his party in 1846. The writer remembers him as he appeared in the latter year, \nwhen he had an opportunity of hearing from his lips one of those touches of sarcasm \nfor which he was distinguished. In replying to Lord George Bentinck, an able \nstatesman, but a somewhat ardent lover of horses and the race course, he indulged in \nthe satirical compliment of alluding to him as the man of a stable mind. In 1819 he \nmarried Sarah, widow of Colonel Thomas, one of the heroes of Waterloo, and in \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 447 \n\nAugust, 1837, Georgiana, daughter of Louis Goldsmith, and died at Tunbridge Wells, \nOctober 12, 1863, and was buried in the cemetery at Highgate. \n\nSamuel Phillips Prescott Fay, son of Jonathan and Lucy (Prescott) Fay, was born \nin Concord, Mass., January 10, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1798. He was \nadmitted to the Middlesex bar as attorney in May, 1802, and as counselor by the \nSupreme Court in Suffolk county before 1807. He served as captain during Shays's \nRebellion, and in 1809 was on the staff of Governor Gore. He began practice in \nCambridgeport, and in 1818-19 was a member of the Executive Council. In 1820 he \nwas a member of the State Constitutional Convention, and May 1, 1821, was ap- \npointed judge of probate of Middlesex county, which office he resigned in March, \n1856. Judge Fay was from 1824 to 1852 a member of the Board of Overseers of Har- \nvard College, and was at one time grand master of the Grand Lodge of the Masonic \nOrder. For many years before his death, which occurred at his home, May 18, 1856, \nhis residence was in Old Cambridge, near the Washington Elm. During the period \nof twenty-five years in which he administered the probate affairs of Middlesex \ncounty, he exhibited to a marked degree those qualities of mind and heart which are so \nessential in the intimate relations of that office to the private and often confidential \nconcerns of the people. He was universally respected and beloved. He married \nHarriet, daughter of Samuel Howard, of Boston, one of the famous \"tea party\" of \npre-revolutionary days, who died July 28, 1847, and after eight years, on the 18th of \nMay, 1856, he followed her to the grave. Richard Sullivan Fay, one of his sons, a \nmember of the Suffolk bar and included in this register, died in Liverpool, England, \nJuly 6, 1865, and Joseph S. Fay, another son, who for many years was a partner in \nthe commercial house of Padelford & Fay, of Savannah, Ga. , is now living, retired \nfrom business, at his home in Wood's Hole in Barnstable county, with a winter resi- \ndence on Mt. Vernon street, Boston. \n\nSew all Allen Faunce, son of Charles Cook and Amelia (Washburn) Faunce, was \nborn in Kingston, Mass., in 1841. He is descended from John Faunce, who came to \nPlymouth in the ship Ann in 1623, and married Patience, daughter of George Mor- \nton and sister of Nathaniel Morton, the noted secretary of the Plymouth Colony. \nHe married, in 1868, Ann Eliza, daughter of Edward Holmes, of Kingston, and is in \npractice in Boston, where he was admitted to the bar in 1889. \n\nJoseph Alexander Holmes, son of Alexander and Eliza Ann (Holmes) Holmes, was \nborn in Kingston, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1854. He graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1856, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 10, \n1856. He has abandoned practice, and lives unmarried in Kingston. \n\nAbraham Holmes was born in Rochester, Mass., June 9, 1754, and was admitted to \nthe bar in Plymouth in 1800, when forty-six years of age. He had been previously \npresident of the Court of Sessions, and though not regularly educated for the profes- \nsion, the members of the Plymouth bar voted for his admission in consideration of \n\" his respectable official elevation, learning and abilities, on condition that he study \nthree months in some attorney's office.',' He was subsequently before 1807 admitted \nas counsellor by the Supreme Court in Suffolk county, and he continued to practice in \nRochester until August, 1835, when he retired. He was a member of the State Con- \nstitutional Convention in 1820. and of the Executive Council from 1821 to 1823. He \ndied at Rochester, September 7, 1839. \n\n\n448 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam Kneeland Hedge graduated at Harvard in 1820, at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1823, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 5, 1828. He died in 1833. \n\nEdward A. Dana graduated at Bowdoin College in 1838, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 13, 1845. He is now living in Boston. \n\nWilliam Barron Calhoun was born in Boston, December 29, 1796, and graduated \nat Yale in 1814. It is not certain that he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but as a \nnative of Boston he is included in this register. He finally settled in Springfield, and \nfrom 1825 to 1834 was a member of the House of Representatives and the last seven \nvears its speaker. He was a member of Congress from 1835 to 1843, president of the \nState Senate in 1846-47, secretary of state from 1848 to 1851, state bank commissioner \nfrom 1853 to 1855, and mayor of Springfield in 1859. He was again a representative \nin 1861. In 1858 he received the degree of LL.D. from Amherst College, and died \nin Springfield, November 8, 1865. \n\nSanford Ballard Dole, son of Daniel Dole, a native of Maine, and a graduate of \nBowdoin College and of the Bangor Theological School, was born iu Honolulu in \n1844, where his father had gone as a missionary in 1840. The mother of the subject \nof this sketch was a Miss Ballard, of Bath, Me. He was educated partly at Penahou \nCollege in the Sandwich Islands and partly at Williams College, where he spent a \nyear. He then studied law in the office of William Brigham, of Boston, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, 1868. He returned to the Islands, where he \npracticed law until 1887, when he was elevated to the Hawaiian Supreme Bench. He \nwas a representative at the Islands in 1884 and 1886, and took an active part in the \nrevolution of 1887. At the date of this sketch, January 29, 1893, news of a new revo- \nlution in the Islands has been received, the result of which has been the deposition \nof the queen and the establishment of a provisional government, with Mr. Dole as \npresident, favoring the annexation to the United States. \n\nCharles Mayo Ellis, son of Charles and Maria (Mayo) Ellis, was born in Roxbury, \nDecember 23, 1818, and graduated at Harvard in 1839. He was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar February 10, 1842. He was a leading abolitionist and the author of a his- \ntory of Roxbury. He died in Brookline in 1878. \n\nWilliam Thaddeus Harris, son of Thaddeus William Harris, the entomologist and \nlibrarian at Harvard, was born in Milton, Mass., January 25, 1826, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar December 1, 1853. He died in 1854. \n\nBenjamin Flint King, son of Daniel Putnam King, was born in Danvers, Mass.. \nOctober 12, 1830. and graduated at Harvard in 1852. He was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar November 26, 1856. He enlisted as a private in the Forty-fourth Massachu- \nsetts Regiment in October, 1862, was made first lieutenant Eighteenth Regiment \nCorps d'Afrique in December, 1863, and mustered out in August, 1864. He prac- \nticed law in Boston, and died in Boston, January 24, 1868. \n\nJohn Palmer Wyman graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in November, 1880, and lives in Cambridge. He is the son of John Palmer \nWyman, of the Harvard class of 1842. \n\nSeth J. Thomas, son of Bourne and Sarah (Dmgley) Thomas, was born in Marsh- \nfield, Mass., November 29, 1807, With an ordinary common school education he \n\n\nCZScr^eAX 33 > ^W \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 449 \n\nwent to Boston in 1823, and after engaging in business many years studied law and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk -bar November 7, 1S41I. He married in 1832 Ann Maria \nStoddard, and is now at the age of eighty-five in active practice in Boston. \n\nJames Bourne Freeman Thomas, son of the above, was born in Boston in 1839, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 26, \n1863, and is in practice in Boston. \n\nJoshua P. Converse was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1847, and in L862 \nwas a member of the Suffolk bar. He is now dead. \n\nRobert H. Buck was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 1, 1857, and moved \nto Colorado. \n\nJohn W. May was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 1, 1851, an'd is now dead. \n\nBenjamin G. Gray probably came to Boston from the British Provinces. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1859, but is not now in practice in Boston. \n\nWilliam Rogers was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 16, 1844, and was for a \ntime associated in business with Peleg Whitman Chandler. He was also during the \nwar one of the auxiliary staff of Governor Andrew. He is now dead. \n\nCharles Frederick Blake graduated at Harvard in 1853 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1857. \n\nSeth Tobey was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 6, 1850, and was many years \nclerk of the Boston Police Court, having been appointed May 7, 1852. \n\nHenry Ware Muzzey, son of Rev. Artemas Bowers Muzzey, graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1855, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 8 in that \nyear. \n\nJohn Williams Hudson graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar June 5, 1862. He died in 1872. \n\nJeremiah L. Newton was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 16, 1860, and is be- \nlieved to be dead. \n\nAndrew Otis Evans graduated at Harvard in 1870, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in July, 1873. He died in 1879. \n\nGeorge Strong Derby graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar November 12 in that year. He died in 1873. \n\nJoseph Nickerson was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 19, 1853, and is now \ndead. \n\nGeorge Sennott was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1853. He went to \nVirginia and offered his services in the defense of John Brown. He is now dead. \n\nPhineas Aver was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 28, 1855. He is now dead. \n\nCharles Houghton was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1856, and is now \ndead. \n\nSamuel Eldridge was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1847, and is now dead. \n\nSilas B. Hahn was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 6, 1850, and is believed \nto have moved to Colorado. \nJoseph Meyer was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 14, 1849, and removed to \n\nNew York. \n57 \n\n\n450 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nJohn Seabury Eldridge graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was an \nattorney at the Suffolk bar many years. He received the degree of Master of Arts \nfrom Dartmouth in 1864. He died in 1876. \n\nJohn S. Abbott was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 16, 1862, and is now dead. \n\nWilliam A. Abbott was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1862, and removed \nto New York. \n\nJohn T. Paine was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1854, and is now dead. \n\nNicholas St. John Green graduated at Harvard in 1851, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1853. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1858, and at one time a lect- \nurer at the Harvard Law School. He died in 1876. \n\nJohn Gallison King graduated at Harvard in 1838, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar July 26, 1840. He died in 1888. \n\nThomas Carleton was admitted to the Suffolk bar Jannary 20, 1869, and is now \ndead. \n\nArthur Williams Austin graduated at Harvard in 1825, and was admitted to the \nMiddlesex bar in 1828. He settled in practice in Boston in 1829, and died in 1884. \n\nSamuel Haskell Randall graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1859, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar April 11, 1860. He is believed to have moved to New \nYork. \n\nSamuel Edward Ireson graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 7, 1854. He died in 1875. \n\nJames Jackson French graduated at Harvard in 1842, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 22, 1845. He removed to Toledo, O., and died since 1890. \n\nHorace L. Hazelton was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 1847, and died in \nBoston. \n\nMilton Andros was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1852, and went to California. \n\nWilliam Knapp was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 29, 1850. He was an \nassistant clerk of the old Boston Police Court, and is now dead. \n\nEliphalet Pearson was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 20, 1850, and removed to \nNew Orleans. \n\nThomas Riley, son of Thomas and Rose (Smith) Riley, was born in the county of \nCavan, Ireland, in December, 1846. The family of O'Reilly is among the most noted \nin Irish history. Its ancestor, Duach Galach, king of Connaught, was converted to \nChristianity in the fifth century by Saint Patrick, who baptized him on the banks of \nLoch Scola. For more than a thousand years the annals of Ireland trace it through \na long line of powerful chieftains of East Breifay (county Cavan). The military and \ncivil achievements of its members include brilliant service in Austria, France and \nSpain during the last two centuries. The subject of this sketch came to Boston with \nhis mother when four years of age, and received his education at the Boston public \nschools, including at the last the Quincy Grammar School. He began his career in \nthe office of the Boston Post, where he remained several years and acquired that \ntaste for learning which finally led him into a professional life. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Benjamin F. Butler, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867 at the aoje of twenty-one. He was admitted also \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n45* \n\n\nto the United States Supreme Court in 1885. Few men at the bar have been admitted \nso young, and with the limited advantages enjoyed by him for academic study, his \nearly admission sufficiently attests the industry and perseverance winch have always \ncharacterized him. Since his admission he has always been in business alone, and, \nrelying wholly on his own resources, with no patron to advise or aid him, he has \nachieved a success of which more favored children of fortune might be justly proud. \nIt may be mentioned as an unusual circumstance that during his whole career he lias \nnever been assisted by senior counsel, and thus in the management of his suits in \ncourt as in the moulding of his professional life his own skill and energy have been \nrelied on, and have proved sufficient for his work. His, business has been largely in \nthe criminal line, and during the last four years of the life of Joseph H. Bradley, at \nthat time the leading criminal lawyer at the Suffolk bar, most of his defenses were \nassumed and conducted by Mr. Riley. The remarkable verdict of acquittal wrested \nby him from a jury, before whom in the trial of Joseph Fowle in 1889 the prisoner \nwas identified as the operator in perhaps the most singular series of frauds ever per- \npetrated in an intelligent community, served to confirm a reputation for ingenuity \nand legal skill already well established. In his speech he is pungent, witty, and at \ntimes eloquent, and has always had the respect and confidence of the judges, without \nwhich success is difficult, if not impossible, to obtain. He has devoted himself al- \nmost exclusively to professional pursuits, seeking no political office, and looking for \nrecreation in his home and among his books, of which he has a choice and abundant \ncollection, where he finds food for the further growth of his literary tastes, and of his \nalready well stored mind. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conven- \ntion in 1872, and has been president of the Charitable Irish Society, and occasionally \nindulges himself in writing essays and editorials, and in delivering lectures. He \nmarried in Charlestown, Margaret, daughter of the late Lawrence McCormick, an \naccomplished architect in the county of Longford, Ireland, and resides in Beacon \nstreet, Boston. \n\nHoratio Woodman, brother of Cyrus Woodman, mentioned in this register, was \nborn in Buxton, Me., March, 1821, and studied law in Boston with William J. Hub- \nbard and Francis O. Watts. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 1, 1845, and \nwas lost overboard from the Fall River steamboat, which left New York January 1 , \n1879. \n\nFletcher Ranney, son of Ambrose A. Ranney, was born in Boston, and graduated \nat Harvard in 1883, and at the Boston University Law School in 1886. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is associated in business with his father. \n\nAlfred Ellingwood Giles graduated at Brown University in 1844 and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1847, and \nis still in practice in Boston. \n\nSilas Fisher Plimpton graduated at Yale in 1837, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar May 1, 1841. He practiced in Boston, and died in 1867. He graduated from \nthe Harvard Law School in 1839. \n\nBenjamin Gridley Bridge graduated from the Harvard Law School, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in August of that year. He died in 1839. \n\nWilliam Cushing Aylwin was admitted as an attorney of the Common Pleas \nCourt in Suffolk county in July, 1807, and of the Supreme Court in March, 1808. \n\n\n452 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nMarch 7, 1825, he was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court for Suffolk, and July 5, \n1825, for Nantucket. He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Har- \nvard in 1831, and died in 1851. \n\nChaki.es Cii aim v Emerson graduated at Harvard in 1828, and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1832. lie was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1832, and died \nin 1836. \n\nSimon Forrester Barstow was born in Salem, and graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1841, and was admitted to the bar in Salem in 1840, and settled in Boston. \nHe was on the staff of General Meade in the War of the Rebellion, and died in 1882. \n\nHenry Tike Parker, son of Daniel P. Parker, was born in Boston in 1822, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 14, 1846. Not long after he took up his \nresidence in London, England, where he remained until his death, which occurred \nsince 1890. \n\nNathaniel Austin Parks graduated at Harvard in 1839, and became an attorney \nat the Suffolk bar, and died in 1875. \n\nGeorge Francis Pakkman, son of Dr. George Parkman, was born in Boston in \n1824, and graduated at Harvard in 1X44. He graduated at the Harvard Law7 School \nin 1846, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1.847. He lives in Boston. \n\nNathaniel Morion, son of Marcus and Charlotte (Hodges) Morton, was born in \nTaunton, and graduated at Brown University in 1840. He graduated at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1843, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 22, 1844. He \nmarried Harriet, daughter of Francis Baylies, of Taunton, and died in 1N56. \n\nGeorge Washington Minns was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1836. \nHe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar July 13, 1841. \n\nHorace Binnev Sargent, son of Lucius Manlius Sargent, was born in Boston, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in \n1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He entered service in \nthe War of the Rebellion, October 12, 1861, as lieutenant-colonel of the First Massa- \nchusetts Cavalry, promoted to colonel October 30, 1862, to brevet major-general of \nUnited States Volunteers March 21, 1864, and discharged for disability Septem- \nber 29, 1864. He is now living in the West. \n\nJames Elliot Cabot was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. He \ngraduated at the Harvard Law .School in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJanuary 13, 1847. \n\nWilliam Gardiner Prescott, son of William Hickling Prescott, was born in Bos- \nton, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He graduated at the Harvard Law School \nin 1847, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 27, 1848. \n\nGeorge Duncan Wells was born in Greenfield, and graduated at Williams College \nin 1846 and at the Harvard Lawr School in 1848. He was an attorney in Boston in \n1850, and May 31, 1859, was appointed associate justice of the Boston Police Court. \nHe resigned his scat on the bench in the early part of the war and entered the serv- \nice, and died in 1864. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 453 \n\n\nJames H. Whitman, son of Kilborn and Elizabeth (Winslow) Whitman, was born \nin Pembroke, Mass., and studied law with his father. He was admitted to the Plym- \nouth county bar in 1833, and in 1834 settled in Boston. He subsequently returned \nto Pembroke, where he died a few years ago. \n\nChari.es Peleg Chandler graduated at Bowdoin College in 1854 and from the \nHarvard Law School in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 16, 1857, and \ndied in 1862. \n\nJames Brown Kendall, son of Rev. James Augustus Kendall, graduated at Har- \nvard in 1854 and from the Harvard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar February 19, 1859, and died the same year. \n\nJonathan Mason Parker, son of Samuel Dunn Parker, was born in Boston, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848 \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 28, 1849. He removed to New York \nand died in 1875. \n\nHamilton Alphonso Hill graduated at Harvard in 1853 and was an attorney at \nthe Suffolk bar in 1859. He lives in Boston but is not in practice. \n\nRobert Orr Harris, son of Benjamin Winslow Harris, was born in East Bridge- \nwater, Mass., and studied law with his father after graduating at Harvard in 1 s 7 7 . \nHe was admitted to the Plymouth county bar in February, 1879, and lives in East \nBridgewater, with offices there and in Boston. He was chosen in November, 1892, \ndistrict attorney for the Southeastern District. \n\nFranklin Hall graduated at Harvard in 1841 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1X44. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 6, 1845, and settled in Worcester \ncounty, where he died in 1868. \n\nWarren Tilton was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1844, and at \nthe Harvard Law School in 1*47. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1847. \n\nJames Parker Treadwei.e graduated at Harvard in 1*44 and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar April 24, 1850, and is now practicing in Boston. \n\nGeorge Henry Timmins graduated at Harvard in 1847 and at the Harvard Law- \nSchool in 1849. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 16, 1850, and died in is;:.. \n\nJohn Todiiunter graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in August, 1870. \n\nLorkn Henkv Edson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1875, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in March of that year. He died in 1876. \n\nOlaus Caecilius Moulton graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was \nan attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1871. He died in 1 s 7 . . . \n\nJohn Frederick Dodge graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1872. He died in 1878. \n\nJohn Albert Nickerson graduated at Brown University in 1*67, and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1870, and \ndied in 1874. \n\nHenry Bartlett Stevens graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868 and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar June 11, 1870. He died in 1873. \n\n\n454 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHorace Hamilton Currier graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar February 1 in that year. He died in 1879. \n\nCharles Damon Rice graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar March 17 in that year. ' He died in 1876. \n\nHorace Rundlett Cheney graduated at Bowdoin in 1863 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1868. He was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875, and died in 1876. \n\nArthur Edwin Adams graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar November 28 in that year. He died in 1878. \n\nFrancis Smith Gerard graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1869. He died in 1874. \n\nEdward Weston Glover graduated at Amherst College in 1864 and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 16, 1866, and died \nin 1874. \n\nEdward Eli Ensign graduated at Harvard in 1862 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1865. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1865, and died in 1872. \n\nAlmarind Ferdinand Badger graduated at Bowdoin College in 1858, and at the \nHarvard Law School in 1864. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 13, 1863, and \ndied in 1867. \n\nEdward Sanderson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar March 9 in that year. He died in 1875. \n\nCharles Lewis Swan graduated at Harvard in 1859 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 21, 1862, and died in \n1865. \n\nWilliam Edward Perkins graduated at Harvard in 1860 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1867, and died in \n1879. \n\nWilliam Gardner Colburn graduated at Harvard in 1860 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1862, and died in \n\n1875. \n\nGeorge Browne Perry graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1863. He died in 1867. \n\nThomas Albert Henderson graduated at Bowdoin College in 1855 and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 12, 1861, and \ndied in 1864. \n\nWilliam Arad Thompson graduated at Yale in 1857 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, I860, and died in 1876. \n\nGeorge Lane Sawin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860. He was an \nattorney at the Suffolk bar in 1863, and died in 1867. \n\nCharles Francis Dana graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 21, 1856, and died in 1867. \n\nHenry Coit Welles graduated at Harvard in 1857 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1859, and died in 1869. \n\nJohn Wilder graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar December 22, 1857. He died in 1870. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 455 \n\nJames Baker Moore graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar December 12, 1857. He died in 1872. \n\nHenry Saford Gansevoort graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar June 30, 1857. He died in 1871. \n\nPeleg Tallman graduated at Bowdoin in 1855 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 15, 1857, and died in 1S<;:;. \n\nCharles Augustus Kimball graduated at Amherst in 1854 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1856, and died \nin 1869. \n\nJeremiah French graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1856, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in May of that year. He died in 1868. \n\nGeorge Albert Gerrish graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar March 15, 1856. He died in 1866. \n\nWilliam Paisley Field graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1856, and died in 1859. \n\nAugustus Goodwin Greenwood graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 28, 1855, arid \ndied in 1874. \n\nHorace Deane Hutchinson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1853, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1854. He died in 1861. \n\nRobert Wheaton graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1849, and was an at- \ntorney at the Suffolk bar in 1851. He died in 1851. \n\nWalter Herbert Judson graduated at Brown University in 1847 and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1849. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1850, and \ndied in 1863. \n\nNehemiah Brown was born in Salem, and entered Harvard in the class of 1841. \nLeaving college before graduation, he studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in January, 1842. He has been many years an efficient clerk in the office of the \nsecretary of the Commonwealth. \n\nFrederick Lockwood Washburn graduated at Bowdoin in 1844 and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1847. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1847, and \ndied in 1860. \n\nRobert Farris Fisk graduated' at Yale in 1844 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1848, and died in 1863. \n\nLuther Blodgett Guernsey graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1846. He died in 1856. \n\nRobert Hartley Dunlap graduated at Bowdoin in 1842 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1845. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 29, 1847, and died in \nthe same year. \n\nJohn Gage Marvin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1844, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar August 30, 1845. He died in 1855. \n\nGeorge Farrar graduated at Amherst in 1839 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1844, and died in 1851. \n\n\n456 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nFrancis William Worthington graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar December 30, 1844. He died in 1850. \n\n[ames Alexander Abbott, son of Thomas S. and Betsey (Lovejoy) Abbott, was \nborn in Conway, N. H., in 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1840. He studied \nlaw in Portland with William Pitt Fessenden, and graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1843. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 1, 1843, and died in \n1859. He married Hannah Kittredge, of Dover, N. H. \n\nPeter Oliver graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar May 7, 1844. He died in 1855. \n\nCharles Ingersoll graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1841, after graduating \nat Columbia College in 1839. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 9, 1843, \nand died in 1875. \n\nHenry David Austin graduated at Harvard in 1S39 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1841. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1843, and died in 1S79. \n\nFrederick Wright graduated at Harvard in 1831 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1834. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 1, 1834, and died in 1846. \n\n'Charles Amburger Andrew graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1832, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar April 5, 1839. He died in 1843. \n\nCharles Frank Day was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875, and is now the \nconveyancer for the city of Boston. \n\nW. N. Mason was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1864, but is now dead. \n\nAbraham A. Dame was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1818, and is now \ndead. \n\nIsaac Fletcher Redfield was born in Wethersfield, Vt, April 10, 1804, and grad. \nuated at Dartmouth in 1825. He was admitted to the bar in Vermont, and practiced \nin Derby in that State. He was State attorney for Orleans county from 1832 to 1835> \nand in the latter year he was appointed judge of the Vermont Supreme Court. In \n1852 he was appointed chief justice and resigned in 1860. In 1861 he removed to Bos- \nton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 16 in that year. He remained in \nBoston until his death. He received the degree of LL.D. from Trinity College in \n1849, and from Dartmouth in 1855. He is the author of \"A Practical Treatise on the \nLaw of Railways,\" \"The Law of Wills,\" \" A Practical Treatise on Civil Pleading \nand Practice with Forms,\" \" The Law of Carriers and Bailments,\" \" Leading Amer- \nican Railway Cases,\" and he also edited Story's \" Equity Pleadings,\" and \" Conflict \nof Laws,\" and \" Greenleaf on Evidence.\" He married first Mary Ward, daughter \nof Ichabod Smith, of Stanstead, Conn., September 28, 1836, and second, Catherine \nBlanchard, daughter of Luther Clark, May 4, 1842. He died in Charlestown, Mass., \nMarch 23, 1876. \n\nCharles Demond was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 27, 1848, and is now \ndead. \n\nEverett Colby Banfield graduated at Harvard in 1850, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar August 8, 1850. He removed to Washington, and died in 1887. \n\nLuther C. Redfield graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in June, 1875. He is not now practicing in Boston, \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 457 \n\nBushrod F. RiCE.was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 8, 1861, and is thought to \nhave moved to New York. \n\nElihu C. Baker was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1854, and in 1856 was \npresident of the State Senate. He removed to South Carolina, and died in Darling- \nton in that State, December 6, 1887. \n\nCharles Joseph Brooks graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1871. He died in 1889. \n\nAustin S. Cushman was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1853, and finally \nsettled in New Bedford. \n\nThomas Denny graduated at Harvard in 1823, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin October, 1827. He died in 1874. \n\nHorace Edward Deming graduated at Harvard in 1871, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in June, 1876. \n\nFrank Rali-h Delano graduated at Trinity College in 1865 and from the Harvard \nLaw School in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 3, 1868. \n\nJames Warren Marcy, son of Charles and Charlotte (Warren) Marcy, was born in \nPlymouth, Mass. , in 1818, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in De- \ncember, 1842. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1846. \n\nJohn Rogers Mason graduated at Harvard in 1869 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1872. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 31, 1873. \n\nHenry Holmes Mather graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1868. He is still in practice. \n\nLouis Kossuth Mather graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in December of that year. \n\nJohn George McKean graduated at Harvard in 1831, and was a member of the \nSuffolk bar in 1835. He died in 1851. \n\nIrvine Greene McLarren graduated at Brown in 1872 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1874, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. \n\nEdwin Hale Abbot graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \n\nCharles Louis Ackerman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar October 9 in that year. \n\nC. B. F. Adams was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1852, and for many years was \na notary public in active business. \n\nGeorge Everett Adams graduated at Harvard in 1860 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1865, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 19 in that year. He en- \nlisted as a private in the First Artillery Regiment of Illinois, April 19, 1861, and was \nmustered out in August of the same year, after three months' service. \n\nSherman Wolcott Adams graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was \na member of the Suffolk bar in that year. \n\nThomas Boylston Adams, graduated at Harvard in 1790, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1795. He died in 1832. \n58 \n\n\n458 HISTORY OF J HE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nFrancis Edward Alfred graduated at the. Harvard Law School in 1876, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1875. \n\nTalbot Jones Albert graduated at Harvard in 1868 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 20, 1870. \n\nThomas Allen graduated at Harvard in 1789, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \nHe died in 1806. \n\nWillis Boyd Allen graduated at Harvard in 1878 and at the Boston University in \n1881, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1881. \n\nCharles Almy graduated at Harvard in 1872 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1877, and is still in practice. \n\nFisher Ames, son of Judge Seth Ames, graduated at Harvard in 1858 and at the \nHarvard Law School in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1861, \nand is now in practice. \n\nJames Barr Ames graduated at Harvard in 1868 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1872. He was instructor in history at Harvard in 1872, and in 1877 was appointed \nBuzzey Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1873. \n\nSamuel Ames graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1875, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar. \n\nRufus Greene Amory graduated at Harvard in 1778, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1782. He died in 1833. \n\nThomas Coffin Amory, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1841, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar October 28, 1844. He died in 1848. \n\nGeorge Kirkland Amory graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1869, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar April 14, 1873. He died in 1886. \n\nWilliam Amory, sen., graduated at Harvard in 1784, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1787. He died in 1792. \n\nAsa Andrews graduated at Harvard in 1783, and was a member of the Suffolk bar. \nHe died in 1856. \n\nJames Winthrop Andrews, son of James Andrews, graduated at Harvard in 1824, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1828. He died in 1842. \n\nSamuel Andrews graduated at Harvard in 1786, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1790. He died in 1841. \n\nWilliam Foster Apthorp graduated at Harvard in 1818, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1824. He died in 1826. \n\nRobert East Apthrot, son of John Trecothick and Mary (Foster) Apthorp, grad- \nuated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc- \ntober 1, 1844. He died in 1882. He married Eliza Hunt, of Northampton. \n\nGeorge Edward Apsley graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was \nan attorney in Boston in 1869. \n\nHoward Payson Arnold graduated at Harvard in 1852, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1856. \n\nHenry Martyn Atkinson graduated from Harvard in 1861, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar November 16, 1864. He died in 1887. \n\n\nbiographical register. 459 \n\nPercy Austin graduated at Harvard in 1871, and was an attorney at the Suffolk \nbar in 1875. He died in 1877. \n\nFrederick Fanning Ayer graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was an attorney at \nthe Suffolk bar in 1878. \n\nFrancis Eaton Babcock graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in May, 1878. \n\nLemeul Hollingsworth Babcock graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. \n\nJohn Appleton Bailey graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 20, 1858. \n\nJames Murray Baker graduated at Tufts College in 1865, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1867, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 30 in that year. \n\nJohn Freeman Baker graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar March 5 in that year. \n\nFrancis Vergnies Balch graduated at Harvard in 1859 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 9, 1861, and is now in \npractice. \n\nJames Morton Ballard graduated at Harvard in 1836, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar July 25, 1840. He is still in practice. \n\nSolon Bancroft, son of Emory and Harriet (Batchelder) Bancroft, was born in \nReading, Mass., July 22, 1839, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1864. He was admit- \nted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1866, and is still in practice. \n\nCharles A. Barnard was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 23, 1865, and is now in \npractice. \n\nGeorge Marshall Barry graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872. \n\nThomas Edward Barry graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar May 2 in that year. \n\nCharles Henry Barrows graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1878. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1882. \n\nJohn Barrett graduated at Harvard in 1780, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \nHe died in 1816. \n\nEdward L. Barney, a leading member of the Bristol county bar practicing in New \nBedford, was practicing also at the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nStephen S. Bartlett was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now in prac- \ntice. \n\nSamuel Batchelder graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1854. \n\nHamlet Bates is on the roll of Suffolk county attorneys in 1857, practicing in Chel- \nsea. He was appointed, May 6, 1855, justice of the Chelsea Police Court. \n\nJames Edward Bates graduated at Harvard in 1864, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar September 13, 1865. \n\n\n460 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nSamuel W. Bates was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 6, 1852, and died some \nyears since. He was for some years a teacher in the Boston public schools. \n\nWaldron Bates graduated at Harvard in 1879, and is now practicing at the Suf- \nfolk bar. \n\nJoseph Nickerson Baxter graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar June 2, 1876. \n\nMorgan William Beach graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar November 15 in that year. \n\nI thamar Warren Beard was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September 1844. \nHe was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1856. \n\nJohn Gregg Beckett graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar April 27, 1885. \n\nEbenezeR Hunt Beckford graduated at Harvard in 1805, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in March 1808. He died in 1869. \n\nJosiah G. Bellows graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar February 19, 1867. \n\nCharles Bemis graduated at Harvard in 1808, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1810. He died in 1874. \n\nWilliam Frederick: Bennett graduated from Harvard in 1868, and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 14, 1871. \n\n.Samuel Arthur Bent graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar December 11 in that year. \n\nFrancis Hermoness Berick graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1863. \n\nEdward Detraz Bettens graduated at Harvard in 1873, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1876. \n\nEmory O. Bicknell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1869, and is now in \npractice. \n\nAlpheus Bigelow graduated at Harvard in 1810, and was an attorney at the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1820. He died in 1863. \n\nHoratio Bigelow graduated at Harvard in 1832, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in January, 1838. He died in 1888. \n\nTimothy Bigelow graduated at Harvard in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar February 19, 1849. \n\nElias Aaron Blackshere graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was \nadmitted to the .Suffolk bar in June of that year. \n\nGeorge Blagden graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1859. He enlisted as second lieutenant of First Massachusetts Cavalry, De- \ncember 26, 1861, was promoted to first lieutenant July 27, 1862, to captain of Second \nMassachusetts Cavalry, January 13, 1863, to major March 1, 1864, and resigned June \n2, 1865. \n\nWilliam Cushing Binney graduated at Harvard in 1843, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1845. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 25, 1846. He died in \n1882. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 461 \n\nFrancis Blanchard graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1805. He died in 1813. \n\nJohn H. Blanchard was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now in prac- \ntice. \n\nWarren Kendall Blodgett graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was a member of \nthe Suffolk bar in 1890, as he still is. \n\nAlphonso Warren Boardman graduated at Harvard in 1850, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in December, 1853. He is still in practice. \n\nSimeon Borden graduated at Harvard in 1850 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1852. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 18, 1853. \n\nJohn Franklin Botume graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar June 13, 1881. \n\nBenjamin Bourne graduated at Harvard in 1775, and received the degree of LL.D. \nfrom Brown University in 1801. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and became \njudge of the United States Circuit Court, and a member of Congress. He died in \n1808. \n\nJames Bowd< >in, probably James Bowdoin Winthrop, who dropped the name of \nWinthrop, was the son of Thomas Lindall Winthrop, and older brother of Robert \nCharles Winthrop, now living in Boston. Thomas Lindall Winthrop married Eliza- \nbeth Bowdoin Temple, a granddaughter of Gov. James Bowdoin, and daughter of \nSir John Temple, British consul-general in the United States. The subject of this \nsketch was born in 1795, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1814. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1817, and died in 1833. \n\nRowland W. Boyden was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is still in prac- \ntice. \n\nWilliam Ingf.rsoli. Bowditch, son of Nathaniel Bowditch, graduated at Harvard \nin 1838 and at the Harvard Law School in 1841. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nOctober 5, 1841, and is now a leading conveyancer in Boston. \n\nJohn Oliver Bowman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar October 17 in that year. \n\nGeorge Washington Boyle graduated at Harvard in 1806, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in 1809. He died in 1834. \n\nOrrin L. Bosworth, an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1871, is still in practice. \n\nGeorge Bradbury graduated at Harvard in 1789, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1823. \n\nDaniel Neil Bradford graduated at Harvard in 1815, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar July 6, 1819. He died in 1821. \n\nGeorge Hillard Bradford graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in May, 1880. \n\nJames Monroe Bradford graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1844, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar March 25, 1845. \n\nRussell Bradford was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. \n\nGrenville Davies Braman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1885 and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. \n\n\n462 HISTORY OF THE &ENCH AND EAR. \n\nJoseph Balch Braman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1869. \n\nAndrew Coyle Bradley graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar January 26 in that year. \n\nMichael W. Brick was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nGeorge Patrick Briggs graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar January 14 in that year. \n\nClifford Brigham, son of Judge Lincoln Flagg Brigham, graduated at Harvard \nin 1880, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar. \n\nJoseph Brigham graduated at Harvard in 1788, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1821. \n\nJohn Ambourlain Brimmer graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in July, 1806. He died in 1807. \n\nFranklin E. Brooks was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nJames Willson Brooks graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858 and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1860. \n\nAlexander P. Brown was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 27, 1876, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nEdward Everett Brown was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nEdward Payson Brown graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar March 24 in that year. \n\nGeorge M. Browne was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1841, and is living in \nBoston. He was at one time president of the Eastern Railroad. \n\nHenry Brown graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1807. He died in 1810. \n\nJohn P. Brown was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 10, 1869, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nAlbert Gallatin Browne graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar December 8, 1856. He was the private secretary of Governor Andrew \nduring the war, and in 1867 was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme \nJudicial Court. He reported in thirteen volumes from the Berkshire September term \nin 1867 to the Suffolk March term in 1872. He edited jointly with John C. Gray, jr., \ntwo volumes from the Suffolk March term in 1872 to the Suffolk March term in 1873, \nand again alone, three volumes from the Worcester September term in 1873 to the \nNorfolk January term in 1874. He died in 1891. \n\nAlexander Porter Browne graduated at Harvard in 1874 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1876. He is in active practice in Boston. \n\nJ. Merrill Browne was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 16, 1871, and is now in \npractice. \n\nWilliam Albert Brownlow graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1878. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 463 \n\nHenry Hall Buck graduated at Harvard in 1875 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 17, 1879, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nWalter N. Buffum was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar. \n\nRufus Augustus Bullock graduated at Harvard in 1S71, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in December, 1877. He is now at the bar. \n\nEdward Phillips Burgess graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1855. \n\nWilliam Burnett graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar December 9, 1857. He died before 1880. \n\nAlbert Foster Burnham graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar August 1 in that year. \n\nCharles Henry Burns graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar May 5 in that year. \n\nDavid Augustus Burr graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S62, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar July 8, 1861. \n\nHemann Merrick Burr graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1885. \n\nGeorge D. Burrage was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam Lathrop Burt graduated at Harvard in 1850, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1853. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1853. He died in 1882. \n\nHenry Foster Buswell graduated at Harvard in 1866, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar December 14, 1870. He is now at the bar. \n\nFranklin Jenness Butler graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar October 17, 1851. \n\nGeorge Brown Butler graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar April 30 in that year. He died in 1864. \n\nJohn E. Butler was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nA. F. Butterworth was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 9, 1862, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nAlbert Clark Buzell graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 27, 1868. \n\nEdwin Lasseter Bynner graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and is \nnow practicing at the Suffolk bar. \n\nJonathan Ware Butterfiei.d graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1864. \n\nFrancis Carnes graduated at Harvard in 1805, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin January, 1809. He died in 1860. \n\nHarrison Osborne Cassell graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar January 19 in that year. \n\nCharles Frederic Chamberlayne graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in 1882. He practices in Boston and Sandwich. \n\n\n464 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nFrancis Dana Channing graduated at Harvard in 179-4, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1797. He died in 1810. \n\nEdward Myers Clymer graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar July 2 in that year. \n\nEdward Twisleton Cabot graduated at Harvard in 1883, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1887, and is now in practice. \n\nHenry Bromfield Cabot graduated at Harvard in 1883, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now in practice. \n\nJames P. Campbell was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1870, and is now \npracticing in Boston. \n\nWilliam Francis Canavan graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar November 11 in that year. \n\nJames Russell C arret graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in July, 1871. He is now in practice. \n\nWilliam Ward Carruth graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar December 17, 1868. \n\nJohn Bernard Carson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1876, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in February of that year. \n\nLeonard T. Carvell was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 21, 1881, and is \nnow in practice. \n\nAlbert William Casey graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. \n\nLeander J. Cavanagh was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now m prac- \ntice. \n\nWilliam G. Chadbourne was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13, 1875, and is now \nin practice. \n\nLendall Pitts Cazeaux graduated at Harvard in 1842, and is a member of the Suf- \nfolk bar, though not in practice. \n\nHorace Dwight Chapin graduated at Harvard in 1871, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in November, 1875. He is now in practice. \n\nHorace Rundlett Cheney graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in March of that year. He is now in practice. \n\nCharles G. Chick was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1871, and is now \nin practice. \n\nJames Morse Chase graduated at Harvard in 1850 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1855. \n\nRufus Choate, jr., son of Rufus Choate, was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 1, \n1858, and has been dead some years. \n\nCharles Marshall Spring Churchill graduated at Harvard in 1845, and at the \nHarvard Law School in 1848. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1850. \n\nJ. P. S. Churchill was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now in practice. \n\nArthur Blake Clapp graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in May, 1879. \n\n\n and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar September 1, 1858. \n\nGeorge Gordon Gam mans graduated at Harvard in 1875 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in ( (ctober, 1878. \n\nFairbanks A. W. Gates was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nIsaac Gates graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nApril, 1806. He died in 1852. \n\nAmory Thompson Gibbs graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar February 24, 1857. \n\nGeorge Alphonso Gibson graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in February, 1877. \n\nDavid Gilbert graduated at Harvard in 1797, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nbefore 1807. He died in 1842. \n\nFrederick C. Gilpatrick was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nC. I. Giddings was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nFrank Eliot Glover was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nHoratio N. Glover, jr., was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the \nbar. \n\n. George Augustus Goddard graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1877, and is \nnow at the bar. \n\nMaurice Goddard graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1867. He died in 1884. \n\nJacob Goldsmith was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1876, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nW. W. Gooch, son of Daniel Wheelwright Gooch, graduated at Harvard in 1880, \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar. \n\nFrank Goodwin graduated at Harvard in 1863, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar June 22, 1865. He is now at the bar. \n\nCharles Percival Gorely graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 12, 1870. He is now at the bar. \n\nOzias Goodwin graduated at Harvard in 1858, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nOctober 10, 1862. He died in 1878. \n\nWade Hampton Gardiner was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 12, 1862. \n\nRichard Goodman graduated at Amherst in 1869 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1871. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1874. \n\nDana B. Gove was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1870, and is now at \nthe Suffolk bar. \n\nHorace D. Gove was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1875, and is now at the \nbar. \n\n\n472 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam Henry Gove graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law- \nSchool in 1877. He was admitted to the Essex bar in 1872, and in 188:3 was at the \nSuffolk bar. \n\nJohn Henry Gray graduated at Harvard in 1824, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in October, 1830. He died in 1850. \n\nLevi Gray graduated at Harvard in 1852, and was admitted to the .Suffolk bar \nOctober 31, 1854. \n\nJohn Clinton Gray graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was ad. \nmitted to the Suffolk bar July 17 in that year. \n\nRussell Gray graduated at Harvard in 1869, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in December, 1872. He is now at the bar. \n\nCharles Augustus Gregory graduated at Harvard in 1855, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar March 18, 1857. \n\nArchibald Henry Grimke graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S74, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875. \n\nJonathan Grout graduated at Harvard in 1790, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1835. \n\nEmery Gkoyer was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1869, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nHorace Graves graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 28, 1867. \n\nBenjamin Daniel Greene graduated at Harvard in 1812, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in September, 1815. He died in 1862. \n\nLi (ian Bisbee Thompson, second son of Oakes and Livonia (Banks) Thompson, \nwas born in Hartford, Oxford county, Me., January 29, 1838. He is a direct de- \nscendant from John Thompson, who came to Plymouth, Mass., on or before 1623, \nand married Mary, daughter of Francis Cooke, one of the May/lower passengers. \nHe was educated at Hebron Academy and at Tufts College, where he graduated \nin 1863, taking high rank in his class, though absent a part of the course engaged \nin teaching. He assisted in raising a company in the War of 1861, and in 1864 was \ncommissioned for the recruiting service in Georgia and South Carolina, with head \nquarters at Hilton Head. He was at Savannah and Charleston with Sherman's \narmy, and assisted General Anderson in raising the old flag at Fort Sumter, April \n14, 1865. On his return north at the close of the war, he studied law for a year in \nthe office of his brother, Roscoe H. Thompson, of Canton, Me., and was admitted to \nthe Oxford county bar in 1866. He then entered the Harvard Law School, where \nhe graduated in 1867, and after a further study in the office of Lothrop & Bishop, of \nBoston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1868. In 1867 he was appointed \nbankruptcy clerk in the clerk's office of the United States District Court, where he \nremained seven years, and where he had an opportunity which he improved of be- \ncoming familiar with the decisions of the United States courts. On the resignation \nin 1869 of Charles M. Ellis, the register in bankruptcy, Mr. Thompson's name was \nfavorably presented to Chief Justice Chase for the vacancy by a large number of \nthe leading members of the Suffolk bar, but the appointment was given to General \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 473 \n\nF. W. Palfry, whose military service, and wounds, from which he was still suffering, \nentitled him to prior consideration. Mr. Thompson retired from the office in L874 \nand entered on the practice of law, establishing in a short time a large and success- \nful business, the greater part of which was connected with the United Stat< \ncourts. He was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court in 1881. \nAn interesting case, in which Mr. Thompson acted as counsel, was that of Helen |. \nWard, who in 1879 was charged with the murder of her mother at their rooms in \nHamilton Place, Boston. Mrs: Ward was shot in the head with a bullet from a pis- \ntol which had some time before been given to the daughter by a clerk at the Parker \nHouse whom she was engaged to marry. A wound was also inflicted on the temple \nby some implement not discovered by the government, which fractured the skull \nfrom ear to ear. Mr. Thompson prosecuted the defence with untiring energy and \nskill, and against strong circumstantial evidence secured the discharge of the accused \non the plea of somnambulism, although no other instance of a like hallucination had \nappeared in the girl's history. A successful defence on such aground was the more \nremarkable because the defence and verdict in the case of Albert J. Tirrell, the only \nother case in Massachusetts in which, in a capital case, such a plea had been suc- \ncessfully made, had provoked almost universal condemnation. In 1886, and again \nin 1889, with health impaired by professional work, Mr. Thompson traveled exten- \nsively in Europe, and since his last return has devoted himself chiefly to office prac- \ntice in the department of mercantile law. An independent in politics, he has never \nsought nor held political office. He has never married, but for several years has \nmaintained for himself and his sisters a home in the Dorchester District of Boston. \n\nThomas Parker Proctor, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Parker) Proctor, was born \nin Chelmsford, Mass., June 27, 1831. His mother, Elizabeth Parker, was a native of \nNew Boston, N. H., while on his father's side, the Proctor family during seven gen- \nerations had lived on the same homestead in South Chelmsford. His great-grand- \nfather was an officer in the War of the Revolution, and his father was an officer in \nthe War of 1812. Mr. Proctor attended school in Chelmsford under the instruction \nof Emerson C. Whitney, a good teacher and a valued friend, and after fitting for \ncollege at Phillips Andover Academy, entered Yale College in 1850. While pursuing \nhis college course his old teacher and friend, then living in Middleton, N Y., in \ncharge of the classical department of the State Academy, was stricken with his last \nsickness, and he left college to look after the comfort of his latter days. On the \ndeath of Mr. Whitney his position was offered to Mr. Proctor, and its duties were \nperformed by him for a single year. In the mean time he kept up his college studies, \nand in 1853 entered the junior class at Harvard, and graduated with a part at com- \nmencement in 1854. In the year of his graduation he entered the law office of Charles \nTracey in New York city, and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn on examination \nin the latter part of 1854. In 1855 he entered the Harvard Law School, engaged a \npart of the time while there in assisting Professor Parsons in the preparation of notes \nto his law books, and graduated in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May \n6, 1856, and soon after became associated with Harvey Jewell, with whom he re- \nmained two years. He then practiced alone until 1862, when he formed a connection \nwith William Wirt Warren, which continued until the death of Mr. Warren in 1880. \nFrom 1880 to 1884 he was the senior member of the law firm of Proctor, Brigham & \n60 \n\n\n474 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nTappan, and after again practicing alone four years became the senior member of \nthe firm of Proctor, Tappan & Warren, which still continues. Mr. Warren is the son \nof his earlier partner. Mr. Proctor has always devoted himself assiduously to his \nprofessional duties, and with the exception of the office of trial justice at Jamaica \nPlain for one year, has never accepted a public position. He has, however, always \nfelt a deep interest in social progress and political reform, and devoted to their cause \nsuch time and effort as could be spared from his professional pursuits. The practice \nof Mr. Proctor covers a considerable range of legal causes, including cases in bank- \nruptcy, admiralty, patents, questions on the construction of wills and statutes, and \nactions relating to real estate. He is a trustee of many estates, some of which are \nlarge, and has been largely employed as counsel in commercial and corporation \nmatters. His preparation of cases is marked by thoroughness, and their management \nin court by ingenuity and skill. His reputation is that of a conscientious lawyer, \ndevoted to the cause of his client whose interests he seeks, not necessarily by a trial, \nbut by a settlement if possible on fair and equitable terms. He married, May 27, \n1857, Lucena Sarah, daughter of Amos and Mary .Spalding, of Billerica, Mass., who \ndied May 1, 1868, leaving three children, George B., Sarah L. and Mary Bessie; the \noldest, George B., dying March 3, 1869. He married again, April 28, 1870, Sarah \n(Miller) Street, of Boston, who died December 16, 1879; and a third time, June 7, \n1883, Abby, daughter of Southworth and Abby Shurtleff Shaw, of Boston. His \nresidence is at Jamaica Plain. \n\nBaxter E. Perry, son of Rev. Baxter and Lydia (Gray) Perry, was born in Lyme, \nGrafton county, N. H., April 26, 1826. He fitted for college at Thetford, Vt., and \ngraduated at Middlebury College. He studied law with Ranney & Morse, of Boston, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 19, 1855. He married at Hanover, N. H., \nAugust 26, 1851, Charlotte S., daughter of John and Nancy (Stickney) Hough. Mr. \nPerry is descended on his father's side from a family which settled at an early date \nin Watertown, Mass., and moved to Worcester in 1751. On his mother's side he is \ndescended from a family of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, forming a part of the immi- \ngration of those people into Massachusetts in 1718. For some years before entering \nthe profession of law he was engaged in teaching as principal of the Chester Acad- \nemy in Vermont. His business is a general one and its pursuit, which he has made \nthe main work of his life, has been successful. With the exception of the office of \ntrustee of Middlebury College, and a membership at one time of the Massachusetts \nHouse of Representatives, he has permitted no offers of place or power to lure him \nfrom the paths of professional life. A few collegiate and other public addresses \nwhich he has been induced to deliver, display a literary taste and culture which bear \nproof that his studies and thought are not, however, confined within the limits of the \nfield of law. \n\nDaniel Webster, son of Ebenezer and Abigail (Eastman) Webster, was born in \nSalisbury, now Franklin, N. H., January 18, 1782, and received his early education \nat Phillips Exeter Academy and under the tuition of Rev. Samuel Wood, of Bos- \ncawen, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1801, and studied law in the office of \nThomas W. Thompson, of Salisbury, and in that of Christopher Gore in Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1805. He began practice in Boscowen, \nbut in 1807 removed to Portsmouth, where he remained until June, 1816, when he es- \n\n\nbiographical register. 475 \n\ntablished himself in Boston. He married in June, 1808, Grace Fletcher, of Hopkin- \nton, N. H., who died January 21, 182s. In December, 1839, he married Caroline \nLe Roy, of New York, and died in Marshfield, October 24, 1852. \n\nThe above meagre sketch of his life is sufficient for this record. A memoir of a man \nof whom so much has been written by other hands would be superfluous here, and such \na one as the limits of this work would permit would be unsatisfactory. It is the design \nof the writer to speak of him as a private citizen, not a statesman, as a neighbi >r, not a \nlawyer, as a friend irrespective of his position in the nation, as the grandest example of \nhuman development which the institutions of America have produced. For this pur- \npose he is permitted to use the sketch prepared by him for the pages of the Plymouth \nCounty History. The life of Mr. Webster is yet to be written. Exact justice has \nnever yet been awarded him. Those who worshipped him as their idol have pre- \nsented one side of his character, forgetful or neglectful of the other, while those who \nhave inherited the prejudices of his contemporary opponents have dwelt on his faults \nand overlooked those grand traits in his character, which in the nature of man must \nnecessarily be balanced by those which are less commendable and attractive. His \ncharacter was like his native State, showing on its surface the mountain peaks and the \nlower lands of the valley. The mountain cannot exist without the intervale, nor ran \nextraordinary intellectual powers be found in man without corresponding frailties to \npreserve the equipoise of a general level. \n\nIn 1825 Mr. Webster was a member of the Nineteenth Congress, having taken \nhis seat for the first time the year before. He had already won a national repu- \ntation. He had then delivered at Plymouth the anniversary oration on the 22d \nof December, 1820; he had made his great argument in Gibbon against Ogden, \nin which, in accordance with his views, the court decided that the grant by the \nState of New York to the assignees of Robert Fulton of the the right to navigate \nby steam the rivers, harbors and bays of the State was unconstitutional ; and he \nhad delivered his memorable oration at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker \nHill monument. In the summer of that year, as had been his custom for several \nyears, he went with his wife and son, Fletcher, to Sandwich, Mass., to enjoy a \nseason of fishing for trout. Before leaving Boston, in a conversation with Mr. \nSamuel K. Williams, Mr. Williams asked him why he did not go to Marshfield in- \nstead of Sandwich. The description of Marshfield impressed him favorably, and he \ndetermined to visit it on his return. After he had taken all the fish he wanted, he \nbade his old friend, Johnny Trout, the fisherman and guide at Scusset, good-bye, and \nhe and his wife in an old fashioned chaise, with a trunk lashed to the axle, and his \nson, Fletcher, mounted on a pony, started for home, with the determination to stop \nat Marshfield on the way. Mr. Williams had given Mr. Webster directions to see \nCapt. John Thomas, a respectable and intelligent Marshfield farmer, who would \ndoubtless be glad to entertain him, and give him all the information he might need \nabout that part of the country. Captain Thomas was then the owner and occupant \nof a comfortable home and a farm of about one hundred and sixty acres. This farm \nwas all that was left of his ancestral estate, the remainder, while in possession of his \nfather, Nathaniel Ray Thomas, a conspicuous loyalist, having been confiscated when \nhe left New England in 1770, and went with the British army, after the evacuation \nof Boston, to Nova Scotia. This portion was saved to his wife as her right in the \n\n\n476 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nestate of her husband. Captain Thomas was the only child who did not accompany \nhis father, and consequently the farm came finally into his hands. Up to the time \nof the confiscation the estate had remained intact, from the time of the original grant \nby the Plymouth Colony to the ancestor, William Thomas, on the 7th of January, \n1640-41. William Thomas was one of the merchants of London who furnished the \nPilgrims with capital and vessels for their emigration to New England, and were \npartners in the enterprise. He was one of several of the merchants who finally cast \ntheir fortunes with the Pilgrims, and he came in the Marye and Ann from Yarmouth, \nEngland, in 1687, and settled in Marshfield. Adjoining the lands of Mr. Thomas \nwere those of Edward Winslow, bounded out to him by the Colony Court on the 4th \nof December, 1637. These two estates, including about twenty-seven hundred acres, \nhad at the time of Mr. Webster's visit nearly passed out of the Thomas and Winslow \nfamilies, except the acres held by Capt. John Thomas, a lineal descendant from the \nancestor, William Thomas, and to the farm-house standing on these acres, on a fine \nautumn day, Mr. Webster wended his way. After leaving Duxbury Mr. Webster \ntook the wrong road, and instead of approaching the farm from the south, he made \na detour and fortunately approached it from the north. From the various points of \nview on this northerly road, the farm with its sunny meadows and placid lake and \ncomfortable dwelling, nestling as if for protection under the spreading branches of \nthe since famous elm, showed to the best advantage, and Mrs. Webster, with a woman's \neye for beauty, was enthusiastic in her admiration of its attractive charms. As the \nchaise with its hanging trunk, followed by the pony with Fletcher on its back, was \ndriven down the avenue, Captain Thomas with his son, Charles Henry, now living in \nBoston, was sitting on the piazza. The hospitable farmer stepped out to meet his \nvisitor, whoever he might be, as he alighted from his chaise, and it is not difficult to \nimagine the feelings with which this modest, hard-working, home-loving Marshfield \nman received the outstretched hand of his guest. \" This is Captain Thomas?\" said \nMr. Webster. \" Yes,\" said the farmer. \"lam Mr. Webster,\" continued the visitor. \n\"I thought so,\" said the captain, and this was the introduction to a friendship \nwhich continued to strengthen until broken by death, and which was as full of \ndevotion and reverence and love as ever a friendship between man and man could \nboast. It is no feeble answer to the cavils of the critic, to the censures of ex- \nploring biographers, who scratch and scrape the burnished gold in search of a \nbaser metal beneath, to the unjust and unjudicial strictures on the character of \nMr. Webster, that he inspired the affection and esteem of an honest, clear-headed, \nintelligent, pure-minded man like Captain Thomas, who for years had measured and \nweighed and sounded the man, the very fibres of whose heart he had touched, and \nwhose innermost life had been spread out daily before him. The result of the inter- \nview was an invitation to stay over the night, and for two or three days Mr. Webster \nwith his wife and son remained as welcome guests at the farm. During those two or \nthree days he became acquainted with Seth Peterson and Porter Wright, the two men \nwho were afterwards his right and left hand in Ins Marshfield life. He shot birds on \nthe marshes, he fished for cod m the bay, he was satisfied that at last he had found \nthe right place for his vacation, recreation and rest. From that time forth until he \nfinally bought the estate, the recurrence of dog days found him annually a guest at \nthe Marshfield farm. The interest which he felt in Captain Thomas and his wife ex- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 477 \n\ntended to his sons, Charles Henry and Nathaniel Ray. Charles was the elder son \nand his father's helpmate on the farm. Nathaniel Ray, or Ray, as he was always \ncalled, was the younger son, and still attending school under the care of Rev. ( leorge \nPutnam, then a teacher in one of the public schools in Duxbury. The attractive de- \nportmentof Ray, whose future course of life was not yet marked out, especially inter- \nested him, and it was not long before he drew him to himself and directed his career. \nWhen Mr. Webster was about to start for Boston at the close of his visit, Ray hap- \npened to be holding by the halter a handsome horse belonging to his father which \nattracted Mr. Webster's attention. \"Captain Thomas,\" said he, \" I like that halter, \nI would like to buy it.\" The request was no sooner made than acceded to, and the \nboy was told to take the halter off and place it in the chaise. \" ( )h, but I want the \nhalter with the head in it,\" said Mr. Webster. And thus the horse was bought, and \nthe purchaser started for Boston with it tied behind the chaise, forming, with Fletcher \nand the pony in the rear, a procession which the statesmen of to-day would hesitate- \nto exhibit on the highway and in the streets of the city. On his return from a subse- \nquent visit, he said to Ray, \"Get into my chaise and go to Boston.\" The father \nwas willing, and the son went with a glad heart, going to Mr. Webster's house in \nSummer street and remaining there during his stay in Boston. On the next day he \nwas told to take Mr. Webster's satchel and accompany him to the Supreme Court, \nwhere he was to argue an important flowage case, in which parties in Lowell were \nthe plaintiffs and defendants. For the first time in a great city, this country lad was \nlaunched at once from the quiet shades of a farm, not to the novel sights and sounds \nof the streets of Boston, as many a country- lad has been before and since, but into \nthe great arena in which the foremost men of the day, Webster and Mason, were the \ncontestants. Through the livelong day, this boy of sixteen, with brown hands and \ntanned face, sat within the bar, listening and wondering if this were the world out- \nside of which he had been born, and for the duties of which the schools whose irk- \nsome requirements he had been compelled to meet, were the means of preparation. \nFrom that time Ray Thomas was practically the ward of Mr. Webster, and Mr. Web- \nster Avas his guardian. He was placed at first in the store of Trott & Bumstead, \nwholesale grocers in South Market street, and after the Stephen White murder trial \nin Salem, in which Mr. Webster acted as an assistant to the government attorney, \nin the counting-room of Stephen White, the nephew of the murdered man and the \nfather of the lady who afterwards became the wife of Mr. Fletcher Webster. But he \nremained in neither of these places long; Mr. Webster wanted him nearer to himself, \nand in the end he became his confidential secretary, the manager of his western \nlands, and his other self in everything outside of his professional duties, except his \naffairs at Marshfield, which were mainly conducted under the faithful and assiduous \ncare of Mr. Charles Henry Thomas, the elder son of Captain Thomas. The early \ndeath of Ray Thomas was a sad affliction to Mr. Webster, and one from which he \ndid not easily rally. Though his business manager left behind him a trunk filled \nwith important papers, an early examination of which was essential to the successful \nissue of enterprises in which Mr. Webster was engaged, six months elapsed before \nhe could so far compose himself as to be able to examine its contents, surrounded as \nthey were with associations of his loved young friend. This was one of the illustra- \ntions of that carelessness in money affairs of which the thrifty critic complains. But \nit illustrated something more, something as much higher than book-keeping and \n\n\n478 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthrift, as a tender, generous heart is nobler than one whose grief by the bedside of a \ndying parent is assuaged by the thought of a coming legacy. After the annual visits \nof Mr. Webster to Marshfield for several years, Captain Thomas became somewhat \nembarrassed pecuniarily, and made a proposition to him to buy his farm. Mr. Web- \nster objected at first on the ground of poverty, but at last consented to buy with the \nexpress understanding, suggested and demanded by himself, that Captain Thomas \nand his wife should live in the house and occupy the farm, and as long as they lived \ntreat both as their own. That higher regard for money, which would have com- \nmended him to the approval of meaner natures, or in other words, a sordid spirit and \na harder heart, would have driven a closer bargain than this. He never believed, \nhowever, that man, more especially such a man as he knew himself to be, \nwith transcendent and ever outreaching powers, was made to count gold and \ncut coupons and accumulate money. Judged by such a standard, the Indian \nwith his wigwam filled with wampum was deserving of as much respect and \nhonor as the millionaire with his trunks packed with what we only in a higher \nstate of barbarism are pleased to call wealth. Money to him was the means, \nnot the end of life. The goal to be reached was the highest development of man's \npowers, the richest and rankest growth of affections, the supremacy of man over the \naccidental and incidental circumstances which attach themselves to his worldly and \nbodily existence and comfort. This was the spirit which animated Mr. Webster in \nthe arrangement made with Captain Thomas, and during five or six years the cap- \ntain and his wife remained occupants of their old homstead, and after that the widow \ndivided her time between the Marshfield farm and the residence of her son, Charles, \nin Duxbury. At this residence Mr. Webster would also occasionally stay during \nshort visits to the Old Colony while his own house was undergoing repairs. It was \nsituated on a commanding eminence overlooking Plymouth Bay, the Gurnet Light, \nBarnstable Bay, and the north shore as far as Minot's Ledge. The view from the \nchamber which he there occupied he said was the most beautiful he had ever seen, \nand there at half-past three on a summer morning he might have been seen sitting \nin an arm chair by the window, waiting for what he considered the most impressive \nspectacle in life, the break of day. He wondered that so many persons in the world \nshould neglect the opportunity of witnessing that daily but sublime exhibition. \n\nThe earliest recorded deed of Marshfield land to Mr. Webster was from Peleg \nThomas Ford of thirty-seven acres, for a consideration of $825, and dated September 7, \n1831, though the agreement for the purchase of the Thomas farm was made before that \ndate. The deed of the latter was for one hundred and sixty and one-half acres for a \nconsideration of $3,650, and dated April 23, 1832. This deed included the house and \noutbuildings, and tillage, pasturing, mowing and wood-land and fresh and salt \nmeadows on both sides of the main road. This deed was followed by others from \nCharles Henry Thomas of two and three-quarters acres and five rods for $130, July \n(J, 1832 ; from the same of one hundred and sixteen and one-quarter acres and thirty \nrods for $2,200, April 16, 1833; from Beniamin Lewis of four and three-quarters acres \nand twenty rods for $60.40, December 30, 1833; from Ebenezer Taylor of one acre and \nnine rods for $42.25, March 3, 1834; from Charles P. Wright of two acres and thirty- \ntwo rods for $110.62, March 3,. 1834; from Asa Hewitt of seven acres and twenty-one \nrods for $300, May 17, 1834; from Henry Soule of eighty-five and one-half acres for \n$500, October 20, 1834; from Charles Henry Thomas of three hundred and seventy- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 479 \n\nthree acres for $10,000, August 16, 1836; from Elizabeth Whitman of eleven acresfor \n$319, August 1(3, 1836; from Charles P. Wright two deeds of twelve and a quarter \nacres for $652.31, August 20 and 22, 1836; from Asa Hewitt of eighty-six rods for \n$80.62, August 22, 1836; from Charles Henry Thomas of eight and three-quarters \nacres for $300, December 26, 1838; from Eleazer Harlow of seventy acres for si, son, \nNovember 1, 1838; from Charles Henry Thomas of eighty-seven acres for $4,000, \nMarch 19, 1840; from Eleazer Harlow of seventy-two acres for $2,600, April I, 1840; \nfrom Charles Baker of seventeen acres and seventy-six rods tor $350, July 8, 1844; \nfrom Ebenezer Taylor of twenty-seven and three-quarters acres and thirty-two rods \nfor $1,084, July 8, 1844; from Elizabeth Whitman of one acre for $40, September 2, \n1845; from Gershom B. Weston of sixty-four acres and fifty-three rods for $1,600, \nApril 9, 1851 ; from the Duxbury Manufacturing Company of factory privilege, dam, \netc., for $3,000, April 12, 1851, and from Joseph P. Cushman of fifty-two and a quar- \nter acres for $1,000, September 30, 1852. All of these purchases covered about twelve \nhundred acres, costing the sum of $34,644.20 as the original outlay. It is estimated \nby those who had an opportunity to know, that above the annual receipts from the \nfarm the annual expenditure for at least fifteen years was $3,500, making the farm at \nMr. Webster's death represent a cost, without interest, including the purchase money, \nof $87,144.20. It had been the ambition of Mr. Webster to gather into his hands the \nentire tract of twenty-seven hundred acres granted by the Colony Court to William \nThomas and Edward Winslow, and it is probable that if he had lived a few years \nlonger he would have approximately accomplished his object. \n\nOf the life of Mr. Webster in Marshheld with his family, among his friends and \nneighbors, away from the shallowness and deceptions and insincerities of politicians \nand society members, the world knows little. Whatever he may have been thought \nelsewhere to be, there he was a true, simple, transparent, affectionate, tender-hearted \nman. No man ever lived in Marshheld who could say that Mr. Webster ever deceived \nhim by word or deed, ever withheld the wisest and always gratuitous advice, ever tried \nto get the advantage in trade, ever indulged in or countenanced evil reports, ever as- \nsumed or recognized any superiority in himself or inferiority in others, ever indulged \nin condescension in the treatment of the most humble, ever failed to treat every man \nin every station of life as an equal. In this latter respect perhaps no man of mark was \never more distinguished. There have been great men who were called many-sided, \nwho had a different point of contact for all, child's talk for the child, philosophical \nreflections for the learned, forced simplicity for the illiterate, strained effort for the \nscholar, something for every man, but all distinct and separate, having no relation \nto each other, but nothing stamping the individuality of the man. Mr. Webster was \nthe same to all, to Lord Ashburton and Seth Peterson, to Henry Clay and John Tay- \nlor, to Tom Benton and Uncle Branch Pierce, dignified but simple, profound but \nclear, friendly but not familiar, easy but never vulgar, and in the room with all these \ndifferent men together would have presented the same phase to all, as the statue or \npainting is the same under the eye of the scholar or artisan, and is equally under- \nstood and admired by both. His speeches illustrate his character in this respect. No \nchild needs a dictionary while reading them. He never descends to a low level of \nlanguage and thought that he may be the better understood. He knows that if the \nsubject is clear to his own mind he can present it in the same language to all. It was \nthe common remark of his neighbors that he treated them precisely as he would have \n\n\n480 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ntreated a brother senator or a president, and the senator and president might with \ntruth have said that he treated them as if they had been his neighbors. \n\nI lis humor and considerateness are illustrated by the following incident. On one \ni iccasion, after returning from Washington, a man presented to him a bill for payment. \n\"Why, Mr. N.,\" said Mr. Webster, \"it seems to me I ha\\se paid that bill.\" Mr. N. \npr< itested that it had not been paid, and Mr. Webster told him that if he would call on a \ncertain day he would settle with him. After he had gone Mr. Webster asked his son \nFletcher to look over a mass of loose bills and receipts and see if he could, find a receipt- \ned bill. To the surprise of both not only one but two receipts were found, and the bill \nhad already been paid twice. \" We will put those bills there,\" said Mr. Webster, plac- \ning them in a pigeon hole in his desk, \" and when Mr. N. calls again we will have some \nfun with him.\" In due time Mr. N. called, just at the dinner hour, and Mr. Webster \nsaid. \" Come, Mr. N., let us go in and have some dinner first and then we will talk \nbusiness.\" To dinner they went, and a good one it was, and Mr. N. relished it \nkeenly. After dinner they went out under the old elm, and Fletcher with them, and \nMr. Webster soon began. \"Mr. N.,\" said he, \"do you keep books?\" \"No,\" said \nMr. N. \"I thought so,\" said Mr. Webster. \" Now I advise you to keep books. If \nyou had kept books you would have known that I had this receipted bill,\" (showing \nhim one). Mr. N. was much surprised and considerably mortified to have been \ncaught in such a mistake. \" It is always a good plan to keep books,\" repeated Mr. \nWebster, showing him the second receipt. \"Now, Mr. N., I will pay this bill \njust once more, but I promise you that I will not pay it the fourth time.\" Mr. Web- \nster insisted on his taking the money, knowing him to be an honest man, intimating \nthat perhaps receipted bills had been presented and left really unpaid, and offering \nhim a glass of wine, pleasantly bade him good afternoon. \n\nOf the avocations of hunting and fishing, no man was more fond, and he was never \nhappier than with Messrs. Isaac L. and Thomas Hedge in the Plymouth woods, on a \ndeer stand by some lonely road, or on the shore of one of Plymouth's countless ponds. \nHe was not skillful with either rod or gun, but was such an admirer of nature that with \none or the other in his hand he constructed many of those brilliant passages of oratory \nwhich wreathe and lend grace to his orations and speeches. Too often for an ac- \ncomplished sportsman, his reveries permitted the game of the forest to escape him \nunobserved, or the fish of the sea to nibble away his bait until some sentence or \nmetaphor was complete in all its grandeur and beauty. On a maple tree standing \nby the shore of Billington Sea, the writer has seen the initials of his name rudely \ncut, the thoughtless work of one of those reveries in which no notice was taken of \nthe coming deer until it leaped from the bank and ran knee-deep in water along the \npebbly beach. On this occasion, however, his game was at a disadvantage, remain- \ning long enough within range for him to raise his gun and secure the single trophy \nof his hunter's life. On one occasion within the knowledge of the writer of this \nsketch, on a November afternoon, at sunset, after an unsuccessful hunt with the \nMessrs. Hedge and George Churchill and Uncle Branch Pierce, nine miles from \nPlymouth and twenty miles from home, before mounting his wagon he stuck his \nknife into a tree and said, \"At this tree, gentlemen, we meet at eight o'clock to- \nmorrow morning.\" After forty miles of travel and a part of a night's sleep, he was \non the spot at the appointed hour with his companions of the day before. The day, \nhowever, coming on chilly and wet, Mr. Webster, having something of a cold, thought \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. ^8i \n\nit prudent to give up the hunt and await at the house of Mr. Pierce the issue of the \nsport. On the return of the party late in the forenoon, bearing a noble buck, I \nfound him pacing the kitchen of Mrs. Pierce, repeating from memory some of the \ngrand old lyric poems of Watts, while the old lady, with her breakfast dishes still \nunwashed, was listening in reverential silence. On another occasion, after his return \nto Mflrshfield from an unsuccessful hunt in the Plymouth woods, he told his son \nFletcher to sit down and he would tell him about the hunt. \"We reached Long \nPond,\" said he, \"at sunrise, and Uncle Branch was ready for us with his two hounds. \nHe fastened them to a tree and went in search of a track. He soon returned and \nsaid that he had found a noble fresh track. ' Now, Mr. Webster,' said Uncle Branch, \n' I 'm going to put you on the best stand in these 'ere woods; \" and Long Pond 1 [ill \nwas where he put me. ' Now,' said he, ' Mr. Webster, you jest keep your eves peeled \nand your ears skun and don't you let no deer get past you without a shot. Don't \nyou mind whether you hear the dogs or not, for the old fellow may come even when \nthe dogs are out of hearth.' I was put on my stand; it was a still morning, not a \ntwig stirred, and I obeyed orders. Soon nine o'clock came, and then ten, and I \nventured to walk a few steps and back, and soon it was eleven. I saw nothing and \nheard nothing, and twelve o'clock came. I repeated poetry and made speeches, and \ngot hungry and ate a cracker, and one o'clock came, and no deer and no Uncle \nBranch. Two o'clock came, and three o'clock, and just then a song-sparrow perched \non a tree near me and I took off my hat and made a bow and said ' Madam, accept \nmy profoundest regards; you are the first living thing I have seen to-day.' Soon \nUncle Branch came and said the hunt was up, that ' the dogs went out of hearth at \nnine o'clock and hadn't heard 'em since, by golly;' and here I am, Fletcher, as \nhungry as a cooper's cow.\" \n\nMr. Webster was a man of deep religious feeling. If there was anything with \nwhich he was more familiar than with the constitution of his country, it was \nthe Bible. Few men studied it more carefully or could repeat more of its pas- \nsages with precision. It taught him to believe with all his heart in the existence \nof God and in a future life. He had formulated no creed, and he subscribed to \nnone formulated by others. During the larger part of his mature life he attended \nthe Unitarian church, and the Unitarian belief was undoubtedly more than any \nother in accord with his feelings and sentiments. For Dr. George Putnam and \nDr. Samuel K. Lothrop, the latter of whom was for many years his pastor, he enter- \ntained the sincerest affection and respect. His second wife was a member of the \nEpiscopal church, and though in Washington it was his custom to accompany her to \nher place of worship, he did not believe that the doctrine of the trinity could be sus- \ntained by the Scriptures. At home in Marshfield he invariably attended the orthodox \nchurch once on the Sabbath, and whoever or how many might be his guests, his \ncarriage was at the door each Sabbath morning to carry himself and such others as \nmight wish to accompany him to the neighboring place of worship. In the early \nmorning, too, of the Sabbath day, his household, including guests, were summoned \nto his library, and there he spoke to them of the responsibilities and duties of life. \nOne of the many portraits of him which have been engraved, represents him thus, \nsitting in profile, with his left hand hidden under his waistcoat, and his face wearing \na more serious expression than that of his every-day life. On the 1st oi April, 1852, \n01 \n\n\n482 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nwhile on his way to Plymouth to join the Messrs. Hedge on a fishing excursion to the \ntrout brooks in the woods, with Seth Peterson as his companion and driver, on de- \nscending the hill near Smelt Brook, in that part of Kingston called Rocky Nook, the \nlinchpin of his carriage broke, and he was thrown to the ground. He was carried \ninto the house of Captain Melzar Whitten near by, and in the course of the day was \nremoved to his home. The fall proved his death-blow. Though he partially re- \ncovered, his elasticity and spirit had departed, and gradually failing health brought \nhim by successive steps to his death-bed on the 24th of October, 1852. The last \nscene of his life was impressive and solemn. He had often during his sickness \nspoken of a future existence as a continuation of the present, and he was impressed \nwith the possibility that on its threshold the departing spirit, while within the con- \nfines of earth, might look into the regions of the other world. As death came nearer \nto him, and he watched its approach, in a moment of apparent doubt whether he had \nreached or not the dividing line between time and eternity, and anxious to learn \nits precise indication, he opened his eyes and said, \" I still live — tell me the point.\" \nDr. Jeffries, standing by the bed, not understanding the remark, repeated the words \nof the Psalm, \" Yea, though I walk through the shadow of death I will not fear.\" \n\" No, doctor,\" said Mr. Webster, in a voice still strong and clear, \"tell me the point; \ntell me the point.\" These were the last words he uttered. On that beautiful Indian \nsummer day he died, and on another as beautiful, his body, dressed in his favorite \nblue and buff, lay in its coffin under the noble elm which had so often sheltered him \nin life, and loving neighbors and distant friends bore him to his final rest. \n\nWilliam Goodwin Russell, son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Goodwin) Russell, was \nborn in Plymouth, Mass. November 18, 1821. His early education was received in \nthe public schools of Plymouth, and fitting for college under the tuition of Hon. John \nAngier Shaw, of Bridgewater, he graduated at nearly the head of his class at Har- \nvard in 1840. After leaving college he taught for a time a young ladies' private school \nin Plymouth, and for a year the academy at Dracut, in which he was the successor \nof General B. F. Butler. Entering the law office of his brother-in-law, William \nWhiting, of Boston, he completed his law studies at the Harvard Law School, where \nhe graduated in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 25th of July in that \nyear. After his admission he became at once associated with Mr. Whiting, and un- \ntil the death of Mr. Whiting in 1873, the firm of Whiting & Russell occupied a lead- \ning position at the Suffolk bar. In 1862, when Mr. Whiting was appointed solicitor \nof the War Department, the labors and responsibilities of the office were imposed on \nMr. Russell, and during the three years of Mr. Whiting's service he bore them with \nuntiring industry and brilliant success. On the death of Mr. Whiting he had so far \nadvanced in his profession as to be one of its recognized leaders. At that time \nCharles Greeley Loring had retired from the bar, in 1857, and died in 1867; George \nTyler Bigelow had resigned his seat as chief justice on the bench of the Supreme Ju- \ndicial Court, and retired from the profession by accepting the position of actuary of \nthe Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company; George Stillman Hillard had \nmeasurably withdrawn from practice by his occupancy from 1866 to 1870 of the office \nof United States district attorney; the career as a practitioner of Ebenezer Rock- \nwood Hoar had been repeatedly interrupted by his judicial labors on the bench of the \nCommon Pleas Court from 1849 to 1855, on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 483 \n\nfrom 1859 to 1869, as attorney-general of the United States in lsti'.i 70, as a member \nof the Joint High Commission, which framed the treaty of Washington wil \nBritain in 1871, and later as a member of Congress. Sidney Bartlett and Benjamin \nRobbins Curtis alone remained, having precedence of Mr. Russell in the legal ranks. \nMr. Curtis died in 1.S74, and the advancing age of Mr. Bartlett entitled Mr. Ru \nto the claim of leadership, which the death of Mr. Bartlett in L890 served only to con- \nfirm. After the death of Mr. Whiting, Mr. Russell associated with himself George \nPutnam, son of the late Rev. Dr. George Putnam, of Roxbury, and since that tunc \nthe firm of Russell & Putnam has been as well known as the former one of Whiting \n& Russell. It is worthy of note that the place of Mr. Bartlett, a Plymouth man, at \nthe Suffolk bar should have been taken by Mr. Russell, also a native of that ancient \ntown. This e\"ircumstance is relieved, however, of its singularity by the fact that Mr. \nRussell's father and Mr. Bartlett were first cousins, and that both Mr. Bartlett and \nMr. Russell inherited from a common ancestor those mental traits, which, developed \nby education, go to make up a thorough lawyer. The writer remembers to have \nheard those of an earlier generation, who knew Samuel Jackson, of Plymouth, the \ngrandfather of Mr. Bartlett, and the great-grandfather of Mr. Russell, speak of his co< ,1 \ndiscriminating judgment, and his judicial mind, which with less limited educational \nprivileges would have given him high intellectual rank. To these traits, mingled \nwith others coming down to him from Miles Standish, John Alden, and Richard War- \nren, whose Pilgrim blood flows in his veins, there were added those of his sturdy \nScotch great-grandfather, John Russell, a Greenock merchant, who came to Xew Eng- \nland about 1745, and settled in Plymouth. When Mr. Russell chose the profession of \nlaw for his life work, he determined to pursue its paths with faithful steps, and to \nresist every temptation to leave them for the alluring honors of public life. It is in- \ndeed doubtful whether there has been at any time an elective office in the gift of \nthe people which he would not have unhesitatingly refused to accept, and even judicial \npreferment, which may be considered the crowning glory of professional life, he has \nmore than once refused, even when associated with the highest position in the gift of \nour State executive. Other positions, more nearly related to the duties of the private- \ncitizen, he has not felt at liberty to reject. As president of the Bar Association, the \nSocial Law Library, and the Union Club ; as overseer of Harvard College, and director \nof the Mount Vernon Bank, and the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company; \nas vice-president of the Pilgrim Society; and as either executor or trustee of various \nimportant estates, he has not wandered far a' field from the legitimate legal sphere \nto which he early dedicated himself. But, devoted as Mr. Russell was to the law, he \nhas not permitted himself to be unobservant of affairs beyond the horizon of his pro- \nfession. As, in the observation of the writer, when in social life apparently absorbed \nin some special work or game, he has always kept an eye and an ear open for the \nconversation going on about him, so in his larger work and game of law, he has al- \nways kept himself in touch with the world and familiar with the latest steps of its \nprogress, whether in science, theology, ethics, literature or art. Now would it be \ndoing justice to him to close even this meagre sketch, without some allusion to his \nlifelong love for the rod and line, and his skill in their use ? Beginning in his early \nboyhood to learn the habits and caprices of the fish, which abound in the sea and \nponds adjacent to his native town, there are few holidays of the year, including his \nsummer vacation, which do not find him either near the rocks at Manomet fishing for \n\n\n484 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ntautog or cod, or on one of the many ponds of Plymouth taking bass or trout. Mr. \nRussell married, October 6, 1847, Mary Ellen, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Coffin \nHedge, of Plymouth, and having his legal residence in Boston, spends his summers \nin Plymouth. His only son, Thomas Russell, a member of the Suffolk bar, and re- \nferred to elsewhere in this register, is a member from Ward 11 of Boston of the Leg- \nislature of 1893. Mr. Russell received from Harvard the degree of LL. D. in 1878. \n\nPeter Thacher, son of Stephen and Harriet (Preble) Thacher, was born in Kenne- \nbunk, Me., October 14, 1810, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1831. He studied \nlaw with William Pitt Preble and with Fessenden & De Blois in Portland, Me., and \nwas admitted to the bar in Portland in April, 1836. He was appointed by Ashur \nWare judge of the United States District Court for the Maine District, commissioner \nof bankruptcy under the act of 1842, and by Benjamin R. Curtis, judge of the United \nStates Circuit Court, commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Maine District, and in \n1867, on the nomination of Chief Justice Chase of the United States Supreme Court, \nhe was appointed by Judge Edward Fox, of the District Court of Maine, register in \nbankruptcy for the Fifth Congressional District, which office he held until his resig- \nnation on his removal in 1871 to Newton, Mass., where he has since resided, having \nan office in Boston in connection with his son, under the firm name of Peter & \nStephen Thacher. In 1876 he was chosen city solicitor of Newton and served until \n1883. He was an overseer of Bowdoin College for many years, until his resignation \nin 1891. He married, April 26, 1841, Margaret Louisa, daughter of Barrett Potter, \nof Portland. \n\nStephan Thacher, son of the above, was born in Machias, Me., November 14, 1846. \nHe studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar July 7, 1871. He is in business with his father in Boston, and resides \nat Newton. \n\nJames Monroe Keith, son of Bethuel and Mary (Pearson) Keith, was born in Ran- \ndolph, Vt., April 15, 1819. He received his early education at the Randolph and \nRoyalston Academies, and graduated at Brown University in 1845. He studied law \nwith David A. Simmons, of Roxbury, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 3, \n1848. He was a representative from Roxbury in 1851, president of the Roxbury Com- \nmon Council in 1854, and a member of the Boston Common Council in 1868-69. He \nwas appointed district attorney for the district composed of Norfolk and Plymouth \ncounties in 1855, and in 1856, after that office was made elective, he was chosen for a \nterm of three years, but resigned in 1858. He is practicing in Boston, associated \nwith his son, John W. Keith. He married in 1849 Adeline Wetherbee, of Boston; in \n1856 Mary C. Richardson, of Boston; and in 1863 Louisa J. Dyer, of Providence. \n\nJohn W. Keith, son of the above, was born in Roxbury, September 5, 1850, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1874. \n\nAlexander Bliss was descended from Thomas Bliss, who was born in Balstone \nparish, Devonshire, England, about 1580, and coming to New England settled with \nhis wife Margaret first in Braintree and afterwards in Hartford, Conn. Samuel, son of \nThomas, born in England in 1624, married, November 10, 1644-5, Mary, daughter of \nJohn and Sarah (Heath) Leonard, of Springfield, Mass. Ebenezer, son of Samuel, \nborn Juh- 29, 1683, married in January, 1707, Mary, daughter of John and Mary Clark \nGaylord. Jedediah, son of Ebenezer, born February 7, 1709, married July 2, 1753, \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 4g5 \n\nRachel, daughter of Joseph and Mary Sheldon, of Suffleld, Conn., and second, August \n19, 1748, Meriam, daughter of John and Abigail Hitchcock. Alexander, son of | \ndiah, born October 11, 1758, married, November 18, 1 784, .Mar- aid Warner, of Spring- \nfield, and in 1790 Abigail Williams, of Roxbury. Alexander, the subject of this \nsketch, son of Alexander and Abigail, was born in Springfield, August Hi, 1792, and \ngraduated at Yale in 1812. He married, June 0, 1825, Elizabeth, daughter of Will- \niam and Rebecca (Morton) Davis, of Plymouth, and died at Plymouth, |uly 15, 1827. \nHis widow married in 1838 George Bancroft, the historian. Mr. Bliss studied law \nwith Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7, IS Hi. He became \nat once a partner of Mr. Webster, and during Mr. Webster's prolonged absences in \nWashington managed his business. \n\nJoseph A. Willard, son of Sidney and Elizabeth Anne Andrews Willard, was \nborn in Cambridge, Mass., September 29, 1816. His father was librarian at Harvard \nfrom 1800 to 1805, and professor of Hebrew from 1807 to 1831. His grandfather, \nJoseph Willard, was president of Harvard from December 19, 1781, until his death, \nwhich occurred September 25, 1804, and a more remote ancestor was Simon Willard, \nof Salem, who was born in the county of Kent, England, and died m Charlestown, \nMass., while holding court, April 24, 1676. His mother was a daughter of Asa \nAndrews, a lawyer of Ipswich, and a descendant from Anne Dudley, the wife of \nGovernor Simon Bradstreet. Mr. Willard was educated at Westford Academy and \nunder the private instruction at various times of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry S. \nMcKean, Barzillai Frost and James Freeman Clarke. In the autumn of 1880, when \nnearly fitted for college, he went to sea before the mast and followed the sea in \nmerchant vessels and men of war until 1888. After leaving the sea he resumed his \nstudies with his father, who had then resigned his professorship and been into polit- \nical life, serving at various times as representative, councillor, senator and mayor of \nCambridge. In 1846 he entered the office of the clerk of the Common Pleas Court in \nBoston as an assistant, and in 1848 was appointed by Joseph Eveleth, the high sheriff \nof Suffolk county, one of his deputies. In 1855 he was appointed assistant clerk of \nthe Superior Court of the county of Suffolk. While performing his duties in the \nclerk's office he pursued the study of law under the instruction of James A. Abbott \nand Marshall S. Chase, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1854. In 1859, \nwhen the present Superior Court superseded the old Common Pleas Court and the \nSuperior Court of the County of Suffolk, he was appointed assistant clerk of the new \ncourt in Suffolk, and held that position until the death of Joseph Willard, the clerk in \n1865. He was then appointed clerk to hold office until the next election, and by re- \npeated elections has continued in office to the present time, meeting with opposition \nat only two elections. The term for which he was last chosen will expire on the first \nWednesday of January, 1897, at which date, if he lives, he will have served as clerk \nand assistant clerk more than fifty years. His continuance in office for so long a \nperiod with the approval of the votes of the people is sufficient evidence of his indus- \ntry, intelligence and fidelity in the performance of his duties. He married in 1841, \nPenelope Cochran, daughter of Captain Peter and Penelope (Mitchell) Cochran, and \ngreat-granddaughter of Mary Faneuil, sister of Peter Fanueil, of Boston. His resi- \ndence is in Boston. \n\n\n4 86 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilfred Bolster, son of Solomon A. and Sarah J. Bolster, was born in Roxbury, \nMass., September 18, 1867, and graduated at Harvard in 1888. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. \n\nTrim ram Dalton, son of Michael Dalton, was born in Newburyport, May 28, \nI 738, and graduated at Harvard in 1755. He studied law in Salem and settled in \nNewburport. lie was a representative of that town and speaker of the House of Rep- \nntatives from 1783 to 1785, a member of the State Senate and a United States \nsenator from 1 789 to 1791. He removed to Washington, and finally to Boston, where \nhe was appointed, in 1815, surveyor of the ports of Boston and Charlestown. He \nmarried a daughter of Robert Hooper, of Marblehead, and died in Boston, May 30, \n1817. \n\nPatrick R. Guinea was born in Parkstown, Tipperary, Ireland, January 15, 1835, \nand came to Portland, Me., in 1842. He was educated in the Portland public schools \nand at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, and came to Boston in 185.\"), \nwhere he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1856. In April, 1861, he en- \nlisted as private ; was made captain June 11, 1861 ; major October 24, 1861 ; lieutenant- \ncolonel July 28, 1862; colonel July 26, 1868, and in 1864 commanded the Second \nBrigade, First Division, Fifth Corps. He was severely wounded May 5, 1864, and \nbrevetted brigadier-general March 13, 1865. He was assistant district attorney for \nSuffolk county from 1866 to 1870, and register of probate and insolvency from 1869 \nto his death, which occurred in Boston, March 21, 1877. \n\nJohn E. Fitzgerald was born in Dingle, Kerry county, Ireland, November 17, \n1S44, and attended the school of the Christian Brothers at Dublin. At the age of \nnineteen he came to America in the steamer Bohemia, which was lost with one \nhundred lives at Cape Elizabeth near Portland. He landed in a boat February 24, \n1S64, one of three surviving passengers. He taught school in Salem eighteen \nmonths, and studied law with William D. Northend, of that city. In January, 1866, \nhe came to Boston and studied in the office of George W. Searle, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar October 5, 1868. He was a member of the Common Council from \n1872 to 1875; a representative in 1870-71-73-74; master in chancery from 1873 to \n1878; a member of the School Committee from 1873 to 1876; an alderman in 1 s 7 7 , \nand fire commissioner from 1879 to 1886. In 1886 he was appointed collector of in- \nternal revenue, and in 1887 delivered the Boston Fourth of July oration. \n\nCyrus Cobb, twin brother of Darius Cobb, the well-known painter, is the son of \nRev. Sylvanus Cobb and Eunice Hale(Waite) Cobb, and was born in Maiden, August \n6, 1834. He was educated at the public schools, one of which was the Lyman School \nin East Boston. While his brother adopted the profession of a painter, Cyrus pre- \npared himself for the law, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \\n June, 1873. He \nhad previously devoted himself to art and finally resumed the profession which was \nmore congenial to him than law, and is now a sculptor whose works are well known \nand much admired. His colossal head of ' ' The Celtic Bard,\" his bas-relief of ' ' Prospero \nand Miranda,\" and his bust of General Butler, have placed him in the front ranks of \nhis profession. His design for the soldier's monument in Cambridge was selected \nfrom forty or more submitted to the late N. J. Bradlee, the noted architect, as in- \ncomparably the best. He married Emma Lillie, while his twin brother, Darius, \nmarried her sister, Laura M. Lillie. \n\n\n// IJbu^u \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 487 \n\nJosiah Willard, son of Samuel Willard, the president of Harvard College from \n1701 to 1707, was born in Boston, May 1, 1681, and graduated at Harvard in 1698. \nHe was secretary of Massachusetts from 1717 to his death, which occurred in Boston, \nDecember 6, 1756. He succeeded Samuel Sewall as judge of probate of Suffolk \ncounty December 19, 1728, and was followed by Edward Hutchinson, February 12, \n1745-6. In 1734 he was a member of the Council. \n\nThomas Greaves, or Graves, was born in Charleston in 1638, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1656, acting for a time as tutor after graduation. He was a deputy from \n1676 to 1678, and judge of the Inferior Court when Andros was deposed. lie mar- \nried first, May 16, 1677, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Hagborne, of Roxbury, and \nwidow of Dr. John Chickering, and second, May 15, 1682, Sarah, daughter of John \nStedman, of Cambridge, and widow of Dr. John Alcock. He was the father of \nThomas Greaves, judge of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1737. He died in \n1697. \n\nSimon Greenleaf, though perhaps not strictly belonging to the Suffolk bar, was \nso closely associated with it as to deserve a place in this register. He was descended \nfrom Edward Greenleaf, who settled in Newbury, Mass., in 1635, and was the son of \nMoses Greenleaf, and his wife, Lydia, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Parsons, of New- \nburyport. He was born in Newburyport, December 5, 1783, and attended the schools \nof that town, including the noted school taught by Michael Walsh. At the age of \neighteen years he removed with his father to New Gloucester, Me., and there entered \nthe law office of Ezekiel Whitman, where he remained three years in the study of \nlaw. He was admitted to the bar in Cumberland county, and began practice in 1806 \nin the town of Standish. Remaining there a short time, he moved to the town of \nGray, where he practiced until 1818, when he removed to Portland. In 1820 he was \nappointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Maine, and his reports \nare contained in nine volumes. In 1832 he resigned as reporter, and in 1833 was \nappointed Royall professor of law at the Harvard Law School, to succeed John Hooker \nAshmun, who died in that year. After the death of Joseph Story, which occurred \nin 1845, he was appointed his successor as Dane professor of law at the same institu- \ntion, but resigned after two years' service, continuing, however, as professor emer- \nitus until his death, which occurred October 6, 1853. In 1821 he published \"A Full \nCollection of Cases Overruled, Denied, Doubted or Limited in their Application \ntaken from American and English Reports;\" and in 1842 a \"Treatise on Law of \nEvidence.\" At a later date he published an \" Examination of the Testimony of the \nFour Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Admitted in Courts of Law,\" and an \nedition of \" Cruse's Digest.\" In 1806 he married Hannah, daughter of Captain Ezra \nKingman, of East Bridgewater, and had fifteen children, eleven of whom died in \ninfancy. He received the degree of A.M. from Bowdoin in 1817, and that of LL.D. \nfrom Harvard in 1834, from Amherst in 1845, and Alabama College in 1852. \n\nBently W. Warren, son of William Wirt Warren, was born in Boston in 1864, \nand was educated at the public schools, including the Boston Latin School, from \nwhich he graduated in 1885. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He was a representative m L891 and \n1892, and one of the leaders among the Democrats of the Legislature, lie is asso- \nciated in business with Thomas P. Proctor and Eugene Tappan, under the firm name \nof Proctor, Tappan & Warren. \n\n\n488 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nJoseph Story, as a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, holding court \nin Boston, should be included in this register, though never a member of the Suf- \nfolk bar. He was born in Marblehead, September 18, 1779, and was the son of Dr. \nElisha Story, a native of Boston, and a surgeon in the Revolution. He graduated at \nHarvard in 1798, and received the degree of LL.D. from Brown in 1815, from Har- \nvard in 1821, and from Dartmouth in 1824. He studied law with Samuel Sewall, \nafterwards chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and with Samuel Putnam, \nafterwards an associate justice of the same court, and was admitted to the Essex bar \nin July. 1801. He began practice in Salem and was a representative from that town \nin 1805-06-07-09-12, serving the last year as speaker of the House. He was a mem- \nber of Congress in 1808, and on the 18th of November, 1811, he was appointed by \nMadison associate justice of the .Supreme Court of the United States to fill the va- \ncancy caused by the death of William Gushing, of Scituate. In 1820 he was a dele- \ngate to the Constitutional Convention, and in 1828 Nathan Dane, whom founding \nthe Law School at Cambridge had reserved the right to appoint its professors, ap- \npointed him Dane professor of law and associated with him John Hooker Ashmun \nas Royall professor of law. In 1829 he removed from Salem to Cambridge, where \nhe continued to reside until his death, which occurred at Cambridge, September 10, \n1845. He was as distinguished for his industry as for his legal learning, and it is diffi- \ncult to realize that with the labors of the court and the law school pressing upon \nhim, he could have found time and vigor sufficient for his accomplishments in the \nliterature of few. A list of his publications may be interesting to the reader. His \nfirst work was a poem entitled the \"Power of Solitude,\" published in Salem in 1804. \nIn 1805, a \" Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions with Annotations,\" issued from \nthe press; in 1828, the \"Public and General Statutes,\" passed by Congress from 1789 \nto 1827, and in 1836 and 1845 supplements to these dates edited by him ; in 1832, \n\" Commentaries on the Law of Bailments with Illustrations from the Civil and For- \neign Law;\" in 1833, \" Commentaries on the Constitution;\" in 1834, \"Commentaries \non the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in Regard to Contracts, Rights and \nRemedies, and especially in regard to Marriages, Divorces, Wills, Successions and \nJudgments;\" in 1835 and 1836, \" Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence as admin- \nistered in England and America;\" in 1838, \"Commentaries on Equity Pleadings \nand the Incidents Thereto, according to the Practice of the Courts of Equity in Eng- \nland and America;\" in 1839, \"Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of \nCommercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with occasional illustrations from the \nCivil and Foreign Law;\" in 1843, \"Commentaries on the Law of Partnership as a \nBranch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with occasional illustrations from \nthe Civil and Foreign Law ;\" in 1843, \"Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Ex- \nchange, Foreign and Inland, as Administered in England and America, with occa- \nsional illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe ;\" \nin 1845, \"Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes.\" His decisions in the \nFirst Circuit from 1812 to 1815 are in \"Gallison's Reports;\" from 1816 to 1830, in \n\"Mason's Reports;\" from 1830 to 1839 in \"Sumner's Reports,\" and from 1839 to \n1845 in \"Story's Reports.\" Among his other publications were a \"Eulogy on Wash- \nington,\" 1N00; a \"Eulogy on Captain James Lawrence and Lieutenant Ludlow,\" \n1813; a \"Sketch of Samuel Dexter,\" 1816; \"Charges to Grand Juries in Boston and \nProvidence,\" 1819; \"Charge to the Grand Jury at Portland,\" 1820; \"Address before \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 489 \n\nthe Suffolk Bar,\" 1821; \" Discourse before the Phi Beta Society,\" 1826; \"Discourse \nbefore the Essex Historical Society,\" 1828; \"Address at his own Inauguration as Pro- \nfessor,\" 1829; \"Address at the Dedication of Mt. Auburn,\" 1831; \"Address at the \nFuneral Services of John Hooker Ashmun,\" 1833; \" Eulogy on John Marshall,\" 1835; \n\" Lectures on the Science of Law,\" 1888; \"Address before the Harvard Alumni, '• \n1842; and his \" Charge to the Grand Jury of Rhode Island on Treason,\" 1845. Be \nsides the above, his essays and articles in reviews and magazines were too numerous \nto mention, and he left at his death three imprinted manuscript volumes entitled \n\" Digest of Law Supplementary to Comyn's,\" which arc deposited in the Harvard \nCollege Library. \n\nArthur Porter Peterson, son of Daniel Porter and Jerusha M. (Clark) Peterson, \nwas born in New Bedford in 1858. His father, born in Plymouth, was descended \nfrom Joseph Peterson, of Duxbury, who settled in that town about 1660. His mother \nwas descended directly from Thomas Clark, who came to Plymouth in the ship Ann \nin 1623, and indirectly from Rev. John Lothrop, who settled in Scituate in 1634. lie \nattended the public schools of New Bedford until he was twelve years of age when he \nwent with his father to the Sandwich Islands, After remaining there seven years \nhe returned to the United States and entered Ann Arbor College. After leaving col- \nlege he spent a year in Hawaii, and coming to Plymouth, Mass., studied law in the \noffice of Arthur Lord in that town. He was admitted to the Plymouth bar November \n14, 1881, and moving to Boston became a member of the Suffolk bar. In 1884 he \nreturned to Hawaii, where his father and two brothers and a sister were living, and \nwas not long after appointed attorney-general of the kingdom. After leaving that \noffice he devoted himself to the practice of law, and was again appointed attorney- \ngeneral a short time before the recent deposition of the queen, and was in office at \nthe time of the revolution. He married, November 21, 1883, Nettie, daughter of \nJames and Sarah Jane Mitchell Brown, of Weymouth, Mass. \n\nAlexander Young, son of Rev. Dr. Alexander Young, was born in Boston May 19, \n1836, and was educated in the Boston schools. He graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1862, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October 14, of that year. He \nwas an associate editor of the Boston Globe for a time soon after the establishment \nof that journal in 1872. At a later time he was connected with the editorial depart- \nment of the Boston Post. In 1884 he published a \" History of the Netherlands,\" \nwhich was republished in England in 1886. He died in Boston in 1891. \n\nWilliam Winter was born in Gloucester, Mass., July 15, 1836, and graduated at \nthe Harvard Law School in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 28, \n1858. He moved to New York where he has won distinction as a journalist and lit- \nerary and dramatic critic. He has been connected with the New York Tribune \nsince 1865, and has written and delivered numerous occasional poems. \n\nEdgar O. Aciiorn was admitted to the Plymouth bar, June 16, 1884, and has prac- \nticed in Boston. \n\nFrederick Hunt Allen, son of Samuel C. Allen, was born in New Salem, Mass., \n\nand graduated at the University of Vermont in 1823. After studying for the bar he \n\nwas admitted to the bar, and after a short practice in Athol, settled in Bangor and \n\nacquired distinction among the lawyers of Maine. In 1849 he removed to Boston \n\n62 \n\n\n49o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nand was marie professor at the Harvard Law School, holding the position one year. \nHe was a member of the Suffolk bar as late as 1853, and has been dead many years. \n\nConstantine C. Estv was born in Newton, Mass., in 1824, and graduated at Yale \nin 1845. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1847, and has been a \nmember of the Suffolk bar. He is now settled in Framingham. \n\nThomas B. Frothingham, son of Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, was \nborn in Boston and appears in the roll of Boston attorneys in 1860. He married \nAnna, daughter of Rev. William Parsons Lunt, of Quincy, and has been dead some \nyears. \n\nJames Graham was one of the very few educated lawyers in Boston during the \nperiod of the Massachusetts Colony. He came to Massachusetts' from New York and \nwas appointed by Andros attorney-general, June 20, 1688. He was imprisoned with \nAndros after the news of the accession of William and Mary Beached Boston and was \nsent with him to England in February, 1689. Nothing is known of his subsequent \ncareer. \n\nGeorge Washburn Smai.ley was born in Franklin, Mass., June 2, 1833, and grad- \nuated at Yale in 1853. He studied law in the office of George F. Hoar, of Worcester, \nand at the Harvara Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, \n1 s.16. He practiced law in Boston until 1861 when he became connected with the \nNew York Tribune as a war correspondent: He was with the Union Army at \nAntietam and distinguished himself by the early and brilliant account of that engage- \nment which was published in the Tribune. In 1863 he was made associate editor of \nthat journal and in 1866 was its correspondent during the Prussian and Austrian \nWar. In 1866 he organized in London a bureau for the Tribune which, owing to \nhis efforts, has been maintained with success. During the French and German War, \nin 1870, he again made his mark as the agent of a plan of news-gathering which \nastonished the slower journalistic managers of England. He is now in London super- \nintending the affairs of his bureau and corresponding regularly with the Tribune. \n\n\\j\\ s wiiER Spooner was born in Athol, Mass., January 19, 1808, and studied law in \nWorcester. Where he was admitted to the bar is unknown to the writer, but his \nname appears on the roll of Suffolk attorneys in 1861. He was chiefly distinguished \nfor his successful efforts to have the rates of postage reduced. In 1844 the rate of \nletter postage was graduated by the distance a letter was carried. For instance, the \npostage from Boston to New York was twelve and a half cents and from Boston to \nWashington twenty-five cents. Contrary to law he established an independent \nservice between Boston and New York at the uniform rate of five cents. He was \ncompelled to abandon the business by the prosecutions which the government heaped \nupon him, but he demonstrated the possibility of supporting the post-office department \nwith a lower rate of interest, and in consequence of his efforts a reduction in rates \nbegan which has been kept up to the present time. He died in Boston May 14, 1887. \n\nPenn Townsend, son of William Townsend, was born in Boston in 1651, and was \na judge on the bench of the Suffolk Inferior Court of Common Pleas from 1702 to 1715 \nand chief justice from 1718 to 1727. He was a representative in 1686 and at the time \nof the Revolution in 1688 he was one of the Committee of Safety in whose hands the \ngovernment was temporarily entrusted. He was again a representative from 1689 \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 49i \n\nto 1698, and speaker of the House in 1690 and 1697. He was also one of the com- \nmittee in 1690 authorized to issue, in behalf of the colony, bills of credit. He died \nAugust 21, 1727. \n\nSamuel Ripley Townsend graduated at Harvard in 1829, and the next year became \nthe teacher of the High School in Plymouth, where he remained two or three years. \nAfter leaving Plymouth he engaged some years in business in Boston and finally \nstudied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January.\"), 1850. lie afterwards \npracticed law in Taunton, and was for a time treasurer of Bristol county. He has \nbeen dead a few years. \n\nPatrick Henry Bykne was born in Lavagh, county of Roscommon, Ireland, Feb- \nruary 5, 1844, and came to Boston when five years of age. He was educated at the \nNew York public schools and at the University of New York. He was first a marble \nworker, and later a traveling salesman of a Boston woolen house. He studied law, \nand was for a time a member of a collection agency in Boston and afterwards in \nNew York. He died at Jamaica, L. I., July 31, 1881. \n\nRichard Olney, son of Wilson Olney, was born in Oxford, Mass., and graduated at \nBrown University in 1856. His mother was a sister of Peter Butler, of Boston. He \nstudied law with Judge Benjamin F. Thomas, and graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 1859, and became asso- \nciated in business with Judge Thomas, who had that year resigned his seat on the \nbench of the Supreme Judicial Court, and whose daughter he married. His business \nwas largely connected with railroads, and he was counsel for the Boston and Maine \nthe Atchison and Topeka, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy corporations. \nWhile this volume is in press in March, 1898, he is the recently appointed attorney- \ngeneral of the United States, in the cabinet of President Cleveland. \n\nPeter Sargeant was a Boston man, and one of the committee who assumed the \nreins of government at the deposition of Andros in 1689. He was one of the Coimcil \nunder the provincial charter and chosen annually until 1708, when his election was \nnegatived by Governor Dudley. He was appointed judge of the Suffolk Inferior \nCourt of Common Pleas, March 3, 1693, and held office until 17(*2, when he was re- \nmoved by Governor Dudley on account of the active part taken by him in the \nrevolution of 1688. He was also one of the seven judges appointed by Governor \nPhipps in 1692 to try the witches. He married the widow of Governor Phipps. \n\nCharles Sedgwick, a Berkshire man, was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 25, \n1821, and was many years clerk of the courts in Berkshire county. \n\nA. H. Skilton was admitted to the' Middlesex bar in January, 1876, and was a \nmember of the Suffolk bar as late as 1890. \n\nJacob C. Patten was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1887, and was a \nmember of the Suffolk bar as late as 1890. \n\nJohn Franklin Simmons, son of Hon. Perez and Adeline (Jones) Simmons, was born \nin Hanover, Mass., June 26, 1851. He is a lineal descendant from Moses Simmons, \nor Symondson, as he was called, who came to Plymouth in the ship Fortune in 1621 , \nand settled at quite an early date in Duxbury. His grandmother, the wife of Eben- \nezer Simmons, was Sophia, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Richmond, of Little Compton, \nR. I., and a direct descendant from Col. Benjamin Church, who won distinction in \n\n\n49 2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\n• \n\n\nthe early Indian wars. Perez Simmons, the father of John Franklin Simmons, grad- \nuated at Brown University in 183:5, and settled as a lawyer in Providence. He took \na leading part in the movement for extension of suffrage in Rhode Island, and was \no.ne of the leaders in the convention which formed the People's Constitution. The \nconstitution was adopted by a majority of the male citizens and freeholders of the \nState, and it fell to him to call to order the first Legislature organized under it, of \nwhich he was a member from the Fourth Ward of Providence. The Legislature held \nunder the old constitution passed an act providing that whoever assumed to act un- \nder the new constitution should be held guilty of treason, and he was the first person \nagainst whom a warrant was issued. To avoid arrest he moved to the State of Maine, \nwhere he remained until a change of administration in Massachusetts rendered it \ncertain that he would not be surrendered to the Rhode Island authorities, when he \nreturned to his native town, and continued there to practice law with ability and suc- \ncess until his death. John Franklin Simmons, the subject of this sketch, received his \nearly education at the Assanippi Institute and at Phillips Exeter Academy, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1873, having the honor of being selected as the class-day orator \nof his class. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law School, and \nwas admitted to the Plymouth county bar at the February term of the Superior Court \nin 1875. For some years he retained his residence in Hanover, where he served fif- \nteen years as a member of the School Committee. For several years he has been as- \nsociated in business with Harvey H. Pratt, with offices in Abington and Boston, at \nwhich latter place he has his residence. He was the receiver of the Abington Na- \ntional Bank at the time of its failure, and is now one of its directors as well as presi- \ndent of the South Scituate Savings Bank. Brought up under the Democratic influences \nof his father, he is an active and energetic supporter of Democratic principles, and \nwhile lending his efficient aid on the platform to the political promotion of others, he- \nhas never sought office for himself. He devotes himself unremittingly to his profes- \nsion, and both in Suffolk and Plymouth counties the firm of Simmons & Pratt occu- \npies a prominent position. He married at Hanover, his native town, January 10, \n1877, Fanny Florence Allen. Aside from the labors of his profession he indulges \nhimself at leisure hours in literary pursuits, and among the productions of his pen is \nthe history of Hanover, contributed to the Plymouth County History. \n\nBenjamin Franklin Butler was the son of John Butler, of Deerfield, New Hamp- \nshire, a captain of dragoons in the War of 1812. After the war the father engaged in \ntrade with the West Indies and died of yellow fever in March, 1819, leaving his \nwidow with two young children, Andrew Jackson and Benjamin Franklin, with \nscanty means of support. The latter was born in Deerfield, November 5, 1818, and \nwas consequently only four months old when his father died. He attended the pub- \nlic schools of his native town until he was ten years of age, when, in 1828, his mother \nremoved to Lowell, Mass. , then a town in the second year of its municipal life. She \nthere maintained herself and family by taking a few boarders, and such was her suc- \ncess in the rapidly growing community in which she established herself, that she was \nable not only to live comfortably but to furnish her children with a liberal education. \nBenjamin was sent to Phillips Exeter Academy, and in 1834, at the age of sixteen, \nentered Waterville College in Maine. He graduated in 1838 burdened with a debt in- \ncurred to secure his education and in feeble health, and with the view of relieving \n\n\ny^^. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 493 \n\nhimself from both he went with an uncle on a fishing voyage to the coast of Labra- \ndor, and to use his own language, \"Hove a line, ate the flesh and drank the oil of \nthe cod, came back after a four months' cruise in perfect health, and had not another \nsick day in twenty years.\" On his return from fishing he studied law in Lowell in \nthe office of William Smith, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1841. On \nhis examination for admission by Judge Charles Henry Warren of the Common Pleas \nCourt an incident occurred which the writer takes the liberty of describing in the words \nused by him in a sketch of General Butler furnished by him for a history of the bench \nand bar of Middlesex county: \" It happened that on the day of the examination a case \nwas on trial in which the question of admitting certain evidence had somewhat \npuzzled the judge. The case was Robert Reed against Jenness Batchelder, which \nwas finally carried to the Supreme Court on exceptions, and is reported in the first \nof Metcalf, page 529. It was an action of assumpsit on a promissory note given by \nthe defendant when a minor to Reed & Dudley, July 26, 1835, and payable to them \nas bearer. The defence, of course, was infancy. But in July, 1839, while the note \nwas in the hands of the promisees, and after the defendant had come of age, he \nverbally renewed his^promise to pay to Henry Reed, one of the firm of Reed & Dud- \nley, and the note was subsequently endorsed to Robert Reed, the plaintiff. The \nplaintiff's offer to put the renewal of the promise in evidence was objected to by the \ndefendant's counsel, and on the day of the examination above referred to, Judge \nWarren had sustained the objection. Mr. Butler had been present during the trial, \nand the general question was asked him by the judge, what effect such a renewal of \npromise would have, and what he thought of his ruling. The student replied that he \nthought the ruling wrong and the note good; that the note was not void, but only \nvoidable, and when the verbal promise was made the note became at once negotiable. \nThe judge was sufficiently impressed with the correctness of the answer that he re- \nversed his ruling the next day. Exception was taken and the case was carried up. \nTudge Shaw, in the opinion of the Supreme Court, overruled the exception and de- \ncided that though the renewal of promise was made verbally to Henry Reed, one of \nthe firm of Reed & Dudley, it at once became negotiable, and in the hands of Robert \nReed, to whom it passed, was good.\" The writer has given this incident as he re- \nceived it from the lips of General Butler himself several years before the publication \nof \" Butler's Book.\" \n\nSo much has been written and so much is generally known concerning the vari- \nous steps by which General Butler rose to eminence in his profession, that it is \nunnecessary to narrate them in this i-egister. Born among the common people, \nall his instincts led him to feel an interest in their welfare and to protect their \nrights. Thus by birth, by education and all the influences surrounding him he \nwas an earnest and consistent Democrat. Coming on the stage when in Massa- \nchusetts especially, the aristocratic element which entered so largely into the com- \nposition of the old Whig party, looked upon a Democrat as a vulgar and danger- \nous member of the body politic, the treatment he received at the hands of his \npolitical opponents, who could see nothing' in an advocacy of the rights of the laborer \nand mechanic but the dishonest trick of the demagogue, was the means of begetting \nmuch of that spirit of bitterness which he at times displayed in his acts and speech. \nIn 1853 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and in \n1859-60 a member of the Senate, and in the former year performed an important part \n\n\n494 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nin the revision of the statutes. In that year the act establishing the Superior Court \nwas passed and was drafted and efficiently supported by him. In that year also the \nwriter was with him in the Senate, and to quote again from the sketch written by him \nand already referred to, \" had abundant opportunities to observe and measure the vari- \nous qualities of his head and heart. Though opposed to him in politics he was not suffi- \nciently blind to fail to discern those traits of character which have attracted to him \nthe circle of friends whom, like satellites, he has always carried with him in his \nsocial and political orbit. He disclosed two sides — a sharp bitterness of antagonism \nand the warmest of hearts; a harshness of deportment at one time, and at another a \npolish of manner and conversation not easily excelled ; nowinspiring those about him \nwith fear, and again as gentle as a child, as affectionate as a brother, as loving as the \ndearest friend. His character seemed to consist of extremes; like the extremes of \nthe magnet, one attracted, the other repelled, and no one looked on him with entire \nindifference. So in his treatment of men, while he could be implacable in his enmity, \nhe could never forget a friend or be faithless to his interests. \n\n( reneral Butler became early interested in the military system of the Commonwealth \nand attaching himself to its service was, in 1860, in command of one of the brigades of \nthe State militia. In that year he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conven- \ntion held in Charleston. He had attended every convention of a similar character since \nthe nomination of James K. Polk in 1844. The committee on the platform at the \nCharleston \"Convention, of which the general was a member, was divided into three \nparts each of which made a report. The majority demanded a slave code for the ter- \nritories and the protection of the slave trade. One of the minority reports referred all \nquestions concerning the rights of property in States or Territories to the Supreme \nCourt and the other, signed by General Butler alone, re-affirmed the Democratic prin- \nciples laid down at the Democratic National Convention at Cincinnati in 1856. The \nreport of General Butler was adopted, but the convention adjourned to meet in Balti- \nmore on the 18th of June without making nominations. At Baltimore the convention \ndivided and one section nominated Stephen Arnold Douglas, of Illinois, for president, \nand Herschell Johnson, of Georgia, for vice-president, and the other nominated John \nCabell Breckenridge, for president and Joseph Lane, of Oregon, for vice-president. \nThe Douglas platform said : ' ' We do not know whether slavery can exist in a Territory \nor not. There is a difference of opinion among us on the subject. The Supreme \nCourt must decide and the decision shall be final and binding.\" The Breckenridge \nplatform said : ' ' Slavery lawfully exists in a Territory the moment a slaveholder enters \nit with his slaves. The United States is bound to maintain his right to hold slaves \nthere. But when the people of a Territ< >ry frame a State constitution they are to decide \nwhether to enter the Union as a slave or free State. If as a slave State they are to \nbe admitted without question. If as a free State the slave owner must retire or \nemancipate his slaves.\" General Butler gave in his adherence to the Breckenridge \nplatform, and in that year was made the Breckenridge candidate for governor of \nMassachusetts, receiving only six thousand out of one hundred and seventy thousand \nvotes. \n\nBut notwithstanding his attitude during the campaign of 1860, no man exhib- \nited more indignation at the disunion movement which succeeded it, or more \npatriotism in resisting and crushing the rebellion. On the 15th day of April, 1861, \nFort Sumter had fallen and the president's proclamation calling for troops was issued. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 495 \n\nThe brigade called for from Massachusetts, consisting of the Third, Fourth, Sixth, \nand Eighth Regiments of militia, was placed under the command of General Butler, \nthe Third and Fourth Regiments going by water to Fort Monroe and the Sixth and \nEighth by land to Washington. The arrival of General Butler at Annapolis, Marx- \nland, with the Eighth Regiment, his reconstruction of the railroad to Annapolis [unc- \ntion, and his possession of Baltimore need not be described here. The incidents \nconnected with his possession of Baltimore are interesting. The War Department \nknew little concerning the condition of that city, and General Scott, in the belief that \nextensive military movements were on foot there among the rebel sympathizers, was \nplanning a descent upon the city with an armed force of great completeness and \nstrength. But General Butler, much to his mortification, with his militia regiment \nanticipated him and was quietly encamped on Federal Hill before General Scott had \nordered or knew of his movement. To make his descent on the city successful and \nsafe it was important that he should first learn the feeling of the people and ascer- \ntain, if possible, whether any military organization had been formed in the city with \na hostile purpose. To ascertain this General Butler resorted to one i if those ingenious \ndevices which his fruitful brain was always devising in emergencies, and which have \nmade his professional life so successful. While at the Relay House he discovered an \norgan-grinder plodding along on his way to Baltimore. He at once bought the organ \nand clothes of the man for fifty dollars and a new suit, with the stipulation that the \nmusician should remain a few days in camp. Captain Peter Haggerty, a member of \nthe General's staff donned the Italian's clothes and started for Baltimore with the \norgan on his back, with instructions to see everything, hear all the talk in public \nplaces, and especially to ascertain whether there were any organized forces in the \ncily preparing to move on any expedition. Three days passed and no word having \nbeen heard from the captain, General Butler became fearful that he had been identi- \nfied and captured. At the end of the third day, after the general had retired for the \nnight, he was awaked by an organ-grinder outside of his tent, and Captain Haggerty \nappeared with his pockets loaded with coins which he had collected in the streets of \nBaltimore, and with the news that the city was in a harmless condition and that an \nattempt at its occupation would be safe. The occupation was made, but was not \napproved by General Scott, who sent him the following dispatch: \"Sir, your haz- \nardous occupation of Baltimore was made without my knowledge, and of course with- \nout my approbation. It is a God-send that it was without conflict of arms. It is also \nreported that you have sent a detachment to Frederick ; but this is impossible. Not \na word have I received from you as to either movement. Let me hear from you.\" \nHe was soon after removed from the Department of Annapolis and, May 16, 1861, \nmade major-general of volunteers in command of the Department of Virginia and \nNorth Carolina with headquarters at Fort Monroe. Early in August he was suc- \nceeded by General Wool in the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, and \nplaced in command of the volunteer troops outside the fort. Not long after he was \nplaced in command of an expedition to reduce the forts at Hatteras inlet, which sailed \nAugust 22, and was successful. On the 16th of September, 1861, he was sent to \nMassachusetts, with an order from the War Department \"to raise, organize, arm, \n•uniform, and equip, a volunteer force for the war in the New England States, not \nexceeding six regiments of the maximum standard of such arms, and in such propor- \ntions and in such manner as he may judge expedient ; and for this purpose his orders \n\n\n496 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nand requisitions on the quartermaster, ordnance and other staff departments of the \narmy are to be obeyed and answered; provided the cost of such recruitment, arma- \nment and equipment does not exceed in the aggregate, that of like troops now or \nhereafter raised for the service of the United States.\" With these troops General \nButler sailed from Boston February 20, 1802, and took possession of New Orleans \nafter the reduction of the forts on the [Mississippi River, May 1, 1862, by Admiral \nFarragut. He remained in command of the Department of the Gulf until succeeded \nby General Banks on the 14th of December, 1862. On his return to Washington he \nwas again appointed to the command of the Department of Virginia and North Car- \nolina, and during the campaign of 1864 participated in the military operations before \nPetersburg and Richmond. In December, lS(j4, he commanded an expedition against \nFort Fisher, and in November, 1865, resigned his commission. From 1866 to 1871 \nhe was a member of Congress from the Essex District and in 187. He was tutor and \nassistant professor of Latin at Harvard from 1870 to 1877, and in is;s became master \nof Adams Academy at Ouincy, Mass., and still occupies that position. Having a \nlicense to preach from the Boston Ministers' Association, he occasionally occupies the \npulpit of Unitarian churches, and is one of the most learned men in the denomi- \nnation. Few men in Massachusetts are as thoroughly educated and few are so well \nequipped for extemporaneous speech on subjects relating to either scientific, literary, \npolitical or scientific questions. It is doubtful whether any inquiry on these questions \nwould not draw from him an immediate and satisfactory response. For sonic years \nhe has been interested in political movements and during the last three presidential \ncampaigns he has advocated civil service and tariff reforms and the election of Grover \nCleveland as their best exponent. In 1890 and 1892, though living in Ouincy, he was \nthe Democratic candidate for Congress in the Seventh Congressional District against \nHenry Cabot Lodge, and now in April, 1893, has been chosen to fill the vacancy \ncaused by the resignation of Mr. Lodge, who has been recently chosen United States \n\n\n5oo HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nsenator. He is the author of \"On the Cam,\" \"Changing Base,\" \"Double Play,\" \n\" Hesione, or Europe Unchained,\" and \" School Sermons.\" \n\nMinot Tirrell, jr., was admitted to the Essex bar in 1863, and was a member of \nthe Suffolk bar in 1866. \n\nJohn H. Sheppard, son of John Sheppard, an English merchant, and Sarah (Collier) \nSheppard, was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, March 17, 1789. \nWhen four years of age he came with his parents to America, and after remaining \nfor a time in Philadelphia, his parents removed to Hallowell, Me. He received his \nearly education at the Hallowell Academy under the instruction of Samuel Moody. \nHe entered Harvard in 1804, but left college in his junior year and studied law with \nSamuel Sumner Wilde, afterwards judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, \nwho was then in practice in Hallowell. He was admitted to the Maine bar in August, \n1810, and began practice in Wiscasset. In 1817 he was appointed register of probate \nof Lincoln county while Jeremiah Bailey was serving as judge of probate, and re- \nmained in office until April 1, 1834. In 1842 he removed to Boston, where he was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar, and opened an office. In 1861 he was chosen librarian \nof the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and held that office until his \ndeath, which occurred June 25, 1873. He received the degree of Master of Arts from \nBowdom College in 1820, and was a member of the Board of Overseers of that college \nfrom 1831 to 1852. He married first, May 13, 1819, Helen, daughter of Abiel Wood, \nand second, November 13, 1846, Mrs. O. B. Foster, daughter of Ezra Willmarth, of \nGeorgetown, Mass. \n\nJames B. Robb came to Boston from Maryland and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nApril 17, 1843. He was for a number of years clerk of the United States District \nCourt in Boston. He has been dead some years. \n\nMei.vin O-. Adams is the son of Joseph and Dolly (Whitney) Adams, and was born \nin Ashburnham, Mass., November 7, 1850. He attended the public schools of his \nnative town and Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, N. H., and graduated at Dart- \nmouth College in 1871. After leaving college he taught school in Fitchburg, Mass., \nfor a time, and while in that town studied law in the office of Amasa Norcross. In \n1874 he came to Boston and attended lectures at the Boston University Law School, \nfrom which institution he graduated in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \n1875, and was soon after appointed assistant of Oliver Stevens, district attorney, \ncontinuing in that position until 1886. The familiarity he acquired while in that \noffice with the methods of the government in dealing with persons charged with \noffences against criminal laws gave him a position at the bar which it would have \nbeen difficult to otherwise obtain. To his reputation as a criminal lawyer thus at- \ntained is undoubtedly due his engagement as associate counsel in the defence of Miss \nBorden, of Fall River, indicted for the murder of her father and step-mother, who is \nnow awaiting her trial. After resigning his position as assistant district attorney he \nbecame associated in business with Augustus Russ, and continued with him until the \ndeath of Mr. Russ in the summer of 1892. He is a Republican in politics, and in \n1890 was a member of the staff of Governor Brockett, with the rank of colonel. He \nis now in active practice, following the paths of his profession with a fidelity and zeal \nwhich give promise of a brilliant career. He married Mary Colony at Fitchburg in \n1875, and lives in Boston. \n\n\n'nl J^0. i/W/< (■ / / \n\n\nbiographical register. 501 \n\nGeorge Bliss was born in Springfield, Mass., November 16, 1793, and graduated \nat Yale m 1813. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and began practice in Monson, \nwhere he remained seven years. He then returned to his native town and became \nassociated in business with Jonathan Dwight, jr. He was a representative from \nSpringfield in 1828-29-30 and in 1853, when he was chosen speaker. In 1835 he was \na member of the Senate, and on the death of the president of the Senate, Benjamin \nT. Peckman, he was chosen to fill his place. He was one of the organizers of the \nrailroad from Worcester to Albany, called the Western Railroad, and the writer \nthinks he was its first president. His resemblance to Dr. George Parkman, who was \nkilled by Professor John W. Webster, was so striking that a very respectable and \ntruthful gentleman by the name of Clary or Cleary, an officer in the Boston Custom \nHouse, swore on the witness stand with great positiveness that he saw the doctor at \na time and place wholly inconsistent with the theory of the prosecution. It was \nproved that Mr. Bliss was in Boston on the day mentioned by the witness, and at the \ntime referred to was in that part of the city where Dr. Parkman was supposed by the \nwitness to have been seen. He died at Springfield, April 19, 1873. \n\nJoseph A. Harris was admitted to the Middlesex bar in July, 1878, and was a \nmember of the Suffolk bar in 1890. \n\nTheodore C. Huro was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1860, and in \n1867 was a member of the Suffolk bar. In 1871 he was chosen clerk of the courts for \nMiddlesex county, and was rechosen in 1876-1881-1886 and 1892. \n\nJ. C. Kimball was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1857, and in 1870 was \na member of the Suffolk bar. \n\nWilliam S. Knox was admitted to the Essex bar in 1866 and in 1883 was a member \nof the Suffolk bar. \n\nSamuel Livermore was born about 1786, and graduated at Harvard in 1804. He \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1807, and subsequently removed to New Orleans, \nwhere he won a high reputation in his profession. He was the author of \"A Treatise \non the LawT of Principal and Agent and of Sales by Auction,\" published in Boston \nin 1811, and of \" Dissertations on the Questions which arise from the Contrariety of \nthe Positive Laws of Different States and Nations,\" published in New Orleans in \n1828. He died in New Orleans in 1833. \n\nDavid Perkins was the son of Jacob Perkins, of Bridgewater, and was born in that \ntown. His father was a member of the firm of Lazell, Perkins & Company for many \nyears, the proprietors and managers of the Bridgewater Iron Works. He studied law \nand was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1853. In 1855 he was appointed by Gover- \nnor Gardner register of insolvency. He married a daughter of Hon. John A. Shaw, \nand has been dead many years. \n\nHoratio N. Perkins was admitted to the Essex bar in September, 1832, and was \na member of the Suffolk bar in 1852. \n\nSamuel Pemberton graduated at Harvard in 1742. In 1775 commissions were \nissued to new judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county by the \nmajority of the Council in the name of \"the Government and People of Massachu- \nsetts Bay in New England.\" Mr. Pemberton was one of these judges. He died in ' \n1779. \n\n\n562 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nSamuel Dexter, son of Rev. Samuel Dexter, of Dedham, Mass., was born in that \ntown in 1726, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a member of the Council \nbefore the Revolution and for a number of years was a member of the House of Rep- \nresentatives. During the Revolution he was one of the Supreme Executive Council of \nthe State, and in 1775 was one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Suf- \nfolk county appointed by a majority of the Council in the name of \"the Government \nand People of Massachusetts Bay in New England.\" He bequeathed $5,000 to Har- \nvard College for the encouragement of biblical criticism, and died in Mendon, Mas,-;., \nin 1810. \n\nJohn Hill was one of the judges of the Suffolk Inferior Court of Common Pleas \nappointed by a majority of the Council in 1775 in the name of the \"Government and \nPeople of Massachusetts Bay in New England.\" \n\nThomas Gill, who was the court reporter of the Boston Post many years and died \ntwenty years or more ago, was called Counsellor Gill, but he was never admitted to \nbar and never practiced in the courts. \n\nThomas Rowan, who flourished about the same time as the above mentioned \n\nThomas Gill, was supposed by many to be an attorney. He was an Irishman by \n\nbirth or extraction, and studied law for a time but was never admitted to the bar. \n\nHe was largely engaged in the business of naturalization, and his frequent presence \n\n• in the courts led to the inference that he was a member of the bar. \n\nJohn Augustus was a frequenter of the Municipal and Police Courts but was not a \nmember of the bar. He was born in 1785 and was a shoemaker by trade; but for \nmore than twenty years he devoted himself to the reclamation of offenders, and in \ncases calling for his sympathy he offered himself as bondsman for the good behavior \nof the criminal, thus securing his release and almost invariably his reformation. He \ndied in Boston, June 21, 1859. \n\nGeorge Fox Tucker, son of Charles Russell and Dorcas Fry Tucker, was born in \nNew Bedford, Mass., January 19, 1852. He received his early education at the \nFriends' Academy in New Bedford and the Friends' School in Providence, R. I., and \ngraduated at Brown University in 1873. He studied law in New Bedford in the office \nof George Marston and William W. Crapo, and was admitted to the Bristol county \nbar in New Bedford in 1876 after a further study in the Boston University Law \nSchool, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1875. He practiced in \nNew Bedford until 1882, when he removed his office to Boston, where he became \nassociated with his former instructor, George Marston, who was then the attorney- \ngeneral of the Commonwealth. In 1884 he published a volume entitled \" A Manual \nof Wills,\" designed to indicate the best method of drawing a will so as to avoid the \ncomplications and embarrassments which so often lead to litigation. It is a book of \nMassachusetts law, and is regarded as an authority on the subject of which it treats. \nNot long after the issue of the Manual, he published a monograph on the \" Monroe \nDoctrine,\" which presents in a vivid way the origin and development of that treasured \nAmerican principle. This volume was favorably received and is now an accepted \nauthority. In 1888 he published \"A Manual of Business Corporations,\" a work \nsimilar in method and purpose to the \" Manual of Wills.\" In 1889 he brought out \njointly with John M. Gould, of the Suffolk bar, \" Notes on the United States Revised \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 503 \n\nStatutes,\" one of the most comprehensive of all law publications. This work, the \nresult of years of research and investigation, has had a circulation almost unprec- \nedented in legal literature. Mr. Tucker is also the author of a novel entitled \" A \nQuaker Home,\" in which are presented the customs and religious views of the fol- \nlowers of Fox. The scene is laid in New Bedford, and many of its descriptions and \nsituations are taken from real life. Mr. Tucker has always enjoyed a good practice, \nand of late years has devoted himself especially to matters pertaining to equity. He \nwas a member of the School Committee of New Bedford in 1881, and a representative \nof that city in the Legislatures of 1890-91-92, retiring from politics during the latter \nyear to accept the position which he now holds of reporter of the decisions of the \nSupreme Judicial Court. His office is in Boston, but he still resides in New Bedford. \nFrank Dewey Allen, the oldest child of Charles Francis and Olive Dewey Allen, \nwas born in Worcester, Mass., August 16, 1850. He received his early education at \nthe public schools and graduated at Yale University in 1873. He was a member \nwhile in college of the various class societies, including the famous \"Scroll and \nKey,\" and pulled an oar in his class crew. After graduation he studied law for about \na year in the office of Peter C. Bacon in Worcester and then entered the Boston Uni- \nversity Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in the sum- \nmer of 1875. After three years' further study in the office of Hillard, Hyde & Dick- \ninson in Boston, the last year as the managing clerk of the firm, he was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar January 8, 1878. The next day after his admission he was married \nto Lucy, youngest daughter of Trevett M. and Eliza M. Rhodes, of Lynn, Mass., \nand became a resident of that city. He was a representative from Lynn in the Leg- \nislatures of 1881 and 1882, serving on the committee on Banks and Banking, the \nJudiciary Committee and the committee to investigate the charges against Joseph \nM. Day, judge of probate of Barnstable county. In 1886-87-88 he was a member of \nthe Executive Council, representing the Fifth Councillor District and serving one \nyear with Governor Robinson and two years with Governor Ames. During two \nyears of his councillor service he was clerk of the Committee on Pardons, and was a \nmember of the Council which, under an act of the Legislature, sold the Hoosac Tun- \nnel to the Fitchburg Railroad. In 1885-86-87 he was a member of the Republican \nState Committee from the First Essex Senatorial District, and as an ardent Repub- \nlican worker his voice has been heard on the platform from Berkshire to the Cape. \nMr. Allen organized and is president of the Massachusetts Temperance Home, and \nis a director in the Lynn Gas and Electric Company. He is also a member of the \nthe Baptist Social Union of Boston, and in 1892 was president of the Yale Alumni \nof Boston and vicinity. On the 2d of April, 1890, he was commissioned by President \nHarrison United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts. One of his \nearliest cases was a perjury case in the matter of a pension claim with General But- \nler for the defence, and he succeeded in convicting the defendant, and having her \nsentenced after a long and closely contested trial. The new Customs Administra- \ntion Act, the Anti-Trust Statute, and various other new matters of congressional \nlegislation have received judicial interpretation during his official term in causes \nwhich he has personally conducted. Perhaps the most successful work done by him \nas prosecuting attorney has been his prosecution of the Maverick National Bank \nofficials, which he entered upon single-handed, investigating and selecting the facts \nalleged as violations of the law and drafting himself either in whole or in part the \n\n\nSo4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nindictments in the various cases. In this cause, which was the most important as \naffecting the business interests of the country, which had arisen in the circuit for a \nquarter of a century, he had well-nigh insurmountable obstacles to overcome, meet- \ning discouragement at every step, but in the end secured a verdict. In connection \nwith the verdict secured against Mr. Potter, the president of the bank, the Boston \nTranscript said: \"United States District Attorney Allen is receiving the congrat- \nulations of his friends over the verdict in the Potter case. He has certainly shown \npluck and perseverance in spite of much discouragement from both the bench and the \npublic. It has been so often said that his case could never get to a jury, or if it did, \nthat there would never be a conviction, that the verdict is certainly a professional \nvindication to be prized by any lawyer in his position.\" The Boston Courier said: \n\" The verdict in the Potter case seems to have surprised everybody except District \nAttorney Allen, who from the outset insisted that not only was Mr. Potter guilty, \nbut that a jury, if it got the chance, would say so. He has had much to contend \nagainst, and is to be congratulated upon the plucky fight he has made against such \ndepressing odds. It is a professional triumph of which he may well feel proud.\" \nThe Saturday Evening Gazette, speaking of the verdict, said \"The result of the \nPotter trial has given general satisfaction. . . The prosecuting counsel conducted \nhis case with brilliant ability and withal in a spirit of fairness that was as admirable \nas it was dignified.\" The Boston Herald said: \"A certain fact had to be estab- \nlished, and apparently the prosecution succeeded in doing this. . . We believe the \nmercantile community as a whole will welcome the verdict as a just one.\" The Bos- \nton Post and the Boston Journal spoke in highly complimentary terms of the dis- \ntrict attorney, speaking of the extremely difficult and technical nature of the case, its \nimportance to the community, and the moral effect of the verdict. Mr. Allen has \nbeen indefatigable in his attention to the duties of his position, and at the close of the \nterm of Attorney-General Miller he was highly complimented by that official for the \nfaithful discharge of his labors, justifying the splendid support which he had from the \nbench and bar for the office, which he had so conscientiously and honorably filled. \nMr. Allen is still the United States attorney for the Massachusetts District. \n\nSamuel Tompson was a native of Maine, where he was admitted to the bar and \npracticed law until 1860, when he came to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in June of that year. He not long after became a note and money broker, and \nso continued until his death, which occurred at his' residence in Brookline, April 12, \n1893. \n\nIsaac Story, jr., was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1844, and is now \nthe justice of the Somerville Police Court. \n\nGeorge William Tuxbury was born in Salisbury, now Amesbury, Mass., Novem- \nber 8, 1822. His ancestors were of the rigid Puritan type, to which so much of the \ngrit and power of American life is due. He was the son of Daniel and Sally Wood- \nman Tuxbury, and his mother, who was a native of Candia, N. H., was a cousin of \nDaniel Webster. He was one of a family of thirteen children, his father having mar- \nried three times. The children were brought up on a large farm and were early ac- \ncustomed to hard work. The subject of this sketch was sent when quite young to \nthe academy at Strafford, N. H., and from there to Phillips Exeter Academy. He \napplied himself assiduously to his studies, and in spare hours acting as instructor in \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 505 \n\norder that he might lighten the burden which his proposed college career would im- \npose on the slender means of his father. In 1841 he entered Dartmouth College, \nwhere he stood high as a scholar and where his perseverance, uprightness, and gen- \nerally high character endeared him to both his teachers and his class. He graduated \nin 1845 with the honor of being selected as the class orator, and left college with the \ndetermination of achieving success in his future life. He first accepted a position to \nteach in the academy at Ipswich, Mass., where he remained a single year, leaving it \nfor the purpose of devoting himself to the study and practice of law. He entered the \noffice of Hubbard & Watts in Boston, and on the 16th of December, 1848, he was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar. His success at the bar was soon secured. The persever- \nance and ability demonstrated by him in winning a verdict against one of the large \ncapitalists of Boston, much to his surprise, brought that gentlemen to him as a client \nand made him also the means of further success. From that time Mr. Tuxbury had \nthe management of all his large legal affairs, and at his death was made trustee of \nhis estate. On the 30th of June, 1853, he married Harriet Matilda, daughter of Will- \niam Beals, one of the firm of Beals & Green, the late proprietors and publishers of \nthe Boston Post. He was a member of the Boston City Council in 1857 and 1858, \nand a member of the Boston School Board in 1855-1856 and 1857, and from 1860 to \n1865, inclusive. It was largely through his influence that Francis Gardner remained \nfor so long a time headmaster of the Boston Latin School. At about the age of \nthirty-five the health of Mr. Tuxbury began to decline, and he became afflicted with \na nervous deafness which materially interfered with his practice in the courts. He \nwas thus obliged to abandon the trial of causes and confine himself to office business. \nHe was largely engaged in insolvency cases and in the settlement of estates. Among \nthe cases with Avhich he was at various times connected was the noted Burrell case \nagainst the city of Boston, which was finally settled after a litigation extending over \na period of nearly a quarter of a century. For four years he was the counsel of Gen- \neral Burrell, and his argument before the City Committee on Claims first inspired a \nserious consideration of the claim of his client, which had up to that time been \nesteemed unfounded and frivolous. He had charge of a number of trusts, and en- \ngaged in negotiations for real estate for corporations and syndicates, which proved \neminently profitable both to his principals and himself. Thwarted as he was by his \ndeafness m his professional ambition, he was not prevented by it from attaining large \npecuniary reward from his labors, and from his increasing means his warm heart and \nliberal hand were ever ready in their sympathy for those less successful in life, and \nin the bestowment of generous and friendly aid He died in Boston, April 12, 1885, \nleaving behind him a widow and two daughters. \n\nDaniel Needham, son of James and Lydia (Breed) Needham, was born in Salem, \nMay 24, 1822, and was educated at the Friends' Boarding School in Providence. In \n1N4'2, at the age of twenty, he removed to Groton, where he bought a farm and de- \nveloped that taste for agriculture which has distinguished him through life. He \nstudied law with David Roberts, of Salem, and Bradford Russell, of Groton, and was \nadmitted to the bar at Lowell in 1848. Well grounded as he was in the law, and \npossessing as he did all the qualifications for a brilliant professional career, he was \nirresistibly led into those more congenial paths, where his name and services have \nbeen so intimately associated with the agricultural interests of our State and nation. \n64 \n\n\n5o6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nThe prominence which he has attained in his chosen field makes it proper that as a \nmember of the bar he should have more than a passing notice in this record. While \nin the practice of law at Groton, he was at one time retained to defend a foreigner \nindicted for a criminal assault upon a girl near Groton Junction. The trial was at \nLowell in the Fall term of 1854, at a time when the \" Know-Nottaings \" were working \nthemselves into power as a Native American party against both the Democrats and \nWhigs. Colonel Xeedham secured General B. F. Butler to assist in the defense, and \nsomewhat against the advice of the general, adopted as a line of defense the theory \nthat all the leading government witnesses were members of the new party, and had \nentered into a conspiracy to deprive the defendant of his liberty and rights. This \nline of defense was finally acceded to, however, by the general, and by order of court \nthe witnesses were examined separately. Several of the government witnesses were \nofficers in high position in the Know-Nothmg party, and when interrogated with re- \ngard to their membership, positively denied over and over again that they had con- \nnection with such an organization. A persistent cross-examination broke down the \nfirst witness and secured a full account of the ceremony and obligations attending \ninitiation. ( )ther witnesses, at first, made the same persistent denial of membership, \nbut when their attention was called to the ritulastic work of the order as revealed by \nthe first witness, made full acknowledgment, and justified their denial by the state- \nment that there was no such party as the \" Know-Nothing.\" The disclosures made \nat this trial of the secrets of the order were published in all the leading papers of the \ncountry, and in defiance of the positive evidence of the girl, a disagreement of the \njury was secured, the testimony of the other leading witnesses having been thrown \nout on the ground of perjury, and the indictment was finally nol prossed. At the \ntime of the trial Colonel Needham was the Democratic candidate for Congress against \nChauncey L. Knapp, Know-Nothing, and Tappan Wentworth, Whig. Mr. Knapp, \nlike the majority of the candidates of the new party in Massachusetts, was chosen. \nAnother interesting case in which Colonel Needham appeared for the defendant, and \nJ. W. P. Abbott and General Butler for the plaintiff, was tried at Lowell, on a prom- \nissory note, which had been given to a wheelwright, who was building a wagon for \na party, and was afraid that the wagon might be attached and sold on execution be- \nfore completion and delivery. The verbal condition of the note made in the pres- \nence of the witness, whose name appeared thereon, was that the note should not be \npaid until the completion and delivery of the wagon. The completion did not include \npainting. Subsequent to a formal delivery, the wagon was taken by the builder, at \nthe request of the owner, to be painted, and while painting was attached as the \nproperty of the builder, under a writ issued at Colonel Needham's office. The real \nowner, who was the maker of the note, made no appearance in defense, and the \nwagon was sold as the property of the builder. The note was subsequently sold to \na party who had no knowledge of the transaction, and who brought a suit to recover \nthe amount of the note. The witness to the note was called by General Butler at the \ntrial to testify to the signature, and there the plaintiff's ease rested. On cross-ex- \namination the verbal condition was brought out and stated by the witness. The \nplaintiff's council knowing no more of the case allowed it to go to the jury, with the \nunderstanding that the painting was a part of the completion, and that as there was \nno completion, there was no promise to pay the note. A verdict was rendered for \nthe defendant without the jury leaving their seats. Colonel Needham, as a lawyer, \n\n\nc \n\n\n^7°^< \n\n\nC \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 507 \n\nenjoyed more than, the average share of success. In 1855 he established himself on \na farm at Hartford, Vt., where for nine years he was engaged in breeding and rais- \ning sheep. The intelligence and zeal which he there applied to this branch of agri- \nculture did much to invigorate the wool industry, which had suffered from the neg- \nligence and ignorance which had previously characterized it. Nor did he confine \nhimself to his acres in his efforts to elevate the farming interest. He was two years \na representative from Hartford, and two years senator from the county of Windsor, \nand in both House and Senate he had opportunities, which he did not fail to improve, \nto promote the agricultural interests of the State. He was five years secretary of the \nVermont State Agricultural Society, and represented the State at the international \nexhibition at Hamburg, Germany, in 1863. At that exhibition, as a result of his own \nefforts in sheep culture, he secured for Vermont sheep two first and two second prizes, \nwhich, it is said, changed the market for stock bred merino sheep from Germany to \nVermont. During his residence in Hartford he was also a member of the extra ses- \nsion of the Senate, when the Legislature was called together to raise money and \nsoldiers for the war. In 1864 he returned to Groton, and in that year was chosen \nsecretarv of the New England Agricultural Society, which he had aided largely to \norganize. In 1801 he succeeded George B. Loring as president of this society. In \n1889 he was appointed by the society to visit Mexico, and aid in establishing more \nintimate trade relations with the United States, and in carrying out this purpose he \nimproved the opportunities offered for a study of the condition and outlook of the \nMexican republic. On his return to Massachusetts from Vermont in 1864, while re- \nsiding in Groton, he associated himself in the practice of law in Boston with Judge \nDavid Roberts and Edmund Burke, under the firm name of Burke, Needham & \nRoberts. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the \nThirty-first Middlesex District in 1867, and to the Senate from the Seventh Middlesex \nDistrict m 1868-69, and was chosen by the Legislature a trustee of the Massachusetts \nAgricultural College, a position which he still holds. He was commissioned by Presi- \ndent Grant national bank examiner in 1870, and held the office fifteen years, having \nsupervision of all the non-clearing house banks in Massachusetts, numbering at the \nclose of his term, including some banks in New Hampshire, nearly two hundred. In \nthis position, by his intelligence, sagacity and prudence, he did much to win for these \ninstitutions the confidence of the people. On his resignation of this office he resumed \nthe practice of law in Boston, and enjoys the confidence of a large and increasing \nclientage. The literary productions of Colonel Needham have been chiefly confined \nto public addresses upon various subjects, some thirty or more of which have had a \nwide newspaper circulation and been issued in pamphlet form. His address upon \nthe national banks, delivered before the National Banking Association at Saratoga, \nwas regarded as the best text book which had ever been issued upon the history and \nworking of the national bank system. Many others of his addresses have been pub- \nlished in book form and have commanded attention. He married, July 17, 1842, at \nGroton, Caroline Augusta, daughter of Benjamin and Caroline (Bancroft) Hall, of \nBoston, who died January 30, 1878. He again married, October 6, 1880, Ellen M., \ndaughter of George D. and Mary J. (Kilburn) Brigham, of Groton. His oldest son, \nWilliam C. H. Needham, born in 1846, after graduating at the Norwich University, \nstudied medicine at the Harvard Medical School and at the Jefferson Medical College \nin Philadelphia, settled in Gallipolis, O., and while enjoying a large practice was ap- \n\n\n5o8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\npointed the city physician. In 1881 he was chosen State senator, and died while in \ncommission at Columbus, January 11, 1882. A daughter, Effie M. F., the second of \nthe two children of the first wife, born in 1851, married Harris C. Hartwell, a lawyer \nof Fitchburg, and president of the State Senate, who died in 1890. The children of \nthe second wife are Marion B., Elice E., and Daniel Needham. \n\nLorenzo S. Fairbanks, son of Joel and Abigail (Tufts) Fairbanks, was born in \nPepperell, Mass., March 16, 1825, and belongs to one of the oldest and most respected \nfamilies in the State. He is a descendant in the eighth generation from Jonathan \nFairbanks, who came from Yorkshire, England, about the year 1633, and in 1636 set- \ntled in Dedham, Mass. The house which Jonathan Fairbanks built in Dedham is \nstill standing, and is one of the oldest houses in New England. John Fairbanks, \nthe fifth in descent from Jonathan and great-grandfather of the subject of this \nsketch, was born in that house. Joel Fairbanks, the father of Lorenzo, was born in \nDedham in 1797, and married Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Tufts, of Roxbury, N. \nII., in 1822. Soon after his marriage he moved to Pepperell. In May, 1825, he re- \nmoved to New Boston, N. H., and made that place his permanent residence. Here \nLorenzo had a happy home, and though his father was in the enjoyment of moderate \nprosperity, he nevertheless learned what it was to toil, to face difficulties and fight \nhis own way in the world. Fortunately his lot was cast among a people always dis- \ntinguished for their high standard of morality, their religious zeal, and their devotion \nto the interests of education. His father was a man of sterling character, honest \nand industrious, liberal in his religious views, unostentatious but level-headed and \nconservative in action. His mother was a woman of intellectual mold, of great en- \nergy and executive ability, and strongly puritanical fti her ideas. His father, who \ncarried on the business of a cabinet-maker combined with the manufacture of doors, \nblinds, window sashes, clock cases, etc., could well afford to surround himself and \nfamily with the comforts of life, but a higher education for his children than that \nwhich the common schools could furnish was not within his means. Only one among \nthem, the subject of this sketch, aspired to the honors and advantages of a liberal \neducation. He had at an early age, as a pupil in the district school, attracted atten- \ntion as a scholar, and was stimulated to push on to higher attainments. No less than \nsix of his schoolmates were destined for college, and his ambition naturally led in the \nsame direction. But he knew that if he undertook to obtain a collegiate education \nhe would have to pay his own expenses. Not in despair, but in hope, he for a time \nabandoned his books, and, entering a store as clerk, spent three years acquiring \nmeans for beginning a course of study, more in the way of experience than of money, \nfor he had only a small salary. The practical lessons he received were the basis of \nhis future success, and have always been valuable to him in the business of life. \n\nHe finally began preparation for college at Hancock Academy, then went to Town- \nsend, Vt., and afterward to Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vt., where he completed \nthe course of study requisite for admission to the freshman college class. By earnest \neffort and indefatigable study at home without the aid of a teacher, he mastered the \ncurriculum of the freshman year, and entered the sophomore class at Dartmouth in \nthe autumn of 1849, passing his examination without conditions and graduating in \n1852 with high rank. During his college course he enjoyed the highest honors of his \nclass. He was chosen a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Society, and was elected as \nits president. He was also elected president of the Social Friends, a public literary \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 509 \n\nsociety, and at graduation was admitted to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. At com- \nmencement he was selected to deliver the closing oration, corresponding to the usual \nvaledictory address, although, according to the system then in vogue, there wras, \nstrictly speaking, no valedictory. \n\nMr. Fairbanks studied law in New York city, and was admitted to the bar there in \nthe fall of 1853. He began practice in New York, and during the first two years he \nwas retained in several important cases, among them the celebrated Chemical Bank \nforgery eases, and the so-called Martha Washington false pretence case, which arose \nout of the burning of the steamer Martha Washington on the Mississippi River. In \nthe latter ease certain persons had been indicted and tried and acquitted as conspira- \ntors to burn the steamer, and were indicted afterwards in New York for obtaining \nmoney by false pretences of several insurance companies on pretended shipments of \nmerchandise on the steamer, it being alleged that no goods were in fact shipped and \nthat the steamer was burned to obtain the insurance. Mr. Fairbanks was counsel for \neleven of the twelve defendants, and succeeded in having the indictments quashed. \nIn the forgery cases he was junior counsel, and the legal proceedings they involved \nwere almost a complete epitome of criminal practice. After practicing in New York \nthree or four years, Mr. Fairbanks decided to go west, but the financial condition of \nthe country rendered the time inopportune, and he went to Philadelphia to take \ncharge of a commercial school, which, contrary to representations made to him, \nproved to be in debt and in a languishing condition. With his accustomed zeal and \nenergy he applied himself so successfully to his work that in six months the school \nwas relieved from debt, and at the end of three years, during which he had been \nmuch of the time a partner in the enterprise, it was established on a prosperous and \npermanent foundation. At the expiration of the partnership he established a com- \nmercial school of his own, and for a period of five years had with one exception the \nlargest school of the kind in the country. During this period he published an elab- \norate treatise on book-keeping, which, after the lapse of a quarter of a century, is \nstill on the market and is regarded as the highest authority. He also published a \nwork on commercial arithmetic embodying new and important features, which had \nfor a time a large sale. In 1874 Mr. Fairbanks came to Boston and resumed the prac- \ntice of law. In 1877 he published a work on the Marriage and Divorce Laws of Mas- \nsachusetts, which proved so acceptable to the profession that a second edition was is- \nsued in 1881. \n\nHis practice has been general, not confined to any specialty. He is regarded as a \ncareful practitioner and a safe counsellor. He aims to promote settlements of dis- \nputes between parties rather than to encourage costly and useless litigation. In \ncauses that he has tried he has been eminently successful. He has marked literary \ntastes, with a decided fondness for scientific subjects. He has devoted much time, \naside from the practice of his profession, to the study of electrical science, and is the \ninventor of several telephones and of other electrical appliances, for the manufacture \nand sale of which he some years ago organized a company. But the decision of the \nUnited States Supreme Court that the Bell Patent covered the \" art of telephony,\" \ncaused the suspension of the operations of this company, to await the expiration of \nthe fundamental patents. They are soon to be resumed. He married in New York, \nin 1856, Sarah Elizabeth Skelton, and lives in Boston. \n\n\n5io HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHarvey ITi \\ xvm I'k vi i , sun of Henry Jones and Maria J. (Hunter) Pratt, was born \nin Philadelphia, February '24, 1860. He was educated in the public schools of Abing- \nton, Mass., and in L879 was the editor and publisher of the Abington News. After \nstudying law in the office of Keith &• Simmons in Abington and at the Harvard Law \nSchool, he was admitted to the Plymouth county bar at Plymouth in June, 1883. \nWhile a student he was the candidate in 1881 of the Democratic party for register of \ndeeds of Plymouth county. On his admission to the bar he became associated in \nbusiness with John F. Simmons, under the firm name of Simmons & Pratt, with of- \nfices m Abington ami Boston. Inl886he was the Democratic candidate forthcState \nSenate, but was defeated by the customary large Republican majority of his district. \nIn 1SS7 he was the editor of the Brockton . Xdvance and in 1888 and 1889 was a mem- \nber of the House of Representatives, serving on the Judiciary Committee. In the im- \nportant debates of the House he took a prominent part, and his alertness in seizing \non the salient points of questions under discussion, and his skill and readiness of \nspeech in presenting them, always commanded attention and respect. In 1887 he \nwas the assistant of Hosea Kingman, the district attorney for the Southeastern Dis- \ntrict, and in 1889 was the unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for the of- \nfice of attorney, which had been vacated by the resignation of Mr. Kingman, who \nhad been appointed a member of the Metropolitan Sewage Commission. In 181)0 he \nwas chosen district attorney and served until the present year, administering the \nduties of his office with the entire approval of the bench and bar and his general con- \nstituency. The course of Mr. Pratt thus far has been marked by an energy so per- \nsistent, by legal acquirements so sound, and by an ambition to advance himself in \nhis profession so earnest and yet laudable, that it is safe to predict for him a success- \nful and honorable career. His residence is in Abington. \n\nChari.es Johnson Noyes, son of Johnson and Sally (Brickett) Noyes, was born in \nHaverhill, Mass., August 7, 1S41. His earliest American ancestor was Rev. James \nNoyes, who settled in Newbury, Mass., m lf>:>5. His grandfather, Parker Noyes, was \nborn in Haverhill, September 2\"), 1777, and married Mary Fifield, a native of Hop- \nkinton, N. H. His father, Johnson Noyes, was born in Canaan, N. H., January 23, \n1808, and moved to Haverhill, where he was married, October 10, 1833, and continued \nto do business as a trader and manufacturer until his death. Of his four children the \nsubject of this sketch is the only one now living. Of him, the only son, these few \nlines are written. He attended the public schools of Haverhill, and graduated at the \nHaverhill Academy in 1860. In that year he entered Antioch College at Yellow \nSprings, ()., where he remained until his junior year, when he entered Union College \nat Schenectadv, and graduated in 18(54. While in college he began the study of law \nin the office of Judge Johnson in Schenectady, and after leaving college entered the \noffice of John E. Risley, jr., in Providence, R. L, and was admitted to the Massachu- \nsetts bar in Cambridge in 1864. He began practice in both Boston and Haverhill, \nbut soon devoted himself exclusively to his office in Haverhill, abandoning that in \nBoston. In 1805 he was chosen representative from Haverhill, and served during \nthe session of 1866 as a member of the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on \nthe License Law. He was then twenty-five years of age. He had, however, at an \nearly age entered the field of politics. During the presidential campaign of 1*04 he- \nwas president of the Lincoln CLibof Haverhill, an 1 on the assassination of the presi- \ndent in the spring of the following year, he was selected to deliver the memorial ora- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 511 \n\ntion before the Haverhill city authorities. In November, 1866, he was chosen a mem- \nber of the State Senate from the Third Essex District in a triangular contest, in \nwhich George S. Merrill, of Lawrence, and Moses F. Stevens, of Andover, were his \ncompetitors. In 1872 he removed to Boston, and has since that time made the Suf- \nfolk bar the arena for his professional labors. lie was not permitted, however, to \ndesert the political field. In 1876 he was chosen a member of the House of Repre- \nsentatives from the Fourteenth Suffolk District, and rechosen in 1877-1878 1879-1880 \nand 1881. During the last three sessions he was the speaker of the House, and the \nwriter, who had frequent opportunities of watching the performance of his duties, was \nimpressed by the ease, dignity, and parliamentary skill exhibited by him in the chair. \nIn 1886 and INST he was again chosen representative, and in the session of 1887 and \n1888 he was again chosen speaker of the House. The writer believes that since the \nadoption of the constitution only three speakers have occupied the chair as long as \nMr. Noyes. Edward H. Robbins was speaker from 1793 to 1802; Timothy Bigelow \ni„ 1805-1808-1809-1810, and from 1812 to 1820; and William B. Calhoun from 1828 to \n1834. Mr. Noyes was some years since appointed special justice of the Municipal \nCourt for the South Boston District, and still holds that office. He is an active mem- \nber of the Masonic Fraternity, connected with the Adelphi Lodge and one of its past \nmasters; the St. Matthew's Royal Arch Chapter; the St. Omer Commandery Knights \nTemplar, and one of its past commanders; the Lafayette Lodge of Perfection ; the \nGiles F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem; the Mount Olivet Chapter Rose Croix; \nand the Massachusetts Consistory. He is also a member of the Order of Odd Fel- \nlows, having passed the chairs of the subordinate lodge and the encampment, is past \ngrand and past chief patriarch, and lias served on the Grand Board (of Jthe Grand \nEncampment. He has been also a member of the National Lancers, and of the \nAncient and Honorable Artillery Company. He married in isiil in Providence, R. I. , \nEmily, daughter of Col. Jacob C. Wells, a merchant in Cincinnati, (>., and has his \nresidence in South Boston. \n\nThomas J. Gargan, son of Patrick and Rose Gargan, who came from Ireland to \nBoston in ISO.\"), was born in Boston, October 21, 1844, and was educated at the Bos- \nton public schools and under the instruction of Rev. Peter Krose. He studied law \nat the Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1873, and after a \nfurther study in the office of Henry W. Paine in Boston, he was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in May, 1875. Before entering on the study of law he was employed for a \ntime as a clerk in the dry goods house of Wilkinson, Stetson & Company, but his \nbusiness career was interrupted by the war. In 1863 he was commissioned second \nlieutenant in Company C, Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, and served until his \ndischarge at the termination of his term of service. After his admission to the bar \nhe began practice in Boston and has won a high position in the ranks of the Suffolk \nbar. In 1868-1870 and 1876 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- \nsentatives, and in 1872 a delegate-at-large to the National Democratic Convention in \nBaltimore. In 1873 and 1874 he was president of the Charitable Irish Society, and \nin 1875 a member of the Board of < (verseers of the Poor of the city of Boston. In \n187*3 and 1S7S he was chairman of the Board of License Commissioners, and in 1880 \nand 1881 he was a member of the Boston Board of Police. In 1885 he delivered the \nannual oration before the Boston city authorities on the Fourth of July, and in 1886 \n\n\n5i2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthe oration at the centennial celebration of the Charitable Irish Society of Halifax, \nNova Scotia. Mr. Gargan is always prominent in every movement to elevate and \nrefine the race from which he sprang and upon whose moral and intellectual educa- \ntion so much of the maintenance in their purity and strength of our Republican insti- \ntutions depends. Though bearing Irish blood in his veins, the free air of New \nEngland has impregnated it with a true American spirit, and no descendant of Pil- \ngrim or Puritan cau boast of a loftier or more devoted patriotism. He is a brilliant \nand forcible speaker and as a manager of cases in court, skillful, sagacious and full \nof resource. Among the important cases in which he has been engaged may be \nmentioned the suit against Archbishop Williams, in the Lawrence Church cases, so \ncalled, involving the question of title to the Roman Catholic Church property in Mas- \nsachusetts. He married in Boston in September, 1868, Catherine L. , daughter of \nLawrence and Catherine McGrath, and lives in Boston. \n\nWilliam Edward Lovell Dillawav, son of William Stoughton and Ann Maria \n(Brown) Dillaway, was born in Boston, February 17, 1852. He was educated at the \nBoston public schools and under the care of a private tutor. He graduated at the \nHarvard Law School in 1871 with the degree of LL.B., and after further study in \nthe office of Ranney & Morse in Boston, he was admitted to the bar February 17. \n1873. After his admission to the bar he was associated for a time with Ranney & \nMorse, and afterwards with Charles T. Gallagher, with whom he remained until \n1877. Since that date he has been engaged chiefly in corporation practice. He was \ncounsel in matters relating to the Pacific National Bank, in the reorganization and \nconsolidation of Boston Gas Companies, and for the West End Railway in all their \nlegislative matters. He is a director in several corporations, both financial and com- \nmercial, and to their interests he is now largely devoted. In 1888 he was selected to \ndeliver the Fourth of July oration before the city authorities of Boston, but aside \nfrom this his literary work has been chiefly confined to contributions to the press. \nHe is a man of culture, possessing tastes which his travels abroad have enabled him \nto gratify and which his fine collection of books and works of art are the means of \nfurther instructing and elevating. He married, June 16, 1874, Gertrude St. Clair \nEaton, and lives in Boston. \n\nRaymond R. Gilman, son of Ambrose and Eunice (Wilcox) Gilman, was born in \nShelburne Falls, Mass., July 28, 1859. He was educated at the public schools and at \nthe Shelburne Falls Academy. He studied law and graduated at the Boston Uni- \nversity Law School, and after further study in the office of Samuel F. Field at Shel- \nburne Falls, and of Frederick David Ely, of Boston, now one of the justices of the \nMunicipal Court of the city of Boston, he was admitted to the Norfolk county bar at \nDedham, September 28, 1880, at the age of twenty-one years. He began practice at \nShelburne Falls, but soon removed his office to Boston, where he has advanced rapidly \nin reputation and business. He is an active member of the Association of Odd Fel- \nlows and is a member of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. At Melrose, where he \nhas his home, he is a member of the Athletic and Melrose clubs and interested and \nzealous in every movement to promote the social, moral, educational and religious \nwelfare of the community in which he has cast his lot. He married, June 16, 1882, \nat Lancaster, N. II., Katie A. Tattle. \n\n\n^^^^^^^^H \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 513 \n\nJoseph 0. Burdett, son of Joseph and Sally (Mansfield) Burdett, was born in South \nReading, now Wakefield, Mass., October 30, 1848. He received his early educa- \ntion in the public schools of his native town, and graduated from Tufts College in \nis; I the second in rank in his class. While in college he was absent from his class a \npart of the time earning as a teacher the means to defray the expenses of his educa- \ntion. Among the schools in which he taught were a public school in Hingham, a \npublic and a private school in Harvard, and an evening public school in Charlestown. \nHe studied law in Cambridge with John \\V. Hammond, now a justice on the bench \nof the Superior Court, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middle- \nsex bar at Cambridge, April 19, 187:$. While a student at law he held for two years \nthe position of discharging clerk in the employ of Warren & Company, of the War- \nren line of English steamers, and in that position learned many lessons in business meth- \nods which have been of service to him in his profession. After practicing a year in \nthe office of Mr. Hammond he moved to Hingham, Mass., which place he has since \nthat time made his residence. He at once participated with interest and zeal in every \nmovement looking to the welfare of his adopted town. The public schools especially \nattracted his attention, and from almost the earliest days of his citizenship there he \nhas been a member of the School Board, and for the larger part of the time its \nchairman. During the earlier part of his legal career after his removal to Hingham, \nhis business at the courts of Plymouth county occupied much of his time, but finally \nhis Boston practice, beginning in 1874, had so largely increased as to leave little time \nfor professional work outside of his Boston office. In 1884 and 1885 he represented \nin the Legislature the Representative District composed of the towns of Hingham \nand Hull, serving the first year as chairman of the Committee on Public Service and \nthe second year retaining that position and being also a member of the Judiciary \nCommittee. The civil service law now in operation was reported by him and suc- \ncessfully advocated against serious and determined opposition. In 1880 he was \nchosen a member of the Republican State Committee, and during the three years of \nhis service as a private in the ranks of that committee displayed so much executive \nability as to be selected in 1889 as chairman. His service as chairman continued \nthree years and was only terminated by the exigencies of his professional business \nwhich made it imperative that he should devote himself exclusively to the interests of \nhis clients and his own advancement in the paths of law. As a business man out- \nside of his profession, he has the management of large interests in his hands, and \namong other business connections he is a director of the Rockland Hotel Company \nand of the Weymouth Light and Power Company. In 1874 he married Ella, daugh- \nter of John K. and Joan J. Corthell, of Hingham. \n\nJoseph-Barlow Felt Osgood, son of William and Elizabeth Curtis (Felt) Osgood, \nwas born in Salem, July 1, 1823. He received his early education at the English \nHigh and Latin Schools at Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1846. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar July 25, 1849, and began a practice in Salem, which has \ncontinued with marked success until the present time. In the first year of his pro- \nfessional career he was a member of the Salem Common Council, and thus early \nentered the field of politics, in which he was a conspicuous and zealous worker for \nmany years. He served in the Council until 1853, and during the years 1850-1851 \nand 1852 was also a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In \n65 \n\n\n5i4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n1859 and I860 he was a member of the Senate, and the writer, who was with him at \nthe Senate Board in the former of these years, can bear witness to his intelligent \ncomprehension of questions under discussion, to his judicial consideration of their \nmerits, and his fearless independence in acting on them. Though a new member, \nno \"1<1 one had more influence among his fellows. In 1864 he was chosen on the Re- \npublican ticket mayor of Salem, and served through the year 1865 as the successor of \nStephed Goodhue Wheatland, who had served in 1863 and 1864. In July, 1874, he- \nwas appointed justice of the First District Court of Essex county with a jurisdiction \nincluding Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Hamilton, Middleton, Topsfield and Wenham, \nand continued in office until his resignation in January, 1888. His performance of \nofficial duties was marked by good sense, wise judgment, impartiality, firmness, and \na serious consciousness of the responsibility resting on the judge of a court which has \nthe closest relations with the every-day and continual peace and well-being of a \ncommunity. His resumption of general practice has been attended by a continuance \nof the confidence of his fellow citizens in the honesty and wisdom of his counsel and \nby the esteem of his comrades at the bar. He married, November 23, 1853, Mary \nJane Creamer, who died September 16, 1865. \n\nGeorge Otis Shattuck:. son of Joseph and Hannah (Bailey) Shattuck, was born in \nAndover, Mass., May 2, 1829. He is a descendant of a true Puritan stock ; his earliest \nAmerican ancestor, William Shattuck, having settled at Watertown at an early date \nand died there in 1672. Both of his grandfathers were Revolutionary soldiers, and \nhis great-grandfather Bailey was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. He received \nhis early education at Phillips Andover Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1851. \nHe studied law in Boston in the office of Charles Greeley Loring and at the Harvard \nLaw School, where he graduated with a degree of LL.B. in 1854. He was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar February 1, 1855, and began practice at once in Boston, associated \nwith Joseph Randolph Coolidge. In 1856 he became associated with Peleg Whitman \nChandler and remained in partnership with him until 1870, when he formed a part- \nnership with William A. Munroe under the firm name of Shattuck & Munroe. At a \nlater date Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., was admitted to the firm and continued a \nmember until his appointment to the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1882. \nMr. Shattuck, after a career of faithful labor in the professional field, occupies a \nposition in the front rank of the Suffolk bar. He has been connected with many \ncases affecting the rights and interests of colorations, among which have been the \nSudbury River water cases and the Sayles bleaching case in Rhode Island. He was \nalso counsel in the well known Andover heresy cases for the trustees of the Andover \ncorporation and for some of the pew-holders in the suit involving the preservation of \nthe Old South Meeting-house in Boston. No lawyer is more thorough or trustworthy \nin the preparation of causes for the courts, and no verdict is ever lost by him for \nwant of diligence and skill in trials before the court or jury. Outside of the field of \nlaw, as well as within its limits, he possesses the entire confidence of the community, \nand while the highest judicial honors in the executive gift are always within his \nreach, there are no positions of trust in the business or political field which he would \nseek in vain if he yielded to those allurements which are so potent in their influence \non those less wedded to the profession to which he has given his head and heart. It \nis not often that his name is found connected with enterprises not germane to the \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 515 \n\nlabor of his life. In 1cSG2 he was a member of the Common Council of Boston, and \nhe is now serving at least his second term of six years as a member of the Board of \nOverseers of Harvard College. He married, in 1857, Emily, daughter of Charles and \nSusan (Sprague) Copeland, of Roxbury, Mass., and has his residence in Boston. \n\nCharles Levi Woodbury, son of Judge Levi Woodbury, was born in Portsmouth, \nNew Hampshire, May 22, 1820. His father, a native of Franeestown, New Hamp- \nshire, had, after his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1809, practiced law in his \nnative town and had, only a year before the birth of the subject of this sketch, be- \ncome a resident of Portsmouth. He is descended from John Woodbury, who was one \nof the pioneer settlers of Cape Ann in 1024, and imbued with that antiquarian spirit \nwhich such an ancestry would be likely to inspire. In 1831 his father was made sec- \nretary of the navy by President Jackson, and as an incumbent of that office and of \nthat of the secretary of the treasury, to which he was appointed in 1834, he remained \nin Washington until the close of the administration of Martin Van Buren in 1841. In \nthe schools, therefore, of Washington Charles Levi Woodbury received his early \neducation, and in that city he breathed that political atmosphere which made him \nwhat he has always been, an earnest and devoted advocate and exponent of the prin- \nciples of Democracy. He studied law in Washington and was there admitted to the \nbar. Establishing himself in practice for a time in Alabama, he soon came to Boston \nwhere he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, March 6, 1846. In 1845, the year before \nhis settlement in Boston, his father, having declined the appointment of minister to \nEngland, was appointed a justice of the United States Supreme Court as the suc- \ncessor of Judge Story, who died in September of that year. With the father on the \nbench of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, the son was naturally drawn into practice \nat their bar. The comprehensive nature of the questions arising in arguments and \ntrials before these tribunals made the study of constitutional and international law \nessential to success, and in these branches of his profession he has been for many \nyears recognized as a thorough and able expounder. In the earlier days of his prac- \ntice in the United States Courts he edited, jointly with George Minot, \" Reports of \nCases argued and determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First \nCircuit,\" containing the decisions of his father from 1847 to 1852. In 1853 he was \noffered by President Pierce the mission to Bolivia, which he declined. In 1857 he \nwas a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and in the same \nyear was appointed, by President Buchanan, United States district attorney for \nMassachusetts. In 1870 and 1871 he was chosen a member of the Massachusetts \nHouse of Representatives, having, since his appointment as district attorney in 1857, \nmade Boston his permanent place of residence. He has there continued to live and \npractice up to the present time, acting not only as counsel in important causes in the \ncourts, but discussing, also, with thoroughness and ability, public questions as they \narise in the field of social and political life. The question of the fisheries, which re- \ncently occupied so much of the attention of our government in its relations with Can- \nada, was one with which he was more familiar, perhaps, than any other of our pub- \nlic men, and in all its bearings and intricate details was a recognized authority. He \nis a Democrat of the old school, a little suspicious, perhaps, of the dogmas which \nhave been grafted on the old stalk; a thorough believer in those fundamental prin- \nciples which underlie both the constitution and the platform of his party and firmly \n\n\n$i6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nimbued with the conviction that on these principles, and on these alone, depend the \npermanence and safety of our institutions. Mr. Woodbury is unmarried and resides \nin Boston. \n\nCharles Jackson Paine, son of Charles Cushing and Fanny Cabot (Jackson) Paine, \nwas born in Boston, August 26, 1833. He is the great-grandson of Robert Treat \nPaine, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was fitted for college at \nthe Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied law in Bos- \nton with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1856. \nThe war broke out in the early years of his practice and on the 1st of October, 1*6] , \nhe was commissioned captain in the Twenty-second Regiment of Volunteers. In \nJanuary, 1862, he was made major in the Thirty-third Massachusetts Regiment, \ncolonel of the Second Louisiana Volunteers in September, 1862, colonel of the First \nUnited States Volunteers, brigadier-general of United States Volunteers in Jul}-, \n1864, brevet major-general, January 15, 1865, and he was mustered out of service \nJanuary 15, 1866. During his term of service he commanded a brigade at the siege \nof Port Hudson, took part in the battle of Drury's Bluff, led a division of colored \ntroops in the attack on Newmarket, Va., and participated in the capture of Fort \nFisher. He subsei [uently served under General Sherman in North Carolina, and after \nthe surrender of Lee commanded the district of Newbern. After his retirement from \nthe service he was enabled by his abundant means to indulge in other occupations \nmore congenial to his tastes than the law. His love of the water and of the pleasure \nto be derived from its unbounded resources, implanted in him in earl}- life, he was \nnow placed in a position to gratify, and to-day, as a yachtsman, he probably stands \nunexcelled, at least on this side of the ocean. As one of the association of gentle- \nmen who built the Puritan, in 1885, as the owner of the Mayflower, in 1886, and of \nthe Volunteer, in 1887, each of which defeated its English antagonist, he leaped at \na stride to the head of American boatmen, and won a reputation which the New \nYork Yacht Club, of which he is a member, recognized by the presentation to him \nof a silver cup commemorating his triple successful defence of the American cup \nagainst foreign competitors. He married, in 1867, Julia, daughter of John Bryant, \nof Boston, and has his residence in Weston, Mass. \n\nJohn Elbridge Hudson, son of John and Elizabeth C. (Hilliard) Hudson, was born \nin Lynn, Mass., August 3, 1839. He was educated at the public schools in his youth, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1862. After his graduation he was employed until 1865 \nas a tutor in the college, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in that year. \nAfter further study in Boston in the office of Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer he was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar October 25, 1806. In February, 1870, he took the place \nof Mr. Shattuck in the firm, and in 1874 became a member of the firm of Chandler, \nWare & Hudson. In 1878 the firm was dissolved, and in 1879 he edited jointly with \nGeorge Fred Williams the tenth volume of the United States Digest. In 1880 he be- \ncame general counsel of the American Bell Telephone Company and abandoned his \ngeneral practice. In 1885 he was made general manager of the company, and in \n1887 vice-president. In 1SS9 he was chosen president of the company, and he is at \npresent also president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The mag- \nnitude of the interests of the American Bell Telephone Company, over which he pre- \nsides, maybe judged by the fact that during the year 1892 the computed number of ex- \n\n\nBTOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 517 \n\nchange connections was six millions. The American Telephone and Telegraph Com- \npany, over which he also presides, has achieved daring the last year a memorable \ntriumph. Until October, 1892, the limit of the successfnl transmission of speech had \nnot exceeded five hundred miles. A special experimental circuit, consisting of two \nnumber eight hard-drawn eopper wires, was constructed, the wire weighing 435 \npounds to the mile, and the circuit containing 826, 500 pounds of copper. The success \nwas so satisfactory that a new line from New York to Chicago was opened to the pub- \nlic on the 18th of October of last year, and a line to Boston on the 7th of February of \nthis year, when Governor Russell opened the line by conversation with gentlemen in \nthe Chicago office over wires about twelve hundred miles in length. It is stated in \nthe last report of the directors that it is now possible from the room of the company \nin Boston to talk north and east to Augusta, north to Concord, N. II., and to Buffalo, \nN. Y,, west to Chicago, and south to Washington, over a territory which includes \nmore than half of the population of the United States, of whom it may be said that \nthey are within speaking distance of each other. It is needless to suggest that the \nhighest legal ability and most thorough business methods must be possessed by the \npresident of these two companies in order to manage their concerns in a manner to \nsecure and maintain the confidence of the stockholders. Mr. Hudson married, August \n'21, 1871, Eunice W., daughter of Wells and Elizabeth (Pickering) Ilealey, of Hamp- \nton Falls, N. H., and has his residence in Marlboro', Mass. \n\nBenjamin Dean, son of Benjamin and Alice Dean, was born in Clitheroe, Lan- \ncashire, England, August 14, 1824. He came with his parents to Lowell, Mass., at \nfive years of age, and received his early education at the public schools in that town. \nIn 1840 lie entered Dartmouth College, where he remained one year, and soon after \nbegan the study of law in the office of Thomas Hopkinson, afterwards one of the jus- \ntices of the Common Pleas Court. He also attended the Harvard Law School, and \nwas admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 184\"). He practiced law in Lowell un- \ntil 1852, when he moved to Boston and became associated in business with Henry W. \nFuller in a partnership, which continued until Mr. Fuller's death. .He has always \noccupied a prominent position, not only at the bar, but in the business walks of life. \nHe was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1865-1866-1872 and 1ST:!, was a \nmember of the State Senate in 1862-1863 and 1869, and was a member of the Forty- \nfifth Congress. The high esteem in which he was held as a legislator was attested \nby his selection in 1869 for the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, and a \nmembership of the Committee on the Library, and of the Joint Standing Committee \non the License Law. He has also been chairman of the Boston Board of Park Com- \nmissioners, and a director of the Public Institutions of the city. During his term of \nservice as park commissioner from lss(! to 1889 he was enthusiastic in the adoption \nof such measures as should develop and complete that system of parks which, when \ncompleted, will reflect everlasting credit both on the city of Boston and on the agents \nand factors selected to oversee and carry it out. It can be truly said that two of the \nmost memorable enterprises which Boston has ever undertaken, those of the Boston \nLibrary and of the park system, have been in the hands of men who have consulted \nonly the highest standards of culture and taste, while feeling the pressure of unedu- \ncated criticism, and in whose acts there has been no taint of jobbery and corruption. \nMr. Dean has been closely identified with the Masonic Order for many years, hold- \n\n\n5i8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ning the offices of deputy for the State of Massachusetts, of the Supreme Council, of \nthe Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the \nUnited States. lie was grand commander of the States of Massachusetts and Rhode \nIsland from 1N71 to 1873, and grand master of the Grand Encampment of the Knights \nTemplar of the United States from 1880 to 1883, and is past grand warden of the \nGrand Lodge of Massachusetts. For several years Mr. Dean has been a sufferer from \nrheumatism, which has compelled him to abandon his general practice, and to with- \ndraw himself almost completely from those recreations, which as a yachtsman he was \nwont for many years to enjoy. He was for a time the commodore of the Boston \nYacht Club, and from his house at .South Boston, near to the sea, he is privileged to \nat least breathe the atmosphere of those pleasures in which he once so enthusiastic- \nally participated. He married in Lowell in 1848 Mary Anne, daughter of Josiah B. \nFrench, of that city. A son, Josiah Stevens Dean, is a member of the Suffolk bar, \nand is referred to elsewhere in this register. \n\nEnw in Grover graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nMay 27, L859. He died in 1864. \n\nWin i am F. Griffin was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1870, and is now at the bar. \n\nAbraham Garland Randall Hale graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, \nand was admitted to the bar September 28 in that year, \n\nWilliam P. Hale was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nWilliam Stickney Hall graduated at Harvard in 1869 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1871. He wTas admitted to the Suffolk bar September 13, 1871, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nJohn J. Halsted was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nEugene J. Hadlev was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nPennington Halsted was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nCharles Winslow Hall graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1866. \n\nHoward Malcolm Hamblin graduated at the Harvard Law7 School in 1862, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar June 14 in that year. \n\nAlexander James Hamilton graduated at Harvard in 1826, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar October 20, 1829. \n\nCharles H. Hanson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nEmor Herbert Harding graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1878. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nCharles Hale, son of Nathan Hale, graduated at Harvard in 1850, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar December 21, 1874. He was speaker of the Massachusetts \nHouse of Representatives in 1859. He died in 1882. \n\nAlfred S. Hall was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1875, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 5i9 \n\nRobert Pinckney Harlow graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar July 14 in that year. \n\nStephen W. Harmon was admitted to the Suffolk bar April (i, 1869, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nDennis A. Harrington was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nG. N. Harris was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nSamuel T. Harris was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nAlfred Stedman Hartwell graduated at Harvard in 185}8 and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1867. He^was an attorney in Boston in 1868. He was at one time a \njudge of the Supreme Court at the Hawaiian Islands. \n\nBenjamin Martin Hartshorn graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863 and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1863. He died in 1867. \n\nShattuck Hartwell graduated at Harvard in 1844 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1849. \n\nA. L. Harwood was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar. \n\nSeth Hastings graduated at Harvard in 1782, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \nHe died in 1831. \n\nArthur G. Hatch was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar. \n\nAlbert Newton Hatheway graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. \n\nAmos L. Hatheway was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar. \n\nFranklin Haven, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in September, 1860. He has been assistant United States treasurer at Bos. \nton and actuary of the New England Trust Company in Boston, and is now president \nof the Mei-chants' National Bank in Boston. \n\nSamuel Haven graduated at Harvard in 1798, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \nHe died in 1847. \n\nCharles Sprague Hayden graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1856, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar November 15 in that year. \n\nGeoroe Russell Hastings graduated at Harvard in 1848 and at the Harvard Law- \nSchool in 1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1851. He died in \n1888. \n\nAaron Hayden graduated at Harvard in 1834 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1838. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1838, and .died in 1864. \n\nFrancis L. Hayes was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 14, 1868, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nGeorge E. Hayes was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nWilliam A. Hayes 2d was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nCharles Henry Haynes graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1851, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1853. He died in 1856. \n\n\n52o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHenr^ Williamson Haynes graduated at Harvard in is.\")!, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar September 26, 1856. \n\n( riDEON F. M vynes was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nCharles M. Hemenway was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nJohn White Hayward graduated at Harvard in 1805, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in October, 1808. He died in 1832. \n\nCharles E. Heywood was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nWii i i \\m Edward Healy graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar October 9, 1807. \n\nClarence Hendrick was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nF. B. Hemenw \\y was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \nJohn Hi.kkiki was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 4, 1891, and is now at \n\nthe bar. \n\n1 wiks Algin Hi:k\\ i.y graduated at Harvard in 1849, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar October 15, 1859. \n\nEdwin Newell Hill graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the .Suf- \nfolk bar April 25, 1876. He is now at the bar. \n\nEdgar S. Hill was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nJohn Hillis graduated at Harvard in 1868, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar \nin September, 1871. He is now at the Suffolk liar. \n\nThomas Hillis has been since 1890 a member of the Suffolk bar. \nEdward Higginson graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was an attorney at the, Suf- \nfolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar. \n\nArthur Hildreth graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1873, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1874. \n\nG. Arthur Hilton was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar. \n[saac Theodore II\" v.t e graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law \n\nSchool in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1870. He died in \n1885. \n\nCharles Cushing Hobbs graduated at Harvard in 1855, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar May 2:!, 1857. \n\nMarland C. Hobbs was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar. \n\nThorndike Deland Hougks graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was at the Boston \nbar in 1866. \n\nDaniel Jefferson Holbrook graduated at Brown University in 1863 and at the \nHarvard Law School in 18(37. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 27, ISC,;. \n\nArtemas Rogers Holden graduated at Harvard in 1866 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1869. He died in 1884. \n\nJoshua Bennett Holden graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was \na member of the Suffolk bar in 1870. He is now at the bar. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 521 \n\nAbija Hollis graduated at the Harvard Law Sc1ki.i1 in 1861, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar September 11, 1862. \n\nJ. G. Holt was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1860, and is now at the \nSuffolk bar. \n\nArthur W. Hooper was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nJohn Myers Holland graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar January 15, 1867. \n\nLeander Holbrook graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in June, 1875. \n\nEdward Jackson Holmes graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1870. He died in \n\n1884. \n\nJabez Silas Holmes graduated at Harvard in 1865, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in May, 1867. He died in 1884. \n\nSew all W. Hooper was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nFrederic S. Hopkins was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \nHenry Parker Hoppin graduated at Harvard in 1859 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 16, 1865. \n\nJ. H. Hopwood was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nFrederick L. Houghton was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nFrank A. Houston. graduated at Harvard in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1883. \n\nE. O. Howard was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867, and is now at the bar. \n\nGeorge E. Howe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar. \n\nJohn Dennett Howe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1859, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar Jannary 12, 1860. He died in 1874. \n\nWilliam Edward Howe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1853, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1854. He died in 1875. \n\nHenry Howland graduated at Harvard in 1869, and after attending the University \nof Heidelberg, Germany, graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1879. He died in 1887. \n\nLucius L. Hubbard graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the Suffolk- \nbar in May, 1875. \n\nCharles Henry Hudson graduated at Harvard in 1846 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1848. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1848, and has \nbeen at the Suffolk bar since 1868. \n\nSamuel H. Hudson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \nJames Hughes graduated at Harvard in 1780, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1783. He died in 1799. \n66 \n\n\nS22 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nEugene Humphrey was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nThomas Hunt was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam Gibbs Hunt graduated at Harvard in 1810 and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in September, 1813. He died in 1833. \n\nCharles Henry Hurd graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar May 28, 1856. He died in 1877. \n\nFrancis William Hurd graduated at Harvard in 1852, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 2, 1855. He is now at the bar. \n\nA. B. Hutchinson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nP. H. Hi rcHINSON was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 4, 1867, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nCharles Whiting Huntington graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in July, 1856. He died in 188s. \n\nJesse C. Ivy graduated at Harvard in 1874 and at the Harvard Law School in 1876. \nHe was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1877, and is now at the Suffolk \nbar. \n\nOkadiah Jackson, jr., graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1860. He died in 1878. \n\nFrancis Wayland Jacobs graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar November 15. 1862. \n\nGeorge Edward Jacobs graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar February 17, 1879. He is now at the bar. \n\nDavid Eli as James graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1852, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar October 28, 1853. \n\nGeorge Abbott James graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar December 1, in that year. He is now at the bar. \n\nWorthen T. James was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nJohn Jameson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar. \n\nEden Shotwell Jaques graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1842. \n\nSamuel Jennison graduated at Harvard in 1839, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in November, 1846. He is now at the bar. \n\nC. A. Jewell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891 and is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam E. Jewell was admitted to the Plymouth county bar in 1860, and is now \nat the Suffolk bar. \n\nBenjamin Newhall Johnson graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to \nthe Essex bar in 1880. He is at the Suffolk bar. \n\nL. H. H. Johnson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. \n\nFrancis A. Jones was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam Jones graduated at Harvard in 1793 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \nHe died in 1813. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 523 \n\nAsa Johnson graduated at Harvard in 1787 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar- \nHe died in 1820. \n\nOkev Johnson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858 and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in July of that year. \n\nAlbion Keith Parris Joy graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848 and was \nat the Suffolk bar as early as 1852. He died in 1889. \n\nChai \\< i v P. Judd was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nJohn A. Keefe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1878, and is now at the bar. \n\nArthur Monroe Keith graduated at Harvard in 1874 and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in June, 1876. \n\nIsrael Keith graduated at Harvard in 1771 and was at the Suffolk bar in 1779. \nHe died in 1819. \n\nWilliam V. Kellen was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 20, 1876, and is \nnow at the bar. He was appointed in 1887 reporter of the decisions of the Supreme \nCourt and reported from June, 1887, to November, 1891. \n\nLouis W. Kelley was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nCiiaki.es G. Keves was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 21, 1858, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nStephen F. Keyes was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 5, 1864, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nJohn F. Kilton was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 23, 1862, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nJohn Kidder graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was at the Suffolk bar in 1797. \nHe died in 1810. \n\nDavid Pulsifer Kimball graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar December 8, 1857. \n\nElbridge Gerry Kimball graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in July, 1880. \n\nGeorge A. King was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nBenjamin Barnes Kingsbury graduated at Bowdoin in 1857 and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1862, He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 9, 1862. \n\nJosiah Burnham Kinsman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and was \na member of the Suffolk bar in 1859. \n\nFrancis W. Kittredge was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nFrederic T. Knight was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. \n\nIsaiah Knowi.es graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar May 27, 1859. He died in 1878. \n\nThomas Oaks Knowlton graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1872. \n\nNathaniel Phippen Knapp graduated at Harvard in 1826, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar March 8, 1832. He died in 1854. \n\n\n524 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHamilton Ki iin was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nJoseph Hart.well Ladd graduated at Dartmouth in 1867 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1871. \n\nAbbott W. Lamson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nEdward Landen graduated at Harvard in 1835 and at the Harvard Law School in \nis:',!). He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 12, 1839, and was a judge in \nWashington Territory. \n\nChristopher Con mbus Langdell graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 11, 1875. \n\nCharles Weston Larrabee graduated at Bowdoin in 1844 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1847. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1847. \n\nGeorge P. Lawrence was admitted to the Middlesex bar in February, 1859, and is \nnow at the Suffolk bar. \n\nGardner Whitney Lawrence graduated at Harvard in 1864, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar February 7, 1866. He died in 1869. \n\nRobert W. Lighi was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1885, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nEdward Lewis Le Breton graduated at Harvard in 1824, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 12, 1832. He died in 1849. \n\nLewis Cass Led\\ ard graduated at Harvard in 1872 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875. \n\nEllioi Cabot Lee graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1883. \n\nJohn Rowe Lee graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar December 19, 1865. \n\nRobert Levi was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar. \n\nDaniel Waldo Lincoln graduated at Harvard in 1803, and was an attorney in Bos- \nton in 1813. He died in 1815. \n\nJames Otis Lincoln graduated at Harvard in 1807, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar October 9, 1810. He died in 1818. \n\nRoland Crocker Lincoln graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard Law- \nSchool in 187(1. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1871, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nGeorge Coeein Little graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar May 7, 1862. \n\nJoseph J. Little was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \nJackson Locke was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar. \nJosiah Lewis Lombard graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1864, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar September 16 in that year. \n\nElihu G. Loomis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878, and is now at the \nbar. \n\n\n^L^^Xiy/t^^ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 5i5 \n\nJames Brown Lord graduated at Amherst in 1855 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1800, and is now at the bar. \n\nF. H. Lord was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nAlden Porter Loring graduated at Harvard in 1869, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar October 18, 1872. \n\nJohn Lathrop graduated at Harvard in 17S9, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 179:!. He died in 1821). \n\nFrancis Cabot Lowell graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1797. He died in 1817. \n\nFrancis Cabot Lowell 2d graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in May, 1880. He is now at the bar. \n\nJohn Lowell 3d, son of Judge John Lowell, graduated at Harvard in 1877, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880. He is now at the bar. \n\nClinton William Lucas graduated at Harvard in 1N78, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in February, 1881. \n\nAnson M. Lyman was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nClarence B. Loud was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nCharles Wallev Lovett, jr., graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar December 9, 1867. \n\nAbbott Lawrence Lowell graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in July, 1880. He is now at the bar. \n\nEdward Jackson Lowell 2d graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in June, 1872. \n\nDavid Brainerd Lyman graduated at Yale in 1864, and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 8, 1866. \n\nDavid Hinckley Lyman graduated at Harvard in 1839, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar May 9, 1842. He died in 1876. \n\nA. Selwyn Lynde was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nA. V. Lynde was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1847, and is now at the \nSuffolk bar. \n\nF. G. Macomber was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nEx-Scmner Mansfilld graduated at Harvard in 1868 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 16, 1872, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nGeorge F. Manson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. \n\nElmer E. Marshall was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar. \n\nAlexander Martin graduated at the University of Michigan in 1855, and at the \nHarvard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 16, 1857. \n\nJohn F. Martin was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam P. Martin was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. \n\nJohn Marshall Marsters graduated at Harvard in 1847 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1850, in which year he was at the Suffolk bar. \n\n\n526 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nCyrus C. Mayiikkry was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar. \n\nLaurens Maynard was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nJohn W. McAnarney was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nDaniel McIlroy graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar January 7 in that year. Died at an unknown date. \n\nWilliam M. McInnes was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar. \n\nFrederic Mi I\\ i irk was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bur. \n\nGeorge Harrison McGrew graduated at the Connecticut Wesleyan University in \n1870, and at the Harvard Law School in 1873. He was an attorney at the Suffolk \nbar in 1873. \n\nHenry F. McKeever graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and is an \nattorney at the Suffolk bar. \n\nCharles C. Mellen was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S!)() and is now at the bar. \n\nGeorge Frederic McLellan graduated at Harvard in 1855, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar April 21), 1857. \n\nSamuel Walter McDaniel graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878, and was \na Suffolk attorney in 1885. He is now at the bar. \n\nCharles Amos Merrill graduated at the Connecticut Wesleyan University in 1864 \nand at the Harvard Law School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Jan- \nuary 9, 1869. \n\nJohn Midgley was admitted to the Suffolk liar in 1884 and is now at the bar. \n\nGeorge Henry Miller graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 22, 1870. \n\nRobert Sedgwick Minot, son of William Minot 2d, graduated at Harvard in 1877, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He is now at the bar. \n\nFrancis Benton Mildram graduated at Harvard in 1807, and was an attorney in \nBoston in 1870. He died in 1875. \n\nEphraim Flint Miller graduated at Harvard in 1828 and was at one time a mem- \nber of the Suffolk bar. He died in 1875. \n\nWilliam Pepperell Montague graduated at Harvard in 1809, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in December, 1871. \n\nRussell Wortley Montague graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in July, 1874. \n\nGeorge Theodore Moody graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar December 17, 1859. \n\nBeverly K. Moore was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nEugene H. Moore was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. \n\nAlonzo D. Moran was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nJohn B. Moran was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 527 \n\nFrank Morison wasvadmitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1868, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nGeorge Morrill was at the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now. \n\nRobert Morris was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1847, and has been \ndead some years. He is believed, by the writer, to have been the first colored attor- \nney at the Suffolk bar. \n\nRobert Morris, jr., son of the above, was admitted to the Suffolk bar September \ns, 1874 \n\nWilliam Gouverneur Morris graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1854. He died in 1884. \n\nT. J. Morrison was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1877, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nChari.es R. Morse was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1875, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nHorace E. Morse was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 1, 1868, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nNathan Morse 2d was admitted to the bar in June, 1875, and is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam A. Morse was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18(i<>, and is now at the bar. \n\nBarron C. Moulton was admitted to the .Suffolk bar October 29, 1857, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nDaniel Smith Moulton graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar June 25, 1859. \n\n( '.eorge W. Moulton was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now. \n\nE. V. Munroe was admitted to the Suffoik bar in 1887, and is now at the bar. \nFrancis J. Munroe was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 27, 1860, and is now at \n\nthe bar. \n\nN. Sumner Mvrick was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nF. C. Nash was in 1890, and is now at the Suffolk bar. \n\nFrank Philip Nash graduated at Harvard in 1856 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1859. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1861. \n\nHoward D. Nash has been at the Suffolk bar since 1890. \n\nRueus William Nason graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in June, 1875. \n\nHenry Gilman Nichols graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in June, 1881. He is now at the bar. \n\nF. S. NicivERSONwas admitted to the Suffolk bar September 9, 1874, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nS. W. Nickerson has been at the Suffolk bar since 1890. \n\nSamuel Newell graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar April 13 in that year. \n\nRobert Ralston Newell graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1868. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1870. He died in 1883. \n\n\n528 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nSi i: i \\u Dwight Nickerson graduated at Yale in 1845 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in is IT. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1848. \n\nGreenville Howland Norcross graduated at Harvard in 1875 and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1877. lie was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nOtis Norcross graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1873, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1873. He married, January 20, \n1881, Susannah Ruggles, daughter of Henry Plympton, of Boston. He resides in \nBoston. \n\nFrederick L. Norton was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1863, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nGeorge < >ak was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nNathaniel Kemble Greenwood Oliver graduated at Harvard in 18(19, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar October 14, 1816. He died in 1*32. \n\nPeter Butler Olney, son of Wilson Olney, of ( )xford, Mass., graduated at Har- \nvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar March 6, 1866, and is now practicing law in New York. \n\nTheodore Moody Osborne graduated at Harvard in 1871, and is a member of the \nSuffolk bar. \n\nGeorge Edmund Otis graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar December 11, 1868. \n\nJoseph Russell Otis graduated at Harvard in 1825, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in ( )ctober, 1828. He died in 1864. \n\nCharles Hunter Owen graduated at Yale in 1860 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1863. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 17, 1862. \n\nMaurick O'Connell graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died in 1882. \n\nAndrew ( )i.iver graduated at Harvard in 1842, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar November 18, 1845. He is now an Episcopal clergyman in New York. \n\nWilliam Hunter Orcutt graduated at Harvard in 1869 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1873. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in January, 1874, and in 1885 \nwas at the Suffolk bar. \n\nRoscoe Palmer Owen graduated at Harvard in 1863, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 8, 1864. He is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam Robertson Page graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1866. \n\nCharles Gushing Paine graduated at Harvard in 1827, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in October, 1830. He died in 1874. \n\nElijah Paine graduated at Harvard in 1781, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \nHe was a judge of the United States District Court in Vermont and a member of \nCongress from that State. He died in 1842, \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 529 \n\nCharles Albert Parker graduated at Harvard in 1819, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 14, 1827. He was clerk of the Common Pleas Court in .Suffolk \ncounty, and died in 1877. \n\nDaniel Parker graduated at Harvard in 1774, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1790. \n\nGeorge W. Parker has been a member of the Suffolk bar since 1890. \nNathaniel Austin Parks graduated at Harvard in 1839, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar December 16, 1858. He died in 1875. \n\nGorham Parks graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \n\nMyron Curtis Parsons graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1853, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1854. \n\nGeorge Herbert Patterson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar June 3, 1864. \n\nWilliam M. Payson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1881, and is \nnow at the bar. \n\nOliver Peabody graduated at Harvard in 1773, and was admitted to the .Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1831. \n\nWilliam E. Peabody was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nThomas H. Pearse was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 15, 1887, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nAugustus Thorndike Perkins, son of Thomas H. Perkins, was born in Boston and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law School in 1853. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar July 19, 1854, and died in 1891. \n\nEdward Cranch Perkins graduated at Harvard in 1866, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 1, 1872. He is now at the bar. \n\nJoseph Perkins graduated at Harvard in 1794, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1803. \n\nCharles Frederick Paine graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was \nan attorney at the Suffolk bar in that year. \n\nWilliam Ware Peck graduated at the Vermont University in 1841 and at the \nHarvard Law School in 1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 9, \n1845. \n\nFrank K. Pendleton graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law Scho6l \nin 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. \n\nCharles Carroll Perkins graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar January 10, 1862. \n\nJ. Perrins, jr., was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar. \n\nFrancis A. Perry was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 13, 1864, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nEdward Gould Peters graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar July 8, 1879. He went to San Francisco and practiced for a time, return- \ning to Boston in 1886. \n67 \n\n\n53o HISTORY OF J HE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nSanford Barnum Perry graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar April 22 in that year. He died in 1884. \n\nJohn Phelps graduated at Harvard in 1787, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \nHe died in L832. \n\nCharles Appleton Phillips graduated at Harvard in 1860, and was an attorney at \nthe Suffolk bar in L867. He died in 1870. \n\nWillard Quincy Phillips graduated at Harvard in 1805 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1858. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1863. \n\nHenry Goddard Pickering graduated at Harvard in 1869 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, 1872, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nTames F. Pickering was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1860, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nGeorge Winslow Pierce graduated at Harvard in 1864, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk liar June 3, 1868. \n\nJohn Morison Pinkerton graduated at Yale in 1841 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1845. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 3, 1846. He died in \n1881. \n\nGeorge Frederick Piper graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in June, 1869. He is now at the bar. \n\nJohnson Tuttle Platt graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865. He re- \nceived an honorary degree from Yale and was a professor of law in that university. \nHe died in 1890. \n\nSedgwick L. Plummer graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1844, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1845. \n\nWilliam Plumer graduated at Harvard in 1845 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1848. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1848. \n\nClifford H. Plummer was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nGeorge Edward Pond graduated at Harvard in 1858 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1862. \n\nAlbert Poor graduated at Harvard in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1882. He is now at the bar. \n\nGeorge H. Poor was admitted to the Essex bar in 1864, and is now at the Suffolk \nbar. \n\nJosiah Porter graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 1855. \n\nRobert Hanna Pollock graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar February 12 in that year. He died in 1888. \n\nJonathan Edwards Porter graduated at Harvard in 1786, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar. He died in 1821. \n\nThomas W. Porter was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1875, and is now at \nthe bar, \n\n\nBiographical Register. 53* \n\nCharles H. Pratt was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1877, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nEdward B. Pratt was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nE. Granville Pratt was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1867, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nWilliam Pitt Preble graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in October, 1878. \n\nJohn Prentiss was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar. \n\nSamuel Prescott graduated at Harvard in 1799, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar January 6, 1804. He died in 1813. \n\nFrank W. Proctor was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nGeorge Henry Preston graduated at Harvard in 1846, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in December, 1848. He died in 1868. \n\nEdward L. Rand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. \n\nF. F. Raymond was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1875, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nChester A. Reed was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar. \nElias Sipple Reed graduated at the Delaware University in 1857 and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 9, 1857. \n\nEdward Franklin Raymond graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in July, 1854. He died in 1855. \n\nDavid Dodge Ranlett graduated at Harvard in 1857 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 28, 1860. \n\nJoseph Wheeler Reed graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1869. \n\nWarren Augustus Reed graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in February, 1879. \n\nMerrick Rice graduated at Harvard in 1785, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \nHe died in 1819. \n\nFrancis Gardiner Richards graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar May 5, 1857. He died in 1884. \n\nCharles F. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1840, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nHenry A. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nJames Richardson graduated at Harvard in 1797, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1858. \n\nJames Prentiss Richardson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar March 12 in that year. \n\nJohn S. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 23, 1885, and is now \nat the bar. \n\n\n$$2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAB. \n\nLuther Richardson graduated at Harvard in 1799, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1802. He died in 1811. \n\nWii i [AM K. Rich vrdson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nWilliam M. Rk hardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the \n\nbar. \n\nWilliam Quince Riddle graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law \n.School in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 27, 1858. \n\nDaniel Erskine Richardson graduated at the Harvard Law School m 1870, and \nwas at the Suffolk bar in 1871. \n\nThomas Francis Richardson graduated at Brown in 1852 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, 1855. \n\nHarrison Ritchie, son of Harrison Ritchie, graduated at Harvard in 1845, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar June 26, 1848. \n\nWilliam Rotch Robeson graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 29, 1873. \n\nErnest W. Roberts was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nJohn L. S. Roberts was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 27, 1875, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nGeorge Mosher Robinson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1847. \n\nEbenezer Rockwood graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar. He died in 1815. \n\nFrank R. Rogers was admitted to the .Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar. \n\nHenry Munroe Rogers graduated at Harvard in 1862 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 23, 1868, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nWilliam S. Rogers was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1882, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nHarry L. Rollins was admitted to the .Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar. \n\nFrederic Emil Rombauer graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar December 15, 1857. \n\nMarcus Rosenthal graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, in that year. \n\nConrad J. Rueter was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar. \n\nPreston B. Runyan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. \n\nJohn Rowe graduated at Harvard in 1783, and was at the Suffolk bar in 1789. He \ndied in 1842. \n\nJefferson Steuart Rusk was admitted to the .Suffolk bar Decembers, 1891, and \nis now at the bar. \n\nJosiaii Rutter graduated at Harvard in 1833, and was admitted to the Middlesex \nbar in June 1842. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1863 and died in 1876. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 533 \n\nNathaniel Morton S afford graduated at Harvard in 1869 and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1872. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 11, 1K72. \n\nGeorge A. Saltmarsh was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nCalvin Proctor Sampson graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar July 5, 1876. He is now at the bar. \n\nM. Lendsley Sanborn was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nWilliam Savier graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1837, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in July, of that year. He died in 187:!. \n\nHenry Sargent graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1849, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar August 7, 1851. \n\nWilliam A. Sargent was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar. \n\nArtemas Sawyer graduated at Harvard in 1798, and was at the Suffolk bar in \n1803. He died in 1815. \n\nGeorge Augustus Sawyer graduated at Harvard in 1*77, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 5, 1880. He is now at the bar. \n\nIsaac F. Sawyer was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. \n\nJakez A. Sawyer was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 10, 1853, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nLaureston L. Scaife was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 1872, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nLucius Manlius Sargent graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 24, 1870. \n\nFrederic Baker Sears graduated at Brown in 1863 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1865. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 17, 1865. He died in 1871. \n\nHorace Nelson Seaver graduated at Columbia College in 1872, and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1874, in which year he was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \n\nArthur George Sedgwick graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 17, 1867. \n\nRussell A. Sears was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nArthur J. Selfridge was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nJ. George Seltzer was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1861, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nJoseph C. Sharkey was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar. \n\nCharles E. Shattuck was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nRoland Crocker Shaw graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in June, 1860. He died in 1888. \n\nGeorge Sheffield graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1876, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar October 26, 1876. He died in 1884. \n\n\n534 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nHi \\u\\ Xr.w ton Sheldon graduated at Harvard in 1S(53, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in April, 1866. He is now at the bar. \n\nEdward Lowell Sherman graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was admitted to \nthe Essex bar in 1856. He was at the Suffolk bar in INfiO. \n\nRobj R i 1\". SlMES was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar. \n\nCharles L. Simmons was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 188(5, and is now at the bar. \n\nAlbert Thomas Sinclair graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 2, 1866. He is now at the bar. \n\nHerberi Sleeper graduated at Harvard in 1861, and was admitted to the Suff< ilk- \nbar February 21, 1865. He died in 1874. \n\nKi.w i\\ Smith graduated at Harvard in 1811, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin September, 1814. He died in 1875. \n\nGeorge Alexander Smith graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar July 9 in that year. He died in 1859. \n\nHenry A. Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1872, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nHenkv Farnam Smith graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1850, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar March 13, 1852. He died in 1874. \n\nHorace E. Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 17, 1847, and after prac- \nticing in Boston moved to New York State. \n\nJoseph Emerson Smith graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in July, 1807. He died in 1837. \n\nManasses Smith, brother of the above, graduated at Harvard in 1800, and was at \nthe Suffolk bar in 1819. He died in 1822. \n\nPhineas Bean Smith graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar September 26, 1859. He is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam Smith graduated at Harvard in 1807, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1810. He died in 1811. \n\nUzziel Putnam Smith graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1858. \n\nYi'silanti Alexander Smith graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1849, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. \n\nGeorge A. Smyth e was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1872, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nElmer A. Snow was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar. \n\nFrederick E. Snow was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the \nbar. \n\n( \\ eorge Wales Soren graduated at Harvard in 1854 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 21, 1858. \n\nWalter W. Soren was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar. \n\nCharles B. Southard was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 8, 1871, and is \nnow at the bar. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 535 \n\nCharles F. Spear was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar. \n\nHenry W. Sprague was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam St ackpole graduated at Harvard in 1798, and was at the Suffolk bar In \n1804. He died in 1822. \n\nMelville Stacy graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1871, and is now at the bar, \n\nWilliam Jasper Stanley graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died in 1881. \n\nGeorge Hermon Stearns graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to the \nEssex bar in 1880. He is now at the Suffolk bar. \n\nWilliam H. Stearns was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1885, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nWilliam Stedman graduated at Harvard in 1784, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1831. \n\nCharles Steere was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1876, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nEdwin F. Stevens was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. \n\nHenry James Stevens graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar September 4, 1860. He is now at the bar. \n\nJames Munroe Stevens graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar April 21 in that year. \n\nMilan Fillmore Stevens graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in October, 1878. He is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam B. Stevens was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1867, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nEnos Stewart graduated at Harvard in 1820, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nMay 6, 1826. He died in 1847. \n\nJohn Stickney gi-aduated at Harvard iu 1804, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin July, 1808. He died in 1833. \n\nL. L. Stimpson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880, and is now at the bar. \n\nHoward Stockton was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1870, and is \nnow at the bar. \n\nPhilip Sidney Stone graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in July, 1875. \n\nRichard Stone was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 19, 1866, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nAugustus Story graduated at Harvard in 1832, and was admitted to the .Suffolk \nbar in October, 1836. He died in 1882. \n\nJames Jackson Storrow graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar February 18, 1860. He is now at the bar. \n\nJames Jackson Storrow, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1885, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in 1888. He is now at the bar. \n\n\n536 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nCharles Edwin Str itton graduated at Harvard in 1806 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 18, 1869, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nFrederic Washington Story graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar November 1, 1*75. \n\nJacob Story graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar January 4, 1847. \n\nRoger F. Sturgis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar. \n\nThomas Leggett Sturtevant graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar May 1, 1866. \n\nEdward Sullivan was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 10, 1865, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nWilliam Sullivan graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1882. He is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam H. Sullivan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the \nbar'. \n\nJames Barry Sullivan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1866, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nJeremiah Henry Sullivan graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar May 2, 1873. \n\nMelville Howard Swett graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in October. 1874. \n\nJames Sumner graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in March, 1862. \n\nWilliam Symmes graduated at Harvard in 1780, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1807. \n\nThomas H. Talbot graduated at Bowdoin in 1846, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar January 13, 1872, and is now at the bar. \n\nEdmund H. Talbot was admitted the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar. \n\nArthur Taylor was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar. \n\nJohn Taylor graduated at Harvard in 1786, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \nHe died in 1843. \n\nJohn Doe Taylor graduated at Harvard in 1849 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1853. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 20, 1853. \n\nFrederick H. Temple was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. \n\nCharles Thorndike graduated at Harvard in 1854 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 28, 1857, and is now at the bar. \n\nJohn Larkin Thorndike graduated at Harvard in 1866 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 8, 1868, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nJames Si ei aim Thorndike graduated at Harvard in 1848 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 25, 1852, and died in \nParis, France, April 20, 1893. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 5^7 \n\nWllliam Starkey Titcomb graduated at Harvard in 1801, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar. He died in 1831. \n\nW. H. J. Tiernan was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 21), 1S91, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nJames Richard Tout graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar June 14 in that year. \n\nJoseph Warren Towle graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar July 18, 1853. \n\nTruman Benjamin Towne graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar March 16, 1871. \n\nWilliam H. Towne was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 24, 1864, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nGeorge Henry Tripp graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar September 24, 1869. He died in 1880. \n\nIchabod Tucker graduated at Harvard in 1791, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1846. \n\nJosiah P. Tucker was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. \n\nCalvin B. Tuttle was admitted to the Essex bar in 1880, and is now at the Suffolk \nbar. \n\nFrank J. Tuttle was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. \n\nJohn Leighton Tuttle graduated at Harvard in 1796, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar. He died in 1813. \n\nGeorge Washington Tyler graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1857 and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar December 26 in that year. \n\nTheodore Hilgard Tyndale graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868 and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar November 4 in that year. He is now at the bar. \n\nRoyall Tyler 2d graduated at Harvard in 1834, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar November 27, 1837. \n\nWilliam Phineas Upham graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the \nEssex bar in 1859. He is now at the Suffolk bar. \n\nJohn W. Vaughn was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. \n\nDominique F. Verdenal graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar April 22 in that year. \n\nJohn Martin Verdenal graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar April 22 in that year. \n\nSolomon Vose graduated at Harvard in 1787, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. \nHe died in 1809. \n\nJohn Wade graduated at Amherst in 1830 and at the Harvard Law School in 1834. \nHe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1833, and died in 1851. \n\nGeorge Gorham Walbach graduated at Harvard in 1873 and at the Boston Univer- \nsity Law School in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880. \n\n68 \n\n\n538 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nArthur Daggett McClellan, son of John and Anna I. (Daggett) McClellan, was \nborn in Sutton, Mass., May 21, 1850. He is descended from James McClellan, who \ncame to New England with a company of Scotch Irish and settled in Worcester \nabout 1718. Samuel, a brother of James, was the ancestor of General George B. \nMcClellan. He was educated at the Worcester Academy and at Brown University, \nwhere he graduated in 1873. While holding good rank in his class he was especially \ndistinguished during his college course as an athlete. He was one of the freshmen \ncrew of 1870 which won the race on Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester, over the \ncompeting crews of Harvard, Yale and Amherst. His physical development was \nconsidered so nearly perfect that in boating circles he gained and bore for many \nyears the name of the \" little giant.\" In October, 1873, he entered the law office of \nBacon & Aldrich in Worcester, the firm consisting of Peter C. Bacon and P. Emery \nAldrich, the latter of whom was in the same year appointed to the bench of the \nSuperior Court, and was succeeded in the firm by W. S. B. Hopkins, who had at that \ntime attained distinction as an advocate. While a student Mr. McClellan reported \nthe Court proceedings for the Worcester Gazette, and his labors as a reporter, which \nwere highly commended, served to educate him in the methods and practice of \nhis profession and furnish to him valuable aid in his preparation for a legal career. \nIn October, 1874, he removed to Boston and entered the law office of Charles H. \nDrew and Albert Mason, the former of whom is the justice of the Police Court of \nBrookline, and the latter the chief justice of the Superior Court. He finished his law \nstudies with a year's course in the Boston University Law School, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. After his admission he began practice in the office \nof Drew & Mason, but soon after formed a partnership with Charles C. Barton and \nGeorge S. Forbush, under the title of Barton, McClellan & Forbush. Two years \nlater Mr. Forbush left the firm and its name became Barton & McClellan and so con- \ntinued for five years. In the autumn of 1886 he originated the idea of having the \nshort lists of all the courts in the county published daily and circulated each afternoon \namong subscribers at the bar. He began the publication of the Daily Law Bulle- \ntin soon after, containing the short lists for the next day, giving the names of the \nparties to suits, of the counsel on both sides, a brief report of the trials of the day, \nthe finding of the court or the verdict of the jury, as the case might be. At a later \nday the scope of the Bulletin was enlarged by adding the trials of the United States \nCourts and the courts of Middlesex county, and by adding chattel and real estate \nmortgages, rescripts, etc. This Law Bulletin was the first of its kind, but its plan \nwas soon after adopted in many places in other States. Mr. McClellan became in- \nterested at the same time in the publication of the Banker and Trades/nan, a \nweekly issue containing full information concerning transfers and mortgages of real \nand personal estate in all the counties of the State, but an enlarging law practice in- \nduced him to relinquish his interest in both that and the Bulletin to parties who \nhave continued their publication. In his general practice, which has been large and \nsatisfactorily lucrative, he has achieved merited distinction, being especially success, \nful in the organization of corporations and the direction of their legal and financial \naffairs. For five years he was secretary of the Boston Art Club, and was one of the \nactive founders of the University Club. He is a director in the Traders' National \nBank and other corporations, but does not permit the obligations which they impose \n\n\ntilOGkAPHICAL &&GISTER. 539 \n\non him to seduce him from a profession which he continues to practice with interest \nand zeal. He married, October 9, 1882, in New York city, Mary A. Hartwell, \nwidow of Charles A. Hartwell and daughter of Timothy Townsend, and has his resi- \ndence at the Hotel Vendome in Boston. \n\nGodfrey Morse, son of Jacob and Charlotte Morse, was born in Wachenheim, \nBavaria, May 19, 1846. At the age of eight years he came to America with his \nmother, and received his early education in the Boston public schools. He graduated \nat Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. in \n1872. His law studies were completed in the office of Brooks & Ball in Boston, and \nhe was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 22, 1873. While preparing himself for his \nprofession he taught, during some of the winter months, English literature and \narithmetic in the Boston Evening High School. He was admitted to practice in the \nUnited States Circuit Court October 2, 1874, and in the United States Supreme \nCourt at Washington February 3, 1879. He was a member of the Boston School \nCommittee in 1876-77-78, and of the Boston Common Council in 1882-83, serving in \nthe latter year as president of the Board. In 1882-83-84 he was assistant counsel of \nthe United States in the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and on the 11th \nof March, 1885, he was appointed a member of the Board of Commisioners for the \nerection of the new court-house for the city of Boston and the county of Suffolk. In \n1887 he was chosen a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Dental College, \nand is now, in connection with his other professional work, acting as attorney of the \nAmerican Surety Company of New York. Mr. Morse is a brother of the late Leo- \npold Morse, and possesses many of those traits which won for that gentleman the \nconfidence and respect of the community. He is engaged in an active and growing \ngeneral practice which he conducts with an energy and fidelity deserving the success \nwhich he has achieved. \n\nWalter Adams, son of C. S. Adams, graduated at Harvard in 1870, and studied \nlaw with his father in Framingham, and in the office of Henry W. Paine and Robert \nD. Smith in Boston, and is practicing in Boston. He married, May 25, 1885, at West \nRiver, Md., Constance, daughter of Rev. Thomas Weld Winchester. He resides in \nFramingham. \n\nJohn Hannan Cole graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1872, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1873, and to the bar in \nNew York in October, 1874. In January, 1877, he became a member of the firm of \nGray & Davenport in New York, and in 1879 was admitted to the bar of the Supreme \nCourt of the United States. In 1880 he withdrew from the firm of Gray & Daven- \nport and has since practiced alone in New York. He married, September 26, 1877, \nLucy May Smith, of New York, who died January 24, 1882. He married second, \nJune 11, 1885, in Oxford, England, Josephine Mcllvaine Hewson. He resides in \nNew York. \n\nLouis Thomas Cushing graduated at Harvard in 1870, and after graduation was \nengaged in farming in Madison, Wis. He then removed to Cohasset, Mass., and \nstudied law in the Boston University, graduating in 1875, and being admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in June of that year. He married, February 14, 1871, Mary Rebecca \nJohnson, of Cohasset, where he resides and practices law. \n\n\n540 HISTORY OF THK BENCH AND BAR. \n\nAndrew Otis Evans, son of Hosea Ballou and Harriet (French) Evans, was born \nin Boston, May 26, 1847. He received his early education at the Boston public \nschools and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law at the Harvard Law \nSchool, and at the Boston University, and in the office of Brooks & Ball of Boston, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1873. He died in Boston in September, \n1879. \n\nJoseph Heai.y, son of John Plummer and Mary Stickney (Barker) Healy, \nwas born in Boston, August 6, 1849. He graduated at Harvard in 1870, and \nafter studying law in the office of his father in Boston and at the Harvard \nLaw School was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16, 1873. In 1878 he delivered \nthe Boston Fourth of July oration. He was secretary and treasurer of the Boston \nLatin School Association, vice-president of the Young Men's Benevolent Society, and \na member of various social, legal and antiquarian associations. He married, Sep- \ntember 26, 1877, in Brookline, Mass., Alice Hale Bird, and died in Boston, April 18, \n1880. \n\nBakson Savilian Ladd graduated at Harvard in 1870, and taught school in Worces- \nter two years after graduation. He studied law in the office of Lathrop, Abbot & \nJones, of Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar March 27, 1875. He married, November 16, 1878, Ella Cora Brooks, of Milton. \n\nCharles H. Swan graduated at Harvard in 1870, and after studying law in the \noffice of Harris & Tucker, of Boston, was admitted to the bar in June, 1872. He \nmarried, November 6, 1884, Caroline Metcalf Nazro, of Dorchester, where he has his \nresidence. \n\nWilliam Warren Vaughan graduated at Harvard in 1870, and after studying law \nat the Harvard Law School was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1874. He \nmarried, October 16, 1882, Ellen Twisleton, daughter of the late Dr. Samuel Park- \nman, and resides in Boston. \n\nMelville M. Weston graduated at Harvard in 1870, and studied law in the office \nof Robert D. Smith, of Boston, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted \nto the bar in December, 1873, and practices in Boston. \n\nGeorge Jones, alias George the Count Johannes, was the son of George Jones, a \nBoston constable, and was born in that city. In early life he acted on the stage of \nthe old Tremont and other theatres. About the year 1840, when he was perhaps \nthirty or thirty-five years of age, he went to England, and there in some of the lesser \ntheatres played the leading parts in the plays of Shakespeare. His performances \namused the people and brought down on him the satire and humor of London \nPunch. He returned to Boston not many years before the war and made himself \nconspicuous by his libel suits against parties who dared to express doubts of his title \nand pretensions. He claimed that the rank of count had been regularly conferred on \nhim in England, and he wore the badges of his rank. For several years he was the \nterror of the newspapers and the courts, and besides managing the many suits in \nwhich he was the plaintiff, he acted in others as a special attorney, never having been \nadmitted to the bar. In a suit brought against William L. Burt for a libel contained \nin an address to the jury in a case in which the count was the plaintiff, the libel con- \nsisting of the declaration that he was insane, he described himself in the declaration \n\n\n:«■.» \n\n\n/? istztt^^^ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 54 1 \n\nto the writ as \" a public author of historical and other works, public lecturer and pub- \nlic oratorical illustrator of the Sacred Scriptures and the works of Shakspeare, and \nspecial attorney,\" etc. Another suit was brought by him against Francis H. Under- \nwood for writing in the Boston A Has and Bee that \" there flourishes a soi discuit \ncount with his decorations given by the Grand Duke Pumpernickel, or brought from \nsome similar august potentate.\" This suit caused Mr. Underwood much trouble, and \nhis determination to discover the origin of the assumed title of count, and to put an \nend to the pretensions of the man who claimed the right to bear it, cost him some \nmoney, but was effectual. Affidavits were secured in England showing that Mr. \nSartoris, the son-in-law of Adelaide Kemble, the sister of Fanny Kemble, to make \nsport of Mr. Jones, invited him to a dinner or supper in London, and in the course of \nthe evening told him in a serious way that he ought to have a title, and as he himself \nwas descended from an ancient count whose right to confer the rank on others inured \nto his descendants that he would bestow the title on him. Making him kneel on the \nfloor, he said: \" Rise George the Count Johannes, Knight of the Golden Spur.\" But \nas Mr. Sartoris was really descended from a count it was necessary to show that he \nhad no power to confer the title, and an affidavit was obtained from the Chancellor \nof Austria showing that the last and only grant of the title with a descending power \nof transfer was made in 1495, and that the family possessing it had lapsed. It was \nalso shown by experts, among whom was the late Edmund Quincy, that the title of \nKnight of the Golden Spur was alone given by the Pope to such as had performed \nsome special service to the Romish Church. Some hints concerning the various libel \nand slander suits in which the count was engaged may be found in Johannes vs. \nBennett, 5th of Allen, and Johannes vs. Burt vs. Underwood vs. Mudge vs. Nickerson \nand vs. Pangborn, 6th of Allen. The count finally became so troublesome with his \nsuits that he was indicted for barratry and convicted, and a sentence to the House of \nCorrection was withheld only on the condition that he would leave the State. He \nwent to New York and is said to have died there since 1880. \n\nJonathan Mason, son of Jonathan, was born in Boston, August 20, 1752, and grad- \nuated at Princeton in 1774. He studied law with John Adams, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in 1777. He was a representative several years, a member of the \nExecutive Council, and in 1800 was elected United States senator as the successor of \nBenjamin Goodhue, of Salem, who had resigned. He served as senator until 1803 \nand as member of Congress from December, 1817, to May, 1820. He died in Boston, \nNovember 1, 1831. He married Susanna Powell. \n\nJeremiah Mason was born in Lebanon, Conn., April 27, 1768, and graduated at \nYale in 1788. He was the son of Jeremiah Mason, a colonel in the Revolution. He \nwas admitted to the bar in 1781, and began practice in Westmoreland, N. H. In \n1794 he removed to Walpole, and in 1797 to Portsmouth, where he rapidly gained an \nextensive business. In 1802 he was appointed attorney-general of New Hampshire, \nand served in the United States Senate as a Federalist from 1813 to his resignation \nin 1817. In 1832 he removed to Boston where, as in New Hampshire, he shared with \nMr. Webster the leadership of the bar. In 1840 he retired from general practice, \nthough continuing until his death the consulting business of his office. He was a \nman whose brain and mind and body corresponded. All were massive and strong, \nand while Mr. Webster declared that much of his own skill as a jurist was due to \n\n\n542 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nlessons learned from Mr. Mason in his contests with him at the bar, there was many \na common man who had cowered before his physical presence. It is said that once \nriding down throught the upper and narrow part of Water street in Boston in the \nchaise in which he always rode, and crouching down as was his habit so that his real \nheight was not disclosed, he met a team coming up. It was of course necessary that \neither Mr. Mason or the driver of the team should back out of the way. Mr. Mason \nordered the driver to back in a somewhat peremptory manner which the driver re- \nsented, returning the compliment by telling the old man to back himself. After \nsome words of a not very friendly character Mr. Mason getting a little angry began \nto straighten up, much to the dismay of the driver, who at last exclaimed, For God's \nsake, mister, don't uncoil any more, I'll get out of the way. It is unnecessary to go \ninto details concerning the characteristics of Mr. Mason as a lawyer or concerning \nthe prominent incidents in his career. They may be found in his memoirs, and in \nthe various biographical dictionaries. He died in Boston, October 14, 1848. \n\nJonathan Adams was a barrister in 1768, living in Braintree, then a part of Suf- \nfolk count}-. He was not a graduate of Harvard, and the writer has been unable to \nlearn anything of his history. \n\nJob Almy was judge of the Common Pleas Court of Bristol county, serving in that \ncapacity from 1740 to 1747, and belonged in Tiverton. He is entitled to a place in \nthis register in consequence of his appointment in 1737 to act as a special justice in \nSuffolk county in the case of Aaron Knapp. \n\nEdmund Andros was born in London, December 6, 1637. In 1674 he was appoint- \ned governor of the province of New York by the Duke of York, and continued in \nservice till 1681. In 1686 he was appointed by James the second governor of New \nEngland, and arrived in Boston, December 21, in that year. On the accession of \nWilliam and Mary he was deposed and imprisoned, and sent to England. In 1692 \nhe retm-ned to America as governor of Virginia, and remained until 1698. From \n1704 to 1706 he was governor of the Island of Jersey, and died in London, February \n24, 1714. The judicial powers exercised by him in New England, and described in \nthe introductory chapter of this volume, entitle him to a place in this register. \n\nGeorge Franklin Danforth was born in Boston, July 5, 1819, and graduated at \nUnion College in 1840. He was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Roches- \nter, N. Y. In 1879 he took a seat on the bench of the Court of Appeals, and is be- \nlieved to be still in service. \n\nAddington Davenport, jr., son of Judge Addington Davenport, was appointed \nattorney-general in 1728 and 1732, but Washburn says that it is doubtful whether he \nwas permitted to perform the duties of the office. He practiced law in Boston some \nyears, but in 1732 went to England and took orders for the church. He was born in \nBoston, May 16, 1701, and graduated at Harvard in 1719. Having been ordained in \nEngland he returned to Massachusetts, and was appointed the first rector of St. \nAndrew's church in Scituate. In 1737 he became rector of King's chapel in Boston, \nand in 1740 was transferred to Trinity church, of which he was rector until his death \nSeptember 8, 1746. \n\nDavid Lisle, of whom the writer knows little, was solicitor-general of the Com- \nmissioners of the Customs in Boston from 1769 to his death in February, 1775. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 543 \n\nJohn Menzies came from England to Boston in 1715, and brought with him a com- \nmission as judge of admiralty, having been in Scotland a member of the Faculty of \nAdvocates. He at first settled in Roxbury, but removed to Leicester, where he lived \nmany years. He was a representative from Leicester, and expelled for writing \nletters to the Lords Commissioners in England, complaining of the interference by \nthe Provincial Courts with his jurisdiction. He died in Boston, September 20, 1728, \nat the age of seventy-eight years. \n\nHerbert Pelham was born in Lincoln county, England, in 1601, and graduated at \nMagdalen College, Oxford, in 1619. He was the son of Herbert Pelham of Michelham \nPriory, who was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1588, and grandson of Edward Pelham \nof Hastings, in Sussex, a member of Parliament in 1597. Edward, the last named, \nwas admitted to Gray's Inn in 1568, was called to the bar in 1579, knighted and \nmade lord baron of the Exchequer of Ireland, and died in 1606. Herbert came to \nMassachusetts in 1688, having been educated in the law. He was the first treasurer \nof Harvard College, and returned to England in 1649, where he died in 1673. His \ndaughter, Penelope, married Josiah Winslow, son of Governor Edward Winslow, of \nthe Plymouth colony, who was himself governor of that colony from 1673 to 1680. \n\nWilliam Edward Payne, son of William and Lucy (Lobell) Payne, was born in \nNew York, April 8, 1804, while his parents were returning to Boston from a visit in \nWashington. He was one of twins, and his twin brother was named Edward Will- \niam. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and at Harvard, where he \ngraduated in 1824. He studied law at the law school in Northampton, and in the \noffice of Lemuel Shaw and Sidney Bartlett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \n1827. Being in poor health, he never practiced law to any extent. In 1834 he went \nto Europe, where he remained until his death, which occurred at Paris, France, July \n5, 1838. He was unmarried. \n\nThomas W. Thompson was born in Boston, March 15, 1766, and graduated at Har- \nvard in 1786. He studied law, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He practiced \nlaw in Salisbury, N. H., from 1790 to 1810. when he removed to Concord, N. H. He \nwas speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1813-14, member of \nCongress from 1805 to 1807, and State treasurer in 1809, and United States senator \nfrom 1814 to 1817. He died at Concord, October 1, 1821. \n\nCharles Wesley Tuttle was born in Maine, November 1, 1829, and as one of the \ncorps of observers at the Astronomical Observatory in Cambridge distinguished him- \nself by the discovery of a telescopic comet in 1853, which bears his name. In 1854 \nhe was attached to the United States expedition for determining the difference of \nlongitude betAveen Cambridge, Mass., and Greenwich in England. Having taxed \nhis eyes too severely by astronomical work, he abandoned his scientific pursuits, \nand after attending the Harvard Law School was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, \n1856. He died July 18, 1881, At the time of his death he was engaged in writing \nmemoirs of Caleb Gushing and Captain John Mason. \n\nWilliam Heath was born in Roxbury, March 2, 1737, on the estate on which his \nancestor settled in 1636. He was bred a farmer, but had a strong taste for military \naffairs. He was the commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company \nin 1770, and colonel 'of the Suffolk Regiment in 1774. He was a representative in \n\n\n544 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n■ \n\n1761, a delegate to the Provincial Congresses of 1774 and 1775, and a member of the \nCommittee of Correspondence and Safety. He was appointed brigadier-general of \nthe militia December 8, 1774, major-general June 20, 1775, brigadier-general of the \nContinental Army June 22, 1775, and major-general August 9, 1776. He was stationed \nat Roxbury during the siege of Boston, and after the evacuation of that city went to \nNew York and took command of the posts at the Highlands. In 1777 he commanded \nthe Eastern Department, had charge of the prisoners taken at Saratoga, and finally \nhad command on the Hudson until the close of the war. He was a delegate to the \nFederal Constitutional Convention in 1788; State senator from 1780 to 1792, and in \n1806 was chosen lieutenant-governor, but declined. On the 2d of July, 1793, after \nthe incorporation of Norfolk county, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common \nPleas, and also judge of probate of the new county, and died January 24, 1814. \n\nThomas Greenleaf was born in Boston, May 15, 1767, and graduated at Harvard \nin 1784. He was a representative from Quincy from 1808 to 1820; a member of the \nExecutive Council from 1820 to 1822, and in 1806 was appointed judge of the Court \nof Common Pleas for Norfolk county. He died January 5, 1854. \n\nJohn W. Ames, son of Fisher Ames, was born in Dedham, October 22, 1793, and \ngraduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law with Theron Metcalf, and after ad- \nmission to the bar opened an office in Boston. After a short time he removed to \nDedham, from which town he was a representative in the General Court in 1822, and \nwhere he was president of the Dedham Bank from 1829 until his death, which \n\noccurred October 31, 1833. \n\nm \n\nWilbur H. Powers, son of Elias and Emeline (White) Powers, was born in Croy- \nden, N. H., January 2, 1849. He inherited from a vigorous ancestry strength of \ncharacter and tenacity of will which have served him well in the development of his \nprofessional career. Since the day when a Le Poer figured as one of the bravest \ngenerals in the battle of Hastings, the family name in its various forms of spelling \nhas represented an honest and brave and patriotic race. Early in life he attended \nthe village school, often traveling three miles on foot to more distant schools when \nnearer ones were closed, and later he attended a school of higher grade at Olean, \nN. Y., and Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H. But he was not content with \nthe instruction received at these institutions. Naturally of an inquiring mind, he \nhad been in the habit of listening to the conversation of his elders, and thus his \nambition was kindled to learn something more of the world than he could acquire \nwithin the narrow field of his country life. In 1871 he entered Dartmouth College \nand graduated in 1875, having taken during the collegiate course several prizes for \nrhetoric, oratory and general scholarship. During the winter months he had taught \nschool, and during the summer vacations been employed on his father's farm or in a \nneighboring furniture establishment, and thus he not only learned lessons of industry \nand thrift, but earned something towards the payment of his college bills. After \nleaving college he attended the Boston University School of Law, graduating in 1878, \nand was admitted to the New Hampshire bar at Concord in August of that year. In \nNovember, 1878, he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar at Fitchburg, and began \npractice in Boston January 22, 1879. Upon coming to Boston he made Canton his \nplace of residence for a year, and removed to Hyde Park in 1881, where he has con- \ntinued to live up to the present time. With the interests and welfare of that town \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 545 \n\nhe has closely identified himself, and in 1890, 1891 and 1892 was its representative in \nthe General Court. In the House of Representatives he was recognized by the Re- \npublicans as their most judicious and efficient leader, and to his efforts was due the \npassage of the Congressional apportionment bill, which was considered as more just \nand more free from partisan manipulation than any apportionment for many years. \nHe was also chairman of the Committee on Railroads and in 1892 was appointed \nchairman of the important committee to revise the judicial system of the Common- \nwealth. He was also the author of the \" Powers Tax Bill,\" the object of which was \nto make a more equitable division of that portion of the State tax now paid to cities \nand towns, and at the same time to foster the public school system and aid needy \nmunicipalities. He married in Boston, May 1, 1880, Emily Owen, and continues to \nlive in Hyde Park. \n\nDavid, Haven Mason, son of John and Mary (Haven) Mason, was born in Sullivan, \nN. H., March 17, 1818, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1841. After studying \nlaw he was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1843. In 1848 he took up his resi- \ndence in Newton and there remained until his death. With the sterling traits which \nwere his characteristics, he was not long in securing the confidence of the business \ncommunity and establishing himself firmly in the profession. In the town of his \nadoption he became a respected and trustworthy citizen, and he was ever active and \nefficient in promoting the welfare of the town and its people. His interest in the \nschools of Newton was especially strong, and to his efforts more than to those of \nothers was due the erection of a new High School building against serious and deter- \nmined opposition. The people of Newton have recognized his services in behalf of \nthe schools by giving his name to one of the schools in Newton Centre. In 1857 he \ndelivered an oration in New London, Conn., on the Fourth of July and in 1859 in \nNewton on the same occasion. On the 14th of July, 1864, he delivered the oration at \nthe centennial anniversary of the settlement of Lancaster, N. H. In 1860 he was \nappointed by the governor a member of the State Board of Education and served \nseveral years, during which he was especially conspicuous in the establishment of \nthe State Normal School in Framingham. In 1863, 1866 and 1867 he was a repre- \nsentative from Newton, and more than once declined nominations to the State Senate \nand to Congress. A seat on the bench also was offered to him, but he preferred the \nactive business as well as the larger emoluments of his profession. During his legis- \nlative career and before committees of the Legislature he advocated many important \nmeasures, among which may be mentioned the consolidation of the Western and \nBoston Worcester Railroads, the equalization of bounties to soldiers, the Fort Hdl \nenterprise, and the abolition of the Mill Dam toll-gate. During the administration \nof President Grant, George S. Hillard resigned the office of United States district \nattorney for Massachusetts, and on the 22d of December, 1870, Mr. Mason was ap- \npointed his successor, and held that office until his death. He married, June 16, 1845, \nSarah Wilson, daughter of John Hazen and Roxanna White Wilson, of Rutland, Mass. , \nand died at Newton, May 20, 1873, leaving one daughter and three sons, members \nof the Suffolk bar, and referred to elsewhere in this register. \n\nJames R. Murphy, son of James and Catherine Murphy, was born in Boston, July \n20, 1853. He was educated at Boston College, and at the University of Georgetown, \nDistrict of Columbia, from which he graduated in 1872. After leaving college he \n69 \n\n\n546 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nwas emyloyed three years as professor of Latin in Loyola College, Baltimore, and in \nSeton Hall, New Jersey. He then studied law in the office of Josiah G. Abbott, in \nBoston, and at the Boston University Law School from which he graduated with the \ndegree of LL.B. in 1876, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 18 in that \nyear. Since his admission he has always practiced alone, relying on his own un- \naided efforts for the professional success which he has achieved. Among the im- \nportant cases in which he has been counsel may be mentioned the Frye murder case, \nthe Florence Street murder case, and several contract cases involving large sums of \nconsiderable amount. As a Roman Catholic he has been active and influential in \nthe organization of Young Men's Catholic Associations, and is a member of the \nCatholic Union, the Order of United Workmen and the Royal Arcanum. He is in \nthe prime of mental and bodily vigor, still advancing in his profession with a sure \npromise of continued success. He married in Baltimore, Md., Mary, daughter of \nGeorge Baker Randall, November 21, 1881, and has his residence in the Roxbury \nDistrict of Boston. \n\nGeorge Partridge Sanger, son of Rev. Ralph and Charlotte Kingman Sanger, \nwas born in Dover, Mass., November 27, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. \nHis rank in college was high, and the studious habits while in college were main- \ntained through life. He fitted for college partly under the instruction of his father, \nand partly at the academy in Bridgewater, the native place of his mother. During \nhis preparation he taught school in Dover during the winter of 1834, at the age of fif- \nteen, and in Sharon during the winter of 1835. After leaving college he taught a \nprivate school in Portsmouth, N. H., nearly two years, after which he entered the \nHarvard Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1844. \nIn 1843, while attending the law school, he was appointed tutor in Latin, having \nheld the position of proctor since August, 1842. In 1846 his connection with the col- \nlege terminated, and he was admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 9th of February in \nthat year. After his admission he was associated in business for a short time with \nStephen H. Phillips, and afterwards with Charles G. Davis, and in 1849 was ap- \npointed assistant* of George Lunt, United States district attorney for the District of \nMassachusetts. In January, 1853, he was appointed on the staff of Governor Clif- \nford, and on the 30th of September of that year was appointed Commonwealth attor- \nney to succeed John C. Park, who had resigned. In 1854 he was appointed judge of \nthe Court of Common Pleas, and was succeeded as Commonwealth or district attorney \nby George W. Cooley. He remained on the bench until the abolition of the Common \nPleas Court in 1859, and in 1861 was reappointed district attorney in the place of \nJoseph H. Bradley, who had been appointed to succeed Mr. Cooley, but declined. \nHe held the office of district attorney until 1866, when he declined further service, \nand resumed practice. In 1867 he removed his residence from Boston to Cambridge, \nand continued it there until his death. In 1873 he was appointed United States at- \ntorney for the District of Massachusetts by President Grant, and was reappointed \ntwite, once by President Hayes and once by President Arthur. In Charlestown, \nwhere he resided in the earlier part of his career, he was a member of the School \nBoard two years, and captain of the Charlestown City Guards. In 1853 he com- \nmanded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and in 1870 was a member of \nthe Boston Common Council. He was a member of the House of Representatives in \n\n\nBiographical register. 547 \n\n1873, and was for several years the president of the John Hancock Mutual Life In- \nsurance Company of Boston. Aside from his official labors, and those more in- \ntimately connected with his profession, he devoted much time to the literature of the \nlaw. He was editor of the American Alumnae and Repository of Useful Knowl- \nedge from 1848 to I860, was twice editor of the Law Reporter, and the editor of the \nStatutes at Large of the United States from 1*55 to 1873. In 1860 he was ap- \npointed, with Judge William A. Richardson, by the Massachusetts Legislature, to \npublish the General Statutes in 1860 and an annual supplement to the same, a work \nwhich continued until the revision of the statutes in 1881. He married, September \n14, 1846, Elizabeth Sherburne, daughter of Win. Whipple and Eleanor (Sherburne) \nThompson, of Portsmouth, N. H., and died at Swampscott, Mass., July 3, 1890. \n\nBknjamin Robbins Curtis, jr., son of Judge Benjamin Robbins Curtis, was born in \nBoston in June, 1855. He was fitted for college at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. \nH., and graduated at Harvard in 1875. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, \nand in Boston in the office of Albert Mason, and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth \nin June, 1878. In 1881 he was a lecturer in the Boston University Law School, and \nin April, 1886, was appointed one of the judges of the Municipal Court of the city of \nBoston. Before entering on his legal career he spent a year in travel, during which \nhe went round the world, and visited with an observing eye its various nations and \nand people. The result of his observations he published after his return in a work, \nwhich was interesting and remunerative. He married, in 1877, Mary G , daughter \nof Professor Horsford of Cambridge, and died in Boston, January 25, 1891. \n\nThomas William Clarke, son of Calvin W. and Ann K. (Townsend) Clarke, was \nborn in Boston, December 1, 1834. His mother was a daughter of Dr. David Towns- \nend, chief surgeon of the Northern Army at Saratoga, and director-general of hos- \npitals in the Revolution. The ancestors of his father were early settlers in Marble- \nhead, and two members of the family, Thomas and Benjamin, moved to Boston about \nthe year 1740. One of these was a silversmith and the other a coppersmith. A \nbrother, John, who remained in Marblehead, was the father of Lieut. John Clarke, \nof Glover's Regiment, who with two cousins figured conspicuously in the retreat from \nLong Island and at the crossing of the Delaware. Thomas Clarke, the father of \nCalvin and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, lived in Roxbury, and was at- \ntached to the commissary department during the siege of Boston. The systematic \nco-operation of the civil strength of the Province in the work of fortifying Dorchester \nHeights was due to the thoroughness with which the commissariat officers of Massa- \nchusetts had under Mr. Devens, the commissary-general, ascertained and organized \nthe resources of the Province under the town officers, for the purpose of sustaining \nthe siege. For many years Thomas Clarke was town clerk and town collector of \nRoxbury and the first representative from that town under the State constitution. \nCalvin W. Clarke, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a respected Boston \nmerchant and a member of the well-known iron house of Samuel May & Company. \nHe was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1850 and 1851, an alderman in \n1852, and a representative in 1851 and 1852. He was a director of the Traders' \nBank, the Manufacturers' Insurance Company, and several manufacturing corpora- \ntions, and after his retirement from business for many years was an assistant assessor \nof the city of Boston. Thomas William Clarke, the subject of this sketch, fitted for \n\n\n5|S HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ncollege at the Chauncy Hall School and with private tutors, and graduated at Har- \nvard in L855. In the autumn of that year he entered as a student in the law office of \nHenry M. & Horatio (1. Parker in Boston, and at a later date entered the Harvard \nLaw School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1858. While a \nstudent at the law school he was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 19, isr>7, and \nalso studied comparative anatomyin the Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge. In \n1856 he received the Bowdoin prize for resident graduates for an essay on \" the \npolitical and economical effects of the laws regulating succession to property of per- \nsons deceased.\" While in the office of the Messrs. Parker hewasengaged from time- \nto time in the service of the commission to revise the statutes of the Commonwealth \nand occasionally as a writer on the staff of the Atlas and Daily Bee, of Boston. \nAlways nominally a Republican, he was an advocate of the election of P.. F. Butler \nfor governor of Massachusetts in opposition to Robert R. Bishop in 1882, and George \nD. Robinson in 1SS:{, and for president of the United States in 1SS4, and was himself, \nin 1884, the candidate of the People's Party for the attorney-generalship of the State. \nAfter leaving the law school he began practice in Boston, and was commissioner of \ninsolvency in l.sr»<> ISfiO and 1861. After the election of 1860, believing that the elec- \ntion of President Lincoln would result in war, he set himself diligently at work pre- \nparing himself for any exigency that might arise. When the crisis was reached and \nthe Massachusetts militia was called for he, with Captain Tyler, who had been in the \nMexican War, at once began to raise troops. The result of his efforts was that he \nwas commissioned captain of the Wightman Rifles, a company enlisted for three \nyears' service. Captain Tyler was commissioned captain of another company, and \nthese companies, together with one from Lynn, one from East Boston, one from \nPlymouth, one from Sandwich, one from Lowell, and one from East Bridgewater — \neight in all— were mustered into the service on the 14th, 21st, and 22d of May, 1S(I1, \nfor three years, and were temporarily attached to the Third and Fourth Massachu- \nsetts Three Months regiments, stationed at Port Monroe. On the expiration of the \nterm of service of these regiments in July the above eight companies were organized \ninto a battalion, and in the following winter were reinforceed and made the Twenty- \nninth Massachusetts Regiment. After service at Fort Monroe and Newport News \nand Norfolk, Captain Clarke with his regiment joined MeClellan on the Peninsula in \nisii-j, and was attached to the Irish Brigade. After the Seven Days fight he was sent \nan invalid to Washington and served as quartermaster in Alexandria until the spring \nof 1863. He then rejoined his regiment, then a part of the Ninth Corps, in Kentucky, \nand accompanying it to Vicksburg and Jackson went to East Tennessee in the fall \nof 1863. There his regiment was engaged in the affairs of Blue Spring and Camp- \nbell's Station and in the siege of Knoxville. In January, 1864, the men of the regi- \nment were re-enlisted as veterans, and Captain Clarke acted for a time as head- \nquarters commissary of the forces in the field. Coming home with his regiment on \na veterans' furlough he was engaged in recruiting until he returned to the front and \njoined, in May, 1864, the Fifth Corps, at a later date rejoining General Burnside and \nbecoming part of the Second Brigade and First Division. Col. Ebenezer W. Pierce \nof the regiment became brigade commander and Capt. Clarke adjutant-general of \nthe brigade. In May, ISC..\"), he became adjutant-general of the First Division, and \nso continued until he was placed in command of his regiment in July, 1805. Colonel \nPierce had resigned in the latter part of 1864. Lieutenant-Colonel Barnes had been \n\n\n/ /-£~aSLyf \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 549 \n\nmustered out, and Major Chipman having been killed, and senior Capt. W. D. \nChamberlain having been appointed commissary, a commission of colonel was issued \nto Captain Clarke, but not being able to be mustered in on account of the reduced \nsize of his regiment, he continued as adjutant-general of the brigade. AVhile holding \nthis position he won distinction in the successful repulse of the Confederate General \nGordon in his assault of March 25 on his brigade. After the fall of Petersburg the \nregiment was stationed for a time along the Southside Railroad, and after the death \nof President Lincoln was ordered to Washington, where it remained until it was \nfinally discharged, August 9, 180.\"). After his discharge from the service Captain \nClarke resumed the practice of law in Boston, devoting himself principally to patent, \ncopyright and trademark cases. He was one of the projectors of the Highland \nStreet Railway and for many years its counsel. He has been also interested in \nelectric railway projects and has frequently appeared before Legislative committees \nin their behalf. By great research and ingenious argument he has located in this \ncountry at Annapolis and Fort Monroe the two oldest guns known in the world, \nChinese breech-loaders, and published a sketch of his argument in the proceedings \nof the Naval Institute for June, 1898. He married in 18(!X, Eliza A., daughter of \nJoseph P. Raymond, of Somerville. \n\nGeorge White is a descendant of Thomas White, of Weymouth, who was born in \n1599 and settled in that town as early as 1636. Nathaniel White, the sixth in descent \nfrom Thomas, was born in Weymouth, and married Mehitabel, daughter of Theophilus \nCurtis, of Stoughton, and was the father of George White, the subject of this sketch. \nThe son George was born in Cmincy, Mass., November 9, 1821, and fitted for college \nunder the instruction of William M. Cornell and at Phillips Exeter Academy. He \ngraduated at Yale in 1848, and from the Harvard Law School in 1850, and after \nfurther study in Boston in the office of Robert Rantoul, was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar October 20, 1851. He became at once associated with Mr. Rantoul as a partner, \nand continued in that relation to him until Mr. Rantoul's death. On the occurrence \nof that event, he formed a business connection with Asa French, which continued \nuntil 1858. In that year the offices of judge of probate and judge of insolvency in \nthe various counties were mingled, and he was appointed to the office of judge of \nprobate and insolvency for Norfolk county, and has continued in office to the present \ntime, performing his duties in a manner commanding the confidence and respect of \nthose with whom his office has brought him in near and almost confidential relations. \nHe is now a resident of Wellesley, with a law office in Boston, where aside from his \njudicial duties he is engaged in general practice, but more especially as trustee in the \nmanagement of estates. While living in Quincy he took an active interest in its \nschools, the church to which he was attached, and in every movement looking to the \nintellectual and moral welfare of the town. For two years or more he was associate \neditor and editor of the Quincy Patriot, and in its columns did much to direct and \nelevate the thought of the community. In 1853 he was a member of the State Con- \nstitutional Convention from Quincy, and in 1S57 presided at the Young Men's Con- \nvention at Worcester which nominated Nathaniel P. Banks for governor of Massa- \nchusetts. He married Frances Mary Edwena, daughter of Edward and Clarissa \n(Slack) Noyes, of Boston, and his children are George Rantoul White, Mary Haw- \nthorne White and Edward Noves White. \n\n\n$50 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nElbridge Gerry Dudley, son of Moses and Nancy (Glidden) Dudley, was born in \nRaymond, N. H., August 13, 1811, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1839. \nHe studied law with Charles Frederick Gove, of Nashua, N. H. , and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar August 1, 1842. He married first Christina D., daughter of Isaac \nDuncan, of Stoddard, N. H., October' 6, 1846; second, Sarah, daughter of Stephen \nChild; and third, Martha R., daughter of Stephen Child, November 19, 1857. He \ndied in 1867. \n\nMark Fisher Duncklee, son of Samuel and Esther French (Fisher) Duncklee, was \nborn in Greenfield, N. H., December 9, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth College \nin 1847. He studied law with John H. Norris at Newport, Me., and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar March 9, 1850. He married Mary, daughter of Greenwood Cushing \nChild, of Augusta, Me., October 4, 1860. \n\nTheodore S. Dame, son of Theodore and Lucy (Stebbins) Dame, was born in Or- \nford, N. H., May 28, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1848. He was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar December 31, 1851, and is now at the bar. He married Mary \nElizabeth Palmer, September 19, 1858. \n\nHenry W. Kinsman, son of Dr. Aaron Kinsman, was born in Portland, Me., March \n6, 1803, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1822. He studied law in Boston \nwith Daniel Webster and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 4, 1826. He began \npractice in Boston as a partner of Mr. Webster, and was a representative from Bos- \nton in 1833, 1834 and 1835. He moved to Newburyport in 1836, and was a repre- \nsentative from that town in 1839, 1849 and 1854. He was also a senator one year, \nand collector of the port of Newburyport from 1841 to 1845 and from 1849 to 1853. \nHe married first Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Willis, of Boston, October 1, 1828, \nand second, Martha Frothingham, daughter of Joseph Moody Titcomb, of Newbury- \nport, October 5, 1858. He died at Newburyport, December 4, 1859. \n\nFrederick William Choate, son of Hervey and Hepzibah (Quarles) Choate, was \nborn in Beverly, Mass., June 7, 1815, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836. \nHe studied law in Yarmouth, Mass., with John Reed, and in Boston with Rufus \nChoate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 30, 1839, and always practiced \nin -Boston. He was a State senator in 1866. He married Eliza M., daughter of \nColonel John Breck, of Northampton, April 20, 1842. \n\nDavid Morgan, son of Ashby and Lucy (Burton) Morgan, was born in Wilton, \nN. H., October 14, 1810, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1835. After teaching school \nat Jamaica Plain near Boston, he studied law with Augustus Peabody, of Boston, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar. After some years he removed to Minneapolis, \nand was appointed postmaster there in 1861. He married Mary Ann Lincoln Pierce, \nof Boston, August 19, 1841, and died in 1872. \n\nNathan Thompson Dow, son of Dr. Jabez and Hannah (Waitt) Dow, was born in \nDover, N. H., December 27, 1807, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1828. After \nleaving college he taught school at Haverhill, N. H., one year, and then studied law \nwith Daniel Miltimore Christie, of Dover, and Richard Fletcher, of Boston, and after \nadmission to the Suffolk bar, began practice in Grafton, Mass., in 1834. He after- \nwards removed to Worcester, and thence in 1839 to Boston, where he remained until \nhis death in 1870. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 551 \n\nJohn Thompson Dame, son of John and Abigail (Thompson) Dame, was born in \nOrford, N. H., October 21, 1816, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1840. He \nstudied law at Orford and at Boston and at the Harvard Law School, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar May 29, 1843. He began practice in Marlboro', moved to \nClinton, and finally to Boston. He married in June, 1845. \n\nPaul Porter Todd, son of Ebenezer and Betsey (Kimball) Todd, was born in \nAtkinson, N. H., February 16, 1819, and graduated at Dartmouth College in l!S42. \nHe studied law with William R. Thompson and Torrey & Wood, of Fitchburg, Mass., \nand was admitted to the bar in 1847. He began practice in Blackstone, Mass., but \nafterwards removed to Boston. He married Harriet, daughter of Welcome Farnum, \nof Blackstone, .September 10, 1857. \n\nCharles Bishop Goodrich, son of Josiah and Lucy (Bishop) Goodrich, was born in \nLebanon, N. H., March 26, 1804. He was descended from William Goodrich, who \nwas born near Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, England, and came to America with his \nbrother John about the year 1640. William, the ancestor, married Sarah, daughter \nof Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin, of Hartford, and was a deputy from Weathers- \nfield, Conn., in 1662. The subject of this sketch graduated at Dartmouth College in \n1822, and received a degree of LL.D. from his alma mater in 1872. He studied law \nwith Levi Woodbury in Portsmouth, and was admitted to the New Hampshire \nbar. He began practice in Lebanon, N. H., and exhibited at the very threshold of \nhis career an ability and self-reliance which enabled him to meet without fear the \nchampions of the New Hampshire bar. Mr. Jeremiah Mason, against whom he was \nacting as counsel in a trial at Portsmouth, was so much struck by these qualities in \nthe young lawyer that he became his adviser and friend, and at a later day, after the \nremoval of both to Boston, his partner in the law. He came to Boston in 1837 and \ncontinued in active practice there until his death. With all his ability, his career \nwas not a successful one. His honest bluntness and want of tact were annoying to \nclients, his addresses to the jury, thorough and lucid as they were, failed to con- \nvince, and his arguments to the court, sound, instructive and logical, wanted the \nwinsome tone which often carries conviction even with judges on the bench. It \nhas been said of him that his only luxuries were a cigar and a law book. Fe.w \nattractions in social life could draw him away from these. The writer, who has \nbeen familiar with the Suffolk bar since 1848, is inclined to place him at the head \nof the second rank of its members, with perhaps a doubt whether he should not \nbe placed within the limits of the first. He married Harriet Newell, daughter of \nChester Shattuck, of Portsmouth, N. H., March 11, 1827, and died in Boston, June \n17, 1878. \n\nWebster Kelley, son of Israel W. and Rhoda (Fletcher) Kelly, was born in Salis- \nbury, N. H., January 1, 1804, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1825. He \nstudied law with Joseph Bell in Haverhill, N. H., and practiced some years in Frank- \nfort, Me. He finally removed to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May \n19, 1851. He married Lucilla S., daughter of Waldo Pierce, of Frankfort, at Boston, \nAugust 29, 1842, and died at Henniker, N. H., July 5, 1855. \n\nClarence Freeman Eldredge, son of James F. and Susan Eldredge, was born in \nDennis Port on Cape Cod, November 14, 1862. He was educated at the public schools \nof his native town and at the Commercial College in Providence, R. I. He studied \n\n\n552 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nlaw in Boston in the office of John M. Way, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nJanuary, 1885. Without the advantages of a collegiate education, he has sur- \nmounted obstacles which would have discouraged a less determined man and estab- \nlished himsef firmly in his profession. He married Lucie 11., daughter of James K. \nand Bethiah S. Nickerson, and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. He is en- \ngaged in general practice, and though an earnest Republican, is unwilling to accept \nany office of honor or emolument which may tend to lead him away from the paths \nof the law. \n\nGeorge Nehemiah Eastman, son of Nehemiah and Anstriss(Barker) Eastman, was \nborn in Farmington, N. H., January 20, 1820, and graduated at Dartmouth College in \nL839. He studied law with his father and with Levi Woodbury, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in July, 1842. He married Ellen Francis, daughter of Benjamin R. \nOilman, of Clifford, N. H., December 30, 1851. \n\nJoseph HlLDRETH Bradley, son of Enoch and Abigail (Hildreth) Bradley, was \nborn in Haverhill, Mass., March 5, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in \n1844. He studied law with David Cummins in Salem, and Frances Alfred Fabens \nin Boston, and in the Law School at Cambridge, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJune 5, 1840. He always practiced in Boston until his death, being largely engaged \nin criminal cases in wdiieh he was especially successful, and won a high reputation as \na criminal lawyer. In February, 1801, he was appointed district attorney for the \ncounty of Suffolk, to succeed George W. Cooley, but declined. He was interested in \nmilitary affairs, and held commissions as major and lieutenant-colonel in the volunteer \nmilitia. He married Lydia Anna, daughter of Thomas Bowler, of Lynn, August 31, \n1850, and died in Boston in 1882. \n\nGardiner Greene Hubbard, son of Judge Samuel and Mary Ann (Greene) Hub- \nbard, was born in Boston, August 25, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in \n1841. He studied law with Hubbard & Watts and with Benjamin R. Curtis in Bos- \nton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 4, 1843. He has been largely \ninterested in the various forms of electrical discovery and invention, and engaged in \nthe litigation in their interest. He married Gertrude Mercer, daughter of Robert \nHenry McCurdy, of New York, October 21, 1846. \n\nFrank Chester Goodrich, son of Charles Bishop and Harriet Newell (Shattuck) \nGoodrich, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., and graduated at the Harvard Law School. \nNot long after commencing practice with his father in Boston the war came on and \nhe was the first man in Boston to enlist. He was killed at the battle of Gettysburg. \n\nBenjamin Franklin Ham was probably born in Farmington, N. H., about 1822. In \n1840 he moved to Natick, Mass., and engaged in making shoes. Having a literary \ntaste he entered the law office of John W. Bacon, of Natick, as a student, and was \nadmitted to the Middlesex bar. He became associated in business with Mr. Bacon, \nunder the firm name of Ham & Bacon. He was town clerk of Natick several years, \nrepresentative, and later clerk of the courts of Middlesex county. He was practicing \nat the Suffolk bar in 1859, and later. Ill health interposed with the pursuit of his \nprofession and he moved to Medford, where he lived some years, and where he died, \nMay 4, 1893. \n\nAlbion A. Adams was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875. \n\nFrederick A. Aitleton was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875. \n\n\nt-0 \n\n\n. 0 \n\n\nfy^M^t \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 553 \n\nC. S. Bancroft was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1869. \n\nFrederick L. Banks was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 4, 1891. \n\nO. Erving Betton was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 6, 1846 \n\nF. W. Buckingham was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 3, 1845 \n\nJ. Ware Butterfield was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1S(!4. \n\nJosiah A. Challis was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1842. \n\nGeorge W. Chamberlain was admitted to the Suffolk bar December is, 1871. \n\nEdward M. Cheney was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1862. \n\nFrederick Cochrane was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1860. \n\nWilliam H. Cobb was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nEdwin R. Coburn was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1881. \n\nWilliam Coleman was born in Boston, February 14, 1766. He studied law, was \nadmitted to the bar, and moved to Greenfield. He moved from Greenfield to New \nYork about 1794, and was for a time a law partner of Aaron Burr. He was after- \nwards the reporter of the New York Supreme Court. In 1801 he became the editor \nof the Evening Post, a Federal paper in New York, and continued its editor twenty \nyears. He died in New York, July 13, 1829. \n\nAustin J. Coolidge was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 11, 1852. \n\nOwen Glendour Peabody, son of Augustus and Miranda (Goddard) Peabody, was \nborn in Boston, April 23, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1842. He studied \nlaw with his father in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he grad- \nuated in 1844, and Avas admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1845. He died in \nRoxbury, December 27, 1862. \n\nJedediak K. Hayward was born in Thetford, Vt., August 14, 1835, and graduated \nat Dartmouth in 1859. He studied law with Jessie E. Keith, of Abington, and \nCharles Gideon Davis, of Plymouth, and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth, \nOctober 28, 1862. He practiced in Plymouth until 1863, when he removed to Boston, \nwhere he practiced until 1865, when he moved to New York, where he is still in \npractice. He was master of Plymouth Lodge of Free Masons while in Plymouth, \ngrand lecturer of the Grand Lodge for the State of Massachusetts while in Boston, \nand is a member of the Union League and other clubs in New York. \n\nLyman Mason, son of Daniel and Betsey (Spalding) Mason, was born in Cavendish, \nN. H., April 2, 1815, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1839. He studied law with G. \nN. dimming, of Zanesville, O., and with Richard Fletcher, of Boston, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1844, and is still in practice in Boston. He \nmarried Mary Lucretia, daughter of Dr. Reuben Dimond Mussey, of Cincinnati, O., \nMay 25, 1853. \n\nIsaac Ames, son of Ezra and Joanna (Eames) Ames, was born at Haverhill, Mass,, \nJuly 17, 1819, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1839. He studied law with Charles \nMinot and Albert Kittridge, of Haverhill, and was admitted to the Essex bar in \n1846. He taught school in Medford, Mass., from 1841 to 1844, and in or before 1852 \nwas practicing in Boston. He was appointed commissioner of insolvency for Suf- \nfolk county in 1855, and in 1856, when a Court of Insolvency was established by law \nin each county, he was appointed June 16 in that year judge of insolvency. In 1858, \nwhen the office of judge of probate and insolvency was created, he was appointed \n70 \n\n\n554 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nto that office May 11 in that year, and remained in office until his death in 1877. He \nmarried Mrs. Mary Carlton Phelps, daughter of Hazen Morse, and widow of Har- \nrison Gray Otis Phelps of Haverhill, June 17, 1851. \n\nHoratio Sprague Eustis, son of General Abraham Eustis, was born at Fort \nAdams, Newport, R. I., December 25, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He \nstudied law, and it is believed became, like his father, a member of the Suffolk bar. \nHe finally settled in Natchez, Miss., and continued there in the practice of law until \nhis death, which occurred on his plantation September 4, 1858. He was a grand- \nnephew of Governor William Eustis, of Massachusetts. He was first cousin of \nGeorge Eustis, the father of James Biddle Eustis, appointed by President Cleve- \nland minister to France. \n\nWilliam Willard Swan graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar December 18, 1867. He is now at the bar largely engaged in \nbusiness connected with patents. \n\nWilliam W. Swan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879. \n\nSamuel Cooper was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 22, 1862. \n\nJohn W. James was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2, 1822. \n\nH. L. Judson was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875. \n\nWillis Albert Kingsbury graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to the \nbar in Middlesex county in 188L He was at the Suffolk bar in 1882. \n\nBenjamin Hichborn graduated at Harvard in 176H. He was an attorney at the \nSuffolk bar in 1779, and barrister in 1786. He died in 1817. \n\nJonathan Belcher 2d, son of Governor Jonathan Belcher, was born in Boston, \nJuly 28, 1710, and graduated at Harvard in 1728. He studied law at the Temple in \nLondon and practiced for a time in England with success. He was one of the first \nsettlers of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was senior councillor in 1760, and lieutenant-govern- \nor after the death of Governor Lawrence. \n\nPercy E. Walbridge was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nHenry W. Walker was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1856, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nEdgar Alphonso Wallace graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar June 4 in that year. \n\nWilliam Phillips W alley graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1866. \n\nAaron Edward Warner graduated at Amherst in 1861 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1864. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1864. \n\nHenry E. Warner was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nHerman Jackson Warner graduated at Harvard in 1850 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1852. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1853. \n\n< )\\\\ en Warland graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was at the Suffolk bar in 1811. \nHe died in 1816. \n\nLucius Henry Warren graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in August of that year. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 555 \n\nWebster Franklin Warren graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar May 30, 1867.- He is now at the bar. \n\nC. Everett Washburn was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nWilliam Tucker Washburn graduated at Harvard in 18(>2, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar March 10, 1865. \n\nAndrew Oliver Waterhouse graduated at Harvard in 1810, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar May 16, 1814. He died in 1882. \n\nRichard Waterman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar April 25, 1868. \n\nDavid Thompson Watson graduated at the Washington Pennsylvania College in \n1864 and at the Harvard Law School in 186(5. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nJune 6, 1866. \n\nHenry S. Webster was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1877, and is \nnow at the Suffolk bar. \n\nSidney Webster graduated at Yale in 1848 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 25, 1851. \n\nSamuel Farrell Webb graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1869. \n\nFrancis C. Welch was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 3, 1872, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nJohn Hunt Welch graduated at Harvard in 1835 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 30, 1851. He died in 1852. \n\nWilliam E. Welch was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nThomas Wetmore graduated at Harvard in 1814, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar October 21, 1817. He died in 1860. \n\nJesse Franklin Wheeler graduated at Harvard in 1868, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar August 19, 1871. He is now at the bar. \n\nGeorge R. Wheelock was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nBenjamin Wheatland graduated at Harvard in 1819, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar March 2, 1825. He died in 1854. \n\nDaniel Wheaton graduated at Harvard in 1791, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. He died in 1841. \n\nAndrew Cunningham Wheelwright graduated at Harvard in 1847, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1853. \n\nEdward Wheelwright graduated at Harvard in 1844, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar April 17, 1849. \n\nMoses P. White was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1875, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nNaaman Loud White graduated at Harvard in 1835, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar September 27, 1838. \n\n\n556 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nWilliam H. White was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nZechajriah Gardner Whitman graduated at Harvard in 1807, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in October, 1810. He died in 1840. \n\nFrederick S. Whitwell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nMartin Whiting graduated at Harvard in 1814, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar May 5, 1818. He died in 1823. \n\nEdward A. Wilkie was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1881, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nJoseph Willard graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1858. He w.as admitted to the Suffolk bar January 29, 1863. \n\nPail Willard graduated at Harvard in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar August 17, 1848. He died in 1868. \n\nDavid W. Williams was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1877, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nHenry M. Williams was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nThomas Hale, Williams graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was \n'admitted to the Suffolk bar July 1, 1845. \n\nDaniel Webster Wilder graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in November, 1857. \n\nFrancis Henry Williams graduated at Harvard in 1820, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 13, 1824. He died in 1840. \n\nW. T. Willey, son of Tolman Willey, was admitted to the Suffolk bar October \n28, 1873, and is now at the bar. \n\nCharles Frederick Williams graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar March 8, ]869. He is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam Cross Williamson graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1855, He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 22, 1850, and is \nnow at the bar. \n\nAlexander E. Willson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1875, and \nis now at the bar. \n\nArthur P. Wilson, son of Joseph H. Wilson, of Boston, was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in June, 1871, and is now at the bar. \n\nJohn Thomas Wilson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1867. He is now at the bar. \n\nThomas Stanley Wilson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in January of that year. \n\nAbel Theodore Winn graduated at Harvard in 1850, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in September, 1863. \n\nJames Ancrum Winslow graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in September, 1861. \n\n\nyy - ^> Xyi? cw \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 557 \n\nHenry Thomas Wing graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law- \nSchool in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May '2. 1867 \n\nRobert Charles Winthrop, jr., son of Robert Charles Winthrop, graduated at Har- \nvard in 1854, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1857. He is living in \nBoston. \n\nThomas Lixdall Winthrop graduated at Harfard in 1807, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in February, 1811, and died in 1812. \n\nHenry Woodruff graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1853, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar March 24, 1853. \n\nGeorge Henry Woods graduated at Brown in 1*53 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July. 1855. He died in 1 88 1. \n\nWinslow Warren Wright graduated at Harvard in 1826, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in April, 1830. He died in 1835. \n\nJames Joseph Wright graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar May 22, 1862. \n\nSmith Wright graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law School in \nL858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1858 \n\nJames Holden Young graduated at Harvard in 1872 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1876. \n\nC. C. Andrews was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1850, and was at \nthe Suffolk bar in 1854. \n\nSidney C. Bancroft was admitted to the Essex bar in 1852, and was at the Suf- \nfolk bar in 187(1. \n\nStephen Bean was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1844, and was at the \nSuffolk bar. \n\nW. Lock Brown was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1850, and was at the \nSuffolk bar in 1852. \n\nAlpheus R. Brown was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1839, and \nwas at the Suffolk bar in 1866. \n\nGeorge F. Choate was admitted to the Essex bar in 1848, and was at the Suffolk \nbar in 1866. \n\nCharles B. Felch was admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1869, and was \nat the Suffolk bar in 1871. \n\nJoseph St. Lawrence was an attorney of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, and \ncame to Boston about 1737. In that year he was admitted an attorney in the Supe- \nrior Court and opened an office in \" Wing's Lane, near the Town Dock in Boston.\" \n\nJoseph Proctor, son of either Peter or Josiah Proctor, was born in Littleton, Mass., \nFebruary 11, 1766, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1791. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar and practiced in Athol, where he died August 6, 1822. He married Mary \nHumphrey, daughter of Jonathan Orcutt, of Athol, January 15, 1811. \n\nAugustus Olcott Brewster, son of Gen. Amos Avery and Susan (Boudinot) \nBrewster, was born in Hanover, N. H., May 17, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth \nin 1843. He read law with Ira Perley, of Concord, N. H., and William Henry Dun- \n\n\n558 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ncan, of Hanover, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar. He began practice in \nHanover, N. H., but removed to New York in 1850, and to Boston in 1854, where he \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar, October 16 in that year. He was appointed assist- \nant district attorney for Suffolk county in 1856, and served until 1862. He married \nGeorgiana Augusta, daughter of Major George B. Bibby, of the United States Army, \nof Paterson, N. J., at Parsippany, N. J., in August, 1846. He now holds a govern- \nment office in New Jersey. \n\nRussell Jarvis, son of Samuel Gardner and Prudence (Davis) Jarvis, was born in \nBoston in 1791. His early life was spent in Claremont, N. H., to which place his \nparents removed when he was an infant, and he graduated at Dartmouth in 1810. \nHe studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1823. He practiced in Boston until 1828, when he removed to New York and \ndevoted himself to journalism. He married Eliza, daughter of Thomas Cordis, of \nBoston, in November, 1824, and his whole family, consisting of his wife and two \nchildren, were lost by the burning of the steamboat Lexington in Long Island \nSound, January 13, 1840. He died in New York, April 17, 1853. \n\nBenjamin Franklin Hayes, son of Frederick and Sarah (Hurd) Hayes, was born \nin Berwick, Me., July 3, 1834, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1859. He studied law \nwith Wells & Eastman, of Somersworth, N. H., and at the Harvard Law School, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar March 18, 1861. He soon after settled in Medford, \nand was for a time associated with Elihu C. Baker. Though having his office in \nBoston, where he is engaged in extensive practice, he has thoroughly identified him- \nself with his adopted town, and is ever active in promoting its interests and welfare. \nIn 1862 he was appointed trial justice, and served in that capacity \"till 1873. From \n1864 to 1867 he was assistant United States assessor under Phineas J. Stone, of \nCharlestown. In 1868 he was a member of the Medford School Board, and in 1870 \nwas chosen chairman of the Board of Water Commissioners after the introduction of \nwater into the town, in the promotion of which he had taken an active part. He was \na representative from 1872 to 1875, State senator in 1877 and 1878, and after acting \nthirty years as attorney for Medford as a town was, on its incorporation as a city, \nchosen its first city solicitor, January 24, .1893. He married, November 7, 1843, Mary \nHall, daughter of Thomas S. and Lucy (Hall) Harlow, of Medford. \n\nAugustus Peabody, at first named Asa, was the son of John and Mary (Perley) \nPeabody, and was born in Andover, Mass., May 17, 1779. He graduated at Dart- \nmouth in 1803, and read law with Timothy Bigelow, of Medford. He began prac- \ntice in Boston in 1810. He was a representative and held other offices of honor and \ntrust. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1809. He married \nMiranda, daughter of Thatcher Goddard, of Boston, October 26, 1815, and died in \nRoxbury, Mass., October 2, 1851. \n\nHenry Doane, son of John and Mary (Eldridge) Doane, was born in Orleans, \nMass., January 22, 1834, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1857. He studied law at \nthe Harvard Law School and with Hutchins & Wheeler, of Boston, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in December, 1858. He practiced in Boston until 1862, when he \nwas commissioned a captain in the Forty-third Massachusetts Regiment, and went \nto the war. At the close of his term of service he resumed practice in Boston, and \ndied there September 2, 1865. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 559 \n\nFranklin Webster, son of David and Betsey (Kimball) Webster, was born in \nHaverhill, Mass., June 27, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1845. He studied \nlaw at the Harvard Law Sehool and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1854. \nHe settled in Chicago, and while consul at Bavaria died at Munich, May 4, 1865. \n\nJames Bowdoin Allen, son of Samuel Clesson and Elizabeth (Halsey) Allen, was \nborn in Northfield, Mass., July 5, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1845. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1847, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar July 23, 1849. He practiced in East Boston, where he died December \n23, 1853. \n\nSamuel Ayer Bradley, son of John and Hannah (Ayer) Bradley, was born in Con- \ncord, N. H., November 22, 1774, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1799. He studied \nlaw with Judge Samuel Green, of Concord, and John Heard, of Boston, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1805. He began practice in Fryeburg in 1805, was regis- \nter of probate for Oxford county from 1805 to 1810, was representative from 1813 to \n1818, and in 1825 removed to Portland. He returned to Fryeburg in July, 1841, and \nthere died, unmarried, September 23, 1844. \n\nSamuel M'Gregor Burnside, son of Thomas and Susannah (M'Gregor) Burnside \nwas born in Northumberland, N. H., July 18, 1783, and graduated at Dartmouth in \n1805. He was the principal of a Female Academy in Andover, Mass., from 1805 to \n1807, and read law with Artemas Ward, of Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in March, 1810, and began practice in Westboro', Mass. He soon after moved to \nWorcester, where he died July 25, 1850. He married Sophia D., daughter of Dwight \nFoster, of Brookfield, Mass., November 8, 1816. He received the degree of Master \nof Arts from Harvard in 1817. \n\nRedfield Proctor, son of Jabez and Betsey (Parker) Proctor, was born in Proc- \ntorsville, Vt. , June 1, 1831, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1851. He read law in \nProctorsville and at the Law School in Albany, N. Y., from which he graduated in \n1860, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Maych, 1861. He began practice in \nBoston in February, 1861, associated with Judge Isaac Fletcher Redfield, but soon \nentered the service, becoming an officer of high rank and merit among Vermont vol- \nunteers. He was secretary of war under the recent administration of President \nHarrison, and is now United States senator from Vermont. He married Sarah Jane, \ndaughter of Salmon Dutton, of Cavendish, Vt., May 26, 1858. \n\nAsa Cottrell was born in Freehold, N. J., in November, 1825. He studied law \nwith Judge Vredenburg, of Freehold, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in \n1846. He practiced in Red Bank, N. J., until 1853, when he moved to Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar June 11 in that year. In 1863, while still pursuing \nthe practice of law in Boston, he moved his residence to Lexington, Mass., where he \ndied in July, 1889. He was deeply interested in the prosperity of his adopted town \nand took a leading and active part in the introduction of water and in the establish- \nment of street lighting there. He married, in 1850, Maria Louisa, only daughter of \nJesse and Catherine A. Hanford, of Red Bank. \n\nDaniel W. Peabody, son of John Tarbell and Mercy Ingalls (Burbank) Peabody, \nwas born in Gilead, Me., March 11, 1836, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1859. He \nstudied law with Robert Ingalls Burbank, in Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar November 26, 1862. After practicing for a time in Boston, he removed to \nNashville, Tenn. \n\n\n560 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nSamuel Hilliard Folsom, son of Samuel and Anna (Lovering) Folsom, was born \nin Hopkinton, N. H., February 23, 1826, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1851. He \nstudied law with Dean & Dinsmoor, of Lowell, and afterwards in Boston. He began \npractice in East Cambridge, but as early as 1881 was at the Suffolk bar. He married \nCatherine Abbott, daughter of Nehemiah Porter Cram, of Hampton Falls, N. H., \nOctober 18, 1857. \n\nNathan James Clifford, son of Judge Nathan and Hannah (Ayer) Clifford, was \nborn in Newfield, Me., January 12, 1832, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1854. He \nstudied law with his father, and was admitted to the Maine bar. He was for a time \nclerk of United States customs in New York, and afterwards removed to Boston and \nbecame clerk of the United States District Court. He married Sarah A. Oilman , of \nNew York, April 2, 1861. \n\nB. H. Currier was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 5, 1853, and is now at the \nbar. \n\nJohn A. Day was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 30, 1861. \n\nJohn W. Davis was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 8, 1848, and settled on Cape \nCod. \n\nCharles Franklin Dunbar graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was an attorney at \nthe Suffolk bar in 1859. He was at one time the editor of the Boston Daily Adver- \ntiser, and has been many years professor of political economy at Harvard. \n\nA. W. Edgerly was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1876. \n\nH. A. Folsom was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 6, 1874. \n\nD. S. Gilchrist, a brother of Judge John James Gilchrist, of New Hampshire, was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar December 8, 1846, and practiced some years in Boston. \n\nA. J. Gray was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1840, and was an attorney \n\nat the Suffolk bar in 1849. \nj \nWilliam H. Wilson was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1868. \n\nMelville E. Ingalls has within a generation practiced at the Suffolk bar, chiefly \nin the United States Courts. \n\nJohn Knapp was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1848. \n\nWilliam Lomax, jr., was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 3, 1863. \n\nHenry D. Lord was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1851. \n\nJoseph Lyman was practicing at the Suffolk bar about 1800. \n\nJohn Mason was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. \n\nGeorge Otis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1826. \n\nBenjamin Parsons was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1798. \n\nWilliam Pitt Denton, son of William and Sarah (Foster) Denton, was born in \nBoston, November 21, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1844. He studied law \nat the Harvard law school and in the offices of John H. Clifford in New Bedford and \nW. R. P. Washburn in Boston, and began practice in Boston in 1847. He married \nin New Bedford, February 24, 1848, Elizabeth Howell, daughter of George Randall, \nand died in Boston, April 12, 1855. \n\nElam Porter was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 7, 1865. \n\nIsaac G. Reed was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 27, 1869. \n\nCharles W. Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 1, 1851. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 561 \n\nAsa Spaulding was admitted to the Middlesex bar in April, 1846, and was an at \ntorney at the Suffolk bar in 1849. \n\nW. G. Sprague was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 18(50. \n\nAsahel Stearns was born in Lunenburg, Mass., June 17, 1774, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1797. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar about 1800, and soon settled \nin Chelmsford, Mass., where he practiced many years. He was a member of Con- \ngress from 1815 to 1817, and in the latter year was appointed professor of law at \nHarvard, continuing in office until 1829. He received the degree of LL.I). from \nHarvard in 1825. While living in Chelmsford he was for several years county attor- \nney for Middlesex. In 1824 b.e published a volume on \"Real Actions,\" and was \nsubsequently one of the commissioners for revising the statutes of Massachusetts. \nHe died in Cambridge February 5, 1839. \n\nHenry Brewster Stanton was born in Griswold, Conn., in 1810, and studied law \nat Lane Seminary, Ohio. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1842, and \nafter practicing in Boston removed in 1845 to Seneca Falls, N. Y. He published in \n1849 a volume entitled \" Reforms and Reformers.\" He married Elizabeth, daughter \nof Judge Daniel Cady, of Johnstown, N. Y., in 1840. While he was an anti-slavery \norator his wife became an active advocate of women's rights, and as early as 1848 \ncalled a convention at Seneca Falls, which made the first public demand for woman's \nsuffrage. \n\nPeter Thacher was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807. \n\nJames Sullivan 2d was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the Common Pleas Court \nin July, 1826, and in the Supreme Court January 1, 1829. \n\nRichard N. Pierce was a native of Bristol county, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in September, 1839. He was a representative at one time, and served in the \nwar. It is believed by the writer that he died soon after the war. \n\nGeorge P. Montague was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1888. \n\nElijah Hunt Mills was born in Chesterfield, Mass., December 1, 1776, and gradu- \nated at Williams in 1797. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and \nsettled in Northampton. He was at one time district attorney for Hampshire county, \nState senator in 1811, member of Congress from 1815 to 1819, and United States \nsenator from December 1, 1820, to March 3, 1827. He received the degree of LL. I) \nfrom Williams College in 1824. \n\nJohn Mills was appointed United States district attorney by President Van Buren \nin 1837, and for a time had an office in Boston. \n\nJohn G. Locke was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1858. \n\nE. W. McClure was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1883. \n\nSebeus C. Maine was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1845, and was ap- \npointed a justice of the Boston Police Court November 3, 1858. The writer thinks \nthat he remained on the bench until the court was abolished, May 29, 1866. He has \nbeen dead some years. \n\nGeorge W. McConnell was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1881. \n\n71 \n\n\n562 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nAbraham W. Fuller was admitted to practice in the Common Pleas Court in \nSuffolk county in May, 1812, and in the Supreme Court in 1814. He died in Cam- \nbridge. \n\nTheodore U. Thacher was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1832. \n\nRobert McNeil Morse, son of Robert and Sarah Maria (Clark) Morse, was born \nin Boston, August 11, 1837, and graduated at Harvard in 1857. His rank in college \nwas good in a class which included among its members many who have won high \npositions in the various occupations of life. Among these were Franklin Haven, jr., \nSolomon Lincoln, John D. Long, John C. Ropes, Robert D. Smith, Arthur J. C. \nSowdon, Joseph Lewis Stackpole, James J. Storrow, Charles F. Walcott and Samuel \nWells. Of those of his class who entered the walks of law none have attained a \nhigher position in the profession or met with greater success. He studied law at the \nHarvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1860. His \npractice long since attained a size which demanded the most assiduous labor and the \nexertion of all his powers. In the courts of the State and of the United States his \npresence is a familiar one and the suits in which he has acted as counsel have included \nsome of the most important which in recent years have engaged the attention of the \nSuffolk county courts. The Armstrong will case in which he was associated with \nWilliam G. Russell, and the Codman will case in which he was leading counsel, both \ninvolving large amounts, furnish abundant evidence of the general estimate of his \nstanding and ability. In the early days of his career he was a member of the Massa- \nchusetts Senate in 1S<>6 and 1867, and there introduced and advocated a bill for the \nrepeal of the usury laws, which through his efforts in the Senate, and those of \nRichard H. Dana in the House, became a law. In 1880 he was a member of the \nHouse of Representatives. With these exceptions he has resisted the attractions of \npublic life, which can only be followed by the neglect of professional duties, and \noften, too, by the enslavement of the mind under the influence of party dictates and \na blind obedience to party clamor. Engrossed as he is in the labors of his profession, \nhe nevertheless finds time to study important public questions, and in his political \naction he follows no party longer than its platform and principles commend them- \nselves to his judgment and conscience. He married Anna E. Gorham, of Boston, \nNovember 11, 1863, and has a winter residence in Boston and a summer residence at \nFalmouth. \n\nGustavus Adolphus Somerby, son of Samuel and Hannah (George) Somerby, was \nborn in Newbury, Mass., November 2, 1821. He was descended from Anthony \nSomerby, who was clerk of the courts in Essex county in the days of the Massachu- \nsetts Colony. He attended school in Wayland, in which town he read law in the \noffice of Edward Mellen, who was appointed in 1847 one of the judgesof the Common \nPleas Court and chief justice in 1854, and who remained on the bench until the Court \nwas abolished in 1859. After his admission to the bar he practiced in Wayland until \n1852, when he removed to Waltham and associated himself with Josiah Rutter for \nthe practice of law in that town. In 1858 he removed to Boston and remained in \npractice there until his death, which occurred at South Framingham, Mass., July 24, \n1879. His early practice was at the Middlesex bar, where he came in contact with \na class of lawyers, peculiar at that time to that county, at whose hands treatment of \nthe most considerate character was not to be expected, and from whom lessons of \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 563 \n\noffensive and defensive warfare must be learned by any new aspirant for success in \nthe arena of law. Mr. Somerby was not slow to learn. The independence and cour- \nage and heroism which he exhibited in the trial of causes in the courts were charac- \nteristics which he owed in a large degree to his repeated conflicts with the gladiators \nof the Middlesex bar. He won his greatest triumphs, so far as the writer knows, in \nthe criminal rather than the civil side of the courts, and his success in winning \nthem was due oftentimes to the adoption and support of plans which a man of more \ntimid nature would have hesitated to form and failed in firmness and nerve to carry \nout. One of the earliest criminal cases in which he was engaged after his removal \nto Boston was that of Deacon Andrews, of Kingston, indicted for the murder of Cor- \nnelius Holmes of that town. He was engaged as leading counsel for the defendant, \nand Charles G. Davis, of Plymouth, was associated with him as his junior. A later \ncase in which he defended and secured the acquittal of Leavitt Alley, charged with \nmurder, and tried in Boston in 1873, will ever stand as a memorial of his shrewdness \nand courage. As has been stated by another in describing the trial: \" His defence \nwas a hint, so shrewdly given, that it rather originated the suggestion in the minds \nof the jurymen themselves than passed his own lips, that the son of Mr. Alley was \nthe real criminal. The prisoner's witnesses and the cross-examination of the wit- \nnesses for the government were so handled as to necessarily convey, through unseen \nand unexpected channels, this hint to the jury, and the refusal to put the son on the \nstand, though it was well known that he was conversant with many of the incidents \nof the affair, served to carry this hint home with a force that was sure to have an \neffect.\" The length of this trial, with the labor and excitement attending it, inflicted \na permanent injury on the strength and health of Mr. Somerby. He never recovered \nhis capacity for work, and his vigor of nerve and brain was never again what it was \nbefore. He continued, however, to practice his profession until his death, and no \none perhaps but himself realized the extent of the prostration which that trial in \nwhich lie enlisted all his energies had induced. He married Abby Olivia, daughter \nof Charles Backus and Rebecca (Sanger) Clark, at Framingham, Mass., February 17, \n1853, \n\nPeleg Sprague, son of Seth and Deborah (Sampson) Sprague, was born in Duxbury, \nMass., April 28, 1793. He was descended from William Sprague, who came to Salem \nfrom England in 1629. It is said that the father and mother of Mr. Sprague lived \ntogether under one roof sixty-four years. They had fifteen children, of whom Peleg \nwas the ninth. The father, Seth Sprague, was justice of the peace and quorum \nforty years, a member of the Massachusetts Legislature twenty-seven years, and \ntwice a presidential elector. In his old age, when most men become conservative \nand are content with existing conditions in social and political life, he entered with \nzeal into the anti-slavery cause at a time when that cause wras unpopular in our com- \nmunities. Mr. Sprague graduated at Harvard in 1812 in a class containing many \nmembers who afterwards distinguished themselves in the various walks 1 >f life. Among \nthose who became physicians there were George Bartlett Doane, John Homans, \nGeorge W. Heard, Amos Nourse, Abel Lawrence Peirson, Edward II. Robbins, \nDaniel Shute, and Ezekiel Thaxter. Among the clergymen were Jonathan Mayhew \nWainwright and Henry Ware. Among the lawyers were Franklin 1 >exter, James \nHenry Duncan, Charles Greely Loring, and William Turell Andrews. Among them \n\n\n564 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nnone became more distinguished than Mr. Sprague. Four of them received from \nHarvard the degree of LL.D., Mr. Dexter in 1857, Mr. Duncan in 1861, Mr. Loring \nin 1850, and Mr. Sprague in 1847. After leaving college he studied at the law school \nin Litchfield, Conn., and afterwards in the offices of Levi Lincoln in Worcester, and \nSamuel Hubbard in Boston, and was admitted to the Plymouth county bar in Au- \ngust, 1815. After his admission to the bar he removed to Augusta, in what was then \nthe district of Maine but a part of Massachusetts, and there established himself in the \nbusiness of his profession. At the end of two years he removed to Hallowell. After \nthe State of Maine was organized in 1820, he was sent a representative from Hallow- \nwell to the first Legislature, and was again a member of the Legislature of the next \nyear, 1821. In 1825 he was chosen a member of Congress and served until 1829. In \nthe latter year he was sent to the United States Senate from Maine and served one \nterm of six years. In 18:35 he removed to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar. After six years' practice in Boston, during which he maintained the high repu- \ntation which he had won in Maine, he was appointed by President Harrison in 1841 \nto the seat on the bench of the United States Court which had been vacated by the \nresignation of John Davis. His duties in that capacity during the latter part of his \nservice wrere rendered especially arduous by the novel cases in American jurispru- \ndence arising during the War of the Rebellion. He performed them with distin- \nguished ability, though at the time suffering from an affection of the eyes which \nincapacitated him for the work of taking notes and made even the light of the court- \nroom a serious annoyance. Exercise indispensable to his continued health he was \nprecluded from taking in the sun-light, and the writer remembers to have often seen \nhim pacing the floor of the Doric Hall of the State House, wholly unobservant of \neverything about him and evidently solving some question of law or constructing \nsome charge to the jury for the next day's session of his court. During the progress \nof the Civil War a distinguished practitioner in his court expressed in conversation a \ndoubt whether the offence of treason could be committed in Massachusetts where no \nwar existed. He replied \" Bring me a man who, here in Massachusetts, has by any \nact, however slight or however remote from the field of war, given intentional aid to \nthe rebels in arms, as by communicating to them information or advice, and I will \nshow that I can try him and have him hanged.\" The affection of his eyes became \nfinally so serious that he resigned his seat on the bench in 1865, and the last years of \nhis life were spent in a darkened room. He died at his home in Boston, October \n30, 1880, at the age of eighty-seven. A volume of his speeches and addresses was \npublished in 1858, and a volume of his decisions from 1841 to 1861 was published in \n1861. He married in Albany, in August, 1818, Sarah, daughter of Moses and Sarah \nDeming, who was born February 17, 1794. \n\nHarvey Jewell, son of Pliny and Emily (Alexander) Jewell, was born in Win- \nchester, N. H., June 26, 1820. His brother, Marshall Jewell, was governor of \nConnecticut in 1869, 1871 and 1872 ; minister to Russia in 1873, and postmaster-gen- \neral in 1874. Pliny Jewell, the father of Harvey Jewell, was a tanner by trade, as \nhis father and grandfather had been before him, and the son, the subject of this \nsketch, learned the ancestral trade. He afterwards, however, entered Dartmouth \nCollege, and graduated in 1844. After leaving college he taught in one of the public \nschools of Boston, while pursuing his law studies in the office of Lyman Mason, of \n\n\n1 \n\n\n6Tl>^L&-* \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 565 \n\nthat city. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 11, 1847. While in practice \nhe was at various times associated in business with William Gaston, Walbridge A. \nField, now chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and E. (). Shepard. Possess- \ning a critical mind, he devoted himself specially to the work of drafting contracts, \ncharters of incorporation, and other instruments requiring the closest attention to \ndetails and the avoidance of weak and indefensible points. He gave much attention \nalso to maritime law, and his advice in this branch of his profession possessed to a \nlarge degree the authority of law. Though a lover of the law and obedient to its \nbehests, he felt the attractions of political life and yielded to them, probably to his \ndisadvantage, looking only to professional success. In early life a Whig, and later \na Republican, he was a member of the Boston City Council in 1851 and 1852 and in \n1861, and from 1867 to 1871 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- \nsentatives. During the last four years he was speaker of the House, and performed \nhis duties easily, intelligently, impartially, and with the enthusiastic approval of the \ndifferent bodies over which he presided. Indeed so popular had he become as speaker \nthat in the State Republican Convention of 1871 he was a prominent candidate for \ngovernor. In that convention Benjamin F. Butler, then a Republican, was an aspi- \nrant for the nomination, and the two other candidates were Mr. Jewell and William \nB. Washburn. The contest was an earnest one, and Mr. Jewell withdrew his name \nand gave his support to Mr. Washburn, who finally received the nomination. In \n1875 he was appointed by President Grant judge of the Court of Commissioners of \nAlabama Claims, and held that office two years, during which he resided in Wash- \nington. In 1877 he resumed the practice of law in Boston and remained there until \nhis death, which occurred in that city December 8, 1881. He received a degree of \nLL.D. from Dartmouth in 1875. He married Susan A., daughter of Richard Brad- \nley, of Concord, N. H., December 26, 1849. \n\nAlbert E. Pillshury, son of Josiah Webster and Elizabeth (Dinsmoor) Pillsbury, \nwas born in Milford, N. H., August 19, 1849. His father graduated at Dartmouth in \n1840, and on account of feeble health abandoned his intention of studying a profes- \nsion and devoted himself to the occupation of a farmer. The early life, therefore, of \nthe subject of this sketch was passed on his father's farm, in the cultivation of which \nhe aided his father whenever his studies at school would permit. After passing \nthrough the lower grade schools of Milford he attended the High School in that town, \nand subsequently fitted for college at the Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, N. H., \nand at the Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass. He entered Harvard College in \n1867, at the age of eighteen, but early in his sophomore year left college and went to \nSterling, 111., the residence of his uncle, Hon. James Dinsmoor, a lawyer of high \nstanding in that town and a member of the distinguished family in New Hampshire \nbearing that name, two members of which have been governors of that State. While \nin Sterling he taught school a year and studied law with his uncle, and was admitted \nto the Illinois bar in 1869. In 1870 he came to Boston and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in June of that year. His eminent abilities soon secured for him a foothold \nat the bar, and from that time to the present his growth has been constant and his \nreputation has been more and more firmly established. For several years in the \nearly part of his professional career he was vice-president and president of the Mer- \ncantile Library Association of Boston, and to his membership of that body with its \n\n\n566 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nparliamentary and controversional lessons may perhaps be due his marked success as \na presiding officer and a participant in legislative and political debate. In 1876, 1877 \nand 1878 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from \nWard 17 of Boston, and in 1884, 1885 and 1886 a member of the Senate from the \nSixth Suffolk District. During his last two years at the Senate Board he was presi- \ndent, having been chosen both years by a unanimous vote. In both House and \nSenate he served on the judiciary committee, and with his clear head and logical \nmind proved himself to be the man now and then found in our legislative bodies who \nunties the knot and tangle of debate, and clearing the atmosphere of discussion of \nthe fog which is so apt to invest it, simplifies the question before the house and en- \nables its bewildered members to come to a just understanding of its merits. In 1887 \nMr. Pillsbury was offered by Governor Ames the position of judge advocate-general, \nbut he declined it, and in 1888 he was offered by the same governor a,seat on the bench \nof the Superior Court. This he also declined, as well as the appointment of corpo- \nration counsel of the city of Boston, offered to him by Mayor Hart of Boston in 1889. \nIn the fall of 1890 he was nominated as the Republican candidate for attorney-gen- \neral, and chosen in that and the two following years. He is now, in April, 1893, \nserving his third year in that office, and it is not too much to say that since 1858, \nwhen John Henry Clifford left the office, not one of its eight incumbents has per- \nformed its duties with more brilliant ability or marked success. Certainly since the \ntrial of John W. Webster, in which Attorney-General Clifford, assisted by his able \nand indefatigable junior, George Bemis, so distinguished himself as to cause Samuel \nWarren, of the the English bar, to say \"that his reply for the prosecution cannot \nbe excelled in close and conclusive reasoning conveyed in language equally elegant \nand forcible,\" no greater professional triumph has been won by a prosecuting officer \nof the Commonwealth than that in the recent trial of Trefethen in Middlesex county, \nin which Mr. Pillsbury by a masterly construction of a chain of evidence secured a \nconviction in spite of the efforts of the ablest counsel for the defense, and in opposi- \ntion to a very general public opinion. Mr. Pillsbury delivered the annual oration \nbefore the city authorities of Boston on the Fourth of July, 1890, and is an occasional \nand welcome contributor to newspapers and magazines. He married Louise F. \n(Johnson) Wheeler, daughter of Edward C. and Delia M. (Smith) Johnson, at New- \nbury, Vt., July 9, 1889. \n\nRobert Treat Paine, son of Thomas and Eunice (Treat) Paine, was born in Boston, \nMarch 11, 1731, and received his early education under Master Lowell in that city. He \ngraduated at Harvard in 1749, and received a degree of LL.D. from his abna mater in \n1805. His father was at one time pastor of a church in Weymouth and afterwards a \nmerchant in Boston. His mother was Eunice, daughter of Samuel Treat, and grand- \ndaughter of Samuel Willard, president of Harvard from 1701 to 1707. The subject \nof this sketch after leaving college taught school for a time and afterwards made \nthree voyages to North Carolina as master and one to Greenland for whales. He \nstudied for the ministry, and in 1755 served for a time as chaplain in the French \nWar. He afterwards studied law with Judge Willard at Lancaster, and with Ben- \njamin Pratt in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1759. He established \nhimself in Boston in 1761 and went to Taunton, and in 1769 was a representative \nfrom that town. In 1770 he conducted the prosecution of Captain Preston for the \nBoston massacre in the absence of the attorney-general, in 1774-5 was a delegate to \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 567 \n\nthe Provincial Congress, and a mepiber of the Continental Congress from 1774 to \n1778. In 1777 he was again a representative and speaker of the House. He was ap- \npointed attorney-general during the Revolution to succeed Jonathan Sewell, the last \nattorney-general under the provincial charter, and held office until the appointment \nof James Sullivan, February 12, 1790. In 1776 he was appointed a judge of the Su- \nperior Court, but declined, and in 1779 was a member of the State Constitutional \nConvention. About 1780 he removed to Boston and bought and occupied the resi- \ndence of Governor Shirley on the corner of Milk and Federal streets, and in 1790 was \nappointed a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, which office he held until his resig- \nnation in 1804. He was an able lawyer and judge, and as a signer of the Declara- \ntion of Independence his name has been made immortal. He married in 1770, Sally, \ndaughter of Thomas Cobb and sister of General David Cobb, of Taunton, and died \nin Boston, May 11, 1814. \n\nRobert Treat Paine, jr., son of the preceding, was born in Taunton, Mass., \nDecember 9, 1773, and graduated at Harvard in 1792. His original name \"Thomas\" \nwas changed by an act of the Legislature in 1801. After leaving college he engaged \nin mercantile pursuits which he soon abandoned for the paths of literature. In 1794 \nhe established a paper called the Federal Orrery, in which appeared articles and \nverses sensational and personal in their character, and the next year published a \npoem entitled \" Invention of Letters,\" which was much admired. He also published \n\" The Ruling Passion \" and the celebrated song \" Adams and Liberty.\" About 1800 \nhe studied law with Theophilus Parsons and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1802. \nHe retired from the profession in 1809, and died in Boston, November 13, 1811. \n\nRobert Treat Paine 3d, son of the preceding, was born in Boston, and gradu- \nated at Harvard in 1822, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the Common Pleas \nCourt October 19, 1825, and in the Supreme Judicial Court June 17, 1828. He aban- \ndoned the practice of law and became distinguished as an astronomer and in other \nbranches of science. He was a member of the American Academy and of the Amer- \nican Philosophical Society. He died in 1885. \n\nRobert Treat Paine 4th, son of Charles Cushing and Fanny Cabot (Jackson) \nPaine, was born in Boston, October 28, 1835, and is the great-grandson of Robert \nTreat Paine, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. He fitted for college at \nthe Boston Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1855. After leaving college \nhe spenta year at the Harvard Law School and two years in European travel. On his \nreturn he studied law with Richard H. Dana and Francis E. Parker in Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1859. He continued in practice in Boston until \n1870, when he retired from business, the possessor of sufficient wealth to enable him \nto gratify his wishes in the promotion of benevolent enterprises. From 1872 to 1876 \nhe was an efficient member of the committee charged with the care of the erection of \nTrinity Church, and to the judgment of this committee in the selection of an archi- \ntect and the adoption of his plans the merit is due of making an honorable and \nworthy contribution to the architecture of Boston. In 1878 he aided in the establish- \nment of the Associated Charities of Boston, an institution which, with others of a \nsimilar character, has done so much to alleviate poverty and suffering. In 1879 he \norganized the Wells Memorial Institute, which embraces a loan association, a co- \noperative bank and a building association. In 1891 he organized a Workingmen's \n\n\n5 68 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nLoan Association, and is still active in the promotion of every enterprise looking to \nthe welfare and prosperity of the poor. He has built more than two hundred small \nhouses for workingmen and sold them at moderate prices and on easy credits. In \n1887 he endowed a fellowship of $10,000 at Harvard College for \" the study of the \nethical problems of society, the effects of legislation, governmental administration and \nprivate philanthropy, to ameliorate the lot of the mass of mankind,\" and in 1890 he \nestablished a trust of about $200,000 called the Robert Treat Paine Association. He \nis not waiting to give away at his death what he can no longer use, but indulges \nhimself in a pleasure than which there can be no greater of bestowing his wealth \nwhile living and witnessing the ripened fruit of his benevolence. Mr. Paine was a \nrepresentative from the town of Waltham in 1884, and has been a candidate for Con- \ngress in the Fifth District. He is now president of the American Peace Society. He \nmarried Lydia Williams, daughter of George Williams and Anne (Pratt) Lyman, in \nBoston, April 24, 1862, and lives in Boston. \n\nRobert Treat Paine 5th, son of the preceding, graduated at Harvard in 1882, \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He married Ruth, daughter of Dr. \nWalter Channing Cabot, of Boston. \n\nFranklin Dexter, son of Samuel and Catharine (Gordon) Dexter, was born in \nCharlestown, Mass., November 5, 1793, and graduated at Harvard in 1812, receiving \nthe degree of LL.D. from his alma mater in 1857. He studied law with Samuel Hub- \nbard, afterwards one of the judges of the Supreme Judicial Court, and was admitted \nto practice in the Common Pleas Court in Suffolk county in September, 1815, and in \nthe Supreme Judicial Court in December, 1818. He soon became eminent at the bar \nand was associated at various times as partner with Charles Greely Loring, William \nPrescott, William H. Gardiner, and George W. Phillips. In 1819, the year after his \nadmission to the bar of the Supreme Court, he was selected to deliver the annual \noration before the authorities of the town of Boston on the Fourth of July. That he \nshould have been chosen at the age of twenty-six to perform that service sufficiently \nattests the ability and promise with which he began his professional career. In 1825 \nhe was a representative from Boston, and again in 1836 and 1840, serving in 1836 on \nthe Select Committee of the Legislature on the revision of the statutes. In 1825 he \nwas a member of the Common Council of Boston, and in 1835 a State senator. He \nwas also at one time the commander of the New England Guards. In 1830 he was \nengaged in the defence of the Knapps, who were indicted for the murder of Joseph \nWhite, of Salem, and though opposed by Mr. Webster, who was employed to assist \nthe prosecuting officer, the contest was found to be by no means an unequal one, and \nhis reputation for ability and learning, already a brilliant one, was more firmly estab- \nlished. In 1840, or about that time, he defended Mrs. Kenney, indicted for the \nmurder of her husband by poison. The trial took place at Boston and it was \nthe good fortune of the writer, then a student at Harvard, to be present more \nor less during its progress. James T. Austin was attorney-general and con- \nducted the case for the government, and the battle was one between giants at the \nlaw. The writer then saw Mr. Dexter for the first time, and he remembers well the \nGrecian head covered with curls of hair almost black, the sharp cut features and \nbrilliant intellectual eye, which made him in appearance his ideal of an orator and \nman. In form and presence he belonged to the class of which Rufus Choate and \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 569 \n\nDaniel Dougherty were also conspicuous types, and of the three, if Choate possessed \nmore of the fire and fluency of eloquence, and Dougherty more of classical imagery, \nto Mr. Dexter must be accorded the merit of a grace and elegance which marked him \n*as a gentleman and a scholar. In 1841 he was appointed United States attorney for \nMassachusetts and held the office until 1845. In 1849 he was reappointed by Presi- \ndent Taylor. Mr. Dexter in the latter part of his career did not devote himself ex- \nclusively to his profession. To literature and art he gave much of his time and \nthought, and in either department if he had failed in the law he would have distin- \nguished himself. He married Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of Judge William \nPrescott, of Boston, September 25, 1819, and died at Beverly, Mass., where his \nlatter years were spent, August 14, 1857. \n\nJames Frederic Joy, son of James and Sarah (Pickering) Joy, was born in Dm \nham, N. H., December 2, 181(1, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1833. lie was a tutor \nat Dartmouth in 1834 and IN:!.\"), and graduated at the Harvard Law School with the \ndegree of LL.B. in 1836. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 27, 1836, and \nsettled id Detroit. \n\nJoseph Hartwell Ladd, son of Caleb and Mary Ann (Watson) Ladd, was born in \nCalcutta, August 14, 1845, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1867. He graduated at \nHarvard Law School in 1871, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December of \nthat year. \n\nCharles H. Mann, son of Eben and Mary (Albee) Mann, was born in Boston, \nAugust 11, 1846, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1867. He graduated at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1869, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January of that year. \nHe died in 1878. \n\nAbel Merrill, son of Abel and Sarah (Henry) Merrill, was born in Stow, Yt., April \n2, 1811, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1839. He studied law with Joseph Bell at \nHaverhill, N. H., in 1839 and 1840, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in \n1*42. He practiced a few years at Hartwell, Vt., but was a member of the Suffolk \nbar in 1849. He left the profession and went to Plainfield. \n\nThomas Leonard Livermore was born in Galena, 111., February 7, 1844, and was \neducated at the public schools in Milford, N. H., the Appleton Academy at Mount \nVernon, N. H., and at the Lombard University at Galesburg, 111. He studied law \nwith Bainbridge Wadleigh in Milford, N. H., and was admitted to the New Hamp- \nshire bar. In 1868 he moved to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7 \nin that year. Previous to entering on the study of the law he enlisted as a private in \nthe First Regiment of New Hampshire volunteers in the spring of 1861, and \nserved three months. In September, 1861, he enlisted as first sergeant in the Fifth \nNew Hampshire Regiment for three years, and while connected with that regiment \nwas promoted through all the grades to brevet colonel. In the spring of 1865 he was \ncommissioned colonel of the Eighteenth New Hampshire Regiment, and was mustered \nout in July of that year. He practiced in Boston from 1868 to L879, associated the \nlatter part of the time with Frederick P. Fish. In 1879 he moved to Manchester, N. \nH., where he was engaged until 1885 as the manager of the Amoskeag Manufactur- \ning Company. He then returned to Boston and resumed the practice of law, contin- \nuing in practice until 1890, when he was made vice-president of the Calumet and Hecla \n72 \n\n\n570 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nMining Company, with an office in Boston, where he is now active in the perform- \nance of the duties of that office. From 1889 to 1893 he was a member of the Metro- \npolitan Park Commission. He married, June 1, 1869, in Milford, N. H., Sarah E., \nadopted daughter of George and Rheny C. Daniel. \n\nOrlando B. Potter illustrates so well by his career the possibility for a New \nEngland youth, without wealth and with limited school privileges, to overcome by \npersevering effort the obstacles in his way and rise to the highest stations of life, that \nhe deserves a special notice in this register. He is descended from John Potter, one \nof the original colonists, who settled at New Haven in 1639, and was one of the \nsigners of the New Haven Covenant. Samuel Potter, the father of Mr. Potter, was \nborn in Hamden, New Haven county, Conn., and reared in Northford in that State, \nand married in Charlemont, Mass., Sophia, daughter of Samuel Rice, and great- \ngranddaughter of Moses Rice, grantee and first settler of that town, who was killed \nby the Indians in 1755, and a descendant in the seventh generation from Edmund \nRice, who came from Barkhamstead in England and settled in Sudbury, Mass., in \n1638. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Potter carries in his veins the blood of the hard- \nworking and enterprising colonists of New England, and that it has reached him in \na current unimpaired and untainted by any sluggish tributaries from families enerv- \nated by lives of luxury and indolence. In 1819 Samuel Potter removed to Charle- \nmont, Mass., his entire possessions, aside from a small amount of ready money, \nconsisting of two ox teams and their contents, which he accompanied to his new \nhome. Settling down upon a hillside farm, not yet wholly cleared, looking down \nupon the valley of Deerfield, he built a house and reared a family of ten children, \neight of whom lived to mature years. The same hardships to which his ancestors \nhad been exposed were here experienced, and the same indomitable spirit which they \npossessed was exhibited by him in overcoming them. Year by year the forest was \nCelled and new acres were added to the cultivated land, and year by year the flocks \nand herds increased, the products of the farm became more abundant, and the com- \nforts of the home were constantly contributed to. Upon Orlando, the subject of this \nsketch, the third child and second son, born in Charlemont, March 10, 1823, his full \nshare of the care and labors of the farm necessarily rested, (hie hundred miles \nfrom Boston, the only market for his products, and with only a wagon road for trans- \nportation, the father, in his repeated journeys to the city, and during his ab- \nsence upon public business, left the older sons with the burden of the farm on' their \nhands, and thus the native strength of the boys was enhanced by the spirit of self- \nreliance which these duties inculcated, and prepared them in the best possible school \nlor the working out of their own careers in life. From the age of ten to that of six- \nteen, during the absence of the oldest son at school and college, the home responsi- \nbilities during the absence of the father fell on Orlando alone. Having reached the \nlatter age, he determined if possible to obtain a college education, and with that view \nduring the next two years, while working on the farm in the spring and summer, \naccumulated something towards future support by teaching school during the autumn \nand winter. In 1841 he entered Williams College, but in his sophomore year, on \naccount of failing health, he left college, and after a trip to sea he secured a position \nas teacher in Dennis, on Cape Cod, where he remained in various occupations aside \nfrom his regular vocation as a teacher until September, 1845. In the early summer \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 57i \n\nof that year, conceiving the wish to study law and enter the Harvard Law School, \nhe engaged to teach a class of young ladies each afternoon, and in order to occupy \nhis whole time, hired a piece of ground, to the cultivation of which he devoted the \nearlier hours of the day. In the latter part of the summer he closed his class and \nmarketed his products, a part of which, consisting of fifty bushels of potatoes, he was \nobliged to ship to Provincetown and peddle personally from house to house. With im- \nproved health and recruited funds he entered the Harvard Law School in Septembei \n1845, and at that institution and in the office of Charles Grandison Thomas, of I Jos- \nton, he continued the study of law until February 12, 1848, when he was admitted in \nBoston to the Suffolk bar. While pursuing his law studies he enabled himself to \ncontinue them by teaching school two terms of three months each in Dennis and in \nhis own native town, the academy in which he fitted for college. White studying in \nthe office of Mr. Thomas, he was often permitted to try cases in the lower courts, \nand thias familiarized himself with the first and humblest steps in a professional \ncareer. He lived in a small room in Sewall Place, where he boarded himself, and \nwas enabled by the exercise of economy and prudence to open an office in that city \nfree from debt and with a future career dependent wholly on his ability and efforts. \nHe not only began practice in Boston, but opened an office in South Reading, where \nhe established his residence and devoted his evenings to business. The sagacity and \ndetermination shown by him in the collection of a large debt from a debtor on Cape \nCod for a prominent business firm in Boston, led to a clientage which during the first \nyear of his practice yielded him an income of $3,000. To the collection of this debl \nhe gave his personal attention, and not contenting himself with sending a writ to an \nofficer and awaiting an almost sure defeat, visited the place of business of the debtor. \ntook in the situation, resisted the pretended ownership by another of the property In- \nsought to attach, and secured before leaving for home the payment of the entire \ndebt. He continued to practice in both Boston and South Reading until May, 1853, \nduring which time he had aided his two sisters and younger brother in obtaining an \neducation, and had laid up about ten thousand dollars. While living in South Read- \ning he boarded with Benjamin B. Wiley, and in October, 1850, he married his \ndaughter, Martha G. Wiley, to whose wisdom, prudence and earnest devotion he \nattributes his subsequent success as much as to his own efforts. In 1852 he was re- \ntained by two young men to defend a suit against them for the contract price of a \nnew sewing machine which they had invented. He was led to investigate their \nmachine, and exhibited so much ready mechanical intelligence by his suggestions \nthat they requested him to become associated with them, with an equal interest, in \nits development and manufacture. The proposition was accepted and he at once \nembarked all his savings in a manufactory, while he continued to work in his pro- \nfession. In 1853 the rapidly increasing demands of this enterprise led to his removal \nto New York, while he associated himself with Solomon J. Gordon to take charge of \nhis law business in Boston. The sewing machine enterprise was soon incorporated \nas a stock company with Mr. Potter as its president, and until 1876, when he retired \nfrom active business, except so far as the management of his own large property was \nconcerned, he was constantly engaged in the conduct of the affairs of the company, \nand directed personally both its extended commercial business and the numerous \nlegal conflicts required in protecting against infringement the patents by which the \nbusiness was secured. The causes in court were often numbered by hundreds, and \n\n\n572 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nin not one of them was permanent defeat suffered. In the investment of his increas- \ning income Mr. Putter has always had faith in the enhancing value of real estate in \nthe city of New York. In 1886 he completed the structure in Park Row which bears his \nname, and in 1889 the large building adjacent to Grace Church in Broadway. In \n1892 he completed the great structure at the corner of Astor Place and Lafayette \nPlace fronting over four hundred feet upon the street. In 1869 he bought a farm \non the Hudson near Sing Sing, containing, with subsequent additions, about seven \nhundred acres, and here with his flocks and herds he spends his summers, and a \nportion of one day in each week of the winter. Notwithstanding the multiplicity of \nbusiness cares which have crowded the life of Mr. Potter, he has been a close observer \nand student of public affairs. Previous to 1860 a Whig, in that year a supporter of \nLincoln, he has since that time been an active advocate of the policy of the Demo- \ncratic party in opposition to the drift of the Republican party into the advocacy and \nsupport of a paternal, centralized government. In the early part of the war, realizing \nthe promise of a prolonged contest and the necessity of abundant means for its \nprosecution, as well as anxious to break up the old system of banking, under which \nthe currency issued by the State banks passed at a discount beyond the borders of \nthe State where it was issued, he conceived and urged the government to adopt a \nplan which was practically followed at a later period in the organization of the \nNational Hanking System. Salmon P. Chase, the secretary of the treasury, is en- \ntitled to only so much of the credit generally accorded to him as attaches to his ready \nacceptance of the substance of Mr. Potter's plan, while to Mr. Potter should be given \nthe honor of conceiving and formulating our national banking system. On the 14th \nof August, 1861, he addressed a letter to Mr. Chase, proposing as follows: \"To \nallow banks and bankers duly authorized in the loyal States to secure their bills by \ndepositing with a superintendent appointed by the government United States stocks \nat their par value . . . thus making the stocks of the United States a basis of \nbanking on which alone a national circulation can be secured . . . and that in \ncase the same shall fail to be redeemed by the bank or banker issuing the currency, \nthen on due demand and protest such superintendent shall sell . . . and apply to \nthe redemption of said currency the stocks held to secure the same. . . . This \nmoney might properly be designated United States currency. . . . The objects \nwhich will be secured by this plan are: First, the bills thus secured will have in \nwhatever State issued a national circulation and be worth the same in all parts of the \ncountry. . . . Second, the fact that in this way banks and bankers could obtain \na national circulation for their bills would make United States stocks eagerly sought \nafter by them and their price would be always maintained at or above par though \nthey bore only a low rate of interest. Four per cents, could never fall below par \nafter the system is fair ly understood and at work. . . . The adoption of this \nplan could not fail to put an end to all financial troubles during the war, and be an \nincreasing benefit and blessing ever after. While it would supply all the means \nrequired for the war, it would instantly enable the older and newer portions of the \ncountry to increase their trade with each other by supplying to such newer portions \nan abundant and perfectly safe currency.\" Only such parts of the letter of Mr. \nPotter are here quoted as are necessary to show that the National Banking Act \npassed February 25, 1863, followed without material modification the plan suggested \n\n\n/f O^ \n\n\n3s?4tt, \ndaughter of Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D., of Boston. \n\nJoseph Thomas, son of William and Mercy (Logan) (Bridgham) Thomas, was born \nin Plymouth, Mass., in 1755, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was an officer \nin the Revolution and after the war retired to Plymouth, where he continued, un- \nmarried, until his death about 1830. \n\nJohn Walsh graduated at Harvard in 1814, and was an attorney at the .Suffolk bar \nin 1822. He died in 1845. \n\nJosephus Eastman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1850, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar ( tctober 9 in that year. \n\nJames Prescott, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1788, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar. He died in 1829. \n\nLucien Gale, son of Stephen Gale, was born in Meredith, N. H., May 25, ISIS, \nand studied law with Stephen Carr Lyford, of Meredith, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar July 23, 1846. He practiced some years in Boston, and afterwards in New \nYork and Chicago, finally returning to New Hampshire and practicing in Laconia, \nwhere he died in 1878. He married, February 1, 1853, Elizabeth, daughter of Alex- \nander Scammell Chadbourne, of Farmingdale, Me. He graduated at Dartmouth \nin 1844. \n\nThomas McCrate Babson, son of John and Sarah Babson, was born in Wiscassct, \nMe., May 28, 1847. He was educated in the public schools, in the Highland Military \nSchool at Worcester, and in the Chauncy Hall School at Boston. On leaving school \nhe was occupied for a time in the store of Danforth, Scudder & Company, of Boston, \nbut having formed a plan to study law entered as a student the office of Ingalls & \nSmith, of Wiscasset. He continued his studies at the Harvard Law School, where \nhe graduated in 1868 with the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nOctober 14, 1868, and began practice in Boston associated with Edwin A. Alger, with \nwhom he remained about six months. In the spring of 1871 he went to St. Louis, \nwhere he remained until November, 1872, when he resumed practice in Boston. From \n1873 to 1879 he was a teacher in the Evening High School, only leaving that position \nwhen his professional engagements demanded the use of all his available time. He \nwas a representative from Ward 16 of Boston in 1876, and in April, 1879, was \nappointed fourth assistant city solicitor during the administration of that office by \nJohn P. Healy. In 1881 he was appointed second assistant, and in 1885 first assist- \nant under Edward P. Nettleton. In 1888 he was appointed eity solicitor by Mayor \nO'Brien in the last week of his administration, but was not confirmed. In May, 1891, \nwhile acting as first assistant city solicitor he was appointed by Mayor Matthews cor- \nporation counsel, and still holds that position. The duties of that office are constant \nand responsible ones, and their performance by Mr. Babson has been eminently \nsatisfactory. Since he entered the office he has made a compilation of ordinances \nand statutes affecting the city of Boston. He married in Boston, June 30, 1891, \nHelen, daughter of Joseph L. Stevens, of Gloucester. \n\nJoel Prentiss Bishop, the son of a farmer, was born m a small log house in the \nwoods in Volney, N. Y., March It), 1814. His father moved while he was an infant \nto Paris, N. Y., where in his boyhood he worked on his father's farm and attended \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 575 \n\nschool three or four months in the year. At the age of sixteen he taught school and \nsought in various ways to obtain means sufficient for a professional education. At \nthe age of twenty-one, baffled by feeble health and insufficient pecuniary require- \nments, he was ready to abandon the career which he had fondly hoped to pursue. On \nthe 19th of July, 1835, he published in the Literary Emporium of New Haven some \nlines descriptive of the blasting of his hopes in which the following words are found \n\n\" Though thus I bid adieu to Learning, where \nShe sits in public places, or bows or waves \nHer plumes from off her star-clad height to meet \nThe gaze of millions, still I may invite \nSometimes her presence in a humble garb, \nTo cheer me in my lone obscure retreat.\" \n\nBut fate was more generous to him than he hoped. He drifted in some way to Bos- \nton and entered as a student in a law office there in 1842, and in fourteen months was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar April 9, 1844. After pursuing a general practice several \nyears he so far devoted himself to the preparation of works in various branches of law \nthat he abandoned practice and followed the hand of fate which had led him thus far \nin his career. He published in 1856 \"Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and \nDivorce;'- in 1858, \" Criminal Law;\" in 1863, \"Thoughts for the Times;'\" in 1864, \n\"Secession and Slavery;\" in 1866, \"Commentaries on Criminal Procedure;\" and in \n1868, \" First Book of the Law.\" Thus the infant born in the log cabin in the Vol- \nney woods, and the young man giving up in despair all hope of a career, became at \nlast one of the most distinguished and successful workers in the literature of law. \nHe is now living in Cambridge and at the age of seventy-nine engaged in preparing \nworks for the press. \n\nPrentiss Cummings, son of Whitney and Mary Hart (Prentiss) Cummings, was born \nin Sumner, Me., September 10, 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 1864. After \nleaving college he held the position of Latin tutor at Harvard from 1866 to 1870, at \nthe same time studying law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated \nin 1869 with the degree of LL.B. He continued his studies in Boston in the office \nof Nicholas St. John Green, at that time instructor in the Harvard Law School and \nalso lecturer on philosophy and political economy in the college, and was admitted to \nthe Middlesex bar at Cambridge in 1871. He established himself in Boston and soon \ngathered about himself a numerous and confiding clientage. He has been a mem- \nber of the Boston City Council from Ward 10 three years, a member of the Massa- \nchusetts House of Representatives two years, and assistant United States attorney \nseven years. He was the president of the Cambridge Street Railroad during the \nthree years before it was consolidated with the West-End Railroad, and the last four \nyears has been the counsel of the latter road. The many obstacles to be overcome \nin the organization and maintenance of this company, the legislation required for its \nproper development, and the many suits in which so large a corporation has been \nengaged, have demanded of him his most faithful and unremitting efforts. No man \nis better fitted for the position, and he shares largely with Mr. Whitney, its presi- \ndent, the honor and credit of rendering their road an important stepping stone to \nwhat it is hoped may soon be realized — a permanent solution of the vexed question of \nrapid transit for Boston and its suburbs. The chapter on Street Railways in one of \nthe other two volumes of this work will describe more fully the service rendered by \n\n\n576 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nMr. Cummings in the establishment of these indispensable means of transit in and \nabout the metropolis. He married, February 25, 1880, Annie D. Snow at Buckfield, \nMe., and has his residence in Brookline. \n\nIsaac McClellan, jr., was born in Portland in 1810 and graduated at Bowdoin \nCollege in 1826. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1830, and practiced \nlaw in Boston for a time. He afterwards retired to Greenport, L. I., and engaged \nin agriculture. In the year of his admission to the bar he published a collection of \npoems, and at various times afterwards published other collections. \n\nMorton Barrows graduated at Harvard in 1880 and studied law in the office of \nHarrison, Hines & Miller, of Indianapolis, Ind., and at the Boston University Law \nSchool, from which he received the degree of LL.B. in 1883. He was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now practicing law in St. Paul. \n\nFrank Oliver Carpenter graduated at Harvard in 1880, and after leaving college \ntook charge of the Attawaugan Grammar School in Killingly, Conn. In April, 1881, \nhe was appointed sub-master of the High School in Lexington, Mass., and soon after \nmaster. He finally studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, \n1887. He married Flora Edith, daughter of Reuben H. and Lydia P. Wiltse, of \nCorunna, Mich., at Boston, April 2, 1889. \n\nChauncey Smith, son of Ithamar and Ruth (Barnard) Smith, was born in Waits- \nHeld, Vt., January 11, 1819. He was educated at the public schools in Waitsfield, at \nthe Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary in Gouverneur, N. Y., at the University of \nBurlington, Vt. , and in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, \n1S4D, and is engaged in practice in Boston relating chiefly to telephone and other \npatent cases. He married Caroline E. Marshall, at Cambridge, December 10, 1856, \nand has his residence in Cambridge. \n\nHenry Walton Swift, son of William C. N. and Eliza N. (Perry) Swift, was born \nin New Bedford, Mass., December 17, 1849. He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter \nAcademy and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He studied law in New Bedford in the \noffice of William W. Crapo and George Marston, and at the Harvard Law School, \nfrom which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1N74. He was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar June 20, 1874, and established himself in Boston, associated with Russell \nGray. He became largely connected with corporation business and has acted in \nBoston for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. Like his father, a prominent \nDemocrat in Bristol county, he has been active in the ranks of the Democracy, and \nhas recently served as chairman of the finance committee of the Democratic State \nCommittee. In 1882 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Represent- \natives from Boston, and previous to that time, in 1S79 and 1880, he was a member of \nthe Boston Common Council from Ward 9. He was one of the compilers of the \nMassachusetts Digest published in 1881. In January, 1892, John E. Sanford, of \nTaunton, chairman of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, was appointed \nchairman of the Railroad Commissioners, and Mr. Swift was appointed to take Mr. \nSanford's place, and the legal knowledge, good sense and capacity for work which \nhe has shown during a year's performance of the duties of the office, have proved \nthat his appointment was not misplaced. His residence is in Boston. \n\nWilliam Sain i Agnan Stearns, son of Richard Sprague and Theresa (Saint Agnan) \nStearns, was born in Salem, Mass., September 27, 1822. He received his early edu- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 577 \n\ncation at the Salem Latin School and the Dummer Academy, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1841. He studied law in Worcester in the office of Emory Washburn, \nand in Andover in the office of Nathan Hazen, and was admitted to the Essex county \nbar at Ipswich in 1846. He first opened an office in Princeton, 111., where he spent \ntwo yearsx, and then returned to Massachusetts and practiced in South Reading one \nyear. He then practiced in Maiden and finally in Charlestown, where he continued \nwith an office a part of the time in Boston until the annexation of Charlestown to \nBoston in January, 1874. For a number of years he was associated in business with \nJohn Quincy Adams Griffin. In 1868, two years after the death of Mr. Griffin, he \nformed a partnership with John Haskell Butler, which continued until January, 1892. \nMr. Butler had been a student in his office. Buring the last three years of the cor- \nporate existence of Charlestown he was its city solicitor, and performed the duties of \nthat office not only with the approval of the city government but with that also of \nthe community at large. While Mr. Butler has entered to a certain extent the field \nof politics, Mr. Stearns has resisted the allurements of public life and devoted himself \nto his prof essional \\vork and to the successful development of real estate in Charles- \ntown and Somerville and Salem, which under his prudent management has largely \nenhanced in value. In January, 1892, he abandoned practice altogether, and since \nthat time has been devoted to his private affairs. He married H. Emily Whitman \nin Maiden May 10, 1849, and has his residence in Salem in the house built by his \ngreat-grandfather, John Sprague, in 1750. \n\nJohn Lowell, son of John Amory and Susan Cabot (Lowell) Lowell, was born in \nBoston October 18, 1824. Perhaps no family in Massachusetts has for so many gen- \nerations and in so many of its branches been more distinguished. Going no farther \nback than John Lowell, who was born in Newburyport in 1743, and became chief \njustice of the United States Court of the first circuit, including Maine, New Hamp- \nshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, we find in the next generation his son John, \na lawyer and writer of repute, born in Newburyport in 1769, a founder of the \" Bos- \nton Atheneum,\" \" The Provident Institution for Savings in the town of Boston,\" and \nof the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company ; another son, Francis Cabot \nLowell, born in Newburyport in 1775, from whom the city of Lowell received its \nname; and still another son, Charles, born in Boston in 1782, who was for many \nyears the distinguished pastor of the West Church in Boston. In the third generation \nwe have John Lowell, called the Philanthropist, a son of Francis Cabot Lowell, born \nin Boston in 1799, who bequeathed $250,000 for the maintenance in that city of the \n\"Lowell Institute;\" James Russell Lowell, son of Rev. Charles Lowell, the poet \nstatesman and scholar, and John Amory Lowell, son of John Lowell mentioned \nabove as a founder of several institutions, and the father of the subject of this sketch. \nIn the fourth and present generation we have Charles Russell Lowell and James \nJackson Lowell, brothers, and grandsons of Rev. Charles Lowell, both of whom dis- \ntinguished themselves in the Civil War, the former of whom, with the rank of \nbrigadier-general, was killed at the battle of Cedar Creek ; and the latter, as first \nlieutenant, was killed at the battle of Glendale ; and John Lowell, son of John Amory \nLowell, and the subject of this sketch. Thus John Lowell, of whom these words \nare written, is descended through both his father and mother from Judge John \nLowell, who so long and so worthily graced the bench of the District and Circuit \n73 \n\n\n578 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nCourts of the United States. He was fitted for college in a private school under the \ninstruction of Daniel Greenleaf Ingraham, a Harvard graduate of 1809, and gradu- \nated at Harvard in 1843 in a class many of whose members have become distinguished \nin the various walks of life. Among these may be mentioned John William Bacon, \na late judge of the Superior Court, Charles Anderson Dana, editor of the New York \nSun, Rev. Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Rev. Thomas Hill, late president of Har- \nvard College, Charles Callaghan Perkins, distinguished in the department of art, \nWilliam Adams Richardson, at one time secretary of the United States treasury and \nnow chief justice of the Court of Claims, Eben Carleton Sprague, the eminent \nlawyer of Buffalo, and Eben Francis Stone, of Newburyport, late member of Con- \ngress. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in \n1845 with the degree of LL. B. , and after further study in Boston in the office of \nCharles G. Loring, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He was for \nsome years associated in business with William Sohier, a Harvard graduate of 1840, \nand became so eminent at the bar that on the resignation of Peleg Sprague of his \nseat on the bench of the United States District Court, he was appointed on the 11th \nof March, 1865, by President Lincoln as his successor. At the time of his appoint- \nment the District Courts were held by the district judges, and the Circuit Courts by \nthe justices of the United States Supreme Court. The law provided that the \"chief \njustice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court shall be allotted among the \ncircuits by an order of the court, and a new allotment shall be made whenever it \nbecomes necessary or convenient by reason of the alteration of any circuit or of the \nnew appointment of a chief justice or associate justice or otherwise.\" On the 10th of \nApril, 1869, it was provided by law that \"for each circuit there shall be appointed a \ncircuit judge, who shall have the same power and jurisdiction therein as the justice \nof the Supreme Court allotted to the circuit. . . . The Circuit Courts shall be \nheld by the associate justice, or by the circuit judge of the circuit, or by the district \njudge of the district sitting alone, or by any two of said judges sitting together.\" It \nwas further provided that the associate justice of the Supreme Court shall attend at \nleast one term of the Circuit Court in each district of the circuit to which he is allotted \nin two years. After the passage of this law, George Foster Shepley, of Portland, \nwas appointed circuit judge, and held that position until his death, July 20, 1878. \nOn the 18th of December following, Judge Lowell was appointed circuit judge of the \nFirst Circuit which includes Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode \nIsland. He continued on the bench until May 1, 1884, when, after nineteen years' \nservice on the bench of United States courts, he resigned and resumed practice in \nBoston. Were it not probable that judicial traits, like all other mental characteristics, \nare inherited, it would seem more singular that Judge Lowell should have held for \nthirteen years the sarhe position as district judge which his great-grandfather John \nLowell held under an appointment from Washington three-quarters of a century \nbefore. It is still more singular that he should have been promoted to the position \nof judge of the Court of the First Circuit while the same ancestor was raised under \nthe law of 1801, repealed in 1802, by appointment from President Adams from a \njudge of the District Court to chief justice of the court of the same circuit. Judge \nLowell, since his retirement from the bench, has found no want of occupation, and \nhis legal learning, supplemented by judicial training and the honest workings of an \naccurate and logical mind, has brought to him as auditor, referee or trustee, the \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 579 \n\nadjudication and management of questions and trusts involving large and important \ninterests. He married, May 19, 1853, Lucy B., daughter of George B. Emerson, of \nBoston. Two volumes of the decisions of Judge Lowell from 1872 to 1877 have been \npublished, and on all questions relating to the subject of bankruptcy he is the highest \nauthority. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1871 and from Williams \nCollege in 1870. \n\nHarvey Newton Shepard, son of William and Eliza Shepard, was born in Bos- \nton, July 8, 1850. He received his early education at the public schools of Boston, \nincluding the Eliot School and at the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham. He grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1871, and after attending lectures at the Harvard Law School \ncompleted his law studies in the office of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson, of Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1873. Beginning practice in the office of \nthe above firm he established himself independently in business in 1875, and soon \nsecured a foothold in the ranks of his profession. In the earliest days of his career \nhe became active in politics, and in 1874 and 1875 was a member of the Republican \nCity Committee of Boston, a member of the Republican State Committee in 1875-76 \nand 1877, and president of the Young Men's Republican State Committee 1879 and \n1880. In later years he has allied himself with those who, having become dissatisfied \nwith the course of the Republican party, have advocated and supported those meas- \nures of public policy of which Grover Cleveland has been the most conspicuous \nexponent. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1878-1880 and 1881, \nand in 1880 was president of the Board. In 1881 and 1882 he was a member of the \nMassachusetts House of Representatives; in 1878 and 1879 he was a trustee of the \nBoston Public Library, and in 1884 he delivered the annual oration on the Fourth of \nJuly before the city authorities of Boston. From 1883 to 1887 he was assistant attor- \nney-general of the Commonwealth, and in 1892 was the chairman of the Executive \nCommittee of the Tariff Reform League. In the ranks of the latter organization he \nhas been especially active, and his speeches in advocacy of its measures have been \nable and instructive. In the Masonic fraternity he has been conspicuous. In 1881 \nand 1882 he was worshipful master of St. John's Lodge, in 1882 and 1883 high priest \nof St. John's Chapter, in 1887 and 1888 thrice illustrious master of East Boston Coun- \ncil, in 1883-1884 and 1885 district deputy grand master of the First Masonic District, \nand from 1885 to 1889 commissioner of trials of the Grand Lodge. He has been a \nmember and officer of other associations too numerous to mention. He married in \nEverett, November 23, 1873, Fannie May Woodman, and resides in Boston. \n\nSolomon Alonzo Bolster, son of Gideon and Charlotte (Hall) Bolster, was born \nin Paris, Oxford county, Me. , December 10, 1835. He was educated in the public \nschools and at the Oxford Normal Institute in Paris. He studied law in the office of \nWilliam W. Bolster in Dixfield, Me., and continued his studies at the Harvard Law \nSchool, where he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1859. He was admitted to \nthe Maine bar in Paris and later to the Missouri bar in Palmyra. He was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar April 24, 1862. On the 29th of September, 1862, he was mustered \ninto the United States service for nine months, and on the 15th of November he was \ncommissioned second lieutenant in the Twenty-third Regiment of Maine Volun- \nteers. In his devotion to his profession he has been constant and faithful. No \npopular political excitement has drawn his footsteps from the chosen path of his pro- \n\n\n58o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nfession, no allurements of public office, so potent with many, have distracted his \nmind, but with a single eye to the career he had marked out for himself, and obedient \nto its behests, he has gained position and honor in the legal ranks. On the 22d of \nApril, 1885, he was appointed justice of the Municipal Court for the Roxbury Dis- \ntrict of the city of Boston to succeed Henry W. Fuller, who was the successor of P. \nS. Wheelock, for many years a judge on the bench of that court. In the Massachu- \nsetts Militia he was appointed June 29, 1867, judge advocate with the rank of captain \nin the First Brigade, assistant inspector-general with the rank of major March 22, \n1870, and assistant adjutant-general with the rank of lieutenant-colonel August 15, \n1876. At the expiration of his war service he established himself in Roxbury, where \nhe still resides and has his office. He married in Cambridge, October 3, 1864, Sarah \nJ. Gardner. \n\nWilliam Adams Richardson, son of Daniel and Mary (Adams) Richardson, was \nborn in Tyngsborough, Mass., November 2, 1821, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. \nHe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846 with the degree of LL.B., and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar July 8 in that year. He established himself in Lowell, \nwhere he was associated as partner with his brother, Daniel S. Richardson. In 1849 \nand 1853 and 1854 he was a member of the Lowell Common Council, and during the \nlast two years he was president of the Board. In 1846 he was appointed judge advo- \ncate of the Second Division of the Massachusetts Militia with the rank of major, and \nin 1850 he was a member of the staff of Governor George- Nixon Briggs. In 1855 he \nwas appointed one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of Massachusetts, who \nreported the revision which finally became the General Statutes of 1860. In Decem- \nber, 1859, he was appointed with George Partridge Sanger to superintend the publi- \ncation of the General Statutes and prepare an index. In 1856 he was appointed \njudge of probate of Middlesex county, and held that office until the creation by law \nof the office of judge of probate and insolvency in 1858, when he was appointed to \nthat office. In 1863 he was chosen an overseer of Harvard College, and in 1869 was \nrechosen. In 1867 he was appointed with Judge Sanger to edit the annual supple- \nment of the \"General Statutes,\" and performed that service until the issue of the \n\"Public Statutes\" in 1882. In March, 1869, he was appointed assistant secretary of \nthe Treasury, and on the retirement of George S. Boutwell, the secretary, in 1873, he \nwas appointed to succeed him. In June, 1874, he was appointed one of the judges \nof the Court of Claims at Washington, and in January, 1885, was made chief justice. \nIn June, 1880, he was appointed by Congress to edit and publish a supplement to the \nRevised Statutes of the United States wTith notes and references, which was published \nin 1881. In 1880 he was appointed a professor of law in the Georgetown University \nand he has received a degree of LL.D. from Columbian University in 1873, George- \ntown in 1881, Harvard in 1882, and Dartmouth in 1886. He married, October 29, \n1849, Anna M. Marston, of Machiasport, Me. \n\nCharles S. Bradley, son of Charles Bradley, a Boston merchant, was chief justice \nof the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, and afterwards practiced in Boston. He was \nat the Suffolk bar in 1877. \n\nWilliam Minot, son of William and Louisa (Davis) Minot, was born in Boston \nApril 7, 1817, and graduated at Harvard in 1836. He graduated at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1840 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1841. He established \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 581 \n\nhimself in Boston in association with James Benjamin, a Harvard graduate of 1830, \nas his partner. The firm engaged in a general practice until the death of Mr. Ben- \njamin in 1853. Not long after that time his father, a Harvard graduate of 1802, who \nhad been for many years engaged as administrator and trustee of large and exceed- \ningly valuable estates, began to gradually relinquish the cares and responsibilities of \nbusiness, and these were chiefly assumed by the son. It is probable that no man in \nMassachusetts had .the management of a larger amount of trust funds than the elder \nMr. Minot, and it is certain that m no other hands were these considered more safely \ndeposited or more conscientiously and wisely invested. The management of these \ntrusts is of course incompatible with a continued practice of law in the courts, and \nsince his father's death he has been little known in the trial of causes. It is easy to \nunderstand the temperament and general characteristics of a man qualified for the \nposition he holds. He possesses the retiring disposition of his father, his conservative \nviews, his judicial mind, his sensitive conscience, his love of justice, integrity and \nhonor. He has inherited all those traits which made his father an honest and wise \ncounsellor and friend. He married Katharine Maria, daughter of Charles and Eliza- \nbeth Sedgwick, of Lenox, Mass., and has two sons, Robert S. and William Minot, jr., \nassociated with him in business. \n\nWilliam J. Purnam, son of Rev. John K. and Sarah (Harter) Purnam, was born in \nCentre county, Penn., April 11, 1840. He was educated in the public schools and at \nAaronsburg Academy. He read law and was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania \nin 1801, when he entered the service. After the war he settled in Florida, in which \nState he was senator and secretary of state. He became judge of the court of Jack- \nson county, assessor of internal revenue, and member of Congress, serving in the \nForty-third, Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses. In 1884 he removed to Boston \nwhere he now lives. He married, October 19, 1871, Leadora Finlayson, of Marianna, \nFla. \n\nGeorge Foster Shelley, son of Ether Shepley, was born in Saco, Me., January 1, \n1819, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1837. He read law at the Harvard Law School \nand was admitted to the Maine bar in 1840. He established himself in Bangor, \nwhere he remained until 1844, when he removed to Portland. From 1853 to 1861 he \nwas United States district attorney for Maine, and in I860 was a delegate at large to \nthe National Democratic Convention at Charleston. In the early part of the war \nhe was commissioned colonel of the Twelfth Maine Regiment. He was made mili- \ntary commandant of New Orleans after its capture and acting mayor until in July, \n1862, he was appointed military governor of Louisiana. In the same month he was \nmade brigadier-general of volunteers. At a later time he was placed in command of \nthe military district of Eastern Virginia, and for a short time commanded the \nTwenty-fifth Army Corps. He was also appointed military governor of Richmond \nafter its capture, and resigned his commission July 1, 1865. In 1869 he was appointed \ncircuit judge of the First Circuit, which office he held until his death, July 20, 1878. \nHis circuit included Massachusetts, and for the reason that he held court in Boston \nhe is included in this register. \n\nRaymond R. Gilman, son of Ambrose and Eunice (Wilcox) Oilman, was born in \nShelburne Falls, Mass. , July 25, 1859. He was educated in the public schools and at \nthe academy at Shelburne Falls. He studied law at the Boston University Law \n\n\n582 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nSchool and in the offices of F. Field, of Shelburne Falls, and Frederick D. Ely, of \nDedham, now one of the judges of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, and \nwas admitted to the Norfolk bar September 28, 1880. He established himself in \nbusiness in his native town, but finally removed to Boston, where he is now in active \npractice at the Suffolk bar. Since he opened an office in Boston he has advanced \nwith sure yet rapid steps in his profession, and while so many young lawyers, after \nadmission to the Suffolk bar, have been compelled to seek'other business more profit- \nable than the law or to migrate to other fields where there seemed to be a promise \nfor a more prosperous career, the larger opportunities of Boston have enabled him \nto develop and use the talents and capacity for work which he possesses and to suc- \nceed where so many others have failed. He is an active member of the association \nof Odd Fellows and is a member of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. In the town \nof Melrose, where he has his residence, he takes an interest in every movement cal- \nculated to advance the welfare of the community with which he has identified himself. \nHe married, June 16, 1882. Kate A. Tuttle. \n\nRufus Choate, son of David and Miriam (Foster) Choate, was descended from John \nChoate, who was made a freeman in Massachusetts in 1667. He was born in the \ntown of Essex, Mass., October 1, 1799. He began the study of Latin in 1809 with Dr. \nThomas Sewell and continued his studies with Rev. Thomas Holt, William Cogswell \nand Rev. Robert Crowell. Even earlier than that, when he was about six years of \nage, it is said that he could repeat from memory a large part of \" Pilgrim's Progress,\" \nand before he was ten had exhausted the resources of the library in his native town. \nAfter a short period of study at Hampton Academy, where he fitted for college, he \nentered Dartmouth College in 1815 and graduated in 1819. He received the degree \nof LL. D. from Yale in 1844, from Dartmouth and Harvard in 1845, and from Am- \nherst in 1848. After leaving college he occupied the position of tutor at Dartmouth \none year, and then for a short time attended lectures at the Harvard Law School. \nIn 1821 he entered the office of William Wirtr then attorney-general of the United \nStates, at Washington, and returned to Massachusetts in 1822, where he finished his \nlaw studies in Ipswich and Salem. He was admitted to the Essex bar at Salem at \nthe September term of the Court of Common Pleas in 1823, and established himself \nin Danvers in 1824. In 1828 he removed to Salem. While living in Danvers he was \na member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1825, and a State sen- \nator in 1827. From 1831 to 1834 he was a member of Congress from the Essex dis- \ntrict, resigning in the latter year and removing to Boston. His brilliant career as a \nlawyer may be said to have begun on his entrance to the broader field which the \nSuffolk bar opened to him. In 1841 he succeeded Daniel Webster in the United \nStates Senate when that gentleman resigned his seat to become secretary of state \nunder President Harrison. In 1845 Mr. Webster was again chosen senator and Mr. \nChoate resumed the practice of his profession in Boston. In 1850 he visited Europe, \ntraveling in England, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Germany. In 1849 the \noffice of attorney-general of the Commonwealth, which had been abolished in 1843, \nwas re-established and John H. Clifford was appointed to fill it. In 1853, on the \naccession of Mr. Clifford to the executive chair, Mr. Choate was appointed his suc- \ncessor as attorney-general, and held the office until his resignation in 1854, and the \nreappointment of Mr. Clifford in that year. In 1852 he was a delegate to the Whig \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 583 \n\nNational Convention at Baltimore, and advocated the nomination of Mr. Webster for \nthe presidency, and in 1853 was a member of the Massachusetts convention for the \nrevision of the constitution. In 1856 he supported Mr. Buchanan in the presidential \ncampaign of that year. In 1858, in consequence of ill health, he abandoned profes- \nsional labor, and in 1859, accompanied by his son, sailed for Europe, hoping to re- \ngain health and strength. On the arrival of the steamer in Halifax, then a stopping \nplace, he was too feeble to proceed and landing, died in that city July 13, 1859. He \nmarried, March 29, 1825, Helen, daughter of Mills Olcutt, of Hanover, N. H., a sis- \nter of the wife of Joseph Bell referred to elsewhere in this register. It is not easy to \nmeasure and state with accuracy the characteristics of Mr. Choate in the various posi- \ntions which he was called upon to till. As a statesman and politician he should not \nbe accorded the highest place. As the former he was so far removed from his true \nelement, and was so unfamiliar with the atmosphere surrounding him, that he \nbreathed it timidly and with caution, and failed to exhibit that fearless independeuce \nso essential to success in the legislative arena. While in the Senate, when Mr. Web- \nster remained in the Cabinet of President Tyler, after others of the Harrison Cabinet \ndeserted him, agamst the protests and denunciations of Henry Clay and other leading \nWhig statesmen who looked on the president as a traitor to his party, Mr. Choate \nassumed the attitude of a defender of the secretary, and on one occasion sought in a \nspeech to palliate, if not justify, the acts of Mr. Tyler. \" And do you, too, pretend to \nbe a mouthpiece of the administration,\" said Mr. Clay pointing his finger at the Mass- \nachusetts senator, but not a word was heard from Mr. Choate in response to an in- \nsult which a man of smaller calibre, but more courage, would have indignantly \nresented and rebuked. As a politician he was as much out of his element as in the \nrole of a legislator. He was too much absorbed in the special vocation to which he \nhad consecrated his powers to give much time to the study of political questions, and he \nthus naturally followed the tide on which he saw his friends and associates were drift- \ning, and with his yreat good nature rendered them generously such aid as they sought \nfrom him. In the dominion of law, however, to which he gave his heart and soul \nand strength, he was supreme. As has been said of him by the writer of this sketch \nin another place, \"though an orator of the highest rank, his greatest forensic efforts \nwere before a jury, and no gladiatorial show ever exceeded in interest the continuous \nexhibition of logic, entwined with wreaths of eloquence, in which he indulged before \na reluctant jury until one after another of the panel yielded to him his judgment, \nand was ready, as he triumphantly said, to give him his verdict.\" There was a fasci- \nnation about him which no juryman with the usual qualities of human nature could \nresist, and the writer who has many times seen and heard him in the trial of causes, \nfails to remember an instance where his sympathies were not enlisted on the side \nrepresented by Mr. Choate. But his success at the bar was not due alone to his \noratory. No man understood human nature better, or was more keen in discover- \ning the points which would influence the human mind. The writer remembers a trial \nat which he was present, of a shipmaster charged with wrecking his vessel on the \nthe coast of St. Domingo for the purpose of obtaining a large and fraudulent insur- \nance. The underwriters of Boston, who had, as they believed, been repeatedly de- \nfrauded in a similar manner, determined to make a stand on this case, and, if possi- \nble, secure a conviction. The case had been tried once with Robert Rantoul the \nprosecuting district attorney, and the jury had disagreed. Before the second trial \n\n\n584 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nGeorge Lant had been made district attorney, under the Taylor administration, and \nhe had sent to St. Domingo George D. Guild, a member of the Boston bar, to secure \nfurther evidence for the government. At the second trial, most of which came under \nthe observation of the writer, when the testimony on both sides had been submitted, \nthe court took a short recess before the addresses to the jury. During the recess Mr. \nChoate, while passing through the entry of the Court House, overheard the colored \ncook of the vessel say to some of his shipmates that the captain cried when he aban- \ndoned his vessel and took his boat to go ashore. After the recess Mr. Choate rose in \na solemn manner, and saying to the court that during the recess a very important \npiece of testimony had come to his knowlege, asked permission to introduce it. The \ncourt overruled the objections of the district attorney, and permitted the introduc- \ntion of the evidence. The cook was called to the stand, and in reply to the question \nof Mr. Choate as to the behavior of the captain on his leaving his vessel, replied that \nhe cried like a child. This was enough for Mr. Choate, and in his address he so de- \nscribed the scene of the wreck and the pathetic deportment of the captain in leaving \nhis dear Sally Ann, whose loss, if he were guilty, he would have rather rejoiced \nat than mourned, that his client was acquitted. The oratory of Mr. Choate has been \ngraphically described by Hon. John J. Ingalls, who happened to be in court in \nSalem while Mr. Choate was conducting a suit for damages against a railroad cor- \nporation, brought by a clergyman who was run down by a train while driving over a \ntrack at a street crossing. \"Mr. Choate's purpose, when he rose to address the jury, \nseemed to be to dispel, by bald and colloquial simplicity, the imputation made by \nGeneral Butler, the opposing counsel, that he was a magician and juggler charming- \njuries with his legerdemain and incantations. When this purpose was accomplished \nhe gradually and by imperceptible gyrations wheeled to higher flights, till at last he \nseemed almost to vanish in the empyrean of articulate splendor. No dervish in his \nmost ecstatic fervor ever bent and whirled, and rose and fell on such genuflections \nand contortions. Sweat trickled from the black jungle of his disordered hair along \nthe ravines and furrows of his haggard face. He advanced and retreated, rising \nupon his toes and coming down upon his heels with a dislocating jerk that made \nthe windows rattle, pausing occasionally to inhale through his dilating nostrils tem- \npestuously, and then emitting a shrieking epigram or apostrophe that thrilled the \nblood like a wild cry at midnight in a solitary place. With great artistic skill he de- \npicted the tranquil village ; the clergyman on his errand of mercy in the freshness of \na summer morning along the shaded street ; the unsuspected approach of the train \naround the concealing curve ; the fatal instant, when, too late to advance or retreat, \nthe monster sprang upon him with 'the thunderous terror of its insupportable foot- \nsteps.'\" Mr. Ingalls further says, \"how such a blazing meteor broke into the sedate \norbit of New England life is one of the mysteries of psychology. No such phenom- \nenon has occurred in Massachusetts before or since. He wore the aspect of an \nArab, and had the oriental imagination of a wanderer of the desert, but to these \nwere added the sagacious shrewdness and pertinacity of a Yankee.\" With all his \nmarvelous, and often pathetic eloquence, he was not devoid of humor, and in this \nhe often indulged, more powerful in argument than invective, but while his audience \nlaughed, his face always remained the same, serious and serene. Governor Andrew \nonce told the writer of the return of Mr. Choate to his office one day after a trial in \nthe Supreme Court, in which he had been much annoyed by the supercilious bearing \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 585 \n\nof the opposing counsel, an eminent member of the Suffolk bar. As he threw his \n\nsatchel on the standing desk, at which he often stood and worked, he exclaimed, \n\"There, 1 don't care if 1 never sec Mr. — - again,\" adding after a pause, \"not that \nI should object to seeing him in a procession.\" This unworthy sketch of Mr. Choate \nwould be less worthy still, if no mention were made of his modest and unassuming- \ndeportment, his sweet and gentle nature, his unvarying courtesy to old and young, \nto those of high and low degree, his readiness at all times to aid with the wisest and \nmost conscientious counsel the young aspirant for work and fame in the profession \nin which he was master. With these qualities, he died not only venerated as a great \nlawyer, but beloved also as a man. \n\nAsa French, son of Jonathan and Sarah Brackett (Hayward) French, was born in \nBraintree, Mass. , October 21, 1829. In that town his ancestors have lived from the \ntime of its earliest settlement. He received his early education in the public schools \nof Braintree and at Leicester Academy, and graduated at Yale College in 1851. He \nstudied law at the Albany Law School and at the Harvard Law School, graduating \nfrom the latter institution in 185:] with the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the \nNew York bar in 1853, and after further study in Boston in the offices of David A. \nSimmons and Harvey Jewell was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 1854. He has \nsince his admission continued to live in Braintree, and though practicing in Boston \nhas l>een identified with the Norfolk county bar. In 1866 he was a member of the \nMassachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1870 was appointed by Governor \nClaflin district attorney for the Southeastern District of Massachusetts, consisting of \nthe counties of Norfolk and Plymouth, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resigna- \ntion of Edward Lillie Pierce. He held the office by successive elections until 1882, \nwhen he resigned. He had at this time shown so conspicuously his ability at the \nbar, and the judicial character of his mind, that in the latter year Governor Long \noffered him a seat on the bench of the Superior Court, which he declined. Previous \nto that time he had held for a number of years a position on the Board of Commis- \nsioners on Inland Fisheries and continued to hold it several years later. Under the \nact of Congress passed June 5, 1882, re-establishing the Court of Commissioners on \nthe Alabama Claims, he was appointed one of the judges, and in 1883 was selected \nby President Arthur as on^ of the visitors at West Point for that year. In 1870 Gen- \neral Sylvanus Thayer, of Braintree, endowed a free public library in that town and \nat his death bequeathed to trustees two hundred and eighty thousand dollars for the \nestablishment in the town of an institution free to all the citizens of the old town for \nthe education of their children. The library, known as the Thayer Public Library, \nand the institution, known as the Thayer Academy, have become important factors \nin promoting the welfare of the town. Mr. French is the president of the boards of \ntrustees of both institutions. He is now actively engaged in practice in Boston, and \nin the enjoyment of the confidence of a large and desirable clientage. He married in \nOctober, 1858, Sophia B., daughter of Simeon Palmer, of Boston. \n\nJohn Wells, son of Noah Wells, was born in Rowe, Mass., February 17, 1819. His \nfather was a man of note in Franklin county, having been a State senator in 1842 and \na representative at an earlier date. He graduated at Williams College in 1838, and \n•after graduating taught school for a time in Newport, R. I. He studied law in \nGreenfield in the office of Wells & Davis and at the Harvard Law School, and was \n74 \n\n\n586 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nadmitted to the Franklin count}' bar in 1841. He established himself in Chicopee \nand in 1858 was appointed judge of probate and insolvency, the first judge under the \nlaw combining the two offices. In 1864 he resigned in consequence of the pressure \n\non his time of his general practice. He was a member of the Massachusetts House \nof Representatives from Chicopee in 1849-1851-1857 and 18C5. In 1866 he was ap- \npointed a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court to fill the vacancy occasioned by the \ndeath of Charles Augustus Dewey, and held his seat until his death. He delivered \nan address before the alumni of Williams College in 1869, and was president of the \nAlumni Association during the last two years of his life. He married, May 15, \n1850, Sophia Dwight, of Boston, and died at the house of George Wheatland in Salem, \nNovember 23, 1875. The Law Review said of him: \"His reputation was steadily \ngrowing until he had made himself one of the best judges in the country and left a \nreputation seldom equalled and more seldom surpassed by any in the list of his dis- \ntinguished predecessors.\" \n\nJohn Quincy Adams Griffin was born in Londonderry, N. H., July 8, 1826, and \nwas educated at the Lawrence Academy in Groton. He studied law in that town \nwith George Frederick Farley and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, \n1849. In 1855 he was living in Maiden, in 1859 in Charlestown, and afterwards in \nMedford. He practiced in Charlestown and Boston and was a number of years in \npartnership with William St. Agnan Stearns, who is referred to in another part of \nthis Register. He was a representative about I860, and the writer has a distinct \nrecollection of his deep sonorous voice, his deliberate manner, his incisive and logical \nspeech, and the attention he always commanded when he rose to address the House. \nThere was no abler man of his age at either the Middlesex or .Suffolk bar, and in the \ntrial of causes the difficulties and dilemmas which arise in court to the discomfiture \nof the counsel, only served to sharpen his intellect- and to bring out that reserved \nforce which in the end secured a victory at the very verge of failure and defeat. He \ndied at Medford, May 22, 1866, at the age of forty years. He married Sarah, daugh- \nter of James Wood, of Concord, Mass. \n\nFrederick Ellsworth Hurd, son of George A. and Laura A. (Chapman) Hurd, \nwas born in Wolf boro', N. H., February 25, 1861. Colonel Ellsworth, commander of \nthe Ellsworth Zouaves, was killed in Alexandria at the beginning of the war, \nand the interest excited by that event induced his parents to adopt his name \nfor their child. He was educated at the public schools of Wolfboro' and at the \nBoston Latin School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in \nthe offices of John H. Hardy, now one of the justices of the Municipal Court of the \ncity of Boston, and of Samuel J. Elder, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Octo- \nber, 1884. .Since his admission up to the present time he has been an assistant dis- \ntrict attorney of Suffolk county under Oliver Stevens, who has many years occupied \nthe position of attorney. Mr. Hurd has devoted himself most assiduously to the study \nof criminal law and has already won an enviable reputation for skill in the construc- \ntion and drawing of indictments. It is intimated that some recent indictments in \ncases where a failure to convict was very generally expected were largely the work \nof his hands. He is now in a position where he is laying a sure foundation for \ncriminal practice which cannot fail to give him a prominent position at the bar. He \nis unmarried and has his residence in Boston. \n\n\nBiographical register. 587 \n\nEdwin C. Oilman, son of Samuel and Jeannette (Rae) Gilman, was born in Bos- \nton, August 29, 1851, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law in \nBoston in the offices of Moses Williams and Clement K. Fay, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar June 10, 1873. He established himself in business in Boston, where \nhe engaged in general practice until 1885. A clear head, great perseverance and \nuntiring industry, added to his legal attainments, soon secured for him a foothold \nin his profession. Like many other lawyers of ability whose services have been \nsought as permanent advisers of companies or corporations where business is based \non patented improvements and inventions, he was selected in 1885 as the attorney \nof the Lamson Consolidated Store Service Company, and since that time he has \ndevoted himself to the management of the legal business of that corporation. He \nmarried Anna B. Hunt of Salem. \n\nEdward Bangs, son of Isaac Bangs, was born in Boston, July 16, 1825. His \nmother was Alicia, daughter of John and Sarah (Province) Le Cain, of Annapolis \nRoyal, in Nova Scotia. He is a descendant of Edward Bangs, who came to Plym- \nouth in the ship Ann in 1623, and married Lydia, daughter of Robert and Margaret \nHicks, who came to Plymouth in the same ship. Robert Hicks was a leather dresser \nin London and may have been a brother of Sir Baptist Hicks, a mercer of London, \nwho was knighted in London in 1605, and afterwards became Viscount Camden. The \nhouse which he built and occupied in Plymouth was taken down in 1826. His second \nwife, Rebecca, was the mother of Mrs. Bangs. Edward Bangs, the subject of this \nsketch, graduated at Harvard in 1846, and among his classmates were Francis J. \nChild, Boylston professor at Harvard, William Sohier Dexter, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Pro- \nfessor William T. Harris, George Frisbie Hoar, United States senator, Professor \nGeorge M. Lane, and Professor Charles Eliot Norton. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1849, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1850. He was a representative from \nWatertown m 1865, and is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He is \nassociated in business with Samuel Wells son of ex-Governor Samuel Wells, of \nMaine, and both he and Mr. Wells have a son in the firm. He married, September \n25, 1856, Anne Outram (Hinckley), daughter of David Hodgkinson, of Boston, and \ngreat-great-great-granddaughter of Governor Thomas Hinckley, of the Plymouth \nColony. \n\nJames Bradley Thayer, son of Abijah Wyman and Susan (Bradley) Thayer, was \nborn in Haverhill, Mass., January 15, 1831. He graduated at Harvard in 1852, and \nat the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. in 1856. He was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar December 3, 1856, and established himself in Boston. He was a \nmaster in chancery for Suffolk county from 1864 to 1874, and in 1873 was appointed \nRoyall professor of law at the Harvard Law School to succeed Nathaniel Holmes. \nIn 1883 he was appointed Weld professor of law, and still holds that position. He \nmarried, April 24, 1861, Sophia Bradford, daughter of Rev. Samuel and Sarah Brad- \nford Ripley, of Concord, Mass., and has his residence in Cambridge. \n\nGeorge Henry Woodman, son of Dr. George S. and Jane (Gridley) Woodman, was \nborn in Amherst, Mass., December 25, 1851, and was educated at the public schools \nand under private instruction. He studied law in Northampton in the office of \nCharles Delano, and in Greenfield and in New York. He was admitted to the \n\n\n588 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nFranklin county bar in Greenfield in 1876, to the New York bar in 1ST?, and is now \npracticing in Boston. \n\nJames Walker Austin, son of William and Lucy (Jones) Austin, was born in \nCharlestown, Mass., January 8, 1829. His father, a Harvard graduate of 179s, was \na member of the Suffolk bar and the author of \" Peter Rugg, the Missing Man,\" and \nother New England tales, and also of \" Letters from London.\" Colonel Thomas II. \nHigginson, in one of his essays, calls him \"The Precursor of Hawthorne.\" A vol- \nume containing his writings, under the title of \"The Literarv Papers of William \nAustin, with a Biographical Sketch by his son, James Walker Austin, \" was published \nby Little & Brown, of Boston, in 1890. The subject of this sketch received his early \neducation at the Training Field School in Charlestown, and at Chauncv Hall School \nin Boston, under the instruction of Gideon F. Thayer and Thomas Cushing. He \ngraduated at Harvard in 1S49 in the class with Martin Brimmer, Charles F. Choate, \nCharles R. Codman, Horace Davis, Abbott Lawrence, Lemuel Shaw, and many \nothers who have become conspicuous in the various walks of life. He graduated at \nthe Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. in 1851, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 22 in that year. In February, 1851, he sailed for California, and \nin August visited the Hawaiian Islands, where by the advice of Chief Justice William \nL. Lee and the late General James F. B. Marshall, he was admitted to the Hawaiian \nbar in September. 1851, and in 1852 was appointed district attorney for the Second \nJudicial District, holding that position several years. He was twice chosen a mem- \nber of the Hawaiian Parliament and was for a time the speaker of that body. By a \nspecial act of the Legislature he was appointed one of the commissioners for the \ncodification of the laws and the civil and penal codes of the Hawaiian Islands, and \nthe results of the labors of the commission were published in 1859 and 18(59. They \nwere modeled largely after the Massachusetts statutes. He was f< >r several vears \nthe guardian of Luualilo, who afterwards became king, and in 1868 was appointed \njustice of the Supreme Court, holding that office with Elisha II. Allen, the late \nHawaiian minister at Washington. In 1S?*J lie returned t<> Boston for the education \nof his children, after a residence of twenty-one years in the Hawaiian Islands, and is \nnow in practice at the Suffolk bar. He married, July IS, 1857, Ariana E., daughter \nof John S. Sleeper, late mayor of Roxbury, and has had five children, four sons born \nin Honolulu, and one daughter born in Boston. One of the sons, Walter Austin, \ngraduated at Harvard in 1887 and is now a member of the Suffolk bar. \n\nWilliam Le Baron Pi inam. son of Israel and Sarah Emery Frost Putnam, was \nborn in Bath, Me., May 26, 1835. He received his early education at the Bath High \nSchool, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1855. He studied law in Bath in the \noffice of Bronson & Sewall and was admitted to the bar at the December term in 185? \nof the Supreme Judicial Court in Sagadahoc county. After the law was passed by \nCongress increasing the number of circuit judges, he was appointed judge of the \nFirst Circuit, including Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, \nMarch 17, 1892. As a judge of a court holding its sessions in Boston, he is entitled \nto a place in this register. He married, May 29, 1862, Octavia Bowman, daughter \nof Nathaniel and Sarah Dearborn (Roberts) Robinson, at Augusta, Me. \n\nJoseph Bennett, son of William and Charlotte (Bennett) Bennett, was born in \nBridgeton, Me., May 26, 1840. He is descended from George Bennett, of Boston, who \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 589 \n\nis mentioned in the book of possessions. He received his early education at the public \nschools, and having fitted for college at the Bridgeton Academy and at the Boston \nLatin School, entered Bowdoin College in 1860. He left college in his junior year, \nbut subsequently received his degree out of course. In 1863 he came to Boston and \nstudied law in the office of Asa Cottrell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March \n(i, 1866. After his admission to the liar he established himself in practice in Boston, \nand was for several years associated with Mr. Cottrell in business. In 1868 he was \nadmitted to practice in the Circuit Court of the United States, and in 1881 was ad- \nmitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Having taken up his \nresidence in Brighton, then included within Middlesex county, he was in lN7n ap- \npointed trial justice for that county, and after the annexation of Brighton to Boston \nand the establishment of the Municipal Court for the Brighton District in 187:i, he- \nwas appointed special justice of that court. In 1*79 he was chosen a member of the \nHouse of Representatives for Ward 25, and resigned his office of special justice. \nWhile a member of the House he served on the Committee on Constitutional Amend- \nments, and drafted and introduced the bill since known as the bill to prevent the \ndouble taxation of mortgaged property. Notwithstanding the serious opposition to \nthe bill, instigated by the assessors throughout the Commonwealth, he succeeded in \ncarrying it through the House, to meet its defeat in the Senate. In 1881 and 1882 he \nwas a member of the Senate, and as chairman of the Committee on Taxation re- \nported the same bill, and its final passage by both houses was largely due to his \nearnest efforts. While in the Senate, in the above years, he served also as chairman \nof the Committee on the Election Laws, chairman of the Committee on Redisricting \nthe Commonwealth into Congressional Districts, and as a member of the Judiciarv \nCommittee. In 1891 he was again a member of the Senate, and served as chairman \nof the Committee on Railroads, chairman of the Committee on Redistricting the \nState, and as chairman of the Committee on Reform in the Registration of Land \nTitles. After his service in the House of Representatives in 1S79 he was reappointed \nspecial justice of the Municipal Court for the Brighton District, the position he had \nresigned when chosen representative, and held that office until his resignation in \n1881. The service of Mr. Bennett upon two joint committees on redistricting the \nState, presents probably the only instance in which one man has twice been chairman \nof this committee. In Brighton, both before and since its annexation to Boston, he \nhas been an active and influential citizen, seeking at all times the welfare of the \ncommunity in which his lot has been cast. He was amemberof the School Board of \nthe town before its annexation, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Public \nLibrary now merged with the Public Library of Boston. He married. May '2(5, 1866, \nElizabeth R. Lefavor, of Boston, and has three children, one of whom, Joseph I. \nBennett, is a member of the Suffolk bar. \n\nJohn Henry Colby, son of John Freeman and Ruthy (Cloutman) Colby, was born \nin Randolph, Mass., June l3, L862. His father, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1855, \nwas appointed, after leaving college in 1859, principal of the Latin School in Ran- \ndolph, but afterwards became a prominent member of the Suffolk bar. and died in \nHillsboro', X. H., June 7, 1890. The subject of this sketch received his early edu- \ncation in the Boston public schools, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1885. He studied \nlaw at the Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1889, and in \n\n\n$96 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nthe office of his father in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1SS9. \nHe established himself in Boston in partnership with his father, and continued with \nhim until the latter's death. He is a trustee of the North End Savings Bank. He \nis in good practice and has already secured that confidence on the part of the business \ncommunity which is so essential to a successful professional career. He married in \nBoston, October 8, 1891, Annie Evarts Cornelius. \n\nSanford Harrison Dudley, son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, was \nborn in China, Me. , January 14, 1842. He is a lineal descendant of Thomas Dud- \nley, governor of Massachusetts colony in 1634, 1040, 1045 and 1050. His parents \nmoved to Fairhaven, Mass., in 1857, and afterwards to New Bedford. He graduated \nat Harvard in 1807 and at the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. in 1871. \nI lis study of law was begun in New Bedford in the office of Thomas D. Eliot and \nThomas M. Stetson. After leaving the Law School he was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar July 21, 1871. While pursuing his studies in New Bedford he taught the New \nBedford High School until he entered the Law School in 1870. After his admission \nto the bar he established himself in Boston and has continued in practice at the Suf- \nfolk bar up to the present time. Having taken up his residence in Cambridge in 1870 \nhe has continued a citizen of that city and has been in many ways identified with its \ninterests. He has been a member of the city government, is one of the original mem- \nbers of the Cambridge Club, and as a member of the Universalist church at North Cam- \nbridge has been an active participant in the various movements and enterprises of \nthat organization. He is and has been also the president of the Universalist Club, the \nrepresentative organization of the Universalist denomination in the Commonwealth, \nand vice-president of the Universalist Sunday-school Union. He married, April 2, \n1869, Laura Nye, daughter of John M. Howland, of Fairhaven. \n\nGeorge W. Williams, colored, was born in Ohio about 1838, and was in the United \nStates service during the war. In later years he resided in Washington, D. C, in \nPlymouth, Mass., and Boston, a large part of the time engaged in the preparation \nfor the press of two works afterwards published, \" The History of Negro Troops in \nthe War of the Rebellion \" and \" The History of the Negro Race in America.\" He \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and died in England in 1890 or 1891. \n\nJohn M. Way was born in Rochester, Vt., May 29, 1829. He was the son of poor \nparents and when a boy went to New York to seek employment, arriving there with \nthirty-seven cents in his pocket. He obtained a position as a hotel clerk, but his em- \nployer failed and he came to Boston as poor as he went to New York. He studied \nlaw and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar. He established himself in Roxbury \nand has always since made that place his residence. His office has been many years \nin Boston and in that city he has been engaged in enterprises which gave \nhim a large fortune. He was a member of the Common Council of Roxbury before \nthe annexation of that city to Boston, and has been twice an unsuccessful candidate \nof the Democratic party for senator. He had extensive land interests in Chicago, \nKansas City and Boston, and also at Pigeon Cove near Gloucester, where he had his \nsummer home. He was junior counsel with G. A. Somerby in the famous Alley \nmurder trial in which the defendant was acquitted. He married in 1848, Sarah L. \nRead, who was the mother of two children, John M. Way, jr., and Clarence Way. In \n1860 he married second, Fanny Damon Thomas, of Wayland, Mass., who has been the \n\n\nVIA- \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 591 \n\nmother of two children, William T. Way and Edith Way, now the wife of Mr. Chen- \noweth, who is connected with the New York Recorder. He died in the Roxbury \nDistrict, of Boston, May 26, 1893. \n\nJames Audley Maxwell, son of Joseph Edward Maxwell, a prominent cotton plant- \ner of Georgia, was born in Sunbury, Ga. , and graduated at Franklin College. He \nspent a year in travel and then studied law in the office of Joseph Lumpkin, chief \njustice of Georgia. He then went to West Point Academy, where he graduated in the \nschool of engineering and entered the profession as an engineer immediately before \nthe war. He served through the war in the Confederate army first as second lieuten- \nant and later as major commanding the Maxwell Battalion of Light Artillery. After \nthe war he resumed the profession of engineering and was successively chief engineer \nof the Bainbridge and Thomasville Railroad, the South Georgia and Florida and the \nBrunswick and Vicksburg Railroad. Later as contract. >r he built the Albany and Blake- \nly Railroad. He came to Boston in 1873 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Febru- \nary 13, 1875. He married Kathleen Cameron, of Ridgewood, N. J., and is now prac- \nticing in Boston. \n\nSamuel Dexter was descended from Richard Dexter, who was admitted a towns- \nman in Boston March 12, 1641-2, and afterwards settled in Maiden. John Dexter, \nson of Richard, like his father, cultivated the Lane farm in Maiden, and died Decem- \nber 8, 1677, at the age of thirty-eight years. John Dexter, son of the above John, al- \nso a farmer, married Winnifred Sprague, of Maiden, October 22, 17U0, and died No- \nvember 14, 1722. Samuel Dexter, son of John and Winnifred Dexter, was born Oc- \ntober 23, 1700, and died January 29, 1755. He graduated at Harvard in 1720, and \nafter leaving college taught school in Taunton, Lynn and Maiden. He afterwards \nstudied for the ministry and was settled the fourth pastor of the first church in Ded- \nham May 7, Caroline Alice, daughter of William and Mercy \nP. Osborne, of Danvers, Mass. \n\nWilliam Bradford Homer Dowse, son of Rev. Edmund and Elizabeth (Bowditch) \nDowse, was born in Sherborn, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He grad- \nuated at the Harvard Law School in 1875, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in \nNovember of that year. He married, June 20, 1883, Fanny Lee, daughter of Henry \nG. and Frances L. (Williams) Reed, of Taunton. His American ancestor was Law- \nrence Dowse, of Charlestown, who was born in England in 1613, and died in Charles- \ntown, March 14, 1692. \n\nLe Baron Bradford Colt was born in Dedham, Mass., June 25, 1846, and gradu- \nated at Yale in 1868. He graduated at the Columbia Law School in 1870 and \ntraveled in Europe in 1870-1. He established himself in Providence, R. I., and was \na member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1879 to 1881. He is \nnow United States Circuit judge for the First Circuit, consisting of Maine, New \nHampshire, 'Rhode Island and Massachusetts, to which office he was appointed on the \nresignation of Judge John Lowell in 1884. \n\nEdward Albert Kelly, son of Albert Livingston and Caroline (Peirce) Kelly, was \nborn in that part of Frankfort, Me., which is now Winterport, May 80, 1831. He is \ndescended from John Kelly, who probably came from Newbury, England, and settled \nin Newbury, Mass., in 1635. The family to which John belonged is supposed to have \nbeen a branch of the Devonshire family, which either derived its name from the dis- \ntrict of \"Kelly \" in that county, or gave to it its name. He received a grant of land \nin Newbury in 1639, and died December 28, 1644. His son John, born July 2, 1642, \nmarried, May 25, 1664, Sarah, daughter of Richard Knight, and March 15, 17115, \nLydia Ames, of Bradford, and died in that part of Newbury which is now West \nNewbury, March 21, 171S. A third John, son of the last, was born in West New- \nbury, June 17, 1668, and married, November 16, 1696, Elizabeth Emery. He died in \nWest Newbury, November 29, 1735, leaving a handsome estate. A fourth son, John, \nson of the last, was born in West Newbury, October 9, 1697, and married, December \n31, 1723, Hannah Somes, of Gloucester, Mass. He removed to Atkinson, N. II., and \nthere died April 27, 1783. Moses Kelly, son of the last John, was born in West New- \nbury, March 15, 1739, and married, November 10, 1757, Lydia, daughter of Dr. Will- \niam Sawyer, of West Newbury. The wife of Dr. Sawyer was Lydia, daughter of \nIsrael Webster, a near relative of the father of Daniel Webster. Moses Kelly re- \nmoved from West Newbury to Atkinson, N. H., and thence to Goffstown, N. H., \nfrom which place he removed to Hopkinton, N. H., before 1810, where he died Au- \ngust 2, 1826. In the War of the Revolution he commanded the Ninth New Hamp- \nshire Regiment of Militia and was high sheriff of Hillsborough county thirty years. \nIsrael Webster Kelly, son of Moses, was born in Goffstown, N. H., January 4, 1 778, \nand married about 1800, Rebecca, daughter of Rev. Elijah Fletcher, of Hopkinton, \nN. H., and sister of Grace Fletcher, the first wife of Daniel Webster. He was high \nsheriff of Merrimac county, N. H., from 1814 to 1819, marshal of the district of New \nHampshire during the administration of Harrison and Tyler, and pension agent \nunder Taylor and Fillmore. lie removed to Concord, N. H., in 1841, and died there \nMarch 10, 1857. Albert Livingston Kelly, son of Israel Webster, was born in Bris- \n\n\n598 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ntol, N. H., August 17, 1802, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1821. He married, Feb- \nruary 18, 1829, Caroline, daughter of Waldo Peirce, of Frankfort, Me. After leaving \ncollege he studied law in Portland in the office of Stephen Longfellow, and was ad- \nmitted to the bar of Cumberland county in 1825. On the Fourth of July of the year \nof his admission, at the age of twenty-three, he delivered an oration by appointment \nof the municipal authorities of Portland. In the latter part of the same year, having \nbeen appointed on the recommendation of Mr. Webster agent of the \"Ten Proprietors' \nTract\" in Eastern Maine, owned by David .Sears, William Prescott and Israel \nThorndike, of Boston, he established his residence in Frankfort, Me., where he at- \ntained a high rank in his profession, and died August 18, 1885. He has been repre- \nsented, by one who knew him well, as \" An extensive reader, a fine writer, an able \nand eloquent speaker, a wise and sagacious counsellor and an accomplished gentle- \nman.\" Israel Webster Kelly, a brother of Albert Livingston, and referred to else- \nwhere in this Register as Webster Kelly, the name by which he was commonly \nknown, was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1824, and after a course of successful prac- \ntice in Frankfort and Belfast, Me., became May 19, 1851, a member of the Suffolk \nbar. He married Lucilla S. Peirce, and died in Henniker, N. H, July 3, 1855. \nEdward Albert Kelly, son of Albert Livingston Kelly and the subject of this sketch, \nreceived his early education at the Military School of Lieutenant Whitney in Ells- \nworth, Me., at Foxcroft Academy, Me., and at North Yarmouth Classical Academy. \nHe entered Bowdoin College in 1846 at the age of fifteen years, and remained there \nuntil the middle of his junior year. In 1851 he entered as a law student the office \nof George Frederick Farley, of Groton, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk \ncounty bar in 1853. He was associated with Mr. Farley as partner until the \ndeath of Mr. Farley in 1855, and continued to practice in Groton until \n1861, when he removed his residence and office to Boston. At the .Suffolk \nbar he secured while in practice a high position, and the important cases \nentrusted to his care manifest the confidence reposed in his ability and skill. Before \nhe was admitted to the bar he appeared in court at Worcester as counsel for Pliny \nH. Babbitt, a deputy sheriff of Worcester county, who had been indicted as accessory \nbefore the fact to a burglary in Barre. John H. Clifford, attorney-general, appeared \nfor the Commonwealth, and m his address to the jury complimented the argument \nof his young brother. In 1866 he appeared for Charles Robinson, ex-governor of \nKansas, in an action of contract brought by Joseph Lyman, of Boston, treasurer of \nthe Kansas Land Trust, on several promissory notes, amounting in all to $15,000, \nand trial by jury being waived, the ease was argued in the Supreme Court at the \nNovember term in the above vear. Sidney Bartlett and Caleb William Loring ap- \npeared for the plaintiff, but Mr. Kelly obtained a decision in his favor. His argu- \nment in this case was highly commended by the bench and bar. In 1873 Mr. Kelly \nwas counsel for the Massachusetts National Bank in an action of contract brought by \nNathan Matthews to recover $25, (HK) on a forged certificate of stock of the Bostonand \nAlbany Railroad, but a still later case of special interest in which he appeared as \ncounsel was that of the Commonwealth against the Lancaster Savings Bank argued \nbefore the Supreme Court. By a decree of the court in December, 1876, the bank \nwas placed in the hands of receivers, and in the following May a tax was levied on \nthe bank under the law authorizing a tax on Savings Banks. Mr. Kelly was the \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 599 \n\nattorney of the bank and advised that the tax was illegal. Attorney-General Train \nadvised that it was legal and the suit was brought. The case was argued before the \ncourt at Taunton in < >ctober, 1*77, and an opinion of the court was given in January, \n1878, sustaining the claim of Mr. Kelly that the tax was illegal. The substance of \nthe decision was that the tax on Savings Banks is a tax upon the privilege of trans- \nacting business, consequently it follows that if, at the time the tax is to be assessed \nand is declared to accrue, the bank has for the purpose of transacting its business \npractically ceased to exist, then no tax is to be exacted. Mr. Kellv's practice, which \nwas a general one, continued unabated until about ten years ago, when he abandoned \nit for the care of his own private affairs and of those which others had placed confid- \ningly in his hands. Since he left the profession he has found time to indulge those \nliterary tastes which he early acquired, and has been a frequent contributor to maga- \nzines and newspapers. These articles were marked for their pure English, their \nclearness of statement and thoroughness of research. He was chosen a trustee of \nLawrence Academy in Groton to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. \nFarley in 1855, is a corresponding member of the Maine Historical Society, and has \nreceived an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Bowdoin College. He was an \nintimate friend of the late Josiah G. Abbott and Peleg W. Chandler, and while the \nlatter was the editor of Every Other Satin-day, he contributed ably to its columns. \nOne of his articles in this periodical, containing \" Advice to Young Lawyers,\" should \nbe read by every young man entering the profession. The lesson he seeks to enforce \nis the necessity of a thorough and exhaustive preparation of a cause for trial and \nthen absolute self-reliance in total disregard of an apparent adverse opinion of the \nsitting judge. He cites the first appearance in court of Sergeant S. Prentiss as an \nillustration of the lesson. The incident occurred in Brandon, Mississippi. Prentiss \nwas a slight made, beardless boy, extremely youthful in appearance and a stranger \nto all in court. When his case was called he promptly responded and stated that his \ncase stood on demurrer to some part of the proceedings, which he desired to argue. \nThe judge with some abruptness told him that he did not wish to hear the \nargument as he had made up his mind adversely to his side of the case. Mr. Prentiss \ninsisted, however, on the constitutional right of his client to be heard and went on \nwith an argument which astonished both the judge and the bar. The judge was \nconvinced of his error and decided for Mr. Prentiss. Mr. Kelly is not only a fin- \nished writer but a fluent and graceful speaker, and is often called on to add to the \ninterest of historic and other occasions. His maternal grandfather, Waldo Peirce, \nwas born in Scituate, Mass. , and was a brother of Silas Peirce, the founder of the \nwell-known house of .Silas Peirce & Company, of Boston. When, in 1890, the seventy- \nfifth anniversary of the establishment of that house was celebrated by a banquet at \nYoung's Hotel, Mr. Kelly was one of the invited guests, and contributed sketches \nof several of the older members of the firm in a speech, which the New England \nGrocer said was characterized not only by eloquence and a fine polished style of \ndelivery, but also by the fact that it dealt with topics totally different from those \ntaken up by others, and was therefore one of the chief features of the occasion. \nMr. Kelly married at Groton, November 15, 1854, Mary, daughter of George Fred- \nerick and Lucy (Rice) Farley, and has his residence in Boston. Mr. Kelly is a \nman of independence in the truest sense of that word. He avoids the shackles of \n\n\n600 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nparty, the resp msibilities of trusts, any and all entangling alliances liable to inter- \nfere with independent action. The words of Chapman are to him specially appli- \ncable: \n\n\" Who to himself is law — no law doth need. \nOffends no law — and is a King indeed.\" \n\nDean Stanley said: \" (rive me a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know \nwe can thoroughly depend, who will stand when others fall, the friend faithful and \ntrue, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous, in such a \none there is a fragment of the rock of ages.\" A discriminating friend who had \nknown Mr. Kelly for thirty years said that when reading these words of the dean \nhe thought at once of him. \n\nLincoln Ai i in graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law School in \nisss After his admission to the bar he established himself in Boston and died at \nArlington, Mass., May 16, 1892. \n\nWilliam Alexander Gaston, son of William and Louisa Augusta (Beecher) Gas- \nton, was born in that part of Boston which was then Roxbury, May 1, 1859. He at- \ntended the public schools of Roxbury, the Roxbury Latin School, and a private \nschool, and graduated at Harvard in the class of 1880. He studied law at the Har- \nvard Law School and in the office of Gaston & Whiting, a firm in which his father \nwas the senior partner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1883. In \nOctober, 1883, he became a partner in the above firm and has so continued to the \npresent time. The business of the firm is of a general character, with the single \nlimitation that it is confined to civil practice. It is too well known to need any spe- \ncial description, and a reference to the reports is only necessary to disclose its extent \nand importance. Mr. Gaston devotes himself almost exclusively to his profession, \nand aside from his acceptance of the positions of assistant adjutant-general on the \nstaff of Governor Russell, and of director in the Manufacturers' National Bank, there \nis little evidence of his willingness to be allured from the paths of his profession. He \nmarried, April 9, 1892, Mary D., daughter of Hamilton D. and Annie L. Lockwood, \nof Boston, and has his residence in Boston. \n\nGeorge Henry Towle, son of Henry and Mary Ann (McCrillis)Towle, was born in \nBoston, April 9, 1851. He attended the common schools of Boston, the Boston Latin \nSchool, and the Wesleyan University in Middleton, Conn. He had already chosen \nhis profession while at the University and there made a beginning of the study of \nlaw. He afterwards continued his study in Boston with Baxter E. Perry and Samuel \nW. Creech, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1873. He has been \nengaged in mining operations in Colorado, and while attending to a general practice \nhe has been largely connected with railroad litigation, chiefly in the South. He is \ndescended from Phillip T< »wle, who came early to New England and settled in Hamp- \nton in 1640, where he married, November 19, 1657, Isabella Astyn, daughter of Fran- \ncis Aysten and his wife Isabella (Bland) Astyn, who came to Hampton from Col- \nchester, England. The ancestor, Phillip, born about 1616, died in Hampton, Decem- \nber 19, 1696. His descendants are numerous and include among their number Hamil- \nton Ela Towle, the distinguished civil engineer who graduated at the Lawrence \nScientific School in is,\").\"), and died in London, England, September 2, 1881. Mr. \nTowle married, October 2.\"). is!.\"), Sarah Dorset, daughter of William and Mary \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 60 1 \n\nHamblin, of Wakefield, Mass., a descendant of the Old Colony Hamlin family, to \nwhich the late Vice-president Hannibal Hamlin belonged. Different branches of \nthe family adopted different methods of spelling the name. Mr. Towle resists the \nallurements of public life, and the law is his master, demanding and receiving his \nundivided service. \n\nMarcus Morion, jr., son of Marcus and Charlotte (Hodges) Morton, was born in \nTaunton, Mass., April 8, 1819. He was a descendant of George Morton, who came \nto Plymouth in the Ann in 102:5 with his wife Julian, daughter of Alexander Carpen- \nter, of Wrentham, England, whom he married in Leyden, Holland, in 1612. He \ngraduated at Brown University in 1838 and at the Harvard Law School in 1840. \nAfter further study in Boston in the office of Peleg Sprague and William Gray he \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1841. In 1850 he took up his residence in \nAndover, and represented that town in the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in \nthe Legislature of 1858. In both convention and Legislature, he served with his \nfather, who was a member from Taunton. In the House of Representatives he was \nchairman of the Committee on Elections, and his numerous reports have been recog- \nnized as authorities. In 1858 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Suf- \nfolk county, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Josiah G. Abbott, and \nremained on the bench until the abolition of that court in 1859. In the organization \nof the present Superior Court in 1859, he was appointed one of the justices, and con- \ntinued to serve until April 15, 1869, when he was appointed a judge of the Supreme \nJudicial Court. On the 16th of January, 1882, he was appointed chief justice of that \ncourt to succeed Horace Gray, who had been appointed associate justice of the United \nStates Supreme Court. On the 27th of August, 1890, he resigned, having served as \njudge in three courts thirty-two years. He married Abby B., daughter of Henry and \nAmy (Harris) Hoppin at Providence, R. I., October 19, 1843, and died at Andover, \nFebruary 10, 1891. At a meeting of the Suffolk bar May 19, 1891, resolutions were \npassed which Attorney-general Pillsbury presented to the Supreme Court in a dis- \ncriminating speech in which he characterized Judge Morton as \" strong rather than \nbrilliant, patient, always accessible, of sufficient learning, and of political sagacity \namounting almost to genius, rarely exciting admiration, but never arousing appre- \nhension.\" Judge Charles Allen said in the course of his response that \" as a nisi \nprius judge he has had few superiors in the history of the Commonwealth; indeed, it \nseems to me few equals.\" The Reports from volume 102 to volume 150 contain twelve \nhundred of his judgments. \n\nJohn Van Beal, son of Eleazer and Mary (Thayer) Beal, was born in Randolph, \nMass., July 3, 1842. He is descended from John Beal, who came to Boston from \nHingham, England, in the ship Diligent in 1638 and settled in Hingham, Mass. \nThe ancestor married Nazareth, daughter of Edmund and Margaret (Dewey) Hobart, \nand sister of Rev. Peter Hobart, the first minister of Hingham. He married for a \nsecond wife, March 10, 1659, Mrs. Mary, widow of Nicholas Jacob, and died in Hing- \nham, April 1, 1688. Israel *Beal, a great-grandson of John, was born in Hingham, \nApril 25, 1726, and soon after his birth his father, Thomas, removed to Newton, \nwhere he died September 14, 1751. About the time of his father's death, or soon \nafter, Israel removed to Randolph and married Eunice Flagg. Eleazer Beal, one of \nthe children of Israel, was born in Randolph, July 9, 1758. His homestead was sold \n76 \n\n\n6o2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nby him to his son Eleazer, from whom it passed by descent to his grandson Eleazer, \nthe father of the subject of this sketch, who, with his brother George, holds it under \ntheir father's will. The last Eleazer, the father of John Van Beal, was born in Ran- \ndolph, May 5, 1808, and married, May 13, 18o3, Mary Stetson, daughter of Micah and \nPhoebe (Stetson) Thayer, and died April 27, 1891. At the age of eighteen, having \nthen received only such instruction as the common schools could furnish, he deter- \nmined to secure a liberal education against the wishes of his father, who refused to \nfurnish him with any pecuniary aid in attaining the object of his ambition. He was \nthus thrown on his own resources, but, far from being discouraged, he applied for \nadmission to the school of that eminent instructor, Jesse Pierce, of Stoughton, the \nfather of Henry L. and Edward L. Pierce, and was received by him as a pupil. At \nthe end of his second school term it became necessary for him to earn in some way \nthe means for further instruction, and walking to Boston he secured a passage to \nProvincetown by water, and obtained a position as teacher in one of the public schools \nof Truro. After teaching one season he returned to Mr. Pierce's school, and the \nnext season secured a place as teacher in Provincetown. Until the age of twenty-five \nhe was alternately scholar and teacher, and at that age he began the manufacture of \nboots and shoes, becoming before 1837 the most extensive manufacturer of those \narticles in Randolph. At that date he abandoned manufacturing and became a civil \nengineer, having prepared himself for the business in the office of Mr. Eddy, one of \nthe leading engineers in Boston. As an engineer he became interested in the project \nof building a branch railroad to Fall River from the Old Colony main line, and largely \nto his persistent energy the construction of that road was dire. He was town clerk \nand treasurer of Randolph from 1844 to 1854, representative in 1848, and in 1861 the \nDemocratic candidate for Congress in the Third Congressional District. John Van \nBeal, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the public schools of Randolph and \nat Phillips Andover Academy. Though fitted for college, ill health prevented him \nfrom presenting himself for examination, and until 1871 he was employed as a teacher \nsuccessively in the Intermediate and Grammar School and High School in his native \ntown. In 1871 he entered as a student the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston, \nand after further study of a year in the Harvard Law School, obtained the degree of \nLL.B. from that institution in 1872. After leaving the Law School, he re-entered the \noffice of Jewell, Gaston & Field, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1873. \nHe established himself in business in Randolph and confined himself to the local \npractice of that town until January, 1876, when he began practice in Boston, taking \ndesk room in the office of Jewell, Field & Shepard, where he remained until the \ndeath of Mr. Jewell and the appointment of Mr. Field to the bench of the Supreme \nCourt broke up the firm. Their office continued to be occupied by Mr. Shepard, \nMr. J. C. Coombs and Mr. Beal until 1891, when he opened an office alone. His \npractice has been a miscellaneous one in the civil courts, with a somewhat extensive \nconnection with probate affairs, which he has made a specialty. Aside from his pro- \nfessional life his chief interest has been connected with the Congregational Church \nin Randolph and its Sabbath-school, for many years serving as clerk of the church, \nand now holding the position of superintendent of the school. Though belonging to \na family which has been associated during four generations not only with his native \ntown but with the homestead which he occupies, he is so far as kindred are concerned \nalmost alone in the world. He has neither father nor mother, nor wife nor child, \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 603 \n\nnor uncle nor aunt nor sister, and only a single brother who was born an invalid and \nboth shares his home and receives his care. Both his relations to Randolph and his \nability to represent it have been recognized by his appointment as orator at the ap- \nproaching anniversary of the settlement of the town to be celebrated on the 19th of \nJuly in the present year. \n\nJohn Ward Pettengill, son of Benjamin and Betsey (Pettengill) Pettengill, was \nhorn in Salisbury, N. H., November 12, 1835. He is descended from Richard Pet- \ntengill, who in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony came to Salem from Staf- \nfordshire, England, and married Joanna, daughter of Richard Ingersoll. He re- \nceived his early education in the public schools and at the Franklin, Salisbury, North- \nfield, and Hopkinton Academies, enjoying the privilege of being a pupil at the North- \nfield Academy of that distinguished instructor Prof. Dyer H. Sanborn. Though \nfitted to enter the Sophomore class of Dartmouth College in 1854, he was prevented \nby a severe bronchial trouble from entering that institution. From that time until \n1S5(> he remained, at home pursuing the college studies under the direction of his \nfather, and at that date became connected with the editorial department of the In- \ndependent Democrat in Concord. While in Concord he pursued the study of law in \nthe office of Judge Asa Fowler, and in 1858 entered as a student the office of John \nOuincy Adams Griffin and Alonzo W. Boardman in Charlestown. In December, \n1858, he was admitted to the Middlesex bar and established himself in Charlestown, \nwhere he remained practicing alone until the annexation of Charlestown to Boston in \n1874. While in Charlestown he was appointed special justice of the Police Court and \nserved in that capacity until the annexation. In the spring of 1874 he removed his \noffice to Boston proper, and in August of that year was appointed justice of the First \nEastern Middlesex District Court with jurisdiction in Maiden, Wakefield, Reading, \nNorth Reading, Melrose, Everett, and Medford. His practice has been a general \none both civil and criminal, and during the administration of Charles Russell Train \nas attorney-general he was counsel in three capital cases, in all of which he secured \nverdicts of acquittal. In the trial of Orne, indicted for burning a school-house in \nCharlestown, he was counsel for the defendant, and not until the fourth trial was the \ngovernment able to sustain the indictment, and then only after two days and a night \nspent by the jury in consultation. Mr. Pettengill resides in Maiden, where he has \nserved as trustee of the Public Library, and alderman of the city. Though in the \nearly days of the Republican party he was interested in politics, and was an effective \nspeaker in support of its candidates, he has for many years devoted himself ex- \nclusively to his profession, neither accepting nor seeking public office. He married \nin Watertown, Mass., October 20, 1843, Margaret Maria, daughter of John Richards \nand Mary (Dalton) Dennett, of Lancaster, England. \n\nWilliam Howard Mitchell, only child of Azor and Sarah Jane (Shaw) Mitchell, \nwas born in North Yarmouth, Me., August 14, 1861. He is descended from Experi- \nence Mitchell, who came to Plymouth, Mass., in the ship Ann, in 1623, and married \nabout 1628, Jane, daughter of Francis and Esther Cook, of Plymouth. Francis Cook \nwas one of the Mayflower company in 1620, and his wife, Esther, came to Plymouth \nwith Mr. Mitchell in the Ann, bringing three children, Jacob, Jane, and Esther. \nJohn, another child, came with his father in the Mayflower. The lot of land on \nwhich Experience Mitchell built a house after his marriage, on the easterly side of \n\n\n6o4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nMarket street, in Plymouth, is well defined. In 1631 he removed to Dnxbury, and \nthence late in life to Bridgewater, where he died in 1689, about eighty years of age. \nJacob Mitchell, a son of Experience, removed to Dartmouth, Mass., about 1669, and \nhad a son, Jacob, who removed to Kingston, and thence in 1728 to North Yarmouth, \nMe. Another Jacob, son of the last, had a son Jacob, who was born in North Yar- \nmouth in 1 7o2, and married Jane Loring. John Mitchell, son of the last Jacob, \nmarried Elizabeth Gooding, and was the father of Azor Mitchell, who was born \nMay 8, 1828, and married Sarah Jane Shaw. William Howard Mitchell, son of Azor \nand the subject of this sketch, was reared on his father's farm and attended only \ncountry schools until the age of eighteen. In the spring of 1880 he entered the col- \nlege preparatory class of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, where he graduated in 18X1. \nHe then entered Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., and graduated in 1885 \nwith the highest honors. After leaving the university he took charge of the High \nSchool in Spencer, Mass., but resigned that position in December, 1885, and entered \nas a student the law office of Edwin L. Dyer, recorder of the Municipal Court in Port- \nland, Me. In October, 1886, he entered the Boston University Law School and com- \npleting the regular three years' course in one year, graduated with the degree of \nLL. B. in June, 1887. In August, 1887, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and es- \ntablished himself in business in Denver, Col., in the following September, where he \nbecame associated with S. S. Abbott, who, in 1892, as assistant district attorney, was \nengaged in the prosecution of Dr. T. Thatcher Graves. In April, 1888, he was com- \npelled by unfavorable effects of the climate to leave Denver, and he returned to Bos- \nton, assuming the position of treasurer and general eastern representative of the \nColorado Farm Loan Company, a corporation organized to purchase, sell and make \nloans upon Denver property. In September, 1891, the company went out of business \nand Mr. Mitchell devoted himself to the practice of law in a partnership with Raymond \nR. Gilman, which had been been formed in December, 1890, and is now in active \nbusiness. In practice he has given much attention to corporation law, and has as- \nsisted in the organization of several successful enterprises, in which he is either an \nofficer or director. Mr. Mitchell has his residence in Melrose, and is junior deacon \nof Wyoming Lodge, F. & A. M., a member of the Waverly Chapter Royal Arch \nMasons, and of Hugh de Payen's Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also sec- \nretary of the Boston Wesleyan University Alumni Association. He married at Mel- \nrose, Mass., October 2, 1889, Harriet Louise, only daughter of Frank E. Orcutt, of \nMelrose, collector of internal revenue for the district of Massachusetts. \n\nCharles Lidgett was appointed by Andros in 1687 one of the justices of the Supe- \nrior court. He married Mary, daughter of William Hester, of Southwark, England, \nand died in London, April 9, 1698, leaving three children, Peter, Charles and Ann. \n\nJoseph Nickerson was born in Dennis, Mass., September 17, 1828. He received \nhis early education in the public schools of his native town and at Phillips Andover \nAcademy, and graduated at Amherst in 1850. He taught school three years before \nentering college, and after graduation was employed as principal of the academy in \nHopkinton, N. H., and the academy in Gilmanton, N. H. He began the study of \nlaw in the office of A. Eastman in Gilmanton, and after completing his studies in the \noffice of Charles T. and Thomas H. Russell in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar December 19, 1853. He established himself in Boston, where he practiced with \nsuccess until his death. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 605 \n\nArthur Wilde Crossley, son of William and Mary (Flick) Crossley, was born in \nMontour county, Pa., and educated in the public schools. He studied law in Wash- \nington, D. C, and was there admitted to the bar in 1N79. His business is confined \nto patent cases. He married in Washington, January 20, 1886, Mary, daughter of \nWilliam E. Chandler, and resides in the Roxbury District of Boston. \n\nGeorge Lemist Clarke was born in Jamaica Plain (Boston), August 13, 1861, and \nreceived his early education at the Roxbury Latin School. He studied law in Boston \nin the office of his grandfather, John J. Clarke, and at the Boston University Law \nSchool, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He is now in practice in \nBoston. \n\nLuke Eastman was born in 1791, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1812. He was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1816, and settled in Hardwick, Mass., where \nhe died in 1847. \n\nLevi Clifford Wade, son of Levi and A. Annie (Rogers) Wade, was born m \nAlleghany, Penn., January 16, 1843. His father, whose ancestors were large land \nowners in Medford, Mass., was born in Woburn, Mass., in 1812, and is now living in \nAlleghany after a successful business career as merchant and manufacturer in Pitts- \nburgh. His mother is a descendant of Rev. John Rogers, of Ipswich, Mass., who \nwas president of Harvard College from April 10, 1682, to the date of his death, July \n2, 16S4. She is widely esteemed for her musical and literary entertainments and her \nactivity in benevolent enterprises. Mr. Wade was educated at home and in the pub- \nlic schools until he was thirteen years of age, and after that time until he was nine- \nteen under private tutors and in Lewisburg University. He then entered Yale \nCollege and graduated in 1866 with special honors. After leaving college he studied \nGreek and Hebrew one year under Dr. H. B. Hackett, and theology one year under \nDr. Alvah Hovey. From 1868 to 1873 he taught school in Newton, at the same time \npursuing the study of law, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1873. \nAfter remaining in the office of J. W. Richardson two years, he opened an office on \nhis own account in 1875, and from 1877 to 1880 was associated as a partner with John \nOuincy Adams Brackett. After 1880 his business was confined to railroad law and \nmanagement, and he became counsel for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the At- \nlantic and Pacific, the Sonora and the Mexican Central Railway companies. Of the \nlast mentioned company he was one of the four original projectors and owners and at the \ntime of his death he was its president and general counsel. Mr. Wade was a repre- \nsentative from Newton from 1876 to 1879 inclusive, and in the last year was chosen \nspeaker of the House of Representatives. He was one of the directors of the General \nTheological Library, of the Mexican Central, the Sonora, the Atlantic and Pacific, and \nthe Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad companies. Mr. Wade married in \nBath, Me., November 16, 1869, Margaret, daughter of William and Lydia H. (Elliott) \nRogers, and died in Newton, Mass., March 31, 1891. After his death the directors \nof the Mexican Central Railway Company entered on the records of the Board a \nseries of resolutions expressive of the obligation of the company to him for the per- \nseverance, honesty and skill which he displayed in rescuing it from a languishing \nand almost bankrupt condition. In the language of the resolutions he was a man \" of \nlarge attainments and great general knowledge. His mind worked quickly and he \nhad wonderful power in grasping new subjects and carrying them to a successful \n\n\n606 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nissue. He worked assiduously for the company, but he never failed to recognize the \ntouch of other interests affected by the company. His whole life was based on re- \nligious conviction. He believed and went forward to carry out his belief. He wanted \nto do the right, and wrong of every kind shocked and grieved him. His place in \nthis company cannot be easily filled.\" \n\nSanford Harrison Dudley was born in China, Kennebec county, .State of Maine, \nJanuary 14, 1842. His father was Harrison Dudley, who at that time belonged to \nthe Society of Friends, though he did not always continue his connection with that \ndenomination. His mother was Elizabeth Prentiss, still living, in 1893, at Cambridge, \nMass., in her seventy-fifth year. Mr. Dudley is a descendant in the direct line from \nThomas Dudley, the second governor of Massachusetts, and one of the most promi- \nnent men of that early day. His line descends through the governor's eldest son, \nRev. Samuel Dudley, who finally settled and died at Exeter, N. H. ; Stephen, of Ex- \neter; James, of the same town; Samuel, of Raymond, N. H. ; Micajah, of Durham, \nMe. ; Micajah, of China; and Harrison, before named, who died at Cambridge, Mass., \nin 1880, and he is of the ninth generation of his lineage in America. It may not be \nuninteresting to note that Governor Dudley built the first house in Cambridge, that \nhis son Samuel also built a house at the same time, on the same street, within a few \nrods, and that Mr. Dudley, the subject of this sketch, owned at a recent date a house \nand land midway and within a few feet of both sites upon which his early ancestors \nbuilt their houses. The house and land still remain in a member of his family, ad- \njacent to the spot where the first church was built in Cambridge, in which, doubtless, \nboth ancestors frequently worshiped. Though the several generations of this \nlineage have largely had to do with the early and pioneer settlement of Massachusetts, \nNew Hampshire and Maine, yet the latest generation seems to have come back to \nclaim the spot where the line originated. Mr. Dudley's parents removed with him \nin his early infancy to St. Albans, in Somerset county, Me., where they occupied a \nfarm and lived a number of years. Here he spent his early childhood, living as other \nfarmers' children did, but early became studious and a favorite with his teachers. \nAt the age of ten years he removed with his parents to Auburn, Me., where his father \nwas occupied as a mechanic in the construction of the mills which were rapidly build- \ning up the present thriving cities of Lewiston and Auburn. Here, while still a boy, \nhe earned the means to buy the first book he ever owned, and which is still in his \npossession. It was a history of the naval battles of 1812, both interesting and in- \nstructive, and not a bad book for an ambitious boy to read. It is needless to say \nthat he read it through many times, and became well acquainted Avith the heroes of \nthose battles. Both here and at Richmond, Me., where after the lapse of a few \nyears the family moved, the boy made the best use of the educational opportunities \noffered to him, both in the public schools and in such private schools as his means \npermitted him to attend. He was by no means unused to such work as he could do \nin his home or wherever he could obtain a compensation. At the age of sixteen his \nfamily again removed, this time to Fairhaven, Mass., and here for the first time, in \nthe high school of that town, and under the care and attention of an able teacher, he \nfound the first and longed for opportunity for beginning those studies then considered \nnecessary in preparation for college. It had been the hope of his mother for years \nthat her son should some day pursue a college course, and it was no new thing for \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 607 \n\nhimself to desire it. He had long since determined upon it if ever the opportunity \nwas presented, but the means to accomplish this he did not and could not forecast. \nHis father could not assist him, and besides was not fully appreciative of lbs efforts \nor ambition, but the mother's sympathies were never lacking and always followed \nhim till he was able to repay them in kind and in a more material way. For two \nyears Mr. Dudley pursued his studies at the Fairhaven high school, somewhat inter- \nmittently but still diligently and with satisfactory results. He had advanced suffi- \nciently in 1860, when his family removed to New Bedford, Mass., to pursue his \nclassical studies alone, though with indifferent success. By teaching school in the \ncountry winters and by sundry other employments at other times, he finally obtained \nthe means for completing his college preparation under two well known classical \nteachers, and in 1863 entered Harvard College with very little idea as to the ways \nand means of going through a four years' course until graduation. ( >ne or two kind \nfriends were found who lent him just that helping hand that enabled him to accom- \nplish his desire, and afterwards to repay them dollar for dollar. Even before gradu- \nation he was engaged to serve as submaster in the New Bedford High School, and \nthere, associated with his former teacher, Mr. Dudley spent three laborious but \npleasaut years as an instructor in the classics and mathematics, having the pleasure \nof sending one young man at least to his own alma mater who has since achieved an \nenviable reputation as a classical scholar and critic. Graduating in the class of 1867 \nand entering immediately upon the work of a teacher, which he pursued with no little \nenthusiasm, Mr. Dudley was unwilling to make that a life work, but desired rather \nto adopt the law as his chosen profession. He therefore procured Bouvier's Law \nDictionary and a copy of Kent and Blackstone, and began reading law in the office \nof Eliot & Stetson, devoting to his reading such spare hours as his school duties \nwould permit, including his vacations. Meantime, on the 2d day of April, 1869, Mr. \nDudley married Miss Laura Nye Howland, daughter of John M. Howland and \nMatilda Coleman Howland, of Fairhaven. Miss Howland was descended in the \ndirect line on her father's side from Henry Howland, of Duxbury, who appeared in \nthat town in 1633, and was doubtless a brother of John Howland of the Mayflower, \nwhose grave is still pointed out on Burial Hill in Plymouth. On her mother's side \nMiss Howland was descended from the Folger family of Nantucket. At the close of \nthe school year in 1870 Mr. Dudley resigned his position of submaster in the New \nBedford High School and removed to Cambridge, Mass., where he has ever since \nresided. He spent a year at the Harvard Law School and graduated therefrom in \n1871, receiving his degree upon examination. He also holds the degree of A.M. from \nhis alma mater. Immediately entering the office of James B. Richardson, now Mr. \nJustice Richardson of the Superior Court, Mr. Dudley was admitted to the bar of the \nSupreme Judicial Court in Boston, before the late lamented Justice Colt, on the 21st \nday of July in that year. Though practicing in Suffolk county, he also had an office \nfor several of the first years of his practice in Cambridge, but found that one office in \nBoston was all that he could well give his attention to. Mr. Dudley is a busy lawyer \nwhose practice is of a somewhat miscellaneous character, taking him sometimes into \none court and sometimes into another. Most lawyers of experience can look back \nupon some one case with more or less of satisfaction because of having accomplished \na success in it of a more notable character than in some other cases. Mr. Dudley \n\n\n608 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nbegan one action in the early years of his practice which soon developed a bitterness \nbetween the parties that resulted in one of the longest legal contests known at the \nbar. It was thirteen years before the one in question was closed up with a judgment \nwhich had to be satisfied and settled. Meantime there had been five jury trials and \nthree verdicts in the case, several hearings before the full bench of the Supreme \nJudicial Court, a petition and discharge in bankruptcy in the United States District \nCourt, many hearings in the United States District and Circuit Courts, many con- \ntested motions in all the courts, with varying fortunes on one side and the other, till \nfinally Mr. Dudley obtained a judgment on a bond to dissolve attachment which a \nsurety had to pay, the amount then being more than double that originally in con- \ntroversy. One of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, in a reported opinion, \njustly called it \" this much litigated case.\" The plaintiff was a minor and sued by \nhis next friend, but he was a man over thirty years old when the litigation ended. \nEvery judge of the Supreme or Superior Court who heard the case is now dead. As \nin many cases a very large proportion of Mr. Dudley's practice is that of chamber \ncounsel where he is called upon to pass upon a great variety of questions of every \npossible character, to draft all sorts of legal documents, and to attend to the rights \nand duties of the merchant, the mechanic, or those arising out of family relations. \nNor has he neglected the religious and social duties which so largely fall upon those \nwho are expected to take some leading position in such matters. Mr. Dudley has \nbeen for years a member of the parish committee of the Universalist Church ; was for \nseveral years an officer of the Universalist Club and finally its president for two \nyears, and for many years has given a portion of his spare time to the interest of \nSunday schools. He is now (1893) president of the Universalist Sunday School Union, \nan organization which has for its duty the oversight of twenty Sunday schools. Not \nneglecting his obligations to the State of his birth, he is the president of a social \norganization in his city made up of the sons and daughters of Maine. He is also an \noriginal member of the Cambridge Club. He has never held political office, except \nfor a single year when he was a member of the city government of his city, though \nhe has taken some interest in general politics at times, and was for a number of \nyears a member of the ward and city committee of the party to which he belonged. \nMr. Dudley cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and has \nvoted for every president who has filled the office since except in the case of Mr. \nHarrison, for whom he did not vote. He has also for years been a member of the \nCivil Service Association of his city, and never hesitates to \" scratch\" the ballot he \ncasts at any election if in his judgment any candidate of either party is unsuitable \nfor the position he aspires to. He gives some attention to historical and antiquarian \nmatters, and is the president of The Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association. \nHe has never forgotten the studies of school and college days, and still keeps in \ntouch with them. He has a family of three children : a son and two daughters. The \nson and oldest daughter are at the University and the \"Annex\" respectively, the \nformer being destined to the law, as might be expected. Those opportunities which \nMr. Dudley so much lacked in his boyhood and youth, he takes great delight in fur- \nnishing to his children, and his pleasure is all the greater that his children make the \nmost of their opportunities. With his family about him in his comfortable home, \nMr. Dudley enjoys the results of faithfulness and integrity in his profession, and of \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 609 \n\nthat diligence which the law, most of all the professions, jealously demands of every \nmember of it, if indeed success or eminence is sought for in it. \n\nEdwin Lasseter Bynner, son of Edwin and Caroline (Edgarton) Bynner, was born \nin Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1842, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865. He \nestablished himself in the West, but about the year 1870 came to Boston and after- \nward made that city his home. He was the librarian of the Law Association at the \ntime of his death, but had for many years devoted himself to literary pursuits. In \n1S77 he published a novel entitled \" N' importe,\" and in 1878 another called \" Tritons.\" \nHe was the author of the chapter in the \"Memorial History of Boston\" on the \n\"Topography and Landmarks of the Provincial Period,\" and in 1882 published \n\" Damen's Ghost,\" a book which added to his already established reputation. In \n1887 the Atlantic Monthly published a sketch from his pen reflecting the life of \ncolonial days in Boston called \" Penelope's Suitors,\" and shortly after \"Agnes Sur- \nriage \" appeared, followed by \" The Begum's Daughter,\" a story of the Dutch in New \nYork. At a later date \" An Uncloseted Skeleton \" and \" The Chase of the Meteor \" \nwere published, and subsequent to these his last work, \" Zachary Phips.\" He died \nin Jamaica Plain, a district of Boston, August 5, 1893, unmarried. \n\nGeorge Makepeace Towle was the son of a physician in Washington, D. C, and \nwas born in that city August 27, 1841. His parents removed to Boston, where he \nattended the public schools. He was fitted for college at the Wrentham Academy \nand the Lawrence Academy in Groton, and graduated at Yale in 1861. He attended \nthe Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 14, 1862. \nHe began a literary career at an early age and while in the law school published \nthree articles treating of Count Cavour, De Tocqueville and Leigh Hunt. In I860 \nand 1866 he was on the editorial staff of the Boston Post, and from 1866 to 1868 U. \nS. consul at Nantes, France. In 1868 he was transferred from the consulship at \nNantes to that in Bradford, England, where he remained until 1870, when he re- \nturned to Boston and became managing editor of the Commercial Bulletin. From \n1871 to 1876 he was again connected with the Boston Post, and was later on the \nregular staff of Apple ton s Journal, the Art Journal and the Youth's Companion. \nIn addition to the results of his journalistic work, and to his lectures on various sub- \njects, which were always popular and attractive, he published the following original \nworks and translations: \"Glimpse of History,\" \"History of Henry V, King of \nEngland,\" \"American Society,\" \"Gaborian's Mystery of Orcival,\" \" Jules Verne's \nTour of the World in Eighty Days,\" \" Doctor Ox \" and \"The Wreck of the Chan- \ncellor,\" \"Viollet le Due's Story of a House,\" \"The Principalities of the Danube, \nModern Greece, Montenegro and Bulgaria,\" and a number of volumes of a series of \n\" Heroes in History \" for young people. He also edited Harvey's \" Reminiscences \nof Webster,\" and at various times produced \" Certain Men of Mark,\" and \" Timely \nTopics,\" including \" England and Russia in Asia,\" \" England in Egypt,\" and others, \nand published histories of England and Ireland for young people, and \" The Litera- \nture of the English Language.\" He was a member of the State Senate in 1890 and \n1891, and a member of the National Republican Convention in 1888. He died in \nBrookline, Mass., August 9, 1893. \n\nJohn Haskell Butler, son of John and Mary J. (Barker) Butler, was born in \nMiddleton, Mass., August 31, 1841. He attended the public schools of Groton and \n77 \n\n\n610 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nShirley, and fitted for college at the Lawrence Academy in Groton. He graduated \nat Yale in 1863, and studied law in Charlestown in the office of John Quincy Adams \nGriffin and William Saint Agnan Stearns. He was admitted to the Middlesex county \nbar in October, L868, and entered into a partnership with Mr. Stearns which con- \ntinued until January, 1892. After the annexation of Charlestown to Boston in ISM \nthe business of the linn was carried on in Boston proper, and so continued until the \ndissolution of the partnership. Since that time Mr. Butler has been alone, engaged \nin a general practice and enjoying a position at the Suffolk bar among its leading \nmembers. Mr. Butler was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives \nin 1880 and 1881, and a member of the Executive Council in 1884, '85 and '. He was in the \nMexican war, and was also captain of a company raised for three years' service in the \nWar of 1861. His company was temporarily attached to the Third and Fourth three \nmonths regiments at Fort Monroe, and afterwards was a part of the Twenty-ninth \nregiment. He now lives at Charlestown. \n\nBainbridge Wadleigh was born in Bradford, N. H., January 4, 1831. He was ad- \nmitted to the bar of New Hampshire in 1850, and practiced in Milford in that State. \nHe was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature eight years and United States \nsenator from March 4, is;;l, to March :!, 1879, as the successor of James W. Patter- \nson. He was on the roll of Suffolk county attorneys in 1890. \n\nGeorge Caster Adams graduated at Harvard in 1886 and is now at the Suffolk bar. \n\nFrederick Hartley Atw< graduated at Harvard in 1SS4 and was admitted to \n\nthe Suffolk bar in 1888. He is now at the bar. \n\nJames Walker Austin, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1888 and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 20, 1891. He is now at the bar. \n\nWalter Austin graduated at Harvard in IssT and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1S90. He is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam Russell Austin graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1882. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882 and is How at the bar. \n\nWilliam Francis Bacon graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1889. He was admitted t<> the Suffolk bar in 1889 and is now at the bar. \n\n\n612 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nCharles William Bacon graduated at Harvard in 1879, and is now at the Suffolk \nbar. \n\nThomas Tileston Baldwin graduated at Harvard in 1886, and was admitted to the \nthe Suffolk bar in May, 1888. He is now at the bar. \n\nJacob Bancroft graduated at Harvard in 1884, and at the Harvard Law School in \n1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar. \n\nJames Edward Bates graduated at Harvard in 1864, and was practicing at the \nSuffolk bar in 1866. \n\nWilliam Blaikte graduated at Harvard in 1866 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar .September 16, 1869. \n\nFrank Eliot Bradish graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was practicing at the \nSuffolk bar in 1891. \n\nWilliam Dade Brewer, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1886, and was practicing at \nthe Suffolk bar in 1889. \n\nHenry Nichols Blake graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar June 8, 1859. \n\nGe< >rge William Brown graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1887. \n\nHorace Brown graduated at Harvard in 1872 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1N74, and died in 1883. \n\nAbraham Stephens Brush graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1885, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1886. \n\nCyril Herbert Burdett graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 20, 1891. \n\nJonathan Ware Butterfield graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and \nwas admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1869. \n\nBenjamin Merrick Campbell graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1884, and \nwas practicing at the Suffolk bar when he died in 1886. \n\nRobert Boody Caverly graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1837 and was \n\nadmitted to the Suffolk bar March 8, 1837. He died in 1887. \n\nEdgar Robert Champlin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1880 and is now \nat the Suffolk bar. \n\nLorenzo S. Cragin, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1849 and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar December 21, 1851. He died in 1875. \n\nJohn Colman Crowley graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard Law- \nSchool in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 19, 1856. \n\nT. Kittridge Cummins graduated at Harvard in 18S4 and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1887. \n\nGrafton Dulany Cushing graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1SSS. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. \n\nJohn Newmarch Cushing graduated at Harvard in 1887 and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1890. \n\n\nfcJi_j Jj \n\n\nM.-.M.-.R.-.A.-M.-.P.-.Ein.-.<]oni.-.of K T.\\ and Pas1 Grand Master, \n,,f the Grand Lodife oi' Massncluific:tL». \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 613 \n\nLivingston Cushing graduated at Harvard in 1879 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1882. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. \n\nSamuel Loire Cutter, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1N54, and was practicing at \nthe Suffolk bar in 1860. He died in 1886. \n\nMarshall Cutler graduated at Harvard in 1877 and was admitted to the .Suffolk \nbar in 1882. \n\nWalter Reeves Dame graduated at Harvard in 1883 and at the Boston University \nLaw School in 1886. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. \n\nWilliam Franklin Dana graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. \n\nFrederick Homer Darling graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. \n\nHerbert Henry Darling graduated at Harvard in 1889, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar October 20, 1891. \n\nBancroft Gherardi Davis graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. \n\nJerome Davis graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1850 and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar May 8 in that year. He died in 1883. \n\nBenjamin Wood Davis graduated at Yale in 1875 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1878. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nSamuel Craft Davis, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1863 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, 1867, and died in 1874. \n\nDavid Taggart Dickinson graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar August 4, 1891. He is now at the bar. \n\nSamuel Knight Dow graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1853. \n\nWalter Henry Dorr graduated at Harvard in Us65, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar July 13, 1871. He died in 1880. \n\nW. Harrison Dunbar graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1886. He is now at the Suffolk bar. \n\nJohn Emery Dow, jr., graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar January 1!) in that year. \n\nJonathan Dwight graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar before 1807. He died in 1840. \n\nEdward Augustus Durbin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1861. \n\nJames Martin Eder graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S5!I, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in March of that year. \n\nGeorge Herbert Eaton graduated at Harvard in 1882, and was practicing at the \nSuffolk bar in 1887. \n\nSamuel Hopkins Emery graduated at Amherst in 1872 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1882. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\n\n6 14 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nJames Phillips Farley probably graduated at Harvard in 1868, and is now at the \nSuffolk bar. \n\nAndrew Otis Evans graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Boston University \nLaw School in 187-]. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1877. \n\nFrancis Britain Fay graduated at Harvard in 1888 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. \n\nAaron Estey Fisher graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar January 17, 1861. \n\nEdward Fiske graduated at Harvard in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin 1889. \n\nNathaniel Langdon Frothingham graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880. \n\nFrancis Gardner graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 179(5. He was a member of Congress, and died in 1835. \n\nGeorge Albert Gerrish graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar March 15, 1850. He died in 1866. \n\nJoseph McKean Gibbons graduated at Harvard in 1881 and at the Boston Univer- \nsity Law School in 1884. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1884. \n\nSamuel Cotton Gilbert graduated at Harvard in 1880 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1883. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2:!, 1883, and died in 1885. \n\nEdmi nd GlFFORD graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1841, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar in July, 1840. \n\nFrederic Huntington Gillett graduated at Amherst in 1874 and at the Harvard \nLaw School in 1877. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nHenry Winthrop Hardon graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nFrank Warren Hackett graduated at Harvard in 1861, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar November lit, 1866. \n\nFrank Rockwood Hall graduated at Harvard in 1872, and is now at the Suffolk bar. \n\nJames Francis Harlow graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar August 4, 1891. \n\nEdward Avery Harrim \\n graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar January 20. 1891. \n\nEdward Andress Hibbard graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1886. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. \n\nCharles Henry Hildreth graduated at Harvard in 1864, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar December 14, 1867. He died in 1878. \n\n.George Nicholas Hi rcHCOCK graduated at Yale in 1864 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 19, 1866. \n\nArthur Parker Hodgkins graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1882, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. \n\nFranklin William Hooper graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was at the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1890. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 615 \n\nEden Shotwell Jacqi es graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S42, and was \nadmitted to the Sufi'. ilk bar July '20, 1840. \n\nJohn Kidder graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was at the Suffolk bar in 1797. \nlie died in 1810. \n\nCharles Carroll Kim; graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. \n\nLORENZO Lank graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar June 23, 1860. He died in 1867. \n\nAbbott Lawrence graduated at Harvard in 1*4!) and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1-663. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1864. \n\nAbbott Lawrence, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1ST.\") and at the Harvard Law \nSchoolin 1S77. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15,1880, and died in 1882. \n\nAlfred French Lam: graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Harvard LawSchool \nin 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in INS.\"). \n\nArthur Prescott Loihroi' graduated at Harvard in 1882, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1886. \n\nJohn Jacob Loud graduated at Harvard in 1866, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar February '2, 1S72. \n\nCharles Taylor Lovering graduated at Harvard in 1868 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 26, 1878, and is now \nat the bar. \n\nJohn Plumer Lyons graduated at Harvard in 1882, and is now at the Suffolk bar. \n\nAustin Agnew Martin graduated at Harvard in 187:! and at the Boston University \nLaw School in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 28, 1S7U, and died \nin 1890. \n\nHenry Farnham May graduated at Harvard in 1881, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in 1884. \n\nGeorge Lowell Maybury graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Boston Uni- \nversity Law School in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nThomas W. McGrath graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, I860. \n\nGeorge Harrison McGrew graduated at the Wesleyan University, Conn., in IS70 \nand at the Harvard Law School in 1S7:5. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1873. \n\nElijah Hedding Merrill graduated at West Point in 1878 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1882. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in iss:;. \n\nWilliam Pepperell Montague graduated at Harvard 111 1869, and was a tutor in \nthe college after graduation. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1871. \n\nNathan Newmark graduated at the University of California in 1873 and at the \nHarvard Law School in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. \n\nGeorge Dana Noyks graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1854. He is now at the bar. \n\nHenry Ernest Oxnard graduated at Harvard in 1886 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1889. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. \n\n\n616 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nJohn Augus'j i s Pali graduated at the University of Paris in 1852 and at the Har- \nvard Law School in L856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 20, 1855, \nand died in 1883. \n\nJoseph Newell Palmer graduated at Harvard in 1886 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1889. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. \n\nWilliam George Pellew graduated at Harvard in 1880 and at the Harvard Law- \nSchool in 1884. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. \n\nHenry Goddard Pickering graduated at Harvard in ISO!) and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1871. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1890. \n\nWillakd Quincy Phillips graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1858. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1863. \n\nHenry Pickering graduated at Harvard in 1861, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar November 16, 1863. \n\nJohnson Tuttle Plait graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar January 12, 1885. He died in 1890. \n\nCharles Coolidge Read graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1867. He is now at the Suffolk bar. \n\nGiles Hopkins Rich graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1859, and is now at \nthe Suffolk bar. \n\nEdgar Judson Rich graduated at Harvard in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar January 30, 1891. \n\nJames Ritchie graduated at Harvard in 1835, and was at one time mayor of Rox- \nbury. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1868, and was drowned in Massachu- \nsetts Bay in 1873. \n\nThomas Francis Richardson graduated at Brown University in 1852 and at the \nHarvard Law School in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, 1855. \n\nGeorge Lewis Ruffin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar September 18, 1869. He died in 1886. \n\nNathaniel Curtis Scoville graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 21, 1865. \n\nArthur Wesley Sim graduated at Harvard in 1885, and was at the Suffolk bar in \n1889. \n\nHenry Munson Spelman graduated at Harvard in 1884, and is now at the Suffolk bar. \n\nJames Monroe Stevens graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was at \nthe Suffolk bar in 1863. \n\nJohn Humphreys Storer graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Harvard Law- \nSchool in 1885. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nJacob Story, jr., graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar January 4, 1847. \n\nRoger Faxton Sturgis graduated at Harvard in 1884, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in 1887. He is now at the bar. \n\nLvnde Sullivan graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar January 20, 1891. \n\n\n6^yl^LA^^Jl_ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 617 \n\nAlfred Taggart graduated at Beloit College, Wisconsin, in 1856, and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 10, 1858. \n\nThomas Taylor, jr., graduated at Knox College, Illinois, in 1881, and at the Har- \nvard Law School in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, \n\nWilliam Temple graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar June 23, 1874. \n\nRobert Means Thompson graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1868, \nand at the Harvard Law School in 1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Octo- \nber 10, 1873. \n\nCharles Martin Thayer graduated at Harvard in 1889, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar August 4, 1891. \n\nCharles Jackson Thorndike graduated at Harvard in 1849, and became a mem- \nber of the Suffolk bar. He died in 1880. \n\nWilliam Goodrich Thompson graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted \nto the Suffolk bar October 13, 1891. \n\nWalter Checkley Tiffany graduated at Harvard in 1881, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in February, 1883. \n\nNicholas Tillinghast received an honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1807, and \nwas at one time a member of the Suffolk bar. He died in 1818. \n\nEdward W. Emery Tompson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and in \nDecember of that year was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam Denman Tii.df.n graduated at Racine University, Wisconsin, in 1874, and \nat the Harvard Law School in 1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Febru- \nary, 1876. \n\nJames Alexander Tyng graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in May, 1879. \n\nGustavus Henry Wald graduated at Yale in 1873, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1875. \n\nHermann Jackson Warner graduated at Harvard in 1850, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1852. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1853. \n\nBenjamin Davis Washburn graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1870. \n\nSamuel Farrell Webb graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1869. He died in 1887. \n\nStiles Gannett Wells, son of Samuel and Kate Gannett Wells, graduated at \nHarvard in 1886, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He is now at the bar. \n\nSidney Wetmore graduated at Harvard in 1877 and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1885. \n\nHorace Oscar Whittemore graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar January 16, 1809. He died in 1871. \n\nWilliam Austin Whiting graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Boston Uni- \nversity Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. \n\n78 \n\n\n6i8 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nCharles Alexander Whittemore graduated at Harvard in 1885, and is now at the \nSuffolk bar. \n\nAlexander Whitney graduated at Harvard in 1831, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in April, 1837. He died in 1842. \n\nEdson Leone Whitney graduated at Harvard in 1885, and at the Boston Univer- \nsity Law School in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in LSSli. \n\nJohn Henry Wigmore graduated at Harvard in 1883, and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He is at the head of \nthe law school in Tokio, Japan, and a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great \nBritain. \n\nGeorge Dudley Wildes graduated at Harvard in 1873, and at the Boston Univer- \nsity Law School in 187.\"). He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1875. \n\nAbel Theodore Winn graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in September, 1863. \n\nHenry Hedden Winslow graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, and was \nadmitted to the Suffolk bar in December of that year, \n\nAndrew Woods graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nGe< irge Henry Woods graduated at Brown in 1853, and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June 185G, and died in 1884. \n\nEdward Clarence Wright graduated at Harvard in 1886., and at the Harvard Law \nSchi »ol in 1889. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1889. \n\nEphraim Wood Young graduated at Harvard in 1848, and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar October 15, 1856. \n\n\nThe following attorneys were either admitted to the Suffolk bar at the dates speci- \nfied or were practicing at said bar as early as the dates indicate. Those marked \nwith an asterisk (*) are now at the bar. \n\n\n•Charles E. Abbott, admitted Oct. 5, 1864. \n* George C. Abbott, admitted March 22, \n\n1880. \nGrafton T. Abbott, admitted 1879. \nIra E. Abbott, practicing in 1875. \nJohn G. Abbott, admitted Nov. 8, 1876. \nNathan D. Abbott, admitted in 1882. \n*S. P. Abbott, admitted March 8, 1872. \nD. L. Aberdain, practicing in 1860. \nChas. True Adams, admitted July 14,1868. \nColeman S. Adams, admitted March 13, \n\n1849. \nJohn K. Adams, admitted in 1818. \nJoseph T. Adams, practicing in 1844. \nJulius Adams, admitted in 1876. \n\n\nW. Robert Adair, admitted Jan. 24, 1857. \nAlbion A. Adams, practicing in 1885.. \nWalter Adavis, admitted in 1873. \nCyrus Alden, practicing in 1818. \nEdwin G. Alexander, admitted in 1884. \n\n* Charles E. Allen, admitted in 1887. \nGeorge A. Allen, admitted April 25, 1855. \nHarris Allen, admitted Jan. 14, 1864. \nSam. W. F. Allen, admitted June 5, 1875. \n\n* George D. Alden, practicing in 1891. \nArthur M. Alger, admitted in 1876. \n\nH. O. Alden, practicing in 1853. \nSamuel C. Allen, admitted before 1807; \n\ndead. \n*H. N. Allen, admitted before 1887. \n\n\nBiographical register. \n\n\n619 \n\n\nA. B. Almon, admitted July 9, 1852. \nFerdinand L. Andrews, admitted Jan. 1, \n\n1849. \nGallison C. Andrews, admitted May 27, \n\n1 889. \nJohn H. Andrews, admitted Oct. 31, 1866. \nWm. N. Andrews, admitted June 4, 1852. \nFrank H. Angier, admitted Feb. 1, 1873. \nWm. J. Apthorp, admitted Nov. 2, 1821. \nJ. L. Andrews, practicing in is;.\"). \nIsaac Angell, practicing in 1879. \n.Samuel R. Archer, admitted Dec. 12, \n\n1863. \n*ZenasS. Arnold, practicing in 1890. \nHerman Askenasy, practicing in 1867. \nGeorge E. Atkins, admitted in 1876. \nJ. Augustus Atkins, admitted in 1857. \nJ. Atkinson, admitted in 1852. \nEdward Austin, admitted Jan. 31, 1867. \nD. J. Atwood, practicing in 1878. \nCharles U. Atwood, practicing in 1878. \nWm. P. Austin, admitted in 1873. \nGeorge W. Averil, practicing in 1885. \n* Albert E. Avery, practicing in 1890. \nPhineas Ayer, practicing in 1856. \nJoseph C. Ayer, admitted Nov. 20, 1886. \nC. A. Babbitt, practicing in 1882. \nCharles H. Bacon, admitted April 11, 1854. \nH. C. Bacon, practicing in 1881. \nFrederick A. Bacon, admitted Nov. 9,1863. \nThomas S. Bacon, admitted March, 1845. \nGardner W. Bailey, practicing in 187s. \nL. B. Bailey, practicing in 187s. \nFisher Ames Baker, admitted June 26, \n\n1860. \nJohn R. Baker, practicing in 1866. \nWm. P. Baker, practicing in 1873. \nJoseph Balch, practicing in 1813. \nHorace E. Baldwin, admitted May 15, \n\n1848. \nBenjamin W. Ball, admitted July 11, 1846. \nWm. A. Ball, practicing in 1890. \n*John Ballantyne, practicing in 1891. \nHenry Barnard, admitted before 1807. \nThomas F. Barr, admitted Nov. 8, 1859. \nSamuel B. Barrell, admitted Jan. 15, 1813. \n-\"Thomas W. Barrelle, practicing in 1S90. \nEdward J. Barrett, admitted in 1883. \n\n\nA. L. Bartlett, admitted in 1887. \nCharles Bartlett, admitted Dec. 19, 1866. \nD. C. Bartlett, practicing in 1890. \nHenry P. Barbour, admitted Feb., 1880. \nJ. N. Barbour, practicing in 1870. \nCharles S. Barker, admitted Feb., 1876. \nJames M. Barker, admitted Oct., 1830. \nIsaac A. Barnes, practicing in 1881. \nAllison A. Bartlett, admitted Nov. 22, \n\n1855. \nA. B. Bartlett, practicing in 1857. \nBradbury C. Bartlett, practicing in ls:>;. \nCharles E. Barber, practicing in 1887. \nGeorge W. Bartlett, practicing in 1878. \nHorace E. Bartlett, admitted June, 1881. \nWm. Bartlett, practicing in 1860. \n\n* R. C. Bayldone, practicing in 1890. \nEdward A. Bayley, admitted Aug, 4,1891. \nJ. C. M. Bayley, practicing in 1890. \nFrederick K. Bartlett, admitted Dee. 28, \n\n1844. \nJames Barrett, admitted Jan. 24, 1848. \nLeroy Batchelder, admitted May 13, 1870. \nJohn M. Batchelder, practicing in 1856. \nClark A. Batchelder, practicing in ls7:i. \nL. B. Batchelder, practicing in 1868. \nLeon H. Bateman, admitted in 1883. \nElijah Bates, admitted before 1807. \n\n* Edward S. Beach, practicing in 1890. \nGeorge F. Beck, admitted Nov. 23, 1847. \nJohn W. Bell, admitted in 1884. \nWaylan E. Benjamin, admitted May, 1879. \nFrancis M. Bennett, admitted May 22, \n\n1874. \nIsaac C. Bemis, admitted Oct. 22, 1846. \nSeth Bemis, practicing in 1882. \nC. M. Bennett, practicing in 1870. \nSantiago C. Bello, practicing in 1855. \nEdward S. Bellows, practicing in 1837. \n\n* Frank T. Benner, practicing in 1891. \nJohn R. Bennett, practicing in 1882. \nEdward F. Benson, admitted in 1882. \nW. H. Bent, practicing in 1890. \n\nAbel B. Berry, admitted July, 1846. \nJohn W. Berry, practicing in 1867. \nO. Ewing Betton, admitted Oct. 6, 1846. \nHorace Bickford, admitted Feb. 12, 1S45. \nBarnabas Bidwell, admitted before 1807. \n\n\n620 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nOliver Bigelow, admitted March, 1817. \nJohn J. Bigelow, practicing in 1848. \n* George D. Bigelow, admitted Feb. 1878. \nSamuel C. Bigelow, admitted Aug. 30, 1848. \nWashington Bissell, practicing in 1889. \nFrederick M. Bixby, admitted in 1884. \nJames L. Black, admitted June, 1869. \n*Paul R. Blackmur, admitted Jan. 20,1891. \nOmar Binney, practicing in 1870. \nJonathan P. Bishop, practicing in 1853. \nWm. N. Blair, admitted Nov. 5, 1847. \nThomas Blanchard, admitted before 1807. \nCharles F. Blandin, practicing in 1871. \nHenry C. Bliss, practicing in 1890. \nGeorge B. Blodgett, admitted Oct. 26, \n\n1868. \nThomas Bloomfield, admitted in 1890. \nJarvis Blume, admitted May 30, 1876. \nJ. C. Bodwell. practicing in 1866. \nSimeon Bowen, admitted June 3, 1856. \nAbel Boynton, admitted in 1807. \nMoss K. Booth, admitted April 3, 1851. \nT. C. Bowdich, practicing in 1871. \nThomas J. Boynton, admitted in 1889. \nWm. E. Boynton, admitted June, 1868. \nCharles Bradbury, admitted in 1813. \nJoseph H. Bragdon, practicing in 1863. \nCharles R. Brainard, admitted March \n\n20, 1876. \nCharles A. Braley, admitted in 1886. \n\nP. N. Branch, admitted in 1890. \n\nEllery M. Brayton, admitted July 1 1 , 1866. \n\nWm. Breck, admitted May 13, 1878. \n\nFrederick A. Bredeen, admitted Feb. 26, \n1883. \n\nJ. F. Brennen, practicing in 1877. \n\nElias Bremer, admitted before 1807. \n\nS. J. Bradlee, practicing in 1876. \n\nHeman Bragg, practicing in 1877. \n\n*J. O. Bradbury, practicing in 1891. \n\nHenry A. Brigham, admitted June, 1870. \n\nWm. T. Brigham, admitted Sep. 16, 1867. \n\nA. N. Briggs, admitted April 23, 1866. \n\n*Benjamin F. Briggs, practicing in 1890. \n\nCephas Brigham, admitted March 9, 1868. \n\nWalter C. Brinsley, admitted Nov. 22, \n1874. \n\n\nPhilip E. Brodey, admitted in 1883. \nIra H. Brown, admitted in 1889. \n*Francis Brooks, practicing in 1890. \n*Wm. G. Brooks, admitted in 1884. \nOtis L. Bridges, admitted Nov. 12, 1844. \nC. Brigham, practicing in 1867. \nAlvin M. Brooks, practicing in 1858. \nCharles M. Brooks, practicing in 1861. \nP. C. Brooks, practicing in 1871. \nAugustus J. Brown, admitted May 12, \n\n183s. \nCalvin H. Brown, admitted Oct, 17, 1863. \n*Charles F. Brown, practicing in 1890. \nCharles H. Brown, practicing in 1890. \nDavid W. Brown, admitted June 18, 1809. \nIsaac Brown, admitted Oct. 14, 1851. \nJeremiah Brown, practicing in 1852 ; dead. \nJohn H. Brown, admitted Dec. 15, 1865. \n*Sidney P. Brown, admitted in 1887. \nThomas B. Brown, admitted April 1 1 , 1855. \nFrank H. Brown, admitted June, 1876. \nHenry G. Brown, admitted Sep. 11, 1872. \nDana Browne, admitted July, 1854. \nEphraim Browne, admitted April 21,1854. \nJohn H. Brownson, admitted June, 1854. \nWm. J. Brownson, admitted Feb. 1855. \nHenry B Bryant, admitted Oct. 1877. \nG. C. V. Buchanan, admitted March 17, \n\n1855. \nEdward Buck, practicing in 1844; dead. \nJ. H. Buckingham, admitted March 6, \n1S52; dead. \n\nC. A. Bucknam, practicing in 1880. \nJohn S. Bugbee, admitted July 19, 1862. \n\nElias Bullard, admitted in 1826. \n\nF. E. Bryant, practicing in 1881. \n\nEli Bullard, admitted before 1807. \n\nC. W. Buck, practicing in 1860. \n\nEdward B. Burcee, admitted April 22, \n1891. \n\nAlbert G. Burke, admitted April, 1855. \n\nWm. R. Burleigh, admitted March 27, \n1875. \n\nSamuel A. Burns, admitted in 1831. \n\nSamuel C. Burr, admitted Oct. 1854. \n\nSanford S. Burr, admitted May IS, 1865. \n\nE. T. Burr, practicing in 1873. \n\n\n^yk \n\n\nCfWK. C\\^0 \n\n\n6lf t^flf \n\n\nOV[ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n)2I \n\n\nB. F. Burnham, practicing in L868. \n\nCharles J. Burns, admitted Jan. 24, 1874. \nJohn II. Burt, admitted October, 1878. \nEllsworth T. Buss, admitted June 10, \n\n1873; dead. \nBenjamin Butler, admitted Jan. 15, 1845. \nJohn L. Butler, practicing in 1878. \nM. Butler, practicing in 1845. \nEdward Butt, admitted Nov. 13, 1843. \nEdgar R. Butterworth, admitted April, \n\n1875. \nEdward K. Bullock, practicing in 1856. \nGeorge A. Byam, practicing in 1866. \nF. B. Byram, practicing in 1877. \nEben E. Cady, admitted Jan. 10, 1848. \nMiddleton A. Caldwell, practicing in 1890. \nJohn Cahill, practicing in 1877. \nJonathan Callender, admitted before \n\n1807. \nGeorge E. Campbell, practicing in 1863. \nW. L. Campbell, admitted June 17, 1869. \nPhineas Capen, admitted Nov. 16, 1849. \nD. M. H. Carpenter, admitted Jan. 10, \n\n1848. \nJames E. Carpenter, admitted May 7, \n\n1859. \nRobert W. Carpenter, admitted June 4, \n\n1834. \nCharles A. Carpenter, admitted Oct. 4, \n\n1871. \nHenry H. Carrington, admitted April, \n\n1890. \nCharles W. Carroll, admitted March, 1861. \nGeorge P. Carroll, admitted in 1886. \n*W. W. Carter, admitted Oct. 14, 1863. \n*P. J. Casey, practicing in 1890. \nAndrew J. Cass, practicing in 1864. \nAnderson Cartwright, admitted Nov. 9, \n\n1857. \nNathan C. Cary, practicing in 1885. \nJohn D. Catlin, admitted April 4, 1849. \nC. E. Ceney, admitted July, 18(10. \nThomas E. Chase, admitted Dec. 31,1885. \nIchabod R. Chadbourne, admitted April, \n\n1812. \nWard Chadwick, admitted April 11, 1*59- \nGeorge A. W. Chamberlain, admitted \n\nMarch 29, 1856; dead. \n\n\nEdwin M. Chamberlain, admitted May \n\n10, 18fi7. \nFranklin Chamberlin, admitted July 10, \n\n1S45. \nChristopher E. Champlin, admitted in \n\n1881. \nEverett S. Chandler, admitted in 1SS5. \nJames E. Chandler, admitted in 1889. \n'-Edward M. Cheney, admitted June 2, \n\nI860. \nCharles W. Chase, admitted in I8S4. \nJ. M. Cheney, admitted in 1SS5. \nWm. H. Chickering, admitted May, 1875. \nCalvin G. Child, admitted Jan. 11, 1858. \nWm. O. Childs, admitted July 19, 1886. \nCharles H. Chellis, admitted June, 1872; \n\ndead. \nA. P. Chittenden, admitted Aug. 4, 1891. \nOzias Goodwin Chapman, admitted Oc- \ntober 8, 1845 ; dead. \n\nWm. M. Chase, admitted June 3, 1848. \nP. E. Chattis, admitted April 12, 1831. \n\nJohn Chenie, admitted May, 1878. \nLucius H. Chandler, admitted February \n\n7, 1*45. \nJames W. Chapman, practicing in 1885. \n\nH. B. Chilson, practicing in 1881. \nAlmon J. Clark, admitted October, 1874. \n\nEdwin R. Clark, admitted Feb. 19, 1862. \n\nJoseph F. Clark, practicing in 1856; dead. \n\nJoseph T. Clark, practicing in 1864. \n\nWm. H. Clark, admitted in 1882. \n\nMoses Clark, admitted in 1884. \n\nGardiner H. Clarke, admitted June, 1855. \n\n* George W. Clarke, practicing in 1891. \n\n*Isaiah R. Clarke, admitted Feb., 1876. \n\n*I. P. Clarke, practicing in 1890. \n\nWm. Cleland, practicing in 18(54. \n\nC. W. Clement, practicing in 1881. \n\nL. H. Clement, practicing in 1890. \n\nJoseph H. Clarke, admitted Dec. 11, 1865. \n\nR. P. Clark, practicing in 1883. \n\nT. E. Clark, practicing in 1859. \n\nHenry A. Clifford, admitted in 1884. \n\nJohn D. Clough, admitted in Ins,\",. \n\nJohn Clcmgherty, admitted in 1888. \n\nDaniel J. Coburn, admitted Mar. 13, 18(12; \ndead. \n\n\n(22 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nFrederic Cochrane, admitted ( )et. 13, 1860. \nI. F. Coffin, admitted October, 1809. \nRobert L. Colby, admitted Nov. 22, 1848. \nEdward F. Collins, admitted July 0, 1875. \nDaniel C. Colesworthy, admitted April \n\nIT, 1858. \nArthur D. Collins, admitted April 22, \n\n1875. \nJohn C. Colby, admitted (date unknown). \nPatrick W. Colleary, admitted June 19, \n\n1869. \n\n* Clement H. Colman, practicing in 1890. \nHenry W. B. Cotton, admitted Nov., \n\n1880. \n\n\\Ym. M. Connelly, admitted March, 1867. \n\nWm. T. Connelly, admitted July, 1864. \n\nThomas E. K. Conrad, admitted Decem- \n\n' ber, 1875. \n\n*R. T. Conroy, practicing in 1891. \n\nF. A. W. Converse, practicing in 1762. \n\nD. E. Conery, practicing in 1881. \n\nH. H. Coney, practicing in 1885. \n\nF. T. Conly, practicing in 1850. \n\nSebron T. Conlee, practicing in is; 7. \n\nEdward J. Conaty, practicing in 1882. \n\n*Charles P. Cook, practicing in 1891. \n\nJames Cook, practicing in 1811. \n\nLyman D. Cook, admitted in 1885. \n\nHenry E. Cooper, admitted Nov., 1879. \n\nHarvey T. Corning, admitted, in 1885. \n\nR. Abernethy Corrigan, admitted Octo- \nber, 1877. ' \n\nJoseph P. Costine, admitted in 1882. \n\nHenry E. Cottle, admitted in 1882. \n\n*J. H. Cotton, practicing in 1890 \n\nJohn J. Cotton, admitted July, 1890. \n\nR. B. Coverly, practicing in 1838. \n\n* Alfred C. Cowan, practicing in 1890. \nCharles Cowley, practicing in 1872. \nCharles T. Cox, admitted July 21, 1862. \nJohn E. Costello, admitted in 1883. \n\nH. M. Covey, practicing in 1882. \nK. Cormack, practicing in 1ST 7. \nLebron T. Cornlee, admitted June, 1X70. \nWallace Corthell, practicing in 1870. \nDaniel J. Cowen, practicing in 1879. \nJames O. Coyt, admitted March, 1868. \n\n\n* E. H. Crandall, practicing in 1890. \nJohn H. Crane, admitted Oct., 1807. \nRoyal S. Crane, admitted Nov. 17, 1859. \n'-Frank L. Cressy, admitted in 1885. \nAustin P. Cristy, practicing in 1875. \nLemuel E. Croane, practicing in 1878. \n\nG. H. Crockett, admitted Dec. 11, 1844; \n\ndead . \nSamuel R. Crocker, practicing in 1804. \n\n* F. T. Crommett, practicing in 1891. \nWm. G. Crosby, admitted Oct. 1820. \n*S. W. Culver, practicing in 1890. \n\n* John W. Cummings, practicing in \n\n1891. \nWm. Cummings, practicing in 1880. \nNathan Cunningham, practicing in 1890. \nJoseph M. Cunly, practicing in 1S89. \nThomas Curley, practicing in 1890. \nJohn Currier, jr. , admitted Sept. 1 855. \nO. S. Currier, practicing in 1890. \nDaniel X. Crowley, practicing in 1878. \nCyrus Cummings, practicing in 1842; \n\ndead. \n\n* George E. Curry, practicing in 1887. \nJohn C. Crownin shield, admitted Jan. 1, \n\n1847, \nSoreno E. D. Currier, admitted .Sep. B5, \n18 GO. \n\n* George S. dishing, admitted April 30, \n\n1844. \nJoseph A. Cutter, admitted Nov. 7, 1861. \nRalph H. Cutter, practicing in 1890. \nHenry L. Gushing, admitted Nov. 3, \n\n1845. \nMartin G. Cushing, admitted March 4, \n\n1852. \nAustin S. Cushing, practicing in 1859. \nArey F. Cushman, admitted in 1885. \nJothan Cushman, admitted before 1807. \nWalter S. Cushman, admitted Jan. 10, \n\n1805. \nEdward S. Cutter, admitted April 30, \n\n1867. \nJoseph Cutler, practicing in 1S45; dead. \nNathan Cutler, admitted Jan. 14, 1874. \nWm. A. Dame, practicing in 1890. \n* Arthur P. Dana, admitted July, 1890. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n623 \n\n\nF. A. Dana, practicing in 1857. \n\n* Peter Daley, practicing in 1891. \nAugustus J. Daly, admitted in L887. \nHenry C. Dana, admitted Jan. 31, L861. \nJohn C. Danforth, admitted Nov. (i, 1848. \nSamuel C. Darling, admitted ( >ct. I, 1st'.;. \nEdward C. David, admitted Nov. L7, \n\n1853. \nJ. B. David, admitted April 3, 1821. \n\n* James T. Davidson, admitted July, \n\n1890. \nEdward H. Davis, admitted April 24, \n\n1841. \nAbner Davis, admitted Jan. 27, 1S1!>. \nA. W. D. Daniels, practicing in 1882. \nA. C. Darby, practicing in 1875. \nE. Davis, practicing in 1871. \nFrank Davis, admitted April, 1858. \nBenjamin C. Dean, practicing in L869. \nFrank A. Dean, admitted Aug. 4, 1881. \nTimothy Davis, practicing in 187s. \nThomas H. Davis, admitted Oct., 1830. \nJohn E. Day, admitted Feb., 1876. \nC. M. Dawes, practicing in 1879. \nWillard A. Davis, admitted in 1885. \nHenry L. Dawes, jr.. admitted in 1887. \nMark Davis, practicing in 1N60. \nFrank A. Dearborn, practicing in 1885. \nJoseph W. Dearborn, practicing in 1885. \nN. A. L. Dearborn, admitted before 1807. \nJohn F. Dearington, admitted March 4, \n\n1874. \nGeorge Dennison, admitted Jan., 1850. \nWm. Dennison, jr., admitted March, 1810. \nSeth P. Dewey, admitted before 1807. \nAndrew Dexter, jr., admitted Oct., 1802. \nSamuel G. Dexter, admitted before 1807. \nJoseph F. Dearborn, practicing in 1885. \nSamuel Dexter, jr., admitted April, 1812; \n\ndead. \n*F. B. Deane, practicing in 1891. \nGeorge W. Decosta, admitted Dec. 1858. \nElmer G. Derby, admitted July, 1840. \nSamuel H. Devotion, admitted Apr., 1810. \nGeorge P. Deshon, practicing in 1888. \nT. M. Dewey, admitted Oct. 28, 1855. \n\n\nElijah F. Dewing, admitted April 10, \n\n1858. \nJ. Dickinson, admitted before 1807. \nW. Dickinson, admitted Sept. 5, 1844. \n•:\"\\Ym. Dickson, practicing in 1890. \nDavid Dickey, admitted July 13, 1840. \n\nF. J. Dieter, admitted in 1884. \n\nGeorge \\V. Dillon, admitted Sep. 14,1868. \nJames F. Dillon, admitted Feb., 1881. \nOliver Dimon, admitted Feb., 1844. \nAthur P. Dodge, practicing in 1890. \nFrederick B. Dodge, admitted Sep. 17, \n1868. \n\n* George C. Dickson, practicing in 1891. \nWm. C. Dillingham, practicing in 1875. \nFrancis B. Dixon, admitted April 12, \n\n1856. \nCharles H. Donahue, admitted in 1883. \nJohn F. Dore, admitted Nov. 21, 1881. \nSamuel A. Dorr, admitted Sep. 15, 18(50. \n\nG. S. Dowse, practicing in 1854. \n\nEllis R. Drake, admitted ( >ct. 28, 1865. \n\nF. L. Drake, admitted in 1887. \n\nSamuel W. Dolling, admitted March 3, \n\n1869. \nWm. A. Dowe, admitted April 22, 1863. \nJames Dowdall, practicing in 1888. \n\n* Wilton E. Drake, practicing in 1891. \nDavid F. Drew, admitted July, 1846. \nGeorge W. Drew, admitted July, 1874. \nJohn T. Drew, practicing in 1876. \nEdward C. Dubois, admitted March 17, \n\n1871. \nCharles Dummer, admitted Oct., 1817. \nFrederick C. Dumpfel, admitted Sep. 13, \n\n1873. \nEugene I. Drew, practicing in 1885. \nDavid D. Duncan, admitted in 1883. \n*Wm. P. Duncan, practicing in 1890. \nCharles G. M. Dunham, admitted Feb \n\n17, 1869. \nEdmund Dwight, practicing in 1808. \nH. W. Dwight, practicing in 1848. \nClinton Eager, admitted in 1886. \nIthamar B. Eames, admitted Nov. 11, \n\n1846, \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nWin. H. Eastman, practicing in 1854. \n\n*E. E. Eaton, practicing in 1890. \n\nPatrick D. Dwyer, practicing date un- \nknown. \n\nMark H. Durgin, practicing May, 1867. \n\nDaniel H. Dustin, practicing in 1844. \n\nWarren Dntton, practicing in 1844. \n\nAlbert Dwight, practicing in 1875. \n\nThomas B. Eaton, admitted March, 1872. \n\nThomas G. Eaton, admitted in 1882. \n\nThomas J. Eckley, admitted July, 1807. \n\nE. E. Edwards, practicing in 1883. \n\nCharles W. Eldridge, practicing in 1884. \n\nJohn J. Eldridge, admitted July 13, 1842. \n\nWm. Elliot, jr., admitted Oct., 1829. \n\nJames Ellis, admitted before 1807; dead. \n\nJames M. Ellis, admitted Dec. 17, 1858. \n\nNathaniel Ellis, practicing in 1885. \n\nCharles F. Eddy, admitted Sep. 8, 1891. \n\nFrederick A. Ellis, admitted in 1883. \n\nJohn Elwyn, admitted March, 1827. \n\nHenry W. Ely, admitted Dec, 1874. \n\nWm. Ely, admitted before 1807. \n\nCharles H. Emerson,- admitted April 19, \n1849. \n\nGeorge W. Emery, admitted Sep. 27, \n1859. \n\nAlfred Ennis, admitted in 1883. \n\nCharles N. Emerson, practicing in 1844. \n\nJames W. Emery, practicing in 1858. \n\nJames Emery, practicing in 1869. \n\nWillard F. Estey, practicing in 1869. \n\n* Edward Everett, admitted in 1884. \nSamuel L. Fairfield, practicing in 1885. \nHenry F. Fuller, practicing in 1858. \nPhilip O. Farley, admitted in 1887. \nHenry B. Evans, admitted in 1889. \n\nC. W. Everett, practicing in 187s. \n\n* James K. Fagin, practicing in 1891. \nW. C. Farnsworth, practicing in 1863. \n\n* Frank A. Farnham, admitted in 1884. \nWm. H. Farrar, admitted Jan., 1848. \nJohn Farrie, jr., admitted Nov. 6, 1818. \nFrederick Farrow, practicing in 1890. \nTimothy Farrar, admitted May 7, 1844. \nSamuel I). Felker, admitted in 1887. \n\n\nAlexander C. Felton, admitted Oct. 24, \n\n1S53. \nA. J. Fenwick, admitted in 1889. \nHenry B. Fernald, admitted Jan. 17. \n\n1854. \nRobert Field, admitted April, 1805. \nAbnerC. Fish, admitted Jan. 24, 1866. \nAlbert G. Fisher, practicing in 1870. \nHerbert T. Fisher, practicing in 1890. \nHenry M. Fisk, admitted before 1807. \nJames H. Fisk, admitted May, 1880. \nBenjamin D. Fessenden, admitted April \n\n20, 1828. \nJustin Field, practicing in 1N37; dead. \nMansell B. Field admitted July 5, 1859. \nSidney A. Fisher, practicing in 1885. \nAmasa Fisk, practicing in 1813. \nJames W. Fenno, admitted April, 1831. \nJohn L. Fenton, admitted June 20, 1860. \nGeorge E. Filkins, practicing in 1877. \nGeorge Fitch, admitted Oct., 1834. \nAlfred W. Fitz, admitted in 1887. \nJames Fitzgerald, admitted in 1883. \nJames E. Flagg, admitted April 7, 1854. \nGeorge A. Flanders, admitted June 4, \n\n1861. \n*C. H. Fleming, practicing in 1890. \nJohn S. Flagg, admitted April, 1875. \nGeorge M. Flanders, practicing in 1859. \nJosiah Fletcher, admitted Jan. 25, 1863. \nJesse L. Floyd, admitted Feb., 1846. \nSamuel E. Floyd, admitted May 30, 1862 \nM. T. Foley, practicing in 1890. \nGeorge H. Folger, practicing in 1875. \nCharles S. Forbes, admitted in 1889. \nEdward Ford, practicing in 1889. \nJosiah Forsaith, practicing in 1822. \n*H. W. Folsom, admitted in 1892. \nArthur F. Foster, admitted in 1889. \nJohn L. Foster, admitted Oct. 6, 1869. \nGeorge Foster, admitted Jan. 28, 1815. \nGeorge S. Foster, admitted Oct., In:;:;. \nHenry A. Folsom, admitted June 6, 1H24. \nJonathen Fowle, jr., admitted Nov. 16, \n\n1814. \nErwin J. Francis, admitted June 13, 1881. \n\n\n*g-~byj \n\n\nZ^o^^Qj^ \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n625 \n\n\nFrancis E. Freeman, admitted Nov. 1, \n\n1848. \nEbertezer French, practicing in 1852. \nHenry F. French, admitted Sep. 5, 1860. \nRalph S. French, admitted in 1887. \nWm. H. French, practicing in 1890. \nGeorge S. Frost, admitted July, 1868. \nFrederic D. Fuller, admitted in 1888. \n\nB. A. G. Fuller, practicing in 1877. \nSamuel D. Fuller, admitted Apr. 27, \n\n1863. \nJoseph R. French, admitted Oct. 3, 1860. \nWm. Friar, practicing in 1874. \nAlexander E. Frye, admitted in 1889. \nWakefield G. Frye, admitted April 18, \n\n1887. \nClinton Gage, practicing in 1890. \nWilliam Gage, admitted Jan. 14, 1819. \nMatthew Gallagher, practicing in 1885. \nA. K. Garland, practicing in 1879. \nFrederic W. Galbraith, admitted June, \n\n1873. \nJ. J. Galligan, practicing in 1878. \n\nC. P. Gardiner, practicing in 1885. \nHenry Gardiner, practicing in 1868. \nBenjamin J. Gerrish, admitted Dec. 8, \n\n1855. \nSamuel Gerrish, admitted Feb. 18, 1842. \nFrank F. Gerry, practicing in 1890. \nWm. F. Gibson, practicing in 1882. \nWm. H. Gile, admitted June 14, 1869. \nAllen Gilman, admitted before 1807. \nEdward H. Gay, admitted in 1887. \nC. E. Gibson, practicing in 1885. \nCharles A. Gilday, admitted in 1884. \nEdward B. George, practicing in 1885. \nJohn H. George, practicing in 1887. \nJ. Francis Gill, practicing in 1873. \nG. Giles, practicing in 1875. \nJohn S. Gile, practicing in 1883. \nElisha Glidden, admitted April 15, 1819. \nE. A. Goddard, practicing in 1868. \nThomas Gold, admitted before 1807. \nJohn Goodenow, admitted May 5, 1842. \nRichard Goodenow, jr., admitted Jan. 11, \n\n1873. \nJohn H. Goodrich, practicing in 1890, \n79 \n\n\nH. Gardiner Gorham, admitted July, 1837. \nDavid Gould, admitted Nov. 5, 1846. \nIsaac Goodnow, practicing in L809. \nStephen Gould, admitted June, 1867. \n\nGockritz, practicing in 1874. \n\nSamuel H. Goodale, admitted March 18, \n\n1875. \nS. W. E. Goddard, practicing in 1866. \nHugh Goff, admitted August 4, 1891. \nNaphin Gray, admitted Jan. 21, 1874. \nMary A. Greene, admitted in 1888. \nO. H. Green, practicing in 1852. \nEdward A. Greeley, practicing in 1884. \nMartin Griffin, admitted Jan. 31, 1876. \nLemuel Grosvenor, admitted April, 1837. \nWalter B. Grant, admitted Nov. 10, 1891. \nL. A. Grant, admitted October 8, 1855. \nFranklin Graves, admitted March, 1870. \nT. E. Graves, practicing in 1871. \nThomas J. Gray, admitted July, 1873. \nWm. C. Gi-ay, admitted January 8, 1831. \nJ. A. Greene, admitted October 20, 1859. \nDaniel J. Greenough, admitted Feb. ,1836. \nElliott M. Grover, admitted Sept. 3, 1874. \nR. C. Gurney, admitted October 11, 1855. \nFrederick W. Grantham, admitted May \n\n25, 1844. \nHerman W. Green, admitted April 10, \n\n1857. \nOscar P. Green, admitted August, 1868. \nRichard W. Green, admitted Oct. 3, 1815. \nWalter C. Green, admitted July 18, 1823. \nCrawford S. Griffin, admitted June, 1876. \nFrederick W. Griffin, practicing in 1885. \n*James W. Grimes, practicing in 1891. \nA. Grout, practicing in 1861. \nHenry E. Gould, admitted in 1884. \nGeorge W. Gunnison, admitted Feb. 28, \n\n1887. \nJohn T. Haraa, admitted July 13, 1888. \nGeorge W. Hanson, admitted in 1886. \nCharles H. Hapgood, admitted May, \n\n1859. \nJohn H. Hapgood, admitted in 1888. \nGeorge Harding, practicing in 1882. \nWm. T. Haddock, admitted Oct. 4, 1822. \nJ. Jerome Hahn, admitted in 1889. \n\n\n626 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\n*E. J. Hadley, practicing in 1891. \nWilliam H. Haile, practicing in 1881. \nH. L. Hamilton, practicing in 1840. \nEllis G. Hall, admitted October 20, 1832. \nHenry Seth Hall, admitted Aug. 12, 1863. \nDavid J. Haggerty, admitted Nov. 1880. \nThomas E. Hale, admitted Jan., 1808. \nIvory Harmon, admitted March 10, 1843. \nGeorge F. Harriman, admitted July, 1876. \nWalter C. Harriman, practicing in 1884. \nJoseph Harrington, practicing in 1812. \nW. H. Harrington, practicing in 1890. \nB. N. Harris, practicing in 1864. \nDavid L. Harris, admitted before 1807 ; \n\ndead. \nHorace Harris, admitted May, 187.\"). \nWm. A. Harris, admitted Nov. 25, 1871. \nBenjamin Harvey, admitted before 1807. \nNapoleon Harvey, admitted in 1890. \nBenjamin Haskell, admitted July 30, 1846. \nWm. Haskell, admitted Dec. 7, 1848. \nGilbert E. Hood, admitted Jan. 15, 18.-),-). \nW. E. P. Haskell, admitted Aug. 9, 1802. \nIsaac Hastings, admitted July, 1808. \nJohn G. Hathewey, practicing in 1885. \nJudson Haycock, admitted July 6, 1858. \nThomas McCullock Hayes, admitted \n\nMay 4, 1864. \nGeorge W. Hayford, admitted Nov. , 1875. \nEdward P. Hayman, admitted before \n\n1807. \nCharles Heard, admitted March, 1813. \nThomas Heath, admitted before 1807. \nJohn B. Hebron, admitted Nov., 1881. \nGeorge L. Hemenway, admitted May, \n\n1878. \nJames E. Hayes, admitted Aug. 4, 1891. \nEdward F. Haynes, admitted in 1882. \nHenry P. Haynes, admitted Oct. 6, 1871. \nM. W. Hazen, practicing in 1885. \nCharles C. Haywood, practicing in 1871. \nFrederic Hemenway, admitted Sept., \n\n1872. \n*John E. Hanley, admitted Sept., 1890. \nIsaac M. Henshaw, practicing in 1875. \nGeorge H. Hoyt, admitted Nov. 29, 1858. \n\n\nWm. A. Herrick, admitted Oct. 1, 1856 \n\ndead. \nJohn Heurrot, admitted Sept. 30, 1856. \nJohn H. Higgins, admitted Sept. 16, 1860 \nGeorge R. Hildreth, admitted Oct. 9 \n\n1851. \nClement H. Hill, admitted Jan. 3, 1859. \nEdward L. Hill, admitted March 16, 1860 \nEugene W. Herndon, admitted June 19 \n\n1861. \nE. H. P. Herrick, practicing in 1878. \nJonathan Higgins, admitted Nov. 21, \n\n1862. \nJames Hendrie, practicing in 1870. \nE. M. Hewlett, practicing in 1881. \nCharles E. Hibbard, practicing in 1881. \nCharles C. Hibbard, admitted April 21, \n\n1869. \nFrank H. Hills, admitted Dec., 1873. \nNathaniel C. Hills, jr., admitted Sept., \n\n1834. \nEugene B. Hinckley, admitted June 14, \n\n1862. \nCharles Hitchcock, admitted April 22, \n\n1854. \nCharles H. Hoag, admitted Nov. 20, 1876. \nPeter Hitchcock, admitted before 1807. \nH. C. Hobart, admitted Jan. 23, 1845. \nGeorge L. Hobbs, admitted March, 1874. \nWm. Hobbs, practicing in 1858. \nWm. Hobson, admitted Oct. 9, 1873. \nAllin F. Hodgkins, admitted in 1883. \nSilas P. Holbrook, admitted Jan. 23, 1823. \nAugustus L. Holmes, admitted in 1888. \nEmery F. Holway, admitted July 25, \n\n1857. \nE. G. Hooke, admitted October 12, 1853. \nJohn Hooker, admitted before 1807. \nDaniel Hoit, admitted March 4, 1850. \nCharles Hoffman, practicing in 1875. \nSeth P. Holway, admitted Nov. 18, 1857. \nGeorge C. Hopkins, admitted July 12, \n\n1864. \nJ. D. Hopkins, admitted before 1807. \nIsaac R. How, admitted May 9, 1814. \nEdward S. Hovey, practicing in 1870. \n\n\nBiographical register. \n\n\n627 \n\n\nWm. L. Howard, admitted June 2, 1N74. \nCharles H. Hubbard, admitted Oct. 16, \n\n1857. \nDaniel J. Hubbard, admitted before 1807. \nHorace C. Hubbard, practicing in 1863. \nT. II. Hubbard, practicing in 1864. \nJay A. Hubbell, practicing in 1890. \nWm. Ilulin, admitted May 4, 1836. \nFrederic J. Hunt, practicing in 1885. \nThomas A. Hunt, admitted in 1853. \nLewis D. Hurbaugh, admitted Dec. 24, \n\n1862. \nJohn W. Hurlbert, admitted before 1807. \nHamilton Hutchins, admitted Oct., 1830. \nWinthrop Hutchinson, admitted June, \n\n1S73. \nWilliam Hutt, admitted before 1807. \nH. M. Hunter, practicing in 1875. \nWm. G. Hunter, admitted March 13, \n\n1832. \nTimothy Hurley, practicing in 1870. \nJosiah Huzzey, admitted Dec. 3, 1813. \nHorace Hunt, practicing in 1870. \nJohn E. Ide, admitted July, 1890. \nCharles M. Ingersoll, admitted Sept., 1815. \nJohn Ingersoll, admitted before 1807. \nAlonzo D. Jackson, admitted Jan. 15, \n\n1860. \nGerald G. P. Jackson, admitted Aug. 4, \n\n1891. \nGeorge Jaffrey, admitted Jan. 11, 1813. \nA. T. Ingalls, practicing in 1861. \nCharles W. Jaffrey, admitted July, 1838. \n*Charles W. Jones, admitted in 1888. \nElias James, admitted before 1807. \nThadeus I. Isham, admitted Aug. 9, 1880. \nC. L. Jackson, admitted before 1807. \nJ. F. Jackson, admitted July 7, 1847. \nH. A. W. James, admitted in 1888. \nHerbert R. Jennings, admitted in 1883. \nFrancello G. Jillson, admitted Feb. 25, \n\n1865. \nDavid J. M. A. Jewett, practicing in 1867. \nCharles G. Johnson, admitted Feb. 19, \n\n1858. \nMerritt C. Johnson, admitted Nov. 28, \n\n1855. \n\n\nMoses Johnson, admitted June 18, 1856. \nWells H. Johnson, admitted in 1883. \nB. F. Johonnott, admitted in 1883. \nFrederick W. Jones, admitted Oct. 18, \n\n1850. \nHenry Jones, admitted Aug. 2, 1865. \nJames T. Jones, practicing in 1885. \nErvin A. Johnes, admitted in 1882. \nDaniel U. Johnson, admitted Oct. 1851. \nHarrison Johnson, admitted May, 1847. \nWinfield C. Jordan, admitted June 19, \n\n1882. \nEdwin H. Jourdain, admitted in 1890. \nL. E. Josselyn, practicing in 1853. \nJ. R. Kane, admitted in 1884. \nJohn Kearns, practicing in 1885. \nJ. E. Keith, practicing in 1875. \nGeorge W. Kelley, admitted June, 1875. \nJohn Kelley, admitted Jan., 1829. \nWm. Kelley, practicing in 1890. \nElliott E. Kellogg, practicing in 1857. \nRobert B. Kendall, admitted April 29, \n\n1868. \nCharles N. Kent, admitted Dec. 8, 1866. \nGeorge Kent, admitted in 1817. \nJacob Q. Kettelle, practicing in 1842; \n\ndead. \nA. V. Kibby, practicing in 1887. \nReuben Kidder, admitted before 1807. \nSumner B. Kimball, admitted April, 1860. \nCyrus King, admitted before 1807. \nTyler B. King, admitted in 1882. \nSamuel S. Kingdon, admitted May 2(i, \n\n1868. \nAaron Kingsbury, admitted Sept., 1857. \nOrren S. Knapp, admitted August, 1865. \nArthurS. Knell, admitted in 1885. \nJ. E. Knight, admitted June 26, 1843. \nE. Kimball, practicing in 1863. \nJ. S. Kimball, practicing in 1840. \nJohn R. Kimball, practicing in 1859. \nSamuel Knapp, admitted March 23, 1861. \nWm. H. Knight, admitted April 25, 1874. \nAlfred E. Knapp, practicing in 1888. \nS. I. Kimball, practicing in 1861. \nC. C. Kinsley, practicing in 1866. \nJ. G. Kittite, admitted Jan., 1842. \n\n\n628 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nSamuel W. Knowles. admitted Oct. 16. \n\n1866. \nCharles M. Lamprey, practicing in 1884. \nDaniel S. Lamson, admitted Aug. 22, \n\n1 854. \nW. A. Lancaster, admitted in 1883. \nN. A. Langley, practicing in 1870. \nJames H. Lanman, admitted March 6, \n\n1844. \n\nD. H. Lanman, practicing in 1890. \nRufus Lapham, practicing in 1867. \n\nE. C. Lamed, practicing in 1870. \nThomas F. Larkin, practicing in 1885. \nAbbott W. Lawrence, practicing in 1890. \nEugene Lawrence, admitted Aug., 1847. \nFrancis Rives Lassiter, admitted in 1887. \nGeorge F. Lawton, practicing in 1878. \nIsaac B. Lawton, practicing in 1890. \nElisha Lee, admitted before 1807. \nJonathan Leavitt, admitted before 1807. \nOliver Leonard, admitted before 1807. \n\nJ. N. Lesser, admitted April 14, 1891. \nEdwin C. Lewis, admitted Dec. 8, 1891. \nFrank W. Lewis, admitted Dec. 16, 1872. \nJohn Licks, admitted before 1807. \nJohn D. Lewis, admitted in 1885. \nOrlando Leach, admitted Oct. 8, 1863. \nThomas Ledky, admitted May 6, 1869. \nJ. W. Le Barnes, admitted Aug. 17. 1864. \nThomas E. Leeds, admitted Jan. 12, 1863. \nCharles F. Lincoln, admitted in 1889. \nFrancis J. Lippitt, admitted Oct. 12, 1864. \nJohn L. Litton, admitted in 1887. \nHenry M. Lisle, practicing in 1860. \nWalter Litchfield, jr., admitted Oct. 10, \n\n1859. \nNathan W. Litchfield, admitted June 13, \n\n1876. \nWm. Littleton, practicing in 1888. \nW. Littlefield, practicing in 1859. \nR. T. Lombard, practicing in 1867. \nWm. Lon, or Lun, admitted Feb. 14, 1862. \nFrancis Loois, or Lovis, admitted March \n\n19, 1845. \nHenry C. Lord, admitted June 14, 1847. \nHenry D. Lord, admitted Sept., 1858. \nJoseph L. Lord, admitted Jan. 5, 1848. \n\n\nE. D. Loring, practicing in 1870. \nEdward Loring, admitted March, 1827. \nEleazer B. Loring, admitted Sept. 30, \n\n1871. \nEdward G. Loring, jr., practicing in 1S.~>7. \nThomas Lord, practicing in 1871. \nJoseph D. Loring, admitted Jan. 14, 1861. \nSamuel Lathrop, admitted before 1S07 ; \n\ndead. \nSidney V. Lowell, admitted July 22, 1862. \nEdmund R. Luce, admitted in 1889. \nClarence B. Lund, admitted Feb., 1880. \nMarcus M. Loud, admitted Oct. 9, 1879. \nJames Loughran, admitted July 15, 1852. \nMichael Lovell, admitted Jan., 1833. \nThomas D. Luce, practicing in 1865. \nObed B. Low, admitted March 8, 1847; \n\ndead. \nJohn Lovell, practicing in 1789. \nGeorge W. Lovell, practicing in 1882. \nEdward E. Lyman, admitted March IS, \n\n1861. \nJohn F. Lynch, admitted Jan. 20, 1891. \nRobert A. Lynch, admitted in 1889. \n* A. Selwyn Lynde, admitted Dec. 1 1 , \n\n1873. \n*W. A. Macleod, practicing in 1890. \nMichael McNamara, admitted Jan. 7, 1867. \nD. B. Magee, admitted December 2, 1878. \nC. L. Magenesker, practicing in 1871. \nMichael Maginnes, admitted Aug. 4, 1891 . \nThomas F. McGuire, admitted Oct. 28, \n\n1867. \nWm. S. McFarland, admitted Dec. 20, \n\n1872. \nFrank H. Mackintosh, admitted in 1886. \nWm. E. MacDonald, practicing in 1889. \nCharles A. Mackintosh, practicing in 1887. \nFrank H. Mackintosh, practicing in 1875. \nJeremiah J. Maloney, admitted in 1885. \nT. E. Major, practicing in 1885. \nM. B. Mansfield, practicing in 1868. \nJ. J. Marsh, admitted Sept. 1, 1844. \n*E. M. Marshall, practicing in 1891. \nFrancis Martin, admitted in 1883. \nWm. H. Martin, practicing in 1885. \nGeorge C. Mason, admitted Sept. 21, 1871. \n\n\nm \n\n\n's7 \n\n\nYA9L \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n629 \n\n\nJ. J. Malone, practicing in 1884 \nAlpheusA. Martin, admitted July 11, 1863. \nAlverdo Mason, practicing in 18(34. \nGeorge M. Mason, practicing in 1827. \nEdwin H.Mather, admitted June 24, 1S61. \nArthur Maxwell, admitted Feb. !), 1849. \n\n* Arthur A. Maxwell, admitted in 1886. \nJohn B. Mayo, admitted July 3, L868. \n\nC. C. McAllister, admitted Dec. 12, 1s.-).-). \nRufus W. Mason, practicing in 1885. \nJoseph May, admitted in 1813. \nCharles J. McCarthy, admitted ( )ct. 22, \n\n1862. \nThomas J. McCarthy, admitted May, 1879. \nWm. H. McCartney, admitted March 20, \n\n1856. \nSamuel W. McDavitt, practicing in 1881. \nFlavius J. McFarlan, admitted Nov. 3, \n\n1864. \nEdward McFarland, admitted in 1884. \nP. J. McGuire, practicing in 1885. \nWm. Mclntyre, admitted in 1890. \nWm. J. Mclntyre, practicing in 1890. \n\n* J. F. McKay, practicing in 1891. \nWm. A. McLeod, admitted Nov., 1880. \nE. W. McLure, admitted in 1882. \n\nG. F. Means, practicing in 1881. \nAlmon R. Meek, admitted April 9, 1860. \nClarence F. Mead, admitted Nov., 1875. \nMichael Meade, practicing in 1876. \nGeorge W. McConnell, practicing in 1885; \n\ndead. \nEdward L. McManus, admitted Jan. 20, \n\n1891. \nJames S. Mulvey, admitted in 1882. \nGeorge Merrill, admitted April 2, 1851. \nClement Meserve, admitted April 22, 1865. \nGeorge T. Metcalf, admitted Jan. 3, 1854. \nJonas M. Miles, admitted in, 1882. \nWm. F. Miles, admitted in 1882. \nLeon Millin, admitted before 1807. \nEzekiel L. Miller, admitted July 3, 1848. \nJohn C. Mills, practicing in 1875. \nFrank B. Mildram, admitted April 27,1870. \nAsa Messer, practicing in 1869. \n*E. C. Mitchell, practicing in 1887. \nJohn J. A. Moll, practicing in 1878. \n\n\n* George B. Moore, practicing in 1891. \nJonathan F. Moore, practicing in 1845. \nMark Moore, practicing in 1822. \n*C. C. Morgan, practicing in 1879. \nJoseph E. Moore, practicing in 1882. \n\nB. More}% practicing in 1871. \n\nJohn L. Morgan, admitted July 22, 1871. \nFrank E. Morgan, admitted June, 1S74. \nAshley C. Morrill, admitted April 16, 1865. \nFrank J. Morrill, admitted March, 1874. \nWm. F. Morrill, admitted July, 1864. \nWm. W. Morris, admitted June 21, 1872. \n\nC. Osgood Morse, practicing in 1869. \nElisha M. Morse, practicing date un- \nknown. \n\nGeorge A. Morse, practicing in 1867. \nGeorge W. Morse, admitted Oct. 3, 1855. \nJohn Wells Morse, admitted in 1887. \nMoses L. Morse, admitted July 7, 1863. \n.Sidney B. Morse, practicing in 1872. \nT. S. Morse, practicing in 1858. \nJacob C. Morse, practicing in 1885. \nFrederic G. Mosback, admitted Jan. 21, \n1871. \n\nFerdinand Moulton, admitted Dec 28, \n\n1846. \nPatrick E. Muldoon, admitted in 1884. \nP. E. Mulvey, practicing in 1885. \nWm. J. Munroe, admitted in 1882. \nFrederick W. Murphy, practicing in 1890. \nAlbert L. Murray, practicing in 1890. \nDavid P. Muzzey, admitted Nov. 19, 1859. \nWm. F. Myles, practicing in 1890. \nJoseph Nash, admitted before 1807 ; dead. \nJoseph Nash, admitted July 19, 1872. \nLonson Nash, admitted March, 1808. \nJames B. Nason, admitted Feb. 20, 1865. \nJohn Nason, admitted in 1883. \nWm. A. Nason, admitted June, 1873. \nRichard E. Newcomb, admitted before \n\n1807. \nWm. Newman, admitted March, 1856. \nFrank A. Nichols, admitted July 9, 1867. \nJ. L. Nichols, admitted July 24, 1866. \nMelville P. Nickerson, admitted Nov. 1874. \nThomas H. Niles, admitted July 17, 1874. \nDaniel Noble, admitted before 1827. \n\n\n>3° \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nJamesR. Newhall, admitted May 20, 1847. \nWm. Nichols, jr., admitted Dec., 1869. \nWm. P. Nickerson, practicing in 1885. \nFrank T. Noble, practicing in 1885. \nJohn A. Norman, admitted in 1886. \nA. F. Norris, practicing in 1859. \nBartholomew Noyes, admitted in 1882. \nFrank E. Noyes, admitted June 27, 1856. \nIsaac B. Noyes, admitted Nov., 1862. \nAmos Noyes, practicing in 1809. \nGeorge F. Noyes, admitted July, 1*47. \nM. P. Norton, practicing in 1866. \nF. Clarendon Oak, admitted Dec. 22, 1862. \nEugene O'Brien, admitted Jan. 20, 1891. \nGeorge F. Ormsby, admitted in 1885. \nIsaac Osgood, practicing in 1821. \nI. P. Osgood, practicing in 1848. \nLewis W. Osgood, practicing in 1864. \n\nE. B. O'Connor, practicing in 1873. \nJ. S. O'Gorman, practicing in 1877. \nW. Barry Owen, practicing in 1890. \n*John H. Packard, admitted Feb. 21, \n\n1881. \nCharles F. Paige, admitted March, 1876 ; \n\ndead. \nA. Warren Paine, admitted March, 1827. \nAsa W. Paine, admitted Nov. 10, 1817. \nJohn J. Paine, admitted Jan. 29, 1850. \nWm. Cushing Paine, admitted Jan. 8, \n\n1833. \nGeorge H. Palmer, practicing in 1873. \nMoses P. Parish, admitted Jan. 7, 1829. \nCharles T. Parker, admitted April, 1831. \nGeorge B. Parkinson, admitted July, 1879. \nCharles E. Parker, practicing in 1882. \nWm. Parker, admitted Nov. 26, 1814. \nClarence A. Parks, admitted Dec. 27, \n\n1876. \nWm. McCaine Parker, admitted May 4, \n\n1863. \nEbenezer Parsons, jr., admitted Oct. 7, \n\n1859. \nSolomon Parsons, practicing in 1890. \n\nF. C. Patch, practicing in 1888. \nJohn Patch, practicing in 1836. \n\nDaniel D. Patten, admitted Dec. 4, 1860. \nJohn F. Paul, admitted March 9, 1857. \n\n\nArthur L. Payne, admitted March 9, 1858. \nThomas E. Payson, admitted July, 1837. \nJames C. Peabody, admitted Jan. 17, \n\n1854. \nIsaac E. Pearl, admitted in 1885. \nBenjamin C. Perkins, admitted June 25, \n\n1850. \nDaniel Appleton White Perkins, admitted \n\nMarch 9, 1862. \nJoel Perham, practicing in 1886. \nJacob L. Perkins, admitted Aug. 9, 1845. \nJ. M. Perkins, practicing in 1882. \nAsa Peabody, practicing in 1811. \nTimothy Pearsons, admitted Aug., 1845. \nWm. H. Prince, admitted Feb., 1862. \nThomas Pember, admitted Oct. 5, 1858. \nFrank H. Pendergast, admitted in 1883. \nIsrael Perkins, admitted May 6, 1868. \n*F. A. Pelton, practicing in 1891. \nRobert W. Pearson, practicing in 1869. \nRoger N. Peirce, practicing in 1855. \nGeorge E. Perley, admitted in 1883. \nW. H Perrin, admitted April 10, 1849. \n^Chester M. Perry, practicing in 1890. \nEdward E. Pettee, admitted Sept. , 1880. \nNoah B. K. Pettingell, admitted in 1888. \nEdward K. Phillips, practicing in 1889. \nEdward W. Philbrick, admitted Jan. 20, \n\n1891. \nDavid W. Phipps, admitted in 1882. \nCharles W. Pickering, admitted July, \n\n1861. \nCharles H. Pierce, admitted about 1838. \nQuincy Pierce, admitted Nov., 1879. \nCharles E. Pike, admitted Oct. 10, 1849. \nWalter S. Pilkin, admitted June 29, 1880. \nJohn E. Pike, admitted June, 1823. \nWm. A. Pierce, admitted April 20, 1860. \nCarroll E. Pillsbury, practicing in 1890. \nWilson H. Perley, admitted in 1884. \nOrestes Pierce, practicing in 1881. \nEdward P. Pigeon, practicing in 1884. \nEbenezer F. Pillsbury, practicing in 1885. \nCharles E. Pindell, practicing in 1885. \nJoseph E. Pond, jr., admitted July 9, \n\n1872. \nBenjamin Poole, practicing in 1882. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n631 \n\n\nBenjamin Poole, jr., admitted May 22, \n\n1871. \nJames W. Pope, admitted Nov., 1ST!). \nCharles E. Poucher, practicing in 1882. \nEdmund P. Powers, admitted in 1883. \nJerome B. Porter, admitted Dec. 3, 1867. \nJohn W. Porter, admitted in 1886. \nNathaniel Porter, admitted before 1807. \nElam Porter, admitted March 7, 1865. \n\"x\"James R. Powers, practicing in 1891. \nSidney P. Pratt, admitted July, 1874. \nJ. W. Prentiss, practicing in 1887. \nJohn Prentiss, admitted before 1807 ; \n\ndead. \n\nA. A. Prescottt, practicing in 1867. \n\nB. L. Prince, admitted Oct., 1810. \nGordon Prince, practicing in 1881. \nJoseph Proctor, admitted before 1807. \nGeorge F. Putnam, admitted Dec. 16, \n\n1848. \nJohn Pynchon, admitted before 1807. \nJames W. Preston, admitted Nov. 2, 1860. \nSolon A. Putnam, admitted in 1887. \nGeorge Prescott, admitted July 22, 1875. \nF. A. Prescott, practicing in 1867. \nStephen Pynchon, admitted before 1807. \nJ. P. Quimby, practicing in 1877. \nWm. J. Quinn, practicing in 1881. \nCharles W. Rand, admitted April 21, \n\n1845. \nOtis G. Randall, practicing in 1863. \nJohn M. Raymond, admitted Oct., 1878. \nBenjamin Read, practicing in 1813. \nEdward Read, admitted Dec. 29, 1845. \n*C. F. Randall, practicing in 1891. \nJames M. Randall, admitted July, 1845. \nCharles A. Reed, admitted July, 1868. \nCharles C. Reed, admitted July 16, 1867. \nD. W. Reardon, practicing, in 1879. \nJ. Reddington, practicing in 1889. \nCharles Reed, practicing in 1859. \nDexter W. Reed, practicing in 1887. \nFrederic Reed, practicing in 1887. \n*George M. Reed, admitted Jan. 12, 1867. \nCharles F. Remick, admitted Nov. , 1855. \nFrank C. Remick, admitted Oct. 3, \n\n1865. \n\n\n*Moses I. Reuben, practicing in 1890. \n*Walter H. Reynolds, admitted in 1890. \nFitz H. Rice, admitted April 6, 1865. \nSilas H. Rich, admitted May 3, 1862. \nGeorge H. Remele, admitted Feb., 1876. \nJohn L. Rice, admitted Oct. 27, 1845. \nJames H. Rice, admitted date unknown. \nAbijah Richardson, admitted April 14, \n\n1862. \nHenry E. Richardson, practicing in \n\n1874. \nNathaniel Richardson, practicing in 1853. \nWm. K. Ritchie, practicing in 1876. \nDudley Roberts, admitted in 1884. \nJohn E. Risley, practicing in 1864. \nSanford H. Richardson, admitted Aug. \n\n13, 1862. \nWm. A. Richardson, admitted Jan. 29, \n\n1858. \n*H. S. Riley, practicing in 1891. \nA. W. Roberts, admitted March 8, 1826; \n\ndead. \n*H. A. Ringrose, practicing in 1891. \nDavid Roberts, practicing in 1863. \nGeorge R. Rivers, practicing in 1888. \nC. H. Rippey, practicing in 1887. \nFrank T. Roberts, admitted Feb. 3, 1891. \nFrank W. Roberts, admitted Dec. 17, \n\n1882. \n*John L. S. Roberts, practicing in 1890. \nLeonard G. Roberts, admitted in 1846. \nAlphonso J. Robinson, practicing in 1885. \nAlbert J. Robinson, admitted May 16, \n\n1863. \nDaniel Robinson, admitted in 1884. \n* Daniel C. Robinson, practicing in 1890. \nJohn C. Robinson, admitted Feb., 1875. \nJ. T. Robinson, practicing in 1860. \n\"\"\"Joseph H. Robinson, practicing in 1890. \nLelia B. Robinson, admitted in 1882. \nSawtelle L. Robinson, practicing in 1890. \nSylvanus W. Robinson, admitted March \n\n3, 1847. \nDaniel Rockwood, admitted July 8, 1814. \nNelson Robinson, practicing in 1860. \nJohn vS. Rock, admitted Sept. 14, 1867. \nHarry W. Robinson, practicing in 1887. \n\n\n632 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nL. J. Robinson, practicing in 1887. \nFrancis P. H. Rogers, admitted Sept. 15, \n\n185*. \nFrederick W. Rogers, admitted in 188(5. \nDaniel Rollins, admitted in 1883. \n\n* James W. Rollins, practicing in 1890. \nJosephP. Rogers, admitted April 2:3, 1862. \nJohn O'Donnovan Rossa, practicing in \n\n1881. \nEric E. Rosling, admitted in 1889. \nSamuel J. Ross, practicing in 1890. \nJohn A. Ross, admitted Nov., 1856. \nJ. N. Rowe, admitted before 1807. \nJoseph Rowe, admitted before 1807. \nHerbert S. P. Ruffin, admitted in 1884. \nJohn Rumney, practicing in 1863. \nJames E. Rowell, admitted Jan. 9, 1874. \nThomas E. Ruddell, admitted July 22, \n\n1873. \nJ. R. Russell, admitted Jan., 1842. \nHenry James Ryan, admitted in 1886. \n\nE. C. Saltmarsh, practicing in 1887. \nEdward W. Sanderson, admitted Sept. \n\n21, 1863. \nGeorge W. Sanderson, admitted May, \n\n1880. \n*Alpheus Sanford, practicing in 1890. \nAustin Sanford, admitted Feb. 9, 1872. \nJoseph B. Sanford, practicing in 1863. \nJoseph H. Sanford, practicing in 1870. \nStephen Sanford, admitted Nov. , 1880. \nBenjamin F. Sawyer, admitted Dec. 11, \n\n1847. \nB. Sanford, practicing in 1870. \nJamesO. Sargent, admitted April 38,1856. \nG. W. Saunderson, practicing in 1862. \nJames F. Savage, admitted June, 1876. \n\n* Thomas Savage, practicing in 1890. \nLuther D. Sawyer, admitted Sept. 27, \n\n1866. \nNathaniel Sawyer, admitted March, 1880. \n\nF. O. Sayles, practicing in 1849. \nGeorge S. Scammon, admitted April 5, \n\n1871. \nF. Scott, practicing in 1878. \nJohn B. Scott, admitted in 1887. \nFrank Seaman, admitted Nov., 1879. \n\n\nJames M. Seaman, admitted Oct., 1811. \nWin. M. Seavey, admitted Aug. 4, 1891. \nAddison J. Seaward, practicing in 1876. \nHenry D. Sedgwick, admitted Mar., 1808. \nHenry 1). Sedgwick, jr., admitted in 1884. \nJohn N. Shattuck, practicing in 18*7. \nElliott Shaw, admitted in 1890. \nMason Shaw, admitted before 1807. \nFrederick Z. Seymour, admitted August, \n\n1854. \nGeorge F. Seymour, admitted in 18S4. \nCharles B. Shackford, admitted March 5, \n\n1866. \nPatrick F. Shea, admitted Dec. 3, 1871. \nJ. George Sheltser, practicing in 1887. \nOrlando B. Shennon, admitted Jan. 22, \n\n1877. \nJ. B. Shedd, practicing in 1879. \nDennis R. Sheridan, admitted Jan. 1, 1**4. \nDaniel L. Shorey, admitted Sept. 13, 1854. \nThomas Skinner, practicing in 1804. \nJ. P. Sibley, practicing in 1890. \nWm. C. Silsbee, admitted April 12, 1875. \n*J. P. Silsby, practicing in 1885. \nSamuel Simmons, admitted in 1887. \nWm. A. Simmons, admitted May 12, 1869. \nWm. H. Simpson, admitted Feb. 8, i860. \nHenry M. Sisk, admitted before 1807. \nJames M. Sisk, admitted May, 1880. \nE. T. Slocum, practicing in 1875. \nGeorge L. Sleeper, admitted Nov. 14,1867. \nJohn W. Sleeper, admitted July, 1873. \nDavid A. Smith, practicing in 1840. \nEbenezer Smith, jr., admitted Oct., 1835; \n\ndead. \nCharles F. Smith, practicing in 1842. \nCharles E. Smith, admitted Mar. 22, 1867. \nCharles G. Smith, admitted Jan. 30, 1891. \n* Edward I. Smith, practicing in 1890. \nEmery B. Smith, admitted Jan. 2, 1866. \nFrancis P. Smith, admitted October, 1819. \nGeorge H. Smith, admitted June, 1875. \nGeorge M. Smith, admitted Sept. 16, 1878. \nHenry F. Smith, admitted Sept. 6, 1859. \nJohn W. Smith, admitted October, 1807; \n\ndead. \nJohnW. Smith, admitted June 27, I*:.;. \n\n\n/£S \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\nMatthew W. Smith, admitted July, 1856. \nThomas P. Smith, admitted Mar. 9, 1865. \nWm. Smith, admitted Nov. 1, 1847. \nWm. H. Smith, praeticing in 1853. \nWm. E. P. Smyth, admitted Dec., 1858. \nA. L. Soule, practicing in 1885. \n\n* L. W. Southgate, practicing in 1881. \nAlfred B. Spalding, admitted June, 1874. \nJoseph H. Spofford, admitted in 1887. \n\nA. F. Spencer, practicing in 1871. \nW. G. Sprague, practicing in 1866. \nCharles C. Springer, practicing in 1890. \nJames Sproat, admitted before 1807 ; \n\ndead. \nJames C. Squire, admitted Dec., 1859. \nG. G. Stacy, practicing in 1885. \nAndrew J. Stackpole, practicing in 1869. \n*A. G. Stanchfield, practicing in 1890. \nW. Standish, practicing in 1858. \nJohn Stark, admitted July 27, 1842. \n\n* Robert M. Stark, practicing in 1890. \nCharles R. Starr, admitted Dec. 11, 1869. \nWm. G. Stanwood, admitted March, 1832. \nJohn H. Staples, admitted May 3, 1860. \nGeorge C. Starkweather, practicing in \n\n1864. \n\n* Richard S. Stearns, practicing in 1890. \nThomas L. Steele, practicing in 1854. \nHenry C. Stephens, admitted Jan. 4, 1860. \n*George W. Stetson, admitted in 1890. \nElishaM. Stevens, admitted Jan. 20, 1891. \nHenry A. Stevens, practicing in 1887. \n\nD. K. Stevens, practicing in 1885. \nSolon Stevens, admitted October, 1808. \nW. J. Stevens, admitted July 17, 1851. \nPhilip J. Stewart, admitted in 1890. \nWm. B. C. Stickney, admitted Nov. 9, \n\n1870. \n\nE. C. Stimson, admitted in 1883. \nAmos Stoddard, admitted before 1807. \nJohn Stewart, practicing in 1812. \nElias M. Stillwell, admitted July, 1838. \nWm. H. Stevens, practicing in 1885. \nThomas Stevenson, practicing in 1823. \nS. Stoddard, jr., admitted before 1807. \nS. Stoddard, admitted April 12, 1821. \nEthan Stone, admitted before 1807. \n\n80 \n\n\nTheodore Strong, admitted before 1807. \nWright Strong, admitted before 1N0T. \nWm. G. Strout, admitted June, 1876. \nWm. C. Strong, admitted Jan. , 1848. \nWm. H. Stubbs, admitted Feb. 18, 1871. \nWm. T. Sturtevant, admitted in 1886. \n\nB. Sullivan, admitted before 1807. \n*Cornehus J. Sullivan, admitted in 1883. \n\nC. S. Sullivan, practicing in 1885. \nGeorge S. Sullivan, admitted October 13, \n\n1859. \n\nM. E. Sullivan, practicing in 1881. \n\nJames P. Sullivan, practicing in 1856. \n\nW. N. Swain, practicing in 1885. \n\nIsaac W. Swan, jr., admitted March, 1833. \n\nJohn E. Sundstrom, admitted in 1883. \n\nJ. B. Swazey, admitted June 15, 1873. \n\nCharles E. Sweeney, admitted Jan. 23, \n1866. \n\nEdwin Sweetser, admitted, date un- \nknown. \n\nE. M. Swett, practicing in 1869. \n\n*E. T. Swift, practicing in 1890. \n\n*C. A. Taber, practicing in 1891. \n\n* George R. Taber, practicing in 1890. \nWm. J. Taft, admitted in 1885. \n\n* Arthur E. Talbot, practicing m 1890. \nGeorge J. Taft, practicing in 1876. \nWm. B. Tanner, practicing in 1885. \nJohn T. Tasker, admitted August 7, 1845; \n\ndead. \nA. Birney Tasker, practicing in 1884. \nCharles J. Taylor, admitted April 11, 1842. \nGeorge H. Taylor, admitted April 21, \n\n1866. \nNathan A. Taylor, admitted Feb. , 1880. \n*George W. Tebbetts, admitted in 1890. \nTheodore U. Thacher, admitted October, \n\n1832. \nLawrence Taylor, admitted Oct. 17, 1865. \nWm. Tenney, admitted in 1811. \nH. B. Terry, practicing in 1871. \nFrederick C. Terry, practicing in 1887. \nGeorge C. Thatcher, admitted before 1807. \nEnoch W. Thayer, admitted before 1807. \nSamuel P. Thayer, admitted May 26, 1876. \nEugene D. Thomas, admitted in 1887. \n\n\n634 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\n* Miner R. Thomas, practicing in 1890. \nThomas Thomas, admitted before 1807. \n\n* James D. Thomson, admitted June, 1858. \nEzra Ripley Thayer, admitted Sept. 15, \n\n1881. \nFrank H. Thayer, admitted Jan. 20, 1891. \nLeviThaxter, admitted before 1807 ; dead. \nThomas M. Thompson, admitted April \n\n19, 1854. \n*Wm. V. Thompson, practicing in 1891. \nHenry Thorndike, admitted Oct., 1812. \nLarkin Thorndike, practicing in 1849. \nJohn M. Throkay, admitted Feb., 1881. \nThomas Toomey, admitted Oct. 14, 1857. \nJ. E. Tower, practicing in 1875. \nThomas B. Tiffany, admitted Feb., 1881. \nJohn Tig-he, admitted Jan. 10, 1852. \nCalvin Tilden, practicing in 1829. \nJ. P. Timmoney, practicing March 6, 1865. \nCharles B. Tilden, practicing in 1882. \nCalvin Torrey, practicing in 1862 ; dead. \nGideon E. Tower, admitted June, 1874. \nJames A. Tower, admitted May 23, 1871. \nCharles B. Towle, admitted Nov. 11, 1881. \nFrederick W. Tracy, admitted in 1886. \nHenry J. Train, practicing in 1878. \nAlexander Townsend, admitted July, \n\n1885. \nDavid Townsend, admitted March, 1815. \nE. F. Tracy, practicing in 1882. \nWm. L. Tucker, admitted Jan. 27, 1876. \nJoseph Tufts, admitted October, 1810. \nCharles H. Turner, admitted Feb. 25, \n\n1867. \n\"\"\"Charles W. Turner, practicing in 1890. \nWm. B. Turner, admitted in 1885. \nCharles A. Tweed, admitted Dec. 2, 1859. \nJohn C. Tyler, admitted April 9, 1864. \n*John F. Tyler, practicing in 1890. \nOthniel Tyler, admitted before 1807. \nEdward Upham, admitted before 1807. \nFrancis W. Upham, admitted Dec. 7, \n\n1844. \nJacob Upham, admitted before 1807. \nJoseph Vambn, admitted Jan. 22, 1857. \nM. Van Buren, practicing in 1882. \n*W. C Vanderlip, practicing in L882. \n\n\nWm. Vandervoort, practicing in 1882. \nG. Vandeutsch, admitted Oct. 1853. \n*Francis W. Vaughan, admitted Nov. 8, \n\n1861. \nG. E. Vaughan, admitted before 1807. \nJohn Vaughan, admitted in 1890. \nWarren H. Vinton, admitted April, 1852. \nHerman Vollmer, admitted March, is 7:!. \n*Samuel W. Wagner, admitted in 1890. \nThomas B. Wait, admitted Sept. 13, 1814. \nJohn C. Wait, admitted Aug. 4, 1891. \n*Wm. G. Waitt, practicing in 1890. \nJohn H. Wakefield, admitted Sept. 22, \n\n1852. \nCalvin Waldo, admitted before 1807. \nA. M. Walker, admitted before 1807. \nHenry A. Walker, practicing in 1880. \nWm. L. Walker, admitted Jan., 1850. \nJonathan Wales, admitted Nov. , 1875. \nJohn W. Walsh, admitted Nov., 1881. \n*Joseph L. Walsh, admitted in 1889. \n* J. P. J. Ward, practicing in 1890. \nThomas Walsh, jr., admitted before 1807. \nGeorge M. Ware, admitted Dec, 1879. \nJairus C. Ware, admitted July 21, 1826. \nLevi Warner, admitted Jan., 1859. \nSamuel L. Warner, admitted July 19, \n\n1853. \nJohn C. B. Ward, admitted Aug. 18, 1848. \nFrancis F. Warner, admitted June 16, \n\n1863. \nWalter J. Walsh, admitted April 12, 1844; \n\ndead. \nNabur Ware, admitted July 2. 1816. \nSamuel Warren, jr., practicing in ISO:!. \nEdward L. Washburn, admitted October, \n\n1878. \nNathan Washburn, admitted, date un- \nknown. \nCharles G. Washburn, admitted in 1887. \nHenry L. Washburn, practicing in 1875. \nMilton B. Warner, admitted Jan. 10, \n\n1891. \nReuben Washburn, admitted Jan., 1812. \nG. W. Washington, admitted in 1890. \nAsa Waterhouse, practicing in 1858. \nIsaac Waterhouse, admitted Feb. , 1879. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n635 \n\n\nIsaiah Waterhouse, admitted Jan. 29, \n\n1857. \nClarence Way, practicing in 1881. \nCharles H. Webb, admitted March 15, \n\n1S65. \nEdward E. Webster, admitted May, 1875. \nWm. Webster, admitted in 1883. \nMilton Wasson, admitted Dec., 1846. \nJesse Francis Waterman, admitted in \n\n1887. \nGeorge B. Waters, admitted April, 1874. \nSylvanus M. Wearley, admitted July 19, \n\n1853. \nGeorge C. Wheaton, admitted April 22, \n\n1859. \nArchibald J. Weaver, admitted Jan. 25, \n\n1809. \n\nE. W. Wedgwood, practicing in 1864. \nA. M. Wheehen, admitted Oct., 1802. \nJoseph A. Welch, admitted July 20, 1855. \nThomas Welch, jr., admitted in 1813. \nAbraham Weld, jr., admitted Oct. 6, 1812. \n\nF. H. Wellman, practicing in 187:!. \n\n* Charles W. Wells, practicing in 1890, \nS. P. Weld, practicing in 1885. \n*Edward J. Welsh, admitted June 15, \n\n1869. \nSamuel Went worth, admitted October 23, \n\n1851. \nAugustus L. West, admitted October 30, \n\n1844. \nEdward B. West, admitted July 27, 1849. \nPaul West, admitted June, 1875; dead. \nThomas West, admitted before 1807. \nNathan Weston, admitted Jan. 21, 1861 ; \n\ndead. \nJohn E. Wetherbee, admitted May 27, \n\n1874. \nEdward Webster, admitted July, 1 852. \nS. H. Wheeler, admitted before 1807. \nJohn H. Wheeler, admitted Oct. 19, \n\n1875. \nThomas M. Wheeler, admitted June, 1858. \nD. L. Wheeler, practicing in 1875. \nSamuel G. Wheeler, admitted March 15, \n\n1850. \n\n\nG. A. Wheelwright, admitted Dee. 1, 1846. \nGeorge H. Whitcomb, admitted in 1887. \nDewitt C. White, admitted Jan. 11, 1870. \nEdwin M. White, practicing in 1890. \nGuilford White, admitted Sept. 28, 1859. \nLuther L. White, admitted April! -1, 1857. \nThomas L. White, admitted Nov. 9, 1859. \nWillard White, admitted May 15, L875. \nWilliam A. White, admitted May, 1859. \nHamilton L. Whithead, admitted May, \n\n1880. \nHenry White, practicing in 1885. \nGeorge H. Whitman, practicing in 1837. \nWilliam White, admitted in 1813. \nWm. D. A. Whitman, admitted Aug. D, \n\n1855; dead. \n\nC. L. Whiting, practicing in 1890. \nDaniel Whiting, admitted Jan., 1814. \nJames C. Whiting, practicing in 1890. \nJohn Whiting, admitted before 1807. \nMason Whiting, admitted before 1807. \nHenry L. Whittemore, practicing in 1890. \nHugh V. Whoriskey, practicing in 1881. \nRobert Wiener, admitted in 1888. \n\nF. N. Wier, practicing in 1888. \n*E. R. Wiggin, practicing in 1891. \nJohn H. Wiggin, practicing in 1862. \nWm. Whiting, admitted before 1807; \n\ndead. \nWm. P. Whiting, practicing in 1881. \nJ. H. Whitney, practicing in 1861. \n\nD. F. Whittle, admitted Oct. 13, 1849. \nJames Whittle, practicing in 1828. \n\nR. S. Whittier, practicing in 1869. \n\n* Henry L. Whittlesey, practicing in 1887. \nW. W. Wilkins, practicing in 1877. \nAbel Whitney, admitted July 1, 1828. \nManassah H. Whitney, admitted in 1886. \nJ. A. L. Whittier, practicing in 1885. \nAshton R. Willard, admitted in 1887. \nSidney A. Willard, admitted March 8, \n\n1853. \n\n* Charles A. Williams, practicing in 1890. \nCharles M. Williams, admitted Feb. 4, \n\n1861. \nDaniel Williams, practicing in 1891. \n\n\n636 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nEphraim Williams, admitted before 1807. \nLaban Wheaton, admitted before 1807; \n\ndead. \nJoseph M. Wightman, admitted Jan., \n\n187:.. \nEdward B. Wildes, practicing in 1873. \nCharles Williams, admitted Jan. 25, 1861. \nFrancis B. Williams, admitted March, \n\n18-26. \nCharles H. S. Williams, admitted April \n\n15, 1879. \nHoratio M. Willis, practicing in 1821. \nMasa Willis, admitted September, 1814. \nArchelaus Wilson, admitted March 4, \n\n1852. \nCharles S. Wilson, practicing in 1882. \nThomas Wilson, practicing in 1885. \nSamuel S. Wilson, admitted Oct. 9, 1865. \n* Henry Winn, practicing in 1890. \nWm. W. Winthrop, admitted Jan. 6, 1854. \nCourtland Wood, admitted June, 1873. \nI )avidW. Wood, admitted March 18, 1862. \nJohn J. Winn, admitted in 1882. \nWm. C. Whitten, practicing in 1881. \nWm. M. Wilson, practicing in 1800. \nBenjamin Wolcott, admitted June 5, 1874. \nCharles F. Wolcott, admitted June 21, \n\n1861; dead. \nGeorge Willard Wood, practicing in 1885. \nHenry C. Wood, practicing in 1882. \nJonathan Woodbrige, admitted before \n\n1807. \n\n\nJoseph Woodbridge, admitted before 1807. \nCharles H. Woodbury, admitted Jan. 7, \n\n1862. \nFrank G. Woodbury, admitted Nov. 2, \n\n1874. \nJesse R. Woodbury, admitted Oct. 12, \n\n1859. \nA. Woodman, admitted May 23, 1844. \nCharles Woodman, admitted July 16, \n\n1816. \nJohn S. Woodman, admitted Dec. 29, \n\n1855. \nJohn R. Worcestei, admitted Feb. 12, \n\n1853. \nH. N. Worthen, practicing in 1877. \nAlbert J. Wright, jr., admitted April 9, \n\n1862. \nRobert W. Wright, admitted October 8, \n\n1846. \n* Ferdinand A. Wyman, admitted in 1886. \nWm. H. Woodbury, admitted Jan. 22, \n\n1859. \nCharles C. Woodman, practicing in 1850. \nJohn S. Woods, practicing in 1883. \nFranklin Woodside, practicing in 1859; \n\ndead. \nBenjamin W. Wooster, admitted June, \n\n1876. \nGeorge C. Yeaton, practicing in 1859. \nEphraim Wood Young, admitted Oct. 15, \n\n1856. \nEneas Yamada, practicing in 1876. \n\n\nADDENDA. \n\n\nCharles Jackson, son of Jonathan Jackson, was born in Newburyport, Mass., May \n81, 1 7 7 .\"> , and graduated at Harvard in 1793. He studied law with Theophilus Par- \nsons and was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1796. In 1803 he removed to \nBoston and was associated in business with Samuel Hubbard. He was appointed to \nthe bench of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1813 and continued in office until his \nresignation in 1824. He died in Boston December 13, 1855. \n\nGeorge Bancroft was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in April 1842, and \npracticed many years in Boston. \n\nH. L. Judson was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875. \n\nGeorge Abbott James graduated at the Harvard Law School in 186b. He was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1863, and is now at the bar. \n\nElbriuge G. Kimball graduated at Harvard in 1877 and was admitted to the Suf- \nfolk bar in July 1880. \n\nCharles I. Adams graduated at Dartmouth in 1852 and at the Harvard Law School \nin 1858. He practiced at the Suffolk bar and died in 1862. \n\nGeorge C. Adams was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar. \n\nCrawford C. Allen was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1886. \n\nBenjamin Halsey Andrews graduated at Harvard in 1830 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 183H. He practiced at the Suffolk bar and died in 1847. \n\nJohn Atwood was at the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\n1 [erbert L. Baker was at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar. \n\nJacob N. Baker was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 30, 1867. \n\nEbenezer Hunt Beckford graduated at Harvard in 1805 and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in March, 1808. He died in 1869. \n\nEdward Irving Bigelow graduated at Harvard in 1848 and was a member of the \nSuffolk bar. He died in 1854. \n\nEdward Darley Borr, son of Edward Darley Boit, graduated at Harvard in 1863 \nand was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 16, 1866. \n\nJoseph Balch Braman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868 and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year. \n\nIra H. Bronson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. \n\nEdward King Buttrick graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard Law \nSchool in 1854, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1856. \n\nDavid Lee Child was born in West Boylston, Mass., July 8, li04, and graduated \nat Harvard in is IT. He was for a term sub-master in the Boston Latin School and \nsecretary of legation in Lisbon about 1820. He studied law with his uncle, Tyler \n81 \n\n\n638 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nBigelow, in Watertown, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1828. \nHe went to Belgium in 1836 to study the beet sugar industry and was the first manu- \nfacturer of that article in the United States. He was afterwards earnestly engaged in \nthe anti-slavery movement, and at one time, with his wife, edited the Anti-Slavery \nStandard in New York. He married Lydia Maria Francis and died in Wayland, \nMass., September 18, 1874. \n\nJohn J. Collins was born in Boston August 28, 1862, and was educated at the pub- \nlic schools and at the College of the Hob' Cross. He studied law at the Boston Uni- \nversity Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He is now at the \nbar. \n\nCharles Francis Donnelly was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1858, and \nis now at the bar. \n\nDean Dudley was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 25, 1884. \n\nJoseph Dudley, son of Governor Thomas Dudley, was born in Roxbury, Mass., \nJuly 23, 1647, and graduated at Harvard in 1665. He studied theology, but aban- \ndoning it for a political career, was a representative from 1673 to 1675, assistant from \n1676 to 1685, and from 1677 to 1681 one of the commissioners of the United Colonies \nof Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Haven. He was appointed by \nJames the Second president of New England in 1685 and in 1687 chief justice of the \nSupreme Court, but was arrested with Andros at the time of the Revolution of 1688 \nand sent to England. He was appointed chief justice of New York in 1690 and was \nafterwards deputy governor for eight years of the Isle of Wight. In 1701 he was \nchosen a member of Parliament from Newton and from 1702 to 1715 was governor of \nMassachusetts. He died in Roxbury April 2, 1720. \n\nPail Dudley, son of Joseph Dudley, was born September 3, 1675, and graduated \nat Harvard in 1690. He studied law at the Temple in London and in 1702 was made \nattorncv-general of Massachusetts. In 1718 he was appointed an associate justice \nof the Superior Court and in 1745 chief justice. He was the founder of the Dudleian \nLectures at Harvard, for which he made a bequest. He died January 25, 1752. \n\nWilder Dwight was born in Springfield, Mass., April 23, 1833, and graduated at \nHarvard in 1853. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855 and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar September 9, 1856. He practiced in Boston until he was \nappointed major of the Second Massachusetts Regiment May 24, 1861. He was taken \nprisoner at Winchester May 25. 1862, and on the 13th of June in that year was made \nlieutenant-colonel. He was wounded at the battle of Antietam and died of his \nwounds September 19, 1862. \n\nAndrew Dunlap was born in Salem, Mass., in 1794 and graduated at Harvard in \n1813. He was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1818, but removed to Boston \nin 1820, where he became distinguished at the bar. He was many years United States \nattorney for the District of Massachusetts, and died in Salem in 1835. \n\nC. J. Edgerly was at the Suffolk bar in 1885. \n\nHenry F. Fallon was at the Suffolk bar in 1858. \n\nAlfred Dwight Foster graduated at Harvard in 1S73 and was admitted to the \nSuffolk bar in April, 1S75. He is now at the bar. \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 639 \n\nCharles Edwin Forbes was born in West Bridgewater, Mass., August 25, 1795, \nand graduated at Brown University in 1815. He studied law in Enfield and North- \nampton, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in 181N. He was county attorney in \nHampshire county, a member of the Legislature, judge of the Common Pleas Court \nfrom 1847 to 1848 and a judge of the Supreme Court in 1848. After one year's serv- \nice in the latter court he resigned. He died in Northampton February 13, 1881. \n\nHenry C. Gardiner was at the Suffolk bar in 1857. \n\nFrank E. H. Gary was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889 and is now at the bar. \n\nRobert Gordon graduated at Harvard in 1S43 and was at the Suffolk bar in ls.\"t;. \n\nBenjamin Gorham was at the Suffolk bar in 1849. \n\nPeter S. Grasscup was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1873. \n\nMelbourne Green was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1867. \n\nElton Hutchinson was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1ST:!. \n\nErford C. Hunter was at the Suffolk bar in 1876. \n\nP. 0. Larkin was at the Suffolk bar in 1874. \n\nGeorge Gardner Lowell was at the Suffolk bar in 1882. \n\nH. M. McNem vra was at the Suffolk bar in 1872. \n\nGeorge Richards Minot was born in Boston December 28, 1758, and graduated at \nHarvard in 177s. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in lis] and attained distinc- \ntion at the bar. He was clerk of the House of Representatives from 1782 to 1791, \nand secretary of the convention which adopted the Constitution. He was appointed \njudge of probate for Suffolk county in 1792 and held the office until his death. In \n1800 he was appointed chief justice of the County Court of Common Pleas, and in \nthe same year a judge of the \" Municipal Court 111 the Town of Boston.\" He died \nin Boston January 2, 1802. \n\nTimothy O'Connor was at the Suffolk bar in 1864. \n\nNathaniel A. Parker was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 16, 1858. \n\nJacob C. Patten was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in October, 1887, \nand practiced at the Suffolk bar. \n\nCharles Frederick Payne was at the Suffolk bar in 1867. \n\nWilliam H. Peirce was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1862. \n\nIvory N. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 9, 18**1. \n\nFrederick Robinson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1836. \n\nOdin B. Roberts was admitted to the Suffolk bar January '20, 1891, and is now at \nthe bar. \n\nEdward W. Sanborn was at the Suffolk bar in 1887. \n\nLemuel Shaw, jr., son of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, was born in Boston in 1829, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1849. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in \n1852 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 5 in that year. He was associated in \nbusiness with John Jones Clarke and was largely engaged in the management of \ntrust estates. He was a trustee of the Boston Library, the Boston Atheneum and \nthe Boston Provident Institution for Savings, and President of the Boott Manufactur- \ning Company and the Rockport Granite Company. He died unmarried in Boston \nMay 6, 1884. \n\nPhilip J. Stewart was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. \n\n\n64o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nFrederick M. Stone was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887 and is now at the \nbar. \n\nFrederick W. Strong was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 1, 1875. \n\nWilliam Hyslop Sumner, son of Increase Sumner, was born in Dorchester, Mass., \nJuly 4, 1780, and graduated at Harvard in 1799. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar \nin July, 1802, and practiced in Boston. He was a representative from 1808 to 1819, \nand adjutant-general from 1818 to 1834. He died at Jamaica Plain, now a part of \nBoston, October 24, 1861. \n\nCharles Townsend graduated at Harvard in 1810 and was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar January 19, 1814. He died in 1816. \n\nFrancis Tufts graduated at Harvard in 1849 and at the Harvard Law School in \n1851. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 14, 1857. \n\nHenry C. Waldron was at the Suffolk bar in 1883. \n\nFrancis W. Waldo was at the Suffolk bar in 1814 \n\nJohn C. B. Ward was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 18, 1848. \n\nJohn F. Ward was at the Suffolk bar in 1879. \n\nC. L. Watson was at the Suffolk bar in 1860. \n\nSmith R. D. Weston was at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar. \n\nWilliam N. White was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880. \n\nS. M. Yearly was at the Suffolk bar in 1853. \n\nNathaniel Morton Davis, son of William and Rebecca (Morton) Davis, was born \nin Plymouth, Mass., in 1785 and graduated at Harvard in 1804. He was admitted to \nthe Suffolk bar in January, 1808, and established himself in his native town. He was \nrepeatedlv representative and senator and was a member of the Executive Council \nwhile John Davis was governor. In earlier life he was a major in the militia and \npresident of the Court of Sessions. He married in 1817 Harriet Lazell, daughter of \nNahum and Nabby (Lazell) Mitchell of East Bridgewater, and died in Boston July 29, \n1848. \n\nThomas Hopkinson was born in New Sharon, Maine, August 25, 1804, and grad- \nuated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law with Lawrence & Glidden in Lowell, and \nwas admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1833. He was a representative from Lowell in \n1838 and 1847, senator in 1845, and in 1848 was appointed a judge on the bench of \nthe Common Pleas Court. In 1«49 he resigned and was made president of the Bos- \nton and Worcester Railroad Company. He died in Cambridge November 17, 1856. \n\nHarvey N. Collison was born in Boston March 22, 1860. He received his early \neducation at the public schools and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He graduated at \nthe Boston University Law School in 1884 and was admitted to the bar in that year. \nHe was a member of the Boston Common Council from Ward Six in 1883-84-8.\"), and \na representative in 1887-88. In 1887 he was chosen a member of the Boston School \nBoard and he has held and is holding other offices, which manifest the confidence of \nhis fellow citizens in his ability and character. \n\nWilliam Gray, son of William Gray, was born in Boston December 20, 1810. He \nreceived his early education at the public schools and at the Boston Latin School, \nand graduated at Harvard in 1829, the third in rank in a class which included such \nmen as Joseph Angier, Elbridge Gerry Austin, George Tyler Bigelow, William Brig- \n\n\n// /// \n\n\nC42/SI \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 641 \n\nham, William Henry Charming, James Freeman Clarke, Francis B. Crowninshield, \nBenjamin R. Curtis, George T. Davis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel May, Benja- \nmin Pierce, Chandler Robbins, Edward D. Sohier and Joshua Holyoke Ward. Prob- \nably no more distinguished class ever graduated from Harvard, (hit of a class of \nfifty-nine the writer is familiar with the career of twenty-nine. Mr. Gray was ad- \nmitted to the bar in Middlesex county in October, 1834, and in 1835, on the removal \nof Peleg Sprague in that year from Maine to Boston, he became associated with him \nin business. The connection continued until Mr. Sprague was appointed, in 1841, \njudge of the United States District Court. In 1848 he retired from the law and be- \ncame interested in cotton manufacturing. In 1866 he was appointed a commissioner \non the annexation of Roxbury to Boston, and in the same year chairman of the com- \nmittee to relieve the wants of those suffering from the great Portland fire. He served \nas chairman of a similar committee after the Boston fire of 1872, and was always \nready with sympathy and practical aid for the suffering poor. lie was president of \nthe Harvard Alumni Association at its formation, and many years an overseer of \nthe college. As a manufacturer he was the first to adopt the ten hour system, and at \nthe formation of the First Massachusetts Regiment in 1861 he gave ten thousand dol- \nlars for the relief of the families of its soldiers. He married, October 16, L834, Sarah \nFrances, daughter of Caleb and Ann(Greely) Coring, of Boston. He died in Boston \nFebruary 11, 1892. \n\nLaban Wheaton, son of Dr. George and Elizabeth (Morey) Wheaton, was born in \nthat part of Norton, Mass., which is now Mansfield, March 13, 1 7r»4. He was edu- \ncated at the Wrentham Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1774. He \ntaught school at Norton and then studied divinity with Rev. Abiel Leonard, of \nWoodstock, Conn. In May, 1775, he was appointed chaplain in the army, and in \n1776 began to preach, occupying pulpits at various times in Woodstock, Oxford, \nWalpole, Dedham, Portsmouth and Boston. With failing health he abandoned the \nministry and engaged for a time in business in Watertown. In 1785 he began the \nstudy of law in Watertown and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1788. He at once \nestablished himself in Norton and practiced successfully in the courts of Worcester, \nNorfolk, Bristol, Suffolk and Plymouth counties. He was a representative to the \nGeneral Court seven years, eight years a member of Congress, and in 1810 was ap- \npointed chief justice of the County Court of Common Pleas. In 1819 he was ap- \npointed chief justice of the Court of Sessions, and retired from active business in \n1827. He married in 1794 Fanny, daughter of Samuel Morey, of Norton, and died \nMarch 28, 1846. \n\nHorace E. Smith referred toon page 584, has been dean of the Albany Law School, \nand is now in August, 1893, living in Johnstown, N. V. \n\nWilliam Wirt Warren, son of William and Abigail (Lyman) Warren, was born in \nBrighton, Mass., February 27, 1833, and graduated at Harvard in 1854. In 1856 he \ngraduated at the Harvard Law School and after further study in the office of John \nPhelps Putnam of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 18, 1858. From \n1856 to 1866 he was town clerk of Brighton, and in 1865 was appointed by President \nJohnson collector of internal revenue for the Seventh Massachusetts District. He \nwas a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868 and State senator in \n1870. In 1874 he was chosen representative to Congress and served one term, being \n\n\n642 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\ndefeated in 1876 by his Republican opponent, William Claflin. He was a trustee of \nthe Public Library in Brighton from its organization in 1804, until on the annexation \nof that town to Boston it became a branch of the Boston Public Library. He was a \ntrustee of the Brighton Savings Bank, a director in the Brighton Butchers' Slaugh- \ntering and Melting Association, a member of the Bethesda Lodge of Masons and an \nactive worker in the Unitarian ranks. He began practice in Boston and in 1862 \nformed a partnership with his classmate, Thomas P. Proctor, which continued until \nhis death, enjoying a large and lucrative practice. He delivered an address in 1876 \nto the graduating class of the Georgetown Law School and in 1N77 delivered the \nFourth of July oration before the city government of Boston. He married, October \n(i, 1859, Mary L. Adams, of Newton, and died in the Brighton District of Boston May \n2, 1880. \n\nJohn Summerfield Brayton, son of Israel and Keziah (Anthony) Bravton, was \nborn in Swansea, Mass., December 3, 1826, and graduated at Brown University in \n1851, from which institution he received in 1893, a degree of Doctor of Laws. He \nstudied law at the Harvard Law .School and in the office of Eliot & Pitman, of New \nBedford, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar upon examination by Judge Merrick of \nthe Supreme Judicial Court August 8, 185:!. ( )n the organization of the city govern- \nment of Fall River, where he had established himself in his profession, he was chosen \ncity solicitor, and held that office from 1854 to 1857 when he resigned. In 1856 he \nwas chosen clerk of the courts of Bristol county, and was selectman in 1861, serving \nuntil his resignation in 1864. He then associated himself in the practice of law with \nJames M. Morton, now an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, under the \nfirm name of Brayton & Morton, but relinquished practice in 1868. He was a mem- \nber of the Executive Council in 1866-67-68-70 and '80, and has been president of the \nFirst National Bank of Fall River since its organization in lN(i4. He is also presi- \ndent of the B. M. C. Durfee Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and of several manu- \nfacturing corporations in Fall River. He married, November 27, 1855, Sarah Jane, \ndaughter of Enoch and Rebecca (Williams) Tinkham, of Middleboro, Mass., and re- \nsides in Fall River. \n\nMelvin O. Adams is the son of Joseph and Dolly (Whitney) Adams, and was born \nin Ashburnham, Mass., November 7, 1850. He attended the public schools of his \nnative town and Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, N. H., and graduated at Dart- \nmouth College in 1871. After leaving college he taught school in Fitchburg, Mass., \nfor a time, and while in that town studied law in the office of Amasa Norcross. In \n1*74 he came to Boston and attended lectures at the Boston University Law School, \nfrom which institution he was graduated m 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk \nbar in 1875, and was soon after appointed assistant of Oliver Stevens, district at- \ntorney, continuing in that position until 1886. The familiarity he acquired while in \nthat office with the methods of the government in dealing with persons charged with \noffences against criminal law, gave him a position at the bar which it would have \nbeen difficult to otherwise obtain. To his reputation as a lawyer thus attained was \nundoubtedly due his engagement as associate counsel in the defense of Miss Borden, \nindicted for the murder of her father and stepmother, who, after one of the most \nnotable criminal trials in the Commonwealth, was acquitted of the charge. After re- \nsigning his position as assistant district attorney, he became associated in business \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 643 \n\nwith Augustus Russ, and continued with him until the death of Mr. Russ in the sum- \nmer of 1892. lie is a Republican in politics, and in 1890 was a member of the staff \nof Governor Brackett with the rank of colonel. He is now in active practice, follow- \nthe paths of his profession with a fidelity and zeal which give promise of a brilliant \ncareer. Outside of his profession he is well known in business and literary circles, \nand in his connection with these is president of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn \nRailroad, and of the General Alumni Association of Dartmouth College He mar- \nried Mary Colony in Fitchburg in INT.\"), and lives in Boston. \n\nSamuel Leland Powers, son of Lamed and Ruby (Barton) Bowers, was born in \nCornish, X. II., October 26, 1848, ami graduated in 1874 at Dartmouth College, where \nhe won the Lockwood prizes both in rhetoric and elocution. He is of English descent, \nhis ancestors having come from England to Salem in 1650. He studied law in the \noffice of W. W. Bailey, of Nashua, N. H., at the law school of the University of New \nYork, and in the office of Very & Gaskell, of Worcester, where he was admitted to \nthe bar November 17, 1875. He began practice in Boston in January, 1876, in part- \nnership with Samuel W. McCall, now a member of Congress, remaining associated with \nhim until 1877, after which he continued in general practice until 1887, when, after \ndevoting himself for some time to the study of electrical science, he decided to \nmake a specialty of law in its application to electrical matters. He was one of the \nfirst attorneys in the country to make a specialty of this branch of the law. During \nthe last six years he has been almost exclusively employed in representing corpora- \ntions and individuals engaged in electrical operations, not only in Massachusetts, but \nalso in various other parts of the country. He is at present general counsel for the \nNew England Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Gamewell Fire Alarm Tele- \ngraph Company and other large corporations in a similar line of business. He is \nalso a director in several electric railway and manufacturing corporations. Mr. Bow- \ners has resided in Newton since 1882, and has taken an active part in social and \npolitical affairs. He was for a number of years a member of the city government of \nthat city, the presiding officer of the Council, and a member of the School Board. He \nwas a prominent candidate for Congress in the Republican Congressional Convention \nin 1888, was one of the founders of the Newton Club, and is the first vice-president \nof that organization. He is also a member of the University Club of Boston. He \nmarried in lsTs Eva, daughter of Hon. Prince S. Crowell, of Dennis, Mass., and has \none son, Leland, born July 1, 1890. \n\nSamuel Ripley Townsend, son of Samuel and Abigail Townsend, was born in \nWaltham, Mass., April 10, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. After leaving \ncollege he taught the High School in Plymouth two or three years, and then engaged \nin mercantile business in Boston until 1840, when he became principal of the Bristol \nAcademy, and continued in that position until 1849. He studied law with Horatio \nPratt, of Taunton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1850. He estab- \nlished himself in Taunton, and in is.\"):', was chosen treasurer of Bristol county, which \noffice he held three years. In 1858 he was appointed judge of the Taunton Police \nCourt, and served until a new arrangement of the courts was made by law. He was \na member of the City Council in 1873-74-75, and city solicitor 111 1882. He married. \nJune 29, 1837, Mary Snow Percival, and died September 27, 1887. \n\n\n6±\\. HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nDavid Leon \\ri> Barnes, son of Rev. David and Rachel (Leonard) Barnes, of Scit- \nuate, Mass., graduated at Harvard in 1780. He studied law with Daniel Leonard \nand James Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1783. He practiced law \nin Taunton from 1783 to 1793, when he removed to Rhode Island, where he was ap- \npointed by Jefferson judge of the United States District Court. He married Joanna \nRussell, and died in 1812. \n\nHenry Goodwin, son of Benjamin and Hannah (Lebaron) Goodwin, was born in \nBoston, and graduated at Harvard in 1778. He studied law in Boston with William \nTudor, and after admission to the bar settled in Taunton. He afterwards removed \nto Newport, R. I., and became attorney-general of Rhode Island. He married \nMary, daughter of William Bradford, of Bristol, R. I., and died at Newport, May 31, \nL789. \n\nStephen Gilman, son of .Samuel and Sarah (Goodhue) Gilman, was born in Mere- \ndith Village, N. H., September 28, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He \nstudied law in New York city in the office of Man & Parsons, and was admitted to \nthe New York bar November 24, 1871. He afterwards came to Boston and was ad- \nmitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1879. He was trial justice in Essex county twelve \nyears, having a residence in Lynnfield in that county with a law office in Boston. \nHe married first in New York, March 12, 1870, Lucy A. Davis, and second at Lynn- \nfield, August 7, 1881, Esther W. Mansfield. \n\nMacon B. Allen was one of the earliest lawyers of African descent at the Suffolk \nbar. He was admitted to that bar May 9, 1845, and has been dead some years. \n\nAaron Alfieri Bradley was of African descent. He was a frequenter of the \ncourts between 1850 and 1860 and managed cases by special authority, but was never \nadmitted to the bar. He has been dead some years. \n\nRichard Ashley Peirce was born in Taunton, Mass., September 7, 1834, and was \nfor a time a member of the Suffolk bar. He was a representative in I860 and 1861, \nand died in New Bedford, August 3, 1869, \n\nRichard Sullivan Fay, of whom a short sketch appears on page 125, has a more \nextended memoir, with a portrait, in the second volume, to which the reader is \nreferred. \n\nJohn Freeman Colby was descended from Anthony Colby, who appeared in Cam- \nbridge in 1632, and afterwards settled in that part of Salisbury which is now Ames- \nbury. He was the son of John and Mary H. (Holt) Colby, and was born in Benning- \nton, N. H., March 3, 1834. Early thrown on his own resources, he saved bv industry \nand economy sufficient money for a limited school education. At the age of seven- \nteen he began to teach school, and the means secured by teaching enabled him to en- \nter Dartmouth College in 1855, having gone through his preparatory studies at Mount \nVernon and Reed's Ferry in his native State, and as a private pupil of Hon. George \nStevens, of Lowell, Mass. During his college course he taught school each winter, \nand graduated in 1859. After leaving college he became principal of the Stetson High \nSchool in Randolph, Mass., and in 1864 entered as a student the law office of Ranney \n& Morse in Boston, He was admitted to the Suffolk bar on examination by the Su- \npreme Judicial Court, December 14, 1865, and continued in practice until his death with \na constantly increasing reputation and clientage. He was esteemed at the bar as a \nsound lawyer, a conscientious attorney, and able advocate. In 1878-9 he was a mem- \nber of the Boston Common Council, and in 1887 and 1888 was a member of the Mas- \nsachusetts House of Representatives from the Eighteenth Suffolk District, serving on \nthe Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, and on the Committee on Parishes and \nReligious Societies. Always interested in religious affairs, he was in Boston an active \nmember at different times of the Mount Vernon and Union Churches. Mr. Colby \nsought to avoid business responsibilities outside of his profession, but in 1877 he served \nas receiver of the Mechanics' Bank, and was for several years one of the trustees of \nthe North End Savings Bank. Mr. Colby married, January 24, 1861, Ruthey Ellen, \ndaughter of Thomas and Nancy (Stevens) Cloutman, of Mount Vernon, N. H., and \nhis oldest son, John Henry Colby, a member of the Suffolk bar, is mentioned else- \nwhere in this register. He died in Hillsboro, N. H., June 6, 1890. \n\n\nINDEX OF SUBJECTS \n\nTREATED IX THE INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. \n\n\nPage. \n\nAdmissions to the Bar \n\n111-113 \n\nAndros Edmund \n\n52 \n\nAssistants \n\n41 \n\nAttorney-Generals. - . \n\n98-99 \n\nAttorneys . \n\n52-65-102-104 \n\nBar Association \n\n109 \n\nBarristers. \n\n. ...74-105 \n\nBeadle. . \n\n. 50 \n\nBoston Court of Common Pleas \n\n84 \n\nChancery Court \n\n47-61 \n\nCharter of Massachusetts Colony. \n\n11 \n\nCharter of Massachusetts Province \n\n53 \n\nCircuit Court of Common Pleas _. \n\n.79 \n\nClerk of ' '< mrts . . . \n\n19 \n\nColony of Massachusetts \n\n26 \n\nCommissioners of ( >yer and Terminer. \n\n6s \n\nCouncillors. . \n\n42-55 \n\nCounsellors. . . . . \n\n75-105 \n\nCounty Attorney ... .......... \n\n. 99 \n\nCounty Court ._ . \n\n38 44 58 \n\nCounties Established \n\n44 \n\n( '\"ints Established \n\n58 \n\nCourt Fees. .. ........ \n\nL02 \n\nCourt Houses ... ...... \n\n..100 \n\nCourt Rules. . _. ...... \n\n106-107 \n\nCourt of Assistants. \n\n35-37 \n\nCourt of Common Pleas. \n\n78 80 \n\nCourts of Justices . .. ..... \n\n83 \n\nCourt of ( >ver and Terminer \n\n56 \n\nCourts of Pleas ... ..... \n\n52 \n\nCourt of Sessions. \n\n83 \n\nDeputy Governors \n\n40 \n\nDistrict Courts \n\n88 \n\nFreemen. \n\n16 \n\n< leneral Court. \n\n35-56 \n\nGeneral Sessions of the Peace \n\n82 \n\nGovernors of Massachusetts l olonv \n\n40 \n\n82 \n\n646 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\nPage. \n\n( rreat Quarter C< mrt ... ' :;(i-:57 \n\nInferior Court of Common Pleas ... 35-37-50-58-59-71 \n\nJudges of Admiralty Court 98 \n\nfudges of Boston Court of Common Pleas . 85 \n\nfudges of Circuit Court of Common Pleas _79 \n\nJudges of Court of Common Pleas . . . . 78-80 \n\nJudges of ( General Sessions of the Peace. 82 \n\nJudges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas . .... ... 77 \n\nJudges of the Justices Court 86 \n\nJudges of the .Municipal Court of City of Boston 88 \n\nJudges of the Municipal Court of Town of Boston 85 \n\nJudges of Probate 90-91 \n\nJ udges of Superior Court 81 \n\nJudges of Superior Court of the County of Suffolk.. . 85 \n\nJudges of Superior Court of Judicature 66 \n\nJudges ( if Supreme Judicial Court \\ 2 \n\nJustices Court 59-86 \n\nLoring Edward G., Removal of 92 \n\nM agistrates 4:> \n\nMaritime Court 98 \n\nMarshal 50 \n\nMilitary Court 89 \n\nMunicipal Courts. 88 \n\nMunicipal Court of the City of Boston. ... 87 \n\nMunicipal Court of the Town of Boston 87 \n\nPolice Court 86-88 \n\nPresidency of New England . . 52 \n\nProbate Court 50-90-91 \n\nQuarterly Sessions Court 52-60 \n\nRegisters of Probate 90-91 \n\nReporters of Decisions ... 76 \n\nRevolution of 1688 . ..52 \n\nSessions of the Peace. 58 \n\nSheriffs 99 \n\nSolicitors-General 99 \n\nSpecial Justices of Inferior Court 77 \n\nSpecial Justices of Superior Court. 67 \n\nStrangers Court 39 \n\nSuffolk County Bar 101-104 \n\nSuperior Court of Judicature 52-53-61 \n\nSuperior Court .80 \n\nSuperior Court of Suffolk County s:> \n\nSupreme Judicial Court. . 69 \n\nVerdicts . . 51 \n\nWitchcraft 57 \n\nWitnesses 50 \n\n\nILLUSTRATIONS. \n\n\nAbbott, Josiah G facing \n\npage 12 \n\nDii.law .-n ,Wn li \\.\\i L. L. facing page 222 \n\nAdams, Mem ille O \n\n18 \n\nI >1 hi l- \\ , S VNFORD II. \n\n228 \n\nAllen, Frank D. \n\n■ • 04 \n\n1 )URANT, Henry F. \n\n■ 234 \n\nAustin, James W. . .. \n\n30 \n\nI )yer, Micah, jr. \n\n• 240 \n\nAver\\ , Edward \n\n36 \n\nEldredge, Ci vrence I \n\n246 \n\nBabson, Thomas M. \n\n12 \n\nFairbanks, Lorenzo S. \n\n■ 250 \n\nBall, Joshua D. \n\n■ ' 48 \n\nFallon, Joseph I). \n\n256 \n\nBancs, Edward \n\n• ■ 54 \n\nFay, S \\miei P. P \n\n262 \n\nBeal, John V. \n\n60 \n\nFrench, Asa . . \n\n• 268 \n\nBennett, Edmi nd H... \n\n66 \n\nGargan, Thomas J. _____ \n\n■ 272 \n\nBennett, Joseph \n\n72 \n\n( rASTON, William \n\n■ 276 \n\nBenton, Josiah H., jr. . \n\n» i s \n\nGas _'on, William A. ... \n\n■ 280 \n\nBigelow, George B. \n\nS4 \n\nGeorge, Elijah \n\n■ 286 \n\nBolster, Solomon A... \n\n90 \n\nGilman, Edwin C. \n\n■ 292 \n\nBrackett, John Q. A.. \n\n96 \n\nGilman, Raymond R \n\n• 298 \n\nBrooks, Francis A \n\n•• 102 \n\nHadlock, Haryey D. . \n\n■ 302 \n\nBruce, George A. \n\n• ■ ii 8 \n\nHamilton, Samuel K. \n\n■ 306 \n\nBURDETT, |i ISEPH ( ). \n\n\" 114 \n\n1 1 \\ssam, John T \n\n■ 312 \n\nButler, Benjamin F._ .. \n\n\" 120 \n\nHayes, Benjamin F. \n\n■ 316 \n\nBi tler, J. Haskeli \n\n\" 126 \n\nHudson, John E. .. \n\n■ 320 \n\nChandler, Theophilus P. \n\n\" 138 \n\nHunt, Freeman \n\n• 326 \n\nChandler, Alfred D. _. \n\n\" 132 \n\nJenkins, Edward J. \n\n■ 338 \n\nCnn.il, Linus \n\n\" 144 \n'• 150 \n\nJewell, Harvey \n\nKeels', Edward A. . . . \n\n■ 344 \n\nChild, Linus M. ... \n\n• 350 \n\nChoate, Rufus \n\n■• 156 \n\nKingman, Hosea . \n\n• 356 \n\nClarke, Thomas W \n\n\" 162 \n\nLeach, James E. \n\n■ 362 \n\nC( n,i ;an, Marcellus \n\n\" L68 \n\nLincoln, Soli »mi >n ... \n\n■ 368 \n\nColby, John F \n\n\" 174 \n\nLoring, Charles ( '.. \n\n• 372 \n\nCrowninshield, Francis \n\nLowell, John \n\n• 376 \n\nB \" \n\n\" 180 \n\nMcC. ii i.AN, Arthur D. \n\n■ 380 \n\nCi mmings, Prentiss .... \n\n•• 186 \n\nMason, 1 )avid H. \n\n386 \n\nCruris, Benjamin R. \n\n\" 192 \n\nMinot, William . \n\n392 \n\nDean, Benjamin \n\n■• 198 \n\nMitchell, William H. \n\n• 396 \n\nDexter, Samuel . \n\n\" 204 \n\nMorse, X . i han \n\n■ 412 \n\nDex i ek, Franklin \n\n\" 210 \n\nMorse, Robert M., jr. \n\n• 418 \n\n1 >ICKINSON,M VRQ1 IS F.JR. \n\n•■ 216 \n\nMorse, George W. . . \n\n108 \n\n648 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nMorse, Godfrey facing pas \n\nre 402 \n\nMorton, Marci s . \" ' \n\n424 \n\nMurphy, James R \n\n1 430 \n\nNeedham. Daniel \n\n• 436 \n\nNoyes, Charles J.. \n\n■ 442 \n\n>, Joseph B. F. . \n\n• 448 \n\nPaine, Robert Tre \\ i \n\n' 454 \n\nPaine, Robert Treat \n\n■ 460 \n\nPaine, Charles J. _ . __ . \n\n• 464 \n\nPerry, Baxter E. \n\n1 47(i \n\nI'm i engill, John YY. \n\n• 476 \n\nPillsbury, Albert E. . _ \n\n' 480 \n\nPotter, Orlando B. \n\n• 486 \n\nPowers. Charles E \n\n• 492 \n\nPowers, Samuel L \n\n• 496 \n\nPowers, Wilbur H \n\n■ 500 \n\nPrince, Frederic 0. \n\n■ 506 \n\nProctor, Thomas P. \n\n• 512 \n\nRanney, Ambrose A. \n\n• 518 \n\nReel, Chester I. \" \n\n■ 524 \n\nRiley, Thomas .. \n\n' 528 \n\nRussell, William G. \n\n' 534 \n\nSanger, George P. _ \n\n' 540 \n\nSi houler, James \n\n' 544 \n\nSears, Philil H._ facing page 54s \n\nShattuck, George O. \" \" 552 \n\nShepard, Harvey N.. \" 556 \n\nSimmons, John F. ... \" 560 \n\nSomerby, Glstayls A. . \" 564 \n\nSprague, Peleg .... \" \" 56s \n\nStearns, William S. \" \" 572 \n\nSwift, Henry W. .. \" \" 576 \n\nThompson, Lucian B \" \" 580 \n\nTowle, George H. ._ \" \" 584 \n\nTrain, Charles R. ... \" \" 590 \n\nTucker, George F. _ . . \" \" 596 \n\nTuxbury, George W. \" \" 602 \n\nWade, Levi C \" \" 608 \n\nWebster, Daniel Frontispiece \n\nWelch, Charles A... . . facing page 612 \n\nWells, Samuel \" \" 616 \n\nWeston, Thomas ...... \" \" 620 \n\nWhite, George \" \" 624 \n\nWhiting, William \" \" 628 \n\nWillard, Joseph A. \" \" 632 \n\nWoodbury, Charlis Levi \" \" 636 \n\nWright, Edwin ... \" \" 640 \n\n\nINDEX \n\n\nTO THK \n\n\nBIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER \n\n\nAbbe William Alanson, 327. \nAbbott Edwin' Hale, 234. \nAbbott Benjamin Vaughan, 318. \nAbbott Charles E., 618. \nAbbott Charles L., 117- \nAbbott Curtis, 131. \nAbbott Franklin Pierce, 189. \nAbbott George C, 618. \nAbbott Grafton St. Loe, 189. \nAbbott Grafton T., 618. \nAbbott Ira E., 618. \nAbbott James Alexander, 456. \nAbbott John Edward, 234. \nAbbott John G., 618. \nAbbott John S., 45° \nAbbott Josiah Gardner, 257. \nAbbott Leon Martin, 247. \nAbbott Marshall Kittredge. 417. \nAbbott Nathan D , 618. \nAbbott Samuel Appleton \n\nBrowne, 247. \nAbbott S. P., 618. \nAbbott William A.s 450. \nAberdain D. L., 618. \nAchorn Edgar O., 489. \nAckerman Charles Lewis, 457- \nAdair W. Robert, 618. \nAdams Albion A., 618. \nAdams Arthur Edwin, 454. \nAdams Benjamin, 437 \nAdams Brooks, 27^. \nAdams C. B. F., 457- \nAdams Charles Day, 273. \nAdams Charles Francis, 272. \nAdams Charles Francis, jr., 272. \nAdams Charles Frederics, 273. \nAdams Charles I., 637. \nAdams Charles True, 618. \nAdams Coleman S., 618. \nAdams Francis Willis, 131. \nAdams George C, 637. \nAdams George Edward, 273. \nAdams George Everett, 273. \nAdams George W., 419. \nAdams George Zacheus, 201. \nAdams John, 243. \nAdams John Clark, 434. \nAdams John K., 618. \nAdams John Quincy, 243. \nAdams John Quincy, 282. \nAdams Jonathan, 542. \n\n83 \n\n\nAdams Joseph T., 618. \nAdams Julius, 618. \nAdams Melvin O., 642. \nAdams Sherman \"Wolcott, 457. \nAdams Thomas Boylston, 457. \nAdams Walter, 539. \nAdams Zabdiel Boylston, 318. \nAdan John Richardson, 426. \nAdavis Walter, 618. \nAddington Isaac, 209. \nAherin John H. P., 319. \nAiken David, 421. \nAlbee Sumner, 319. \nAlbers Homer, 289. \nAlbert Talbot Jones 458. \nAlden Cyrus, 618. \nAlden George D., 618, \nAlden H. O . 618. \nAlden Peter Oliver, 399. \nAldrich Peleg Emory, 302. \nAldrich Samuel Nelson, 201. \nAlexander Edwin G.. 618. \nAlfred Francis Edward, 458. \nAlger Alpheus Brown, 302. \nAlger Arthur M., 618. \nAlger Edwin Alden, 302. \nAlger Edwin Augustus, 303 \nAllds Warren, 132. \nAllen Arthur Lincoln, 213. \nAllen Augustus Oliver, 327. \nAllen Charles, i8g. \nAllen Charles, igo, \nAllen Charles E., 618. \nAllen Charles Edward, 327. \nAllen Crawford C, 637. \nAllen Elisha Hunt, 253. \nAllen Fran); Dewey, 503. \nAllen Frederick, 321. \nAllen Frederick Hunt, 489. \nAllen George A., 618. \nAllen Harris, 618. \nAllen Horace G., 252. \nAllen James, jr., 286. \nAllen James Bowdoin, 559 \nAllen Joseph, 437. \nAllen Lincoln, 600. \nAllen Macon B., 644. \nAllen Montressor T., 255. \nAllen Samuel C, 618. \nAllen Samuel W. F., 618. \nAllen Stephen Merrill, 321. \n\n\nAllen Stillman Boyd, 320. \n\nAllen Thomas, 458. \n\nAllen William, 258. \n\nAllen Willis Boyd, 458. \n\nAllin H. N., 618. \n\nAllyne Rufus Bradford, 319. \n\nAlmon A. B., 619. \n\nAlmy Charles, jr., 458. \n\nAlmy Job, 542. \n\nAmes Benjamin, 238. \n\nAmes Fisher, 237. \n\nAmes Fisher, 458. \n\nAmes Isaac, 553. \n\nAmes James Barr, 458. \n\nAmes John W., 544. \n\nAmes Nathan, 238. \n\nAmes Samuel, 458. \n\nAmes Seth, 218 \n\nAmory Francis Inman, 261. \n\nAmory George Kirkland, 458. \n\nAmory Rufus Greene, 283. \n\nAmory Thomas Coffin, 117. \n\nAmory Thomas Coffin, jr., 458 \n\nAmory William, 458. \n\nAmory William, 261. \n\nAnderson Elbridge Roberts, 319. \n\nAnderson George Weston, 319 \n\nAndrew Charles Amburger, 456 \n\nAndrew John Albion, 174. \n\nAndrew John Forrester. 258. \n\nAndrews Asa, 458. \n\nAndrews Augustus, 31Q. \n\nAndrews Benjamin H., 637. \n\nAndrews C. C, 557. \n\nAndrews Ferdinand L., 619. \n\nAndrews Gallison C, 619. \n\nAndrews Halsey Benjamin, 427. \n\nAndrews James Winthrop, 45X. \n\nAndrews John H., big. \n\nAndrews J. L., 619. \n\nAndrews Morton Davis, 309. \n\nAndrews Samuel, 285. \n\nAndrews William H. H., 319 \n\nAndrews William N., 619. \n\nAndrews William Turell, 442. \n\nAndros Edmund, 542. \n\nAndros Milton, 450. \n\nAngell George Thorndike, 303. \n\nAngell Isaac, 6ig. \n\nAngell Joseph Kinnicut, 237. \n\nAngier Frank H , 619. \n\n\n650 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nAppleton Francis Henry, 320. \nAppleton Frank A., 237. \nAppleton Frederick A., 552. \nAppleton John Henry 320. \nAppleton Samuel, aog. \nAppleton Thomas Gold, 2Q4. \nAppleton William Channing, 213 \nApsley George Edward, 458. \nApthorp Robert East, 458. \nApthorp William Foster, 458. \nApthorp William J., 619. \nArcher Samuel R., 6iq. \nArmstrong Thomas Henry, 320. \nArnold Howard Payson, 458. \nArnold Zenas S., 6ig. \nAshmun Eli Porter, 321 \nAshmun John Hooker, 321. \nAskenasy Herman, 6ig. \nAspinwall Thomas, 237. \nAspinwall William, 248. \nAtherton Humphrey, 193. \nAtkins George E., 619. \nAtkins J. Augustus, 619. \nAtkinson Henry Martyn, 458. \nAtkinson J., 619. \nAtwood Charles, 251. \nAtwood Charles U., 619. \nAtwood D. J., 619. \nAtwood Hartley F., 611. \nAtwood John, 637. \nAtwood William, 269. \nAuchmuty Robert, 237. \nAuchmuty Robert, jr., 237, \nAugustus John, 502. \n\nAustin Albert A., 610. \n\nAustin Arthur Williams, 450. \n\nAustin Edward, 619. \n\nAustin Elbridge Gerry, 223. \n\nAustin Henry, 234. \n\nAustin Henry David, 456. \n\nAustin Ivers James, 223. \n\nAustin James Trecothick, 223. \n\nAustin James Walker, 588. \n\nAustin James Walker, jr., 611. \n\nAustin John Downes, 223. \n\nAustin Jonathan Williams, 225. \n\nAustin Percy, 459. \n\nAustin Walter, 611. \n\nAustin William, 225. \n\nAustin William P., 619. \n\nAustin William Russell, 611. \n\nAveril George W., 619. \n\nAvery Albert E.. 619. \n\nAvery Edward, 317. \n\nAverv John Edward, 318. \n\nAyer Frederick Fanning, 459. \n\nAver Joseph C, 619. \n\nAyer Phineas, 449. \n\nAyers George David, 318. \n\nAyers Henry M., 179. \n\nAylward James Francis. 318. \n\nAylwin William Cushing, 451. \n\nBabbitt C. A., 619. \nBabbitt Erasmus, 439. \nBabcock Francis Eaton, 459 \nBabcock Lemuel Hollings- \n\nworth, 459. \nBabson Robert Tillinghast, 132 \nBabson Thomas McCrate, 574 \nBachelder Thomas Cogswell, \n\n247. \nBack Roscius Harlow, 247. \nBacon Charles H., 619. \nBacon Charles William, 6ir» \nBacon Ezekiel, 286. \nBacon Frederick A., 619. \n\n\nBacon H. C.,619. \nBacon John William, 421. \nBacon Thomas S., 619. \nBacon William Francis, 611. \nBadger Almarind Ferdinand, \n\n454, \nBadger Walter Irving, 132. \nBailey Andrew Jackson, 247. \nBailey Dudley P., 247. \nBailey Gardner W.. 619. \nBailey Hollis Russell, 252. \nBailey John Appleton, 459. \nBailey Joseph Whitman, 252. \nBailey L. B., 619. \nBaker Albert, 399. \nBaker Alpheus, 288 \nBaker Edward I., 253. \nBaker ElihuC, 457. \nBaker Fisher Ames, fiig. \nBaker Henry L., 396. \nBaker Herbert L., 637. \nBaker John Freeman, 459. \nBaker James Murray, 459. \nBaker John R., 619. \nBaker William H., 252. \nBaker William P., 619. \nBalch Francis Vergnies, 459. \nBalch Joseph, 619. \nBaldwin George W., 43g. \nBaldwin Henry, 261. \nBaldwin Horace E., 6ig. \nBaldwin Loammi, 350. \nBaldwin Thomas Tileston, 612. \nBall Benjamin W., 619. \nBall Joshua Dorsey, 350. \nBall William A., 619. \nBallantyne John, 619. \nBallard James Morton, 459. \nBancroft C. S., 553. \nBancroft George, 637. \nBancroft Jacob, 612. \nBancroft Sidney C, 557. \nBancroft Solon, 45g. \nBancroft William Amos, 261. \n\nBanfield Everett Colby. 456. \nBangs Edward, 437. \n\nBangs Edward, 587. \n\nBangs Edward A., 351. \n\nBanks Frederick L.. 553. \n\nBanks Nathaniel Prentiss, 273. \n\nBarber Charles E., 619. \n\nBarbour Henry P., 619. \n\nBaibour J. N., 6ig. \n\nBarker Charles S., 619. \n\nBarker James Madison, 203. \n\nBarxer James M., 6ig. \n\nBarlow James P., 351. \n\nBarnard Charles A.. 459. \n\nBarnard Henry, 6ig. \n\nBarnes Charles M., 350. \n\nBarnes David Leonard, 644, \n\nBarnes Isaac A., 619. \n\nBarnes Isaac O., 356. \n\nBarney Edward L., 450. \n\nBarr Thomas F., 619. \n\nBarrell Samuel B., 619. \n\nBarrelle Thomas W., 6ig. \n\nBarrett Edward J., 619. \n\nBarrett Harry Hudson, 351. \n\nBarrett James, 619. \n\nBarrett John, 459. \n\nBarrett Jonathan Fay, 187. \n\nBarrett William, 351. \n\nBarrows Charles H., 450. \n\nBarrows Morton, 576. \n\nBarry George M., 459. \n\nBarry Thomas E., 459. \n\n\nBarry Thomas J., 351. \nBarstow George. 425. \nBarstow Simon Forrester, 452. \nBartholomew Andrew J., 439. \nBartholomew Nelson, 439. \nBartlett Addison A., 619. \nBartlett A. B., 619. \nBartlett A. L., 619. \nBartlett Bradbury C, 619. \nBartlett Charles, 619. \nBartlett Charles W., 351. \nBartlett D. C, 619. \nBartlett Francis, 442. \nBartlett Frederick K , 6x9. \nBartlett George W., 619 \nBartlett Horace E., 619. \nBartlett Joseph, 189 \nBartlett Sidney, 188. \nBartlett Sidney, jr., 442. \nBartlett Stephen S., 459. \nBartlett William, 619. \nBarton Charles Clarence, 119, \nBassett Elisha, 132. \nBassett Francis, 119. \nBatchelder Clark A., 619. \nBatchelder Eugene, 442. \nBatchelder Francis Lowell, 268. \nBatchelder John M., 619. \nBatchelder Leroy, 619. \nBatchelder L. B., 619. \nBatchelder Samuel, 459. \nBateman Leon H., 619. \nBates Benjamin Edward, 132. \nBates Elijah, 619. \nBates Hamlet, 459. \nBates James Edward, 459. \nBate* John Lewis, 118. \nBates Liberty, 439. \nBates Samuel W., 460. \nBates Waldron, 460. \nBates William, 413. \nBattelle Nathaniel, 282. « \nBaxter Joseph Nickerson, 460 \nBayldone R. C, 619. \nBayley Edward A., 619. \nBayley J. C. M., 619. \nBaylies Henry, 268. \nBaylies William, 324. \nBeach Edward S., 619. \nBeach Morgan W., 460. \nBeal John Van, 601. \nBeale Benjamin, 286. \nBeale Charles Edwin, 261. \nBeale Joseph H. jr., 262 \nBeaman Charles C, jr , 438. \nBean George F , 262. \nBean Stephen, 557 \nBeard Ithamar W., 460. \nBeck George F , 619 \nBeckett Melville P., 267. \nBeckett John Gregg, 460. \nBeckford Ebenezer H., 647. \nBelcher Jonathan, 267. \nBelcher Jonathan, 554 \nBell John W , 619 \nBell Joseph, 361. \nBell Joseph Mills, 362. \nBellew Henry E., 610. \nBellingham Richard, 163. \nBello Santiago C, 619. \nBellows Edward S., 619. \nBellows Josiah G , 460. \nBement Gerard, 133, \nBemis Charles, 46U. \nBemis George, 176. \nBemis Isaac C , 6ig. \nBemis Seth, 6ig. \n\n\nINDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n6$> \n\n\nBender Jotham, 287. \nBenjamin James, 267. \nBenjamin Park, 177. \nBenjamin Waylan E., 619 \nBenner Frank T., 619. \nBennett C M , 619. \nBennett Edmund Hatch, 372. \nBennett Francis M , 6ig. \nBennett John A., 352. \nBennett John R-, 619. \nBennett Joseph, 588. \nBennett Joseph Irving, 352. \nBennett Josiah Kendall, 352. \nBennett Samuel C , 352. \nBennett William Frederick, \n\n460. \nBenson Edward F., 619. \nBent George C, 330 \nBent Samuel A., 460 \nBent William H., 619. \nBenton Josiah Henry, jr., 159. \nBerick Francis Hermoness, 460. \nBernard Francis, 35'- \nBerry Abel B., 619 \nBerry John King, 132. \nBerry John W., 619 \nBerry Nehem'ah Chase, 351 \nBerry Thomas, 264 \nBethune John McLean, 159. \nBettens Edward Detraz, 460. \nBetton George E., 156. \nBetton Ninian C, 156. \nBetton O Erving, 553. \nBickford Horace, 619 \nBicknell Edward, 267 \nBicknell Emory O., 460. \nBidwell Barnabas, 619. \nBigelow Abijah, 267 \nBigelow Alpheus, 460. \nBigelow Edward Irving, 637. \nBigelow Edwin Moses, 353 \nBigelow Francis Whitney, 353 \nBigelow George Brooks, 595. \nBigelow George D., 620. \nBigelow George Tyler, 172. \nBigelow Horatio, 425. \nBigelow Horatio, 460 \nBigelow John J , 620. \nBigelow John Prescott, 1 , . \nBigelow Melville Madison, 190. \nBigelow Oliver, 620. \nBigelow Samuel C, 620 \nBigelow Timothy, 190. \nBigelow Timothy. 460. \nBigelow Tyler, 191. \nBillings Oliver P. C , 348. \nBinney Omar, 620 \nBinney William Cushing, 460. \nBiscoe Arthur G , 439. \nBiscoe J Foster, 439. \nBishop Henry Walker, 421 \nBishop Joel Prentiss, 574. \nBishop Jonathan P., 620 \nBishop Robert Roberts, 128. \nBissell Washington, 620. \nBixby Frederick M , 6->o \nBlack James L., 620 \nBlackmar Wilmon W., 191. \nBlackmur Paul R , 620 \nBlackshere Elias Aaron, 460 \nBlagden George, 460. \nBlaikie William, 612. \nBlair Lafayette Gilbert, 353. \nBlair Phineas, 425 \nBlair William N , 620. \nBlaisdell Mark A , 352. \nBlake Charles F. ,449. \n\n\nBlake Edward, 423. \nBlake Francis, 286. \nBlake George, 436. \nBlake Henry Nichols, 612. \nBlake Joseph, 285. \nBlake William Payne, 272. \nBlanchard Francis, 461. \nBlanchard John H , 461. \nBlanchard Thomas, (120. \nBlandin Charles P., 620. \nBlaney George Andrew. 253. \nBlinn George Richard, 272 \nBliss Alexander, 484. \nBliss Fredenck Wright, 327. \nBliss George, 501. \nBliss Henry C., 620. \nBliss William Davis, 251. \nBlodgett Caleb, 203. \nBlodgett Edward Everett, 373. \nBlodgett George B , 620. \nBlodgett Warren Kendall, 461. \nBlood Charles H., 272. \nBloomfield Thomas, 620. \nBlowers Sampson Salter, 238. \nBlume Andreas, 132 \nBlume Jarvis, 620. \nBoardman Alphonzo Warren, \n\n461. \nRoardman Halsey J , 303. \nBodwell J. C, 620. \nBoit Edward Darley, 249. \nBoit Edward Darley, jr , 637. \nBollan William. 270. \nBolles Frank, 353. \nBolles H Eugene, 132. \nBolles John A , 272 \nBolster Percy Gardner, 345. \nBolster Solomon Alonzo, 579. \nBolster Wilfred, 486 \nBolton William, 416 \nBond Daniel Webster, 421 \nBond Lawrence, 353 \nBonney Otis L., 220 \nBooth Moss K., 6 o. \nBorden Simeon, 461. \nBorland Samuel, 284 \nBosson Albert D , 159 \nBosworth Orrin L , 461. \nBottume John Franklin, 461. \nBourne Benjamin, 461. \nBourne Shearjashub, 286. \nBourne Sylvanus, 265. \nBoutelle Lewis H , 439 \nBoutelle Timothy, 588 \nBoutineau James, 268 \nBoutwell Francis Marion, 304. \nBoutwell George Sewall, 303. \nBoutwell Harvey Lincoln, 301. \nBouve Walter Lincoln, 301 \nBowdich T C , 620 \nBowditch Nathan Ingersoll, \n\n177 \nBowditch William Ingersoll, \n\n461. \nBowdoin James, 461 \nBowen Simeon, 620 \nBowman John Oliver, 461. \nBowman Robert H., 366 \nBowman Selwyn Z., 129. \nBoyden Roland W.. 461. \nBoyle George Washington, 461. \nBoynton Abel, 620. \nBoynton Thomas J.. 620. \nBoynton William E , 620. \nBrackett James Albert, 365. \nBrackett John Q A , 359. \nBradbury Charles, 620. \n\n\nBradbury George, 461. \nBradbury J. O . 620. \nBradbury Theophilus, 246. \nBradford Daniel Neil, 461. \nBradford George Hillard, 461. \nBradford James M., t<>i . \nBi ad ford Russell, 461 , \nBradford William John Alden, \n\n427 \n\nBradish , 284. \n\nBradish Frank Eliot, 612. \nBradlee S. J., 620. \nBradley Aaron Alfieri, 644. \nBradley Andrew Coyle, 462. \nBradley Charles S , 580. \nBradley David. 288. \nBradley John D , 353. \nBradley Joseph Hildreth, 552. \nBradley Samuel Ayer, 559. \nBradstreet Simon, 163 \nBrady Philip Edward, 202. \nBragdon Joseph H , 620. \nBragg Heman, 620 \nBragg Henry W., 353. \nBrainard Charles R , 620. \nBraley Charles A , 620. \nBraley Henry King, 202. \nBraman Grenville Davies, 461. \nBraman Joseph B , 637. \nBranch P N , 620 \nBrandeis Louis D , 365. \nBrattle William, 238 \nBrayton Ellery M , 620. \nBrayton John S., 642. \nBreck Michael W , 462. \nBreck William, 620. \nBredeen Frederick A., 620. \nBremer Elias, 620. \nBrennen J. F., 620. \nBrewer Benjamin Gridley,4si. \nBrewer Daniel Chaunfey, 361. \nBrewer Edward W , 361. \nBrewer Wm D , jr , 612. \nBrewster Augustus Olcott, 557 \nBrewster Frank, 179. \nBrickett Benjamin Franklin, \n\n3°4- \nBridge James, 361. \nBridges Otis L., 620. \nBridgham Percy A., 361. \nBriggs Andrew H., 361. \nBriggs A. N., 020. \nBriggs Benjamin F. 620. \nBriggs George Nixon, 419. \nBriegs George Patrick, 462. \nBrigham C.,620. \nBrigham Cephas, 620. \nBrigham Clifford, 462. \nBrigham Henry A , 620. \nBrigham Joseph, 462. \nBrigham Lincoln Flagg, 203. \nBrigham William, 119. \nBrigham William T., 620. \nBrimmer John Ambourlain, 462. \nBrimmer Martin, 442. \nBrinley Francis, 249. \nBrinsley Walter C, 620. \nBrodey Philio E., 620. \nBronson Ira H., 637. \nBrooks Alvin M., 620. \nBrooks Benjamin F., 251. \nBrooks Charles Joseph, 4S7. \nBrooks Charles M., 620. \nBrooks Edwaid, 225. \nBrooks Francis, 620. \nBrooks Francis, 202. \nBrooks Francis Augustus, 158. \n\n\n652 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nBrooks Franklin E., 462. \nBrooks George Merrick, 219. \nBrooks Gorham, 225. \nBrooks James Wilson, 462. \nBrooks P. C, 620. \nBrooks William G., 620. \nBrown Alexander P., 462. \nBrown Alpheus R., 557. \nBrown Augustus J.. 620. \nBrown Bartholomew, 324. \nBrown Calvin H., 620. \nBrown Charles Brooks, 373. \nBrown Charles P., 620. \nBrown Charles H., 620. \nBrown David W., 620. \nBrown Edward Everett, 462. \nBrown Edward Payson, 462. \nBrown Frank H., 620. \nBrown George Addison, 375. \nBrown George^W., 612. \nBrown Henry, 462. \nBrown Henry G., 620. \nBrown Horace. 612. \nBrown Howard Kinmonth, 375 \nBrown Ira H., 620. \nBrown Isaac, 620. \nBrown Jeremiah, 620. \nBrown John K., 375. \nBrown John H , 620 \nBrown John P , 462, \nBrown Nehemiah, 455. \nBrown Sidney P., 620. \nB:own Thomas B., 620. \nBrown William, 209. \nBrown William Henry, 374. \nBrown W. Lock, 557. \nBrowne Albert Gallatin, 462. \nBrowne Causten, 304. \nBrowne Charles, 374. \nBrowne Dana, 620. \nBrowne Edward Ingersoll, 374. \nBrowne Ephraim. 620. \nBrowne George M., 462, \nBrowne J. Merrell, 462. \nBrowne John White, 365. \nBrowne William, 21,. \nBrownlow William Albert, 462. \nBrownson John H., 620. \nBrownson William J., 620. \nBruce Charles Mansfield, 295. \nBruce George Anson, 295. \nBruce Phineas, 28*;. \nBrush Abraham Stephens, 612. \nBryant F. E., 620. \nBryant Henry B., 620. \nBryant John Duncan, 368 \nBryant Napoleon Bonaparte, \n\n202. \nBuchanan G. C. V., 620. \nBuck C W.. 620 \nBuck Edward, 620. \nBuck Henry Ball, 463. \nBuck Robert H., 449 \nBuck Walter Darling, 368 \nBuckingham C^leb Alexander, \n\n39Q- \nBuckingham F. W., 553. \nBuckingham J. H., 620. \nBuckman C. A., 620 \nBuffinton Eugene Lucian, 267. \nBuffum Walter N., 463. \nBugbee John S , 620 \nBulfinch George Storer, 239 \nBulkley John, 282. \nBulkley Peter, 208. \nBullard Eli, 620. \nBullard Elias, 620. \nBullard John Richards, 267. \n\n\nBullivant Benjamin, 263. \nBullock Edgar K., 621 \nBullock Rufus Augustus, 463. \nBumpus Everett C.,364. \nBurbank Robert Ingalls, 435. \nBurbank Walter Channing, 178. \nBurcee Edward B., 620. \nBurdett Cyril Herbert, 612 \nBurdett Everett Watson 129. \nBurdett Joseph O , s'3- \nBurgess Edward Phillips, 463. \nBurke Albert G., 620. \nBurke Francis, 367. \nBurke John H , 367. \nBurleigh William R., 620 \nBurlingame Anson, 274. \nBurnett William, 463. \nBurnham Alfred Foster, 463 \nBurnham B F., 621. \nBurnham Robert Orne, 377. \nBurnham Seth C, 610 \nBurns Charles Henry, 463. \nBurns Charles J , 621. \nBurns Samuel A., 620. \nBurnside Samuel McGregor, \n\n55Q- \nBurr David Augustus. 463. \nBurr E T , 620. \nBurr Heman Merrick, 202. \nBurr Samuel C, 620. \nBurr Sanford S., 620 \nBurrage Albert C, 439. \nBurrage George D.. 463. \nBurrage William W., -,67. \nBurt John H., 621. \nBurt William Lothrop, 463 \nBurton Henry McKnight, 367. \nBuss Ellsworth T . 621. \nBussey Benjamin, 455 \nBuswell Henry Koster, 463 \nButler Benjamin, 621. \nButler Benjamin Franklin 492. \nButler Franklin Jenness, 463. \nButler George Brown, 463 \nButler John E., 463. \nButler John Haskell, 609. \nButler John Henry, 374. \nButler John L., 621. \nButler M., 621. \nButler Sigourney, 442. \nButt Edward, 621. \nButterfield Jonathan Ware, \n\n463- \nButterworth A. F., 463. \nButterworth Edgar R., 621. \nButtrick Edwin K., 637. \nBuzell Albert Clark, 463. \nByam George A., 621. \nByfield Nathaniel, 238. \nByington Horatio, 398. \nBynner Edwin Lassiter, 609. \nByram F. B., 621. \n\n\nCabot Edward Twisleton, 464. \n\nCabot George, 428. \n\nCabot Henry, 287. \n\nCabot Henry Bromfield, 464. \n\nCabot James Elliot 452. \n\nCady Ebenezer E., 621. \n\nCady Stillman, 439. \n\nCahill John, 621. \n\nCaldwell Middleton A., 621. \n\nCaldwell William, 439. \n\nCalhoun William Barron, 448. \n\nCallender Edward Belcher, 236 \n\nCallender Henry B., 236. \n\nCallender John, 285. \n\nCallender Jonathan, 621. \n\n\nCampbell Benjamin Merrick, \n\n612. \nCampbell George E., 621. \nCampbell George Hylands, 236. \nCampbell James P., 464. \nCampbell John Ray, 230. \nCampbell Joseph Aloysius, 230. \nCampbell William L., 621. \nCanavan Michael Joseph, 336. \nCanavan William Francis, 464 \nCapen Elmer Hewitt, 305. \nCapen Phineas, 621. \nCarleton Thomas, 450. \nCarpenter Charles A., 621. \nCarpenter D. M. H., 621. \nCarpenter Frank Oliver, 576. \nCarpenter James E., 621. \nCarpenter Mathew Hale, 290. \nCarpenter Orrin Henry, 230. \nCarpenter Robert\" W., 621. \nCarr Sir Robert, 263. \nCarnes Francis, 463 \nCarret James Russell, 464. \nCarrigan Edward C. 259. \nCarrington Henry H., 621. \nCarroll Charles W., 621. \nCarroll Geonre P., 621. \nCarruth William Ward, 464. \nCarson John Bernard, 464. \nCarter Ira Osborn, 336. \nCarter W. W., 621. \nCartwright Anderson, 621. \nCartwright George, 263. \nCarvell Leonard T., 464. \nCarver Eugene Pendleton, 247. \nCary Nathan C, 621. \nCary Thomas Greaves, 130. \nCasey Albert William, 464. \nCasey John H., 247. \nCasey P. J., 621. \nCass Andrew J., 621. \nCasseli H. O., 463. \nCassidy William E., 336. \nCate Edward Warren, 220. \nCatlin John D., 621. \nCavanagh Leander J., 464. \nCaverly Robert Boody, 612. \nCazeaux Lendall Pitts, 464. \nCazneau Andrew, 268. \nCeney C. E., 621. \nChace Thomas E., 621. \nChace William M., 621. \nChadbourne Ichabod R., 621. \nChadbourne William G., 464. \nChadwick Ward, 621. \nChallis Josiah A., 553. \nChamberlain Edwin M , 621. \nChamberlain Franklin, 621. \nChamberlain George A. W., \n\n621. \nChamberlain George W., 553. \nChamberlain Mellen, 305. \nChamberlayne Charles F., 463. \nChamplin Christopher E., 621. \nChamplin Edgar Robert, 612. \nChandler Alfred Dupont, 419. \nChandler Charles Peleg, 453. \nChandler Everett S., 621. \nChandler James E., 621. \nChandler Lucius H , 621. \nChandler Parker Cleaveland, \n\n230. \nChandler Peleg Whitman, 249. \nChandler Sumner Chase, 595. \nChandler Theophilus Parsons. \n\n346 \nChandler Thomas Henderson, \n336. \n\n\nINDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n6S3 \n\n\nChanning Edward Tyrrel, 252. \nCharming Francis Dana, 464. \nChapin Herbert Allen, 236. \nChapin Horace Dwight, 464. \nChaplin Herman White, 236. \nChapman James W , 621. \nChapman Jonathan, 423. \nChapman Ozias Goodwin, 621. \nChapman Reuben Atwater, 245. \nCharles Salem Darius, 230. \nChase Charles W., 621. \nChase James M., 464. \nChase Marshall S., 610. \nChase Salmon, 336. \nChase Thomas E., 621. \nChase William M. 621 \nChart's P. E., 621. ' \nCheckley Anthony, 263. \nCheever Ezekiel, 269. \nCheever (ieorge Francis, 127. \nCheever Tracy P., 610. \nChellis Charles H., 621 \nCheney Edward M., 612 \nCheney Horace Rundlett, 4S4. \nCheney J. M., 621. \nChenie John, 621. \nChick Charles G., 464. \nChickering William H , 621. \nChild Calvin G., 621. \nChild David L , 637. \nChild Frank L., 437- \nChild Linus, 235. \nChild Linus Mason, 235. \nChild Samuel M.. 289. \nChilde Edward Vernon, 336. \nChilds Francis Linus, 437. \nChilds William O , 621. \nChilson H. B., 621. \nChittenden A. P., 621. \nChoate Charles Francis, 294. \nChoate Charles Francis, jr , 294. \nChoate Frederick William, 550. \nChoate George F., 557 \nChoate Joseph Hodges, 294. \nChoate Rufus, 582. \nChoate Rufus, jr., 464. \nChoate William, 157. \nChomecin Leon F., 438. \nChurch Walter Lenoir, 336. \nChurchill Asaph, 157. \nChurchill Asaph, 158. \nChurchill Charles M. S., 464. \nChurchill John M. B., 337. \nChurchill Joseph McKean, 250. \nChurchill Joseph R., 251. \nChurchill J. P. S., 464. \nClapp Arthur Blake, 464. \nClapp Clift Rogers, 289. \nClapp Henry Austin, 306. \nClapp Robert P., 369. \nClark Albert Cady, 337. \nClark Almon J., 621. \nClark Chester Ward, 129. \nClark Edwin R., 621. \nClark Greenleaf, 465. \nClark Isaiah Raymond, 306. \nClark Toseph F.,621. \nClark Joseph T., 621. \nClark Louis M., 465. \nClark Moses, 621. \nClark Peter, 343. \nClark R. P., 621. \nClark T. E., 621. \nClark William H., 621. \nClarke Edward, 285. \nClarke Gardiner H., 621. \nClarke George Kuhn, 337. \nClarke George Lemist, 605. \n\n\nClarke George W., 621. \nClarke Isaiah R,, 621. \nClarke Henry J.. 438. \nClarke John Jones, 210. \nClarke I. P., 621. \nClarke Joseph H., 621. \nClarke Manlius Stimson, 211. \nClarke Peter, 283. \nClarke Samuel Greeley, 465. \nClarke Thomas. 208. \nClarke Thomas William, 547. \nClary Albert E., 337. \nCleland William, 621. \nClement C. W., 621. \nClement L. H., 621. \nClifford Henry A., 621. \nClifford John Henry, 290. \nClifford Nathan, 379. \nClifford Nathan Tames, 560. \nClifford Samuel W., 157. \nClifford William Henry, 157. \nClough Andrew Jackson, 337 \nClough John D., 621. \nClougherty John, 621. \nClymer Edward Myers, 464. \nCoakley Timothy W., 465. \nCoale George O G., 465. \nCobb Charles Kane, 465. \nCobb Cyrus, 486. \nCobb John Storer, 338. \nCobb Moses Gill, 337. \nCobb William H., 553. \nCobe Ira M., 465. \nCoburn Daniel J., 621. \nCoburn Edwin R., 553. \nCoburn Lewis Larned, 465. \nCochrane Frederick, 622. \nCoddington William, 179. \nCodman Charles Russell. 306. \nCodman Henry, 377. \nCodman James McMaster, jr , \n\n465. \nCodman John, 424. \nCodman John, jr., 288. \nCodman Robert, 465. \nCodman Robert, jr., 465. \nCodwise George A. P., 338. \nCoffey John Augustus, 465. \nCoffin Abraham Burbank, 329. \nCoffin C. P., 465. \nCoffin J. F., 622. \nCoffin Nathaniel, 282. \nCoggan John, 263 \nCoggan Marcellus, 355. \nCogswell Joseph Green, 158. \nCogswell Walter C, 465. \nCogswell William, 329, \nCohen Abraham S., 178. \nColburn Charles Shepherd, 465. \nColburn Waldo, 349. \nColburn William Gardner, 454. \nColby H. G. O., 362. \nColby John C. 622. \nColby John F., 249. \nColby John Henry, 589. \nColby Robert L., 622. \nCole John H., 539. \nColesworth Daniel C , 622. \nCollamore George W , 610. \nColleary Patrick W., 622 \nCollins Arthur D., 622. \nCollins Edward F., 622. \nCollins John A., 330. \nCollins John J., 638. \nCollins Mark C, 334. \nCollins Patrick Andrew, 306. \nColeman William, 553. \nColman Clement H., 622. \n\n\nColt James Dennison, 331. \nColt James Dennison, jr., 353. \nColt Le Baron B., 597. \nConant Edward C, 465. \nConaty Edward J., 6', 2. \nConery D. E., 622. \nConery H. H., 622. \nConlan John, 465. \nConlee Sebron T., 622. \nConly F. T., 622. \nConnelly William M., 622. \nConnelly William T , 622. \nConrad Thomas E. K., 622. \nConroy R T., 622. \nConverse Albert F., 354. \nConverse Albert F., 465. \nConverse F. A. W., 622. \nConverse John W., 338. \nConverse Joshua P., 449. \nConwell Russell H., 610. \nCoogan Michael B., 338. \nCook Charles P., 622. \nCook Frank Gaylord, 465. \nCook James, 622. \nCook Lyman D., 622. \nCook William H., 465. \nCooke Benjamin F., 610. \nCooke Edward O., 248. \nCooke Elisha, 291. \nCooke Josiah Parsons, 340. \nCooley George W., 434. \nCoolidge Austin J., 553. \nCoolidge David H., 129. \nCoolidge Horace Hopkins, 339. \nCoolidge Joseph Randolph, 465. \nCoolidge Thomas Bulfinch, 466. \nCoolidge William Henry, 339. \nCoombs John Colby, 339. \nCooney James, 247. \nCooney Patrick H., 156. \nCooper Clarence H., 339. \nCooper Henry E , 622. \nCooper Samuel, 554. \nCopeland Frank M , 339. \nCopeland George Warren, 201. \nCopeland William A., 339. \nCopley John Singleton, 445. \nCoppenhagen John Henry, 466. \nCorbett Joseph J., 339. \nCorcoran Declan C, 466. \nCorcoran John W., 307. \nCorey H. M., 622. \nCor mack K., 622. \nCorning Harvey T., 622. \nCornlee Lebron T., 622. \nCorrigan R. Albernethy, 622. \nCorthell Wallace, 622. \nCostello John ^.. 622. \nCostine Joseph P., 622. \nCotter James E., 364. \nCotting John Brown, 284. \nCottle Henry E., 622. \nCotton H. W. B., 466. \nCotton J. H., 622. \nCotton John J., 622. \nCottrell Asa, 559. \nCourtney William F., 353. \nCoverly R. B., 622. \nCowan Alonzo, 466. \nCowen Alfred C., 622 \nCowen Daniel J., 622. \nCowing Rufus Billings, 466. \nCowley Charles, 622. \nCox Charles T., 622. \nCoyt James O., 622. \nCradock George, 269. \nCrafts Thomas, 285. \nCrafts William A., 367. \n\n\n654 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nCragin Lorenzo S., jr., 612. \nCrandall E. H., 622. \nCrane David F., 466. \nCrane John H., 622. \nCrane Royal S., 622. \nCranch William, 274. \nCrandell E. H., 622. \nCrandell Hiram Burr, 374. \nCrawford Frederick E., 466. \nCrawford Jay Boyd, 373. \nCreech Samuel W.. 373. \nCreed Michael J., 329. \nCressy Frank L., 466. \nCristy Austin P., 622. \nCroane Lemuel E., 622. \nCrocker George Glover, 307. \nCrocker George Uriel, 307. \nCrocker Samuel Leonard, 466. \nCrocker Samuel Mather, 288. \nCrocker Samuel R., 622. \nCrocker Uriel Haskell, 307. \nCrockett George H., 622. \nCrommett Freeman Turner, 334. \nCronan John F., 335. \nCronin Cornelius F., 308. \nCrosby Charles H., 335. \nCrosby J. Porter, 335. \nCrosby William G., 622. \nCrossly Arthur Waldo, 605. \nCrowley Charles, 307. \nCrowley Daniel N., 622. \nCrowley John Colman, 612. \nCroswell Simon Greenleaf, 335. \nCrowninshield Edward A., 127. \nCrowninshield Francis B., 594. \nCrowninshield John C, 622. \nCruft Edward, jr., 398. \nCulver S. VV., 622. \nCummings Cyrus, 622. \nCummings James T., 335. \nCummings John W., 622. \nCummings Joseph, 373. \nCummings Prentiss, 575. \nCummings William, 622. \nCummins Ariel Ivers, 466. \nCummins David, 421. \nCummins T. K., 612. \nCunly Joseph M., 622. \nCunningham Frederick, 374. \nCunningham Guy, 335. \n< 'unningham Henry V., 466. \nCunningham Nathan, 622. \nCurley Thomas, 622. \nCurran Francis P., 335. \nCurrier B. H., 560. \nCurrier Horace Hamilton, 454. \nCurrier John Jr., 622. \nCurrier Nathan, 335. \nCurrier O. S., 622. \nCurrier Soreno E. D., 622. \nCurrier Thomas Florian, 374. \nCurrv George Erastus, 375 \nCurtis Benjamin Robbins, 175. \nCurtis Benjamin Robbins, jr., \n\n547- \nCurtis Charles Pelham, 129. \nCurtis Charles Pelham, jr , 130. \nCurtis Charles Pelham, 3d, 466. \nCurtis Daniel Sargent, 434. \nCurtis Edwin Upton, 308. \nCurtis George Ticknor, 239. \nCurwin Jonathan, 215. \nCushing Abel, 369. \nCushing Abner L., 370. \nCushing Arthur P., 219. \nCushing Austin S., 622. \nCushing Caleb, 291. \nCushing Charles, 287. \n\n\nCushing Charles W., 466. \nCushing George S., 622. \nCushing Grafton Dulany, 612. \nCushing Henry L., 622. \nCushing John, 216. \nCushing John, 216. \nCushing John Newmarch, 612. \nCushing Livingston, 613. \nCushing Louis Thomas, 376. \nCushing Luther Stearns, 275. \nCushing Martin G., 622. \nCushing Nathan, 246. \nCushing Thomas, 275. \nCushing William, 217. \nCushman Arey F., 622. \nCushman Austin S., 457. \nCushman Henry Otis, 375. \nCushman Joseph, 466. \nCushman Jotham, 622. \nCushman Walter S., 622. \nCutler Joseph, 622. \nCutler Marshall, 613. \nCutler Nathan, 622. \nCutter Edward S., 622. \nCutter Isaac Jones, 376. \nCutter Joseph A., 622. \nCutter Ralph H., 622. \nCutter Samuel Locke, jr., 613. \n\nDabney Frederick, 213. \nDabney Lewis S., 187. \nDacey Timothy J., 187. \nDakin Arthur H , 466. \nDaland Tucker, 466. \nDaley Peter, 623. \nDalton Tristram, 486. \nDaly Anthony C, 146. \nDaly Augustus J., 623. \nDame Abraham A., 456. \nDame Charles C, 610. \nDame John Thompson, 551. \nDame Theodore S., 550. \nDame Walter Reeves, 613. \nDame William Augustus, 466. \nDame William A., 622. \nDana Arthur P., 622. \nDana Charles Francis, 454. \nDana Edmund Trowbridge, 147, \nDana Edward A., 448. \nDana Francis, 146. \nDana Francis, 248. \nDana F. A., 623. \nDana Henry C, 623. \nDana James, 130. \nDana John Adams, 438. \nDana Richard, 146. \nDana Richard H., 146. \nDana Richard H. jr., 147. \nDana Richard H., 3d 147. \nDana Samuel, 147. \nDana William Franklin, 613. \nDanforth George Franklin, 542. \nDanforth John C, 623. \nDanforth Thomas, 194. \nDanforth Thomas, 268. \nDaniels A. W. D., 623 \nDarby A. C, 623. \nDarling Charles Ross, 466. \nDarling Edwin H., 148. \nDarling Frederick Homer, 613. \nDarling Herbert Henry, 613. \nDarling Samuel C, 623. \nDary George A., 148. \nDavenport Addington, 128. \nDavenport Addington, jr., 542. \nDavenport Edwin, 466. \nDavenport William Nathaniel, \n\n\nDavid Edward C, 623. \n\nDavid J. B., 623. \n\nDavidson James T., 623. \n\nDavidson William E., 466. \n\nDavis Abner, 623. \n\nDavis Augustus Brigham, 466. \n\nDavis Bancroft Gherardi, 467. \n\nDavis Benjamin Wood, 613. \n\nDavis Charles, 287. \n\nDavis Charles Francis, 148. \n\nDavis Charles Gideon, 185. \n\nDavis Charles Thornton, 148. \n\nDavis Daniel, 186. \n\nDavis Edward H., 623. \n\nDavis Everett Allen, 148. \n\nDavis E., 623. \n\nDavis Frank, 623. \n\nDavis Frank M., 467. \n\nDavis George Thomas, 150. \n\nDavis Hasbrouck, 148. \n\nDavis Henry Charles, 308. \n\nDavis Henry Talman, 433. \n\nDavis James Clarke, 149. \n\nDavis Jerome, 613. \n\nDavis John, 149. \n\nDavis John Brazer, 426. \n\nDavis John W., 560. \n\nDavis Mark, 623. \n\nDavis Nathaniel M., 640. \n\nDavis Samuel Craft, jr., 613. \n\nDavis Simon, 149. \n\nDavis Thomas H., 623. \n\nDavis Thomas Kemper, 149. \n\nDavis Timothy, 623. \n\nDavis Wendell, 442. \n\nDavis Willard A., 623. \n\nDavis William, 150. \n\nDavis William Nye, 150. \n\nDavis William Thomas, 150 \n\nDavison Andrew Cunningham, \n\n151- \nDavy Humphrey, 208. \nDawes C. M., 623. \nDawes Henry L., jr., 623. \nDawes Rufus, 293. \nDawes Thomas, 246. \nDay Charles Frank, 456. \nDay Henry, 415. \nDay James, 467. \nDay John A., 560. \nDay John E., 623. \nDay Joseph M., 467. \nDay Stanton, 149. \nDean Benjamin, 517. \nDean Benjamin C, 623. \nDean Frank A., 623. \nDean Joseph S., 186. \nDean Josiah Stevens, 467. \nDean Thomas, 467. \nDeane F. B., 623. \nDeans George Wheaton, 467. \nDearborn Frank A., 623. \nDearborn Joseph F., 623. \nDearborn Joseph W., 623. \nDearborn N. A. L., 623. \nDearington John F., 623. \nDecosta George W., 623. \nDehon William, 425. \nDelano Delavin Calvin, 151. \nDelano Frank Ralph, 457. \nDe Las Casas William B., 253. \nDemick Frank E., 467. \nDeming Horace Howard, 457. \nDemond Charles, 456. \nDenfield Louis Emil, 151. \nDenison A. E., 467. \nDenison Daniel, 193. \nDennison George, 623. \n\n\nINDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n655 \n\n\nDennison Joseph, 467. \nDennison William, jr.. 468. \nDenny Henry Gardner, 188. \nDenny Thomas, 457. \nDenton William tJitt, 560. \nDerby Elias Hasket, 239. \nDerby Elmer G., 623. \nDerby Ezekiel Hersey, 399. \nDerby George Strong, 449. \nDerby John B., 345. \nDeshon George P., 623 \nDevens Arthur Lithgow, 376. \nDevens Charles, 217. \nDevereux Humphrey, 287. \nDevereux John James, 188, \nDevotion Samuel H., 623. \nDewey Charles Augustus, 291. \nDewey Daniel, 246. \nDewey Francis Henshaw, 421, \nDewey Henry Sweetser, 187 \nDewey Justin, 204. \nDewey Seth P., 623. \nDewey T. M , 623. \nDewing Elijah F., 623. \nDexter Andrew, jr., 623. \nDexter Arthur, 467. \nDexter Edward Robbins, 467. \nDexter Everett K., 467. \nDexter Franklin, 568. \nDexter George, 173. \nDexter Samuel, 591. \nDexter Samuel, 502. \nDexter Samuel, 591. \nDexter Samuel, jr., 623. \nDexter Samuel G., 623 \nDexter Thomas Amory, 376. \nDexter William Sohier, 442. \nDickerman Albert, 187. \nDickerman Frank Elliot, 187. \nDickey David, 623. \nDickinson David Taggart, 613. \nDickinson F. W., 610. \nDickinson J., 623. \nDickinson Marquis Fayette, \n\n375- \nDickinson W.. 623. \nDickinson William Austin, 467. \nDickson George C, 623. \nDickson William, 623. \nDieter F. J., 623. \nDillaway George Wales. 467 \nDillaway William E. L., 512. \nDillingham William C, 623. \nDillon George W., 623. \nDillon James F., 623. \nDimmick Frank, 467. \nDimmock William R., 611. \nDimon Oliver, 623. \nDixon Francis B., 623. \nDixwell Epes Sargent, 467. \nDoane Henry, 558. \nDockray Tames, 289. \nDodge Arthur P., 623. \nDodge Edward Sherman, 467. \nDodge Frederick, 467. \nDodge Frederick B., 623. \nDodge John C, 225. \nDodge John Frederick, 453. \nDodge John H. P., 467. \nDodge William W., 467. \nDoggett Samuel, 283. \nDoherty Philip J., 308. \nDoherty William W., 309. \nDolan Matthew 332. \nDolan William J., 332. \nDolling Samuel W., 623. \nDollinger Samuel W., 623. \nDole Edward F„ 467. \n\n\nDole San ford Ballard, 448. \nDonahue Charles H., 623. \nDonnelly Charles F., 638. \nDore John F., 623. \nDorr Dudley A., 468. \nDorr Ebenezer Ritchie, 468. \nDorr Francis O., 156. \nDorr Jonathan, 220. \nDorr Samuel Adams, 157. \nDorr Walter Henry, 613. \nDorr William Bradley, 428. \nDouglas Albert, 468. \nDow John Emery, jr., 613. \nDow Nathan Thompson, 550. \nDow Richard Sylvester, 375. \nDow Samuel Knight, 613. \nDowd Frederick C, 468. \nDowd James J., 438. \nDowdall James, 623. \nDowe William A., 623. \nDownes Henry Hill, 333. \nDowse G. S., 623. \nDowse William B. H., 597. \nDrake Ellis R., 623. \nDrake F. L., 623. \nDrake Luther J., 333. \nDrake Wilton E., 623. \nDraper J. W., 438. \nDraper Moses. 365. \nDrew Charles A., 334. \nDrew Charles Henry, 390. \nDrew David F., 623. \nDrew Eugeue I., 623. \nDrew George W., 623. \nDrew IraT., 468. \nDrew John T., 623. \nDrury William H., 200. \nDu jois Edward C, 623. \nDubois Lorenzo Griswold, 468. \nDudley Dean, 638. \nDudley Elbridge G., 550. \nDudley Joseph, 638. \nDudley Levi Edwin, 308. \nDudley Haul, 638. \nDudley Sanford Harrison, 6j6. \nDudley Thomas, 163. \nDudley Warren Preston, 375 \nDudley William, 262. \nDuff William Frederick, 468. \nDuggan R. Augustus, 199. \nDummer Charles, 623. \nDummer Jeremiah, 260. \nDummer Richard, 192. \nDumpfel Frederick C, 623. \nDunbar Charles Franklin, 56.. \nDunbar James Robert, '2 4. \nDunbar John Danforth, 438. \nDunbar W. Harrison, 613 \nDuncan David D., 623. \nDuncan William P., 623. \nDumklee Charles Tilton, 199. \nDuncklee Mark Fisher, 550. \nDunham Charles F., 499. \nDunham Charles G. M.,463. \nDunham Harrison, 468. \nDunlap Andrew, 638. \nDunlap Robert Hartley, 455. \nDunlap Samuel Fales, 293. \nDurant Henry Fowle, 498. \nDurant William Bullard, 468. \nDurbin Edward Augustus, 613. \nDurgin Mark H., 624. \nDustin Daniel H., 624. \nDutton Francis Lowell, 375. \nDutton Ormand Horace. 468. \nDutton Warren, 288. \nDutton Warren, 624. \nDvvight Albert, 624. \n\n\nDwight Edmund, 623. \nDwight H. W., 623. \nDwight Jonathan, 468. \nDwight Thomas, 427. \nDwight Wilder, 638. \nDwyer Patrick D , 624. \nDwyer Richard Joseph, 468. \nDwyer William Whitton, 130. \nDyer C. G., 468, \nDyer Francis Benson, 468. \nDyer Micah, jr., 433. \n\nEager Clinton, 623. \nEames Ithmar B.,623. \nEastman Ambrose, 201. \nEastman George Nehemiah, \n\n552. \nEastman Josephus, 468. \nEastman Luke, 605. \nEastman William H., 624. \nEaton Chester W., 203. \nEaton E. E., 624 \nEaton George Herbert, 613. \nEaton Lucien, 468. \nEaton Thomas B., 624. \nEaton Thomas G., 624. \nEckley Thomas J., 624. \nEddy Charles F., 624. \nEder James Martin, 613. \nEdes Henry, 287. \nEdgerly A. W., 560. \nEdgerly C. J., 638. \nEdson Charles H., 338. \nEdson Loren Henry, 453. \nFdwards Abraham, 338. \nEdwards E. E., 624 \nEdwards Henderson Josiah, \n\n468. \nEdwards Thomas, 282. \nEgan James, 429. \nEla Richard, 248. \nElder Charles Ronello, 126. \nElder Samuel James, 309. \nEldridge Charles W., 624. \nEldridge Clarence Freeman, \n\nEldridge John J., 624. \nEldridge John Loring, 364. \nEldridge John Seabury, 450. \nEldridge Samuel, 449. \nEliot Amory, 338. \nEliot William H., 426. \nElliott Edward Thomas, 469.' \nElliott James Henderson, 288. \nElliott Wi.liam, 239. \nElliott William, jr., 624. \nEllis Arthur Blake, 468. \nEllis Charles James, 468 \nEllis Charles Mayo, 448. \nEllis Frederick A., 624. \nEllis James, 624. \nEllis James M , 624 \nEllis John Harvard, 125 \nEllis Nathaniel, 624. \nElwyn John, 624. \nEly Alfred Brewster, 342. \nEly Frederick D., 126. \nEly Henry W., 624. \nEly William, 624. \nEmery George W., 624. \nEmery James, 624. \nEmery James W., 624. \nEmery Samuel Hopkins, 613. \nEmery Thomas Jefferson, 338. \nEmery Woodward. 332. \nEmerson Charles Chauncy, 452. \nEmerson Charles H., 624. \nEmerson Charles N., 624. \n\n\n6S6 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nEmerson Edward Bliss, 469. \nEmerson John W., 469. \nEmmes Aaron, 288. \nEmmons Arthur Brewster, 469. \nEmmons Freeman, 334. \nEmmons Henry Butler, 334. \nEmmons William H. H., 334. \nEnd William, 611 \nEndicott John, 163. \nEndicott William C, 309. \nEndicott William C, jr., 421. \nEngley William Francis, 469. \nEnglish George B., 125. \nEnglish James L., 156 \nEnglish James S., 156. \nEnnis Alfred, 624 \nEnsign Charles Sidney, 289 \nEnsign Edward Eli, 454. \nErnst George A. O., 289. \nEstabrook George W., 289. \nEstey Willard F., 624. \nEsty Constantine C, 490. \nEvans Andrew Otis, 614. \nEvans Glendower, 469. \nEvans Henry B., 624. \nEvarts Jeremiah 293. \nEvarts William Mnxwell, 293. \nEverett Alexander Hill, 125. \nEverett C. W., 624. \nEverett David, 286. \nEverett Edward, 624. \nEverett John, 428. \nEverett William, 499. \nEverett William Abbott, \nEustis Abraham, \nEustis George, 28 \nEustis Horatio Sprague, \n\n\n469. \n\n\n239- \n\n\n554- \n\n\nFabens Francis A., 383. \nFabens William, 469. \nFagin James K., 624. \nFairbanks A. W G., 414. \nFairbanks John, 469. \nFairbanks Lorenzo S., 508. \nFairbanks Rufus G., 224. \nFairfield Samuel L., 624. \nFales Henry, 469. \nFales Henry E., 233. \nFales Stephen, 418. \nFales William Augustus, 469. \nFall Anna Christy, 224. \nFall Charles Gershom, 224. \nFall George Howard. 224. \nFallon Joseph D., 596. \nFarley Benjamin Mark, 234. \nFarley Frederick Augustus, \n\n157- \n\nFarley George Frederick, 357. \nFarley James Francis, 469. \nFarley James Phillips, 614. \nFarley Philip O., 624. \nFarmer Lewis G., 383. \nFarnham Frank A., 469. \nFarnham Horace P., 469. \nFarnham John E., 469. \nFarnsworth W. C , 624. \nFarrar George, 455. \nFarrar Timothy, 624. \nFarrar William H., 624. \nFarrell Michael F., 384. \nFarrie John, Jr., 624. \nFarrow Frederick, 624. \nFarwell George, 264. \nFaunce Sewall Allen, 447. \nFaxon William, jr., 201. \nFay Clement Kelsey, 219. \nFay Farwell F., 438. \nFay Francis Britain, 614. \n\n\nFay Jonathan, 283, 644. \nFay Richard Sullivan, 125. \nFay Samuel P. P., 447. \nFederhen Herbert M., 384 \nFeeley Joseph James, 124. \nFelch Charles H., 557 \nFelch Frederick R., 469. \nFelken Samuel D , 624. \nFellner Eugene, 356. \nFellows H Parker, 469. \nFelton Alexander C., 624. \nFenno James W., 624. \nFenton John L., 624. \nFenwick A. J., 624. \nFernald B. Marvin, 236. \nFernald Henry B., 624. \nFessenden Benjamin D., 624. \nFessenden Franklin Goodridge, \n\n421. \nFessenden Thomas Green, 245. \nField Justin, 624. \nField .tf ansell B., 624. \nField Robert, 624. \nField Walbridge Abner, 259. \nField William Paisley, 455. \nFields Robert, 288. \nFilkins, George E., 624. \nFischacher Max, 469. \nFish Abner C, 624. \nFish Frederick Perry, 469. \nFisher Aaron Esty, 614. \nFisher Albert G., 624. \nFisher David Simmons, 356. \nFisher George Albert, 469. \nFisher Herbert T., 624. \nFisher Nathaniel, 285. \nFisher Samuel, 209. \nFisher Samuel, 469. \nFisher Sidney A., 624. \nFisk Amasa. 624. \nFisk Henry M., 623. \nFisk James H., 623. \nFisk Robert Farris, 455. \nFiske Andrew, 310. \nFiske Augustus Henry, 310. \nFiske Charles Henry, 310. \nFiske Edward, 469. \nFiske Francis S., 414 \nFiske Frederick A. P., 310. \nFiske Isaac, 470. \nFiske Jerome rl., 310. \nFiske John, 310. \nFiske John Minot, 470. \nFiske John Minot, 124. \nFitch George, 624. \nFitch Samuel, 269. \nFitz Alfred W., 624 \nFitz Daniel Francis, 470 \nFitz Frank E., 356. \nFitzgerald James, 624. \nFitzgerald James E., 332. \nFitzgerald John E., 486. \nFlagg George A., 328. \nFlagg James E., 624. \nFlagg John S., 624. \nFlanders George A., 624. \nFlanders George M., 624. \nFlatley P. J., 470. \nFlatley Thomas, 124. \nFleming C. H., 624. \nFletcher Josiah, 624. \nFletcher Richard, 239. \nFlint James Henry, 224. \nFlint Thomas, 193. \nFlint Waldo, 438. \nFloyd Jesse L., 624. \nFloyd Samuel E., 624. \nFlynn Edward James, 251. \n\n\nFoley Jeremiah G., 252. \nFoley M. T., 624. \nFolger George H., 624. \nFollan William L., 470. \nFolsom George, 438. \nFolsom Henry A., 560. \nFolsom H. W., 624. \nFolsom Samuel H., 560. \nForbes Charles E., 639. \nForbes Charles S.. 624. \nForbes John Murray, 287. \nForbush Frank M., 252. \nForbush George Sumner, 251. \nFord Edward, 624. \nForsaith Josiah, 624. \nForsaith William Josiah, 326 \nFoster Alfred D., 638. \nFoster Andrew. 470. \nFoster Arthur F., 624. \nFoster Bessenger, 285. \nFoster Charles Amos, 470. \nFoster Dwight, 422. \nFoster Francis C., 3S4. \nFoster George, 624. \nFoster George S., 624. \nFoster James, 470. \nFoster Jedediah, 246. \nFoster John, 260. \nFoster John L., 624. \nFoster Ralph W., 470. \nFoster Reginald, 470. \nFoster Stephen Austin, 326 \nFowle Jonathan, jr., 624. \nFowler George R., 326. \nFowler William Plumer, 356 \nFox Jabez, 311. \nFox James Augustus, 311. \nFox James W., 311. \nFrancis Erwin J., 624. \nFrancis Nathaniel A., 470. \nFrank George Washington, 47 1 \nFreeman Francis - ., 625. \nFreeman Nathaniel, 470. \nFreeman Rufus G. A., 470. \nFrench Arthur Phelps, 311. \nFrench Asa, 585. \nFrench Asa Palmer, 384. \nFrench Ebenezer, 625. \nFrench George B., 470. \nFrench Henry F., 625. \nFrench James Jackson, 450. \nFrench Jeremiah, 455 \nFrench John Henry, 470. \nFrench Joseph R., 625. \nFrench Lyman P., 470. \nFrench Ralph S., 625. \nFrench William B., 470. \nFrench William H , 625. \nFrench William Wesley, 311. \nFriar William, 625. \nFrost George S., 625. \nFrost Henry Walker, 470. \nFrost Lewis Pierce, 384. \nFrost Robert W., 384. \nFrost Walker Sprague, 384. \nFrothinarham John, 47.. \nFrothingham Nathaniel L., 470. \nFrothingham Thomas B., 490. \nFry Charles, 384. \nFrye Alexander E., 625. \nFrye Wakefield G., 625. \nFuller Abraham W., 562. \nFuller B. A. G., 625. \nFuller Eugene, 387. \nFuller Frederick D., 625. \nFuller Henry F., 624. \nFuller Henry H., 342. \nFuller Henry W., 330. \n\n\nINDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n657 \n\n\nFuller Henry Weld, 250. \nFuller Horace W., 470. \nFuller Richard Frederick, 239. \nFuller Samuel A., jr., 415. \nFuller Samuel D., 625. \nFuller Timothy, 288. \nFulton Charles Edward, 470. \nFurber George Pope, 385. \n\nGage Arthur E., 387. \nGage Clinton, 625. \nGage John Cutter, 471. \nGage William, 625. \nGalbraith Frederick W., 625. \nGale John, 411. \nGale Lucien, 574. \nGale William, 425. \nGale William B ,411. \nGallagher Charles Theodore, \n\n313- \nGallagher Matthew, 625. \nGalligan J. J., 625 \nGallison John, 402. \nGalvin John Edward, 313. \nGalvin Owen A., 295. \nGammons George Gordon, 471 \nGansevoort Henry Safford, 455. \nGardiner C. P., 625. \nGardiner Francis, 614. \nGardiner Henry, 625 \nGardiner John, 239 \nGardiner John, 284 \nGardiner Robert Hallowed, \n\n313- \nGardiner Samuel Jackson, 411. \nGardiner Wade Hampton, 471. \nGardiner William Howard, 426. \nGardner William Sewa'l, 218. \nGary Frank E. H., 630. \nGargan Thomas J., 511. \nGarland A. K., 625. \nGaston William, 385. \nGaston William A., 600. \nGates Fairbanks A. W., 471. \nGates Isaac, 471. \nGay Ebenezer, 124. \nGay Ebenezer, '253. \nGay Edward H., 625. \nGay George, 399. \nGay Samuel, 398. \nGaynor William J., 438. \nGedney Bartholomew, 209. \nGeorge Edward B., 625. \nGeorge Elijah, 131. \nGeorge John H., 625. \nGeorge Richard. 440 \nGerard Francis Smith, 454. \nGerrish Benjamin J., - \nGerrish George Albert, 455. \nGerrish James, 385. \nGerrish Samuel, 625. \nGerry Elbridge, 255 \nGerry FrankF., 625. \nGibbons Edward, 193. \nGibbons Joseph McKean, 614. \nGibbs Amory Thompson, 471. \nGibbs Emery Reuben, 326. \nGibbs Ira, 611. \nGibson C. E., 625. \nGibson George Alphonso, 471. \nGibson William F,, 625. \nGiddinjjs C. I., 471. \nGifford Edmund, 014. \nGilbert David, 471. \nGilbert Samuel C., 614. \nGilohrist D. S., 560. \nGilday Charles A., 625. \n\n84 \n\n\nGile lohn S., 625. \n\nGile William H., 625. \n\nGiles Alfred Ellingwood, 451. \n\nGiles G., 625. \n\nGiles Joel. 342. \n\nGiles John, 342. \n\nGill J. Francis, 625. \n\nGill Thomas, 502. \n\nGillett Frederick H., 614. \n\nGilman Allen, 625. \n\nGilman Edwin C , 587. \n\nGilman Raymond R., 581. \n\nGilman Stephen, 326. \n\nGilpatrick Frederick C, 471. \n\nGirardin Louis, 326. \n\nGleason Albert Augustus, 327. \n\nGleason Daniel Angell, 311. \n\nGleason Horace, 427. \n\nGlidden Ehsha, 625. \n\nGlover Edward Weston, 454. \n\nGlover Frank Eliot, 471. \n\nGlover Horatio N., jr., 471 . \n\nGlover John, 193. \n\nGockritz , 625. \n\nGoddard E. A., 625. \nGoddard George Augustus, 471. \nGoddard Maurice, 471. \nGoddard S. W. E., 625. \nGoff Hugh, 625. \nGold Thomas, 625. \nGoldsbury John, 429. \nGoldsmith Jacob, 471. \nGooch Daniel W., 312. \nGooch W. W., 471. \nGoodale Samuel H., 625. \nGoodenow John, 625. \nGoodenow Richard, jr., 625. \nGoodman Richard, 471. \nGoodnow Isaac, 625. \nGoodrich C. B., 551. \nGoodrich Frank Chester, 552. \nGoodrich John B., 385. \nGoodrich John H., 625. \nGoodsell Evelyn Bonn, 386. \nGoodwin Frank, 471. \nGoodwin Henry, 644. \nGoodwin Oz.ias, 471. \nGookin Daniel, 193. \nGordon George Henry, 220. \nGordon Robert, 6^9. \nGordon Solomon Jones, 441. \nGore Christopher, 225. \nGorely Charles Percival, 471. \nGorham Benjamin, 226. \nGorh 1111 Benjamin, 639. \nGorham David, 268. \nGorham H. Gardiner, 424. \nGorham Robert Stetson, 313. \nGould David, \n\nGould David Ellsworth, 313. \nGould John Melville, 221. \nGould John S., 440 \nGould Stephen, 625. \nGourgas John Mark, 386. \nGove Dana B., 471 \nGove Jesse Morse, 312. \nGove Horace D., 471. \nGove William Henry, 472. \nGraffam Nelson M., 221. \nGraham James, 490. \nGrant L. A., 625. \nGrant Robert. 312. \nGrant Walter B., 625. \nGrantham Frederick W., 625. \nGrasscup Peter S., 639. \nGraves Franklin, 625. \nGraves Horace, 472. \n\n\nGraves T. E., 625. \n\nGray A. J., 560. \n\nGray, Benjamin G., 449. \n\nGray Edward, 2S4. \n\nGray Francis Calley, 128. \n\nGray Horace, 245. \n\nGray John Chipman, 172. \n\nGray John Chipman, 386. \n\nGray J. Converse, 386. \n\nGray John Clinton, 472. \n\nGray John Henry, 472. \n\nGray Levi, 472. \n\nGray Morris, 386. \n\nGray Xaphin, 625. \n\nGray Otis T., 386. \n\nGray Reginald, 410. \n\nGray Russell, 472. \n\nGray Thomas J., 625. \n\ndray W'illiam, 640. \n\nGray William C, 625. \n\nGreaves Thomas, 487. \n\nGreeley Edward A., 625. \n\nGreen Herman W., 625. \n\nGreen Melbourne, 639. \n\nGreen Nicholas St. John, 450. \n\nGreen O. H., 625. \n\nGreen Oscar P., 625. \n\nGreen Richard W., 625. \n\nGreen Walter C . , 625. \n\nGreene Benjamin D., 472. \n\nGreene David Ireland, 288. \n\nGreene Joseph, 263. \n\nGreene J. A., 625. \n\nGreene Mary A., 625. \n\nGreene William C, 411. \n\nGreene William Parkman, 411. \n\nGreenleaf Simon, 487. \n\nGreenleaf Thomas, 345. \n\nGreenough Charles Pelham, \n124. \n\nGreenough Daniel J., 625. \n\nGreenough David Stoddard, \n425. \n\nGreenwood Ehsha, 411, \n\nGreenwood Augustus Good- \nwin. 455. \n\nGregg Washington P., 424. \n\nGregory Charles Augustus, 472. \n\nGridley Benjamin, 263. \n\nGridley Jeremiah, 270. \n\nGriffin Crawford S., 625. \n\nGriffin Frederick W., 625. \n\nGriffin George A., 412. \n\nGriffin John Q. A., 586. \n\nGriffin Martin, 625. \n\nGriffin William Franklin, 224. \n\nGriggs George, 428. \n\nGrimes James Wilson, 412. \n\nGrimkie Archibald Henry, 472. \n\nGrinnell Charles Edward, 412. \n\nGriswold Almon W., 438. \n\nGriswold Loren Erskine, 154. \n\nGrosvenor Lemuel, 625. \n\nGrover Edwin, 518 \n\nGrover Elliott M., 625. \n\nGrover Emery, 472. \n\nGrover Thomas E., 154. \n\nGrout A., 625. \n\nGrout Jonathan, 472. \n\nGuernsey Luther Blodgett, 455. \n\nGuild Benjamin, 290. \n\nGuild George Dwight, 414. \n\nGuild Samuel Eliot, 128. \n\nGuiney Patrick R., 486. \n\nGurley John Ward, 286. \n\nGunney R. C, 625. \n\nGunnison George W.,625. \n\n\n658 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nHackett Frank Warren, 614. \n\nHaddock William T., - \n\nHadley Eugene J., 518. \n\nHadlock Harvey Deming, 255. \n\nHagar Eugene Bigelow, 194. \n\nHaggerty David J., 626. \n\nHahn J. Jerome. 625. \n\nHalm Silas B , 449. \n\nHaile William H., 626. \n\nHale Abraham G. R., 518. \n\nHale Charles, 518. \n\nHale Edwin B , 179. \n\nHale George Silsbee, 414, \n\nHale Nathan, 127. \n\nHale Nathan, 175. \n\nHale Thomas E., 626. \n\nHale William P., 518. \n\nHall Alfred Stevens, 179. \n\nHall Benjamin, 178. \n\nHall Bordman, 178. \n\nHall Charles F., 178. \n\nHall Charles Winslow, 518. \n\nHall Ellis G.,626 \n\nHall Frank Rockwood, 614 \n\nHall Franklin, 222. \n\nHall Henry Seth, 626. \n\nHall James Milton, 178. \n\nHall Joseph, 283. \n\nHall Junius, 398. \n\nHall Robert Sprague, 194. \n\nHall Thomas Bartlett, '104. \n\nHall William Stickney, 518. \n\nHallett Benjamin Franklin, 275. \n\nHallett Henry L., 194 \n\nHalsted John J., 518. \n\nHalsted Pennington, 518. \n\nHam Benjamin Franklin, 552. \n\nHama John T., 625. \n\nHamblin Howard Malcolm, 518. \n\nHamilton Alexander James, \n\n518. \nHamilton H. L., 626. \nHamilton Samuel K., 355. \nHamlin Charles Sumner, 248. \nHammond John Wilkes 204. \nHammond Thomas, 285. \nHancock Charles Lewis, 427. \nHanks Charles Stedman, 317. \nHanley John E., 316. \nHannigan John Edward, 414 \nHanson Charles H., 518. \nHanson George W., 625. \nHapgood Charles H., 625. \nHapgood John H., 625. \nHarding Emor Herbert, 518. \nHarding Fisher Ames, 398. \nHarding George, 625. \nHarding George Herbert, 220. \nHarding Herbert Lee, 326. \nHarding William Penn, 412. \nHardon Henry W., 614. \nHardy John Henry, 312. \nHarlakenden Roger, 192. \nHarlow James Francis, 614. \nHarlow Robert Pinckney, 519. \nHarlow Thomas Stetson, 126. \nHarmon Irving, 626 \nHarmon Stephen W., 519. \nHarriman Edward A.very, 614. \nHarriman George F., 626. \nHarriman Walter C, 626. \nHarrington Dennis A., 519. \nHarrington Joseph, 626. \nHarrington W. H., 626. \nHarris B. N., 626. \nHarris Benjamin Winslow, 130. \nHarris Charles Nathan, 412. \n\n\nHarris David L., 626. \nHarris G N., 510. \nHarris Henry F., 440. \nHarris Horace, 626. \nHarris Jacob B., 323. \nHarris Joseph A.', 501. \nHarris Robert Orr, 453. \nHarris Samuel T., 519'. \nHarris William A., 626. \nHarris William Thaddeus, 448. \nHart William H., 204. \nHartshorn Benjamin M., 519. \nHartwell Alfred Stedman, 519. \nHartwell Shattuck, 519. \nHarvey Benjamin, 626. \nHarvey John Le Grand, 327. \nHarvey Napoleon, 626. \nHarwood A. L., 519. \nHaskell Benjamin, 626. \nHaskell William, 626. \nHaskell William E. P., 626. \nHaskins David Greene, 412. \nHassam John Tyler, 232. \nHastings George Russell, 519. \nHastings Isaac, 626. \nHastings Seth, 440. \nHatch Arthur G., 519. \nHatch Nathaniel 263 \nHatheway Albert Newton, 519. \nHatheway Amos L., 519. \nHatheway Joha G., 626. \nHatheway Simon W., 413. \nHathorne John, 209. \nHathorne William, 208. \nHaven Franklin, jr., 519. \nHaven Samuel, 345. \nHay Gustavus, jr., 413. \nHay George Whitney, 222. \nHaycock Judson, 626. \nHayden Aaron, 519. \nHayden Albert Fearing, 414. \nHayden Charles Sprague, 519. \nHayden Edward D., 330. \nHayes Andrew Wayland, 415. \nHayes Benjamin Franklin, 558. \nHayes Charles Henry, 519. \nHayes Francis Brown, 294 \nHayes Francis L., 519. \nHayes George E., 519. \nHayes James E., 626. \nHayes Thomas McCulloch, 626. \nHayes William Allen, 123. \nHayes William A., 2d, 519. \nHayford George W., 626. \nHayman Edward P., 626. \nHayman Samuel, 264. \nHaynes Charles H., 519. \nHaynes Edward F., 169. \nHaynes Gideon F., 520. \nHaynes Henry P., 626. \nHaynes Henry Williamson, \n\n520. \nHaynes John, 163. \nHayward Charles C, 626. \nHay ward Jedediah K. 553. \nHayward John White, 520. \nHazelton Horace L., 420. \nHazen M. W , 626. \nHead Edward F., 249. \nHead George Edward, 415. \nHealey John P., 260. \nHealy Joseph, 540. \nHe* William E.. . \nHeard Charles, 626. \nHeard Francis Fiske, 250. \nHeard John, 286. \nHearne Joseph, 271. \n\n\n520. \n\n\nHeath Thomas, 626. \n\nHeath William, 543. \n\nHebron John B., 626. \n\nHedge William, 405. \n\nHedge William Kneeland, 448. \n\nHeilborn George H., 611. \n\nHellier Charles Edward, 415. \n\nHemenway Alfred, 163. \n\nHemenway Charles M., 520. \n\nHemenway Frederick, 626. \n\nHemenway F. B., 520. \n\nHemenway George L.. 626. \n\nHenderson Thomas Albert, 454. \n\nHendrick Clarence, 520. \n\nHendrie James, 626. \n\nHenshaw Isaac M., 626. \n\nHerbert John, 163. \n\nHerndon Eugene W., 626. \n\nHerrick E. H. P., 626. \n\nHerrick Horatio G., 611. \n\nHerrick Robert F., 164. \n\nHerrick William A., 626. \n\nHersey Henry Edson, 164. \n\nHersey Ira Charles, 164. \n\nHervey James Algin, 520. \n\nHesseltine Francis Snow, 164. \n\nHeurrot John, 626. \n\nHewins James, 363. \n\nHewlett E M., 626 \n\nHeywood Charles E., 520. \n\nHibbard Charles C, 626. \n\nHibbard Charles E.,626. \n\nHibbard Edward Andress, 614. \n\nHibbens William, 193. \n\nHichborn Benjamin, 554. \n\nHiggins John H., 626. \n\nHiggins John Joseph, 164. \n\nHiggins Jonathan, 626. \n\nHigginson Edward, 520. \n\nHigginson Nathaniel, 285. \n\nHildreth Arthur, 520. \n\nHildreth Charles H., 614. \n\nHildreth George R.. 626. \n\nHildreth Richard, 164. \n\nHill Clement H., 626. \n\nHill Edgar S., 520. \n\nHill Edward, 282. \n\nHill Edward L , f26. \n\nHill Edwin Newell, 520. \n\nHill Hamilton Alphonso, 453 \n\nHill Henry E., 440. \n\nHill John, 502. \n\nHill William, 284 \nHillard George Stillman, 173. \nHilliard Francis 240. \nHilliard William, 192. \n\nHillis John, 520. \n\nHillis Thomas, 520. \nHills Frank H., 626. \nHills Nathaniel C. 626. \nHilton G. Arthur, 520 \nHinckley Eugene B., 626. \nHinckley Samuel, 440. \nHincks David Armstong, 165. \nHinds Calvin P., 123. \nHinks John, 264 \nHitchcock Charles, 626. \nHitchcock George Nicholas, 61 ). \nHitchcock Peter, 626. \nHoag Charles H., 626. \nHoague Isaac Theodore, 520. \nHoar David Blakely, 123. \nHoar Ebenezer Rockwood, 123. \nHosr Samuel, 443. \nHoar Sherman, 442. \nHobart H. C, 626 \nHobbs Charles Cushing, 520. \n\n\nINDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\nf,S9 \n\n\nHobbs Frederick, 418. \nHobbs George L., 626. \nHobbs George M.. 123. \nHobbs Marland C, 520. \nHobbs William, 626. \nHobson William, 626. \nHodges Edward Fuller, 17S. \nHodges George Clarendon, 165. \nHodges George Foster, 165. \nHodges Thorndike Deland, 520. \nHodgkins Allen F., 626. \nHodgkins Arthur P., 614. \nHoffman Charles, 626. \nHoffman Wickham, 222. \nHoit Daniel, 626. \nHolbrook Daniel Jefferson, 520. \nHolbrook Leander, 521. \nHolbrook Moses, 165. \nHolbrook Silas P., 626. \nHolcombe Frank G., 165. \nHolcombe Willie Perkins, 165. \nHolden Artemas Rogers, 520. \nHolden Joshua Bennett, 520. \nHolland Henry Ware, 165. \nHolland John Myers, 521. \nHollis Abijah, 521. \nHolmes Abraham, 447. \nHolmes Augustus L., 626. \nHolmes Edward Jackson, 521. \nHolmes Jabez Silas, 521. \nHolmes John, 435. \nHolmes John Sylvester, 166. \nHolmes Joseph Alexander, 447. \nHolmes Nathaniel, 166. \nHolmes Oliver Wendell, jr., 259 \nHomer George F., 428. \nHomer Thomas J., 117. \nHolt J. G., 521. \nHolway Emery F., 626. \nHoi way Seth P.. 626. \nHood Gilbert E., 626. \nHooke E. G., 626. \nHooker John, 626. \nHooper Arthur W., 521. \nHooper Edward William, 436. \nHooper Franklin W., 614. \nHooper Sewall W , 521. \nHooper Stephen, 421 \nHopkins Albert H., 122. \nHopkins Frederick S., 521. \nHopkins George C, 626. \nHopkins John, 421. \nHopkins J. D., 626. \nHopkins William S. B., 440. \nHopkinson Thomas, 640. \nHoppin Henry Parker, 521 \nHopwood J. H., 521. \nHough Atherton, 192. \nHoughton Charles, 449. \nHoughton Frederick L., 521. \nHouston Frank A., 521. \nHovey Edward S., 626. \nHow Isaac R., 626. \nHoward Edward Otis, 167. \nHoward E. O., 521. \nHoward James M. F., 611. \nHoward William L., 627. \nHowe Archibald M., 167. \nHowe Charles Franklin, 167. \nHowe Elmer Parker, 166. \nHowe Georere E., 521. \nHowe Isaac Reddington, 167 \nHowe John Dennett, 521. \nHowe Moses G., 169. \nHowe Samuel, 422. \nHowe William Edward, 52 r. \nHowes Lewis W., 135. \nHowes William Burley, 435. \n\n\nHowland Henry, 521, \nHowland Willard, 131. \nHowland William Russell, 169. \nHoyt George H., 626. \nHubbard Charles Eustis, 168. \nHubbard Charles H., 627. \nHubbard Daniel J., 627. \nHubbard Gardiner Greene, 552. \nHubbard Henry Blanchard, 169 \nHubbard Henry C, 416. \nHubbard Horace C„ 627. \nHubbard Josiah W., 1 ;< . \nHubbard Lucius L., 521. \nHubbard Nathaniel, 216. \nHubbard Nathaniel Dean, 169. \nHubbard Samuel, 169. \nHubbard Thomas, 265. \nHubbard T. H., 627. \nHubbard William Joseph, 426. \nHubbell Jay A., 627. \nHudson Charles Henry, 521. \nHudson H. L., 554. \nHudson John Elbridge, 516. \nHudson John Williams, 449. \nHudson Samuel H., 521. \nHudson Woodworth, 170. \nHuggeford Henry H., 427. \nHughes James, 521. \nHulin William, 627. \nHull John, 209. \nHumphrey Eugene, 522. \nHumphrey Francis Josiah, 425. \nHumphrey James, 169. \nHumphrey John, 192. \nHunt Frederick J., 627. \nHunt Freeman, 436. \nHunt Horace, 627. \nHunt Thomas, 522. \nHunt Thomas A., 627. \nHunt William, 283. \nHunt William Gibbs, 522. \nHunter Erford C, 639. \nHunter H. M., 627. \nHunter W. G , 627. \nHuntington Charles P., 168. \nHuntington Charles W., 522. \nHuntress George L., 170. \nHurbaugh Lewis D., 627. \nHurd Charles Henry, 522. \nHurd Francis William, 522. \nHurd Frederick Ellsworth, 586 \nHurd Theodore C, 501. \nHurlbert John W ., 627. \nHurley Timothy, 627. \nHutchins Edward Webster, 441. \nHutchins Hamilton, 627. \nHutchins Henry Clinton, 438. \nHutchins Horace Green, 415. \nHutchins William Everett, 166. \nHutchinson A. B., 522. \nHutchinson Ebenezer, 166. \nHutchinson Edward, 260. \nHutchinson Eliakim, 262. \nHutchinson Elisha, 209. \nHutchinson Elton, 639 \nHutchinson Foster, 216. \nHutchinson Frederick J., 166. \nHutchinson Freedom, 166. \nHutchinson Horace Deane, 455 \nHutchinson P. H., 522. \nHutchinson Thomas, 167. \nHutchinson Thomas, jr., 263. \nHutchinson Winfield Scott, 168. \nHutchinson Winthrop, 627. \nHutt William, 627. \nHuzzey Josiah, 627. \nHyde Henry Dwight, 168. \nHyde Louis Fiske, 168. \n\n\nIde John E., 627. \n\nIngalls A. T.j \n\nIngalls Melville E., 560. \n\nIngersoll Charles, 456 \n\nIngersoll Charles M., 627. \n\nInuersoll John, 627. \n\nIreson Samuel Edward, 450. \n\nIsham Thadeus I., 627. \n\nEves Stephen Bradshaw, 1 \n\nIvy Jesse C, 522. \n\nJackson Abraham, 222. \nJackson Alonzo D., 627. \nJackson Charles, 637. \nJackson Charles, jr., [34. \nJackson C. L., 627. \nJackson Charles \\V , 627. \nJackson Edward, 286. \nJackson George Jeffrey, 627. \nJackson George West, 168. \nJackson Gerald G. P . , 627. \nJackson J F., 627. \nJackson John Goddard, 405. \nJackson Obadiah, jr., 522. \nJacobs Bela Farwell, 436. \nJacobs Francis Wayland, 522. \nJacobs George Edward, 522. \nJacobs Justin Allen, 251. \nJacques Eden Shotwell, 522. \nJaffrey Charles W., 627. \nJaffrey George, 627. \nJames David Elias, 522. \nJames Elias, 627. \nJames George A., 637. \nJames H. A. W., 627. \nJames John W., 554. \nJames Worthen T , 522. \nJameson John, 522. \nJanes Charles Walton, \nJaquith Harry James, 169. \nJarvis Russell, 588. \nJarvis William Porter, 42S. \nJeffries John, 265. \nJellison Francello G., 627. \nJenkins Edward J., 170. \nJenkins Joseph, jr., 427. \nJenness William Whitten, 171. \nJenney Charles Francis, 171. \nJennings Herbert R., 627. \nJennison Samuel, 522. \nJewell C. A. 522. \nJewell Harvey, 564. \nJewell William E., 522. \nJewett David J. M. A., 627. \nJillson Francello, 627. \nJohnes Ervin A., 627. \nJohnson Asa, 523. \nJohnson Benjamin Newhall, 522. \nJohnson Byron B., 171. \nJohnson Charles G., 627. \nJohnson Daniel U., 627. \nJohnson Edward F., 171. \nJohnson Edward Francis, 172. \nJohnson Eugene M., 169. \nJohnson George W., 440. \nJohnson Harrison, 627 \nJohnson Henry Augustus, 169. \nJohnson Isaac, 192. \nJohnson L. H. H., 522. \nJohnson Merritt C, 627. \nJohnson Moses, 627. \nJohnson Okey, 523. \nJohnson Wells H., 627. \nJohnson William, 209. \nJohonott Rodney F., 627. \nJohonnot Samuel C, 284. \nJones Arthur E., 416. \nJones Augustine, 596. \n\n\n66c \n\n\nHISTORY OE THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nJones Charles W., 627. \nJones Edward Jenkins, 314. \nJones Francis A., 522. \nJones Frederick W., 6 7. \nJones George R., 317. \nJones Heniy, 627 \n\nJones James T., 627. \n\nJones Leonard Augustus, 133. \n\nJones William, 522. \n\nJordan Winfield C , 627. \n\nJoslin James Thomas, 154. \n\n'Joslin Ralph Edgar, 171. \n\nJosselyn L E , 627. \n\nJourdain Edwin H.. 627. \n\nJoy Albion K. P., 523. \n\nJoy Frederick, 171 \n\nJov James Frederick, 569. < \n\nJudd Chauncey P., 523- \n\nJudson H. L., 637. \n\nJudson Walter Herbert, 455- \n\nKaan Frank Wharton, 172. \nKane J. R., 627. \nKapsur William, 436. \nKearns John, 627. \nKeating Patrick M., 172. \nKeefe John A., 523. \nKeeser Frank M., 172 \nKeith Arthur Monroe, 523. \nKeith Israel, 283. \nKeith J. E., 627. \nKeith James Monroe, 484. \nKei-h John W.,484. \nKeller William V., 523. \nKelley George W , 627. \nKelley James Edward, 317. \nKelley John, 627. \nKelley Louis W., 523. \nKelley William, 627. \nKellogg Elliott E.. 627. \nKelly Edward Albert. 597. \nKelly Webster, 551. \nKendall James Brown, 483. \nKendall Robert B., 627. \nKennedy John Charles, 416. \nKent Benjamin, 268. \nKent Charles N., 627. \nKent George, 627. \nKettelle Jacob Q., 627. \nKeyes Charles G., 523. \nKeyes John Shepard, 354 \nKeyes Prescott, 122. \nKeyes Stephen F., 523. \nKibby A. V., 627. \nKidder Frederick H., 416. \nKidder John, 523. \nKidder Reuben, 627. \nKiernan Patrick Bernard, 4 6. \nKilton John F., 523. \nKimball Benjamin, 416. \nKimball Charles A., 455. \nKimball D. Frank, 416. \nKimball David P., 523. \nKimball Edgar L., 417. \nKimball Elbridge G., 637. \nKimball E., 627. \nKimball Edmund, 417. \nKimbail George H., 417. \nKimball J. C, 484. \nKimball John R., 627. \nKimball J. S., 627 \nKimball Sumner B., 627. \nKimball S. J., 627 \nKimball W. Frederick, 417 \n\nKing , 264. \n\nKing Benjamin Flint, 448. \nKing Charles Carroll, 615. \nKing Cyrus, 627. \n\n\nKing Francis L., 440. \nKing George A., 523. \nKing Henry W., 440. \nKing John Gallison, 450. \nKing Tyler B., 627. \nKingdon Samuel S., 627. \nKingman Bradford, 323. \nKingman Hosea, 322. \nKingsbury Aaron, 627. \nKingsbury Benjamin B., 523. \nKingsbury George H., 417. \nKingsbury William Albert, \n\n554- \nKingsbury William B., 122. \nKinsley C. C 627. \nKinsman Henry W., 550. \nKinsman Josiah B , 523. \nKittite J. G., 627. \nKittredge Charles F., 317. \nKittredge Francis W., 523. \nKnapp Alfred E., 627. \nKnapp John, 288. \nKnapp John, 560. \nKnapp Nathaniel Phippen, 523. \nKnapp Orren S., 627. \nKnapp Samuel, 627. \nKnapp Samuel Lorenzo, 275. \nKnapp William, 450. \nKnell Arthur S., 627. \nKnight Frederick T., 523. \nKnight J. E., 627. \nKnight William H., 627. \nKnowles Charles Swift, 417. \nKnowles Isaiah, 523. \nKnowles Samuel W., 628. \nKnowlton Hosea M., 596. \nKnowlton Marcus P., 204. \nKnowlton Thomas Oaks, 523. \nKnowlton William A., 317. \nKnox William S., 501. \nKrey John H., 250. \nKuhn Hamilton, 524. \nKyle Warren Ozro, 417. \n\nLadd Babson Savilian, 540. \nLadd Fletcher, 155. \nLadd Joseph Hartwell, 569. \nLadd Nathaniel Watson, 155. \nLamprey Charles M., 628. \nLamson Abbott W., 524. \nLamson Arteinus Ward, 194. \nLamson Daniel S., 628. \nLancaster W. A., 628. \nLander Edward, 524. \nLane Andrew, 270. \nLane Alfred French, 615. \nLane James M., 195. \nLane John C, 195. \nLane Lorenzo, 615 \nLangdell Christopher C, 524. \nLange James H., 195. \nLangley N. A., 628. \nLanman D. H., 628. \nLanman James H., 628. \nLapham Rufus, 628. \nLarkin P. O., 639 \nLarkin Thomas F., 628. \nLarned E. C, 628. \nLarrabee Charles W., 524 \nLassiter Francis Rives, 628. \nLatham Aaron Hobart, 154 \nLathrop John. 122. \nLathrop John, 275. \nLathrop Samuel, 628. \nLawrence Abbott, 615. \nLawrence Abbott, jr., 615. \nLawrence Abbott W., 628 \nLawrence Eugene, 628. \n\n\nLawrence Gardner Whitney, \n\n524- \nLawrence George P., 524 \nLawrence Rosewell Bigelow, \n\n140. \nLawrence Rufus B., 195 \nLawrence William Baxter, 140. \nLawton George F., 628. \nLawton Isaac B., 628. \nLeach James E., 595. \nLeach Orlando, 628. \nLeahy John Patrick, 141. \nLeavitt Jonathan, 628. \nLe Barnes J. W., 628. \nLe Breton Edward Lewis, 524. \nLedky Thomas, 628. \nLedyard Lewis Cass, 524. \nLee Elisha, 628. \n\nLee Elliot Cabot, 524. \n\nLee John Rowe, 524. \n\nLee Joseph, 141. \n\nLee Robert Levi, 524. \n\nLee Silas, 343. \n\nLeeds Thomas E., 628. \n\nLeland Sherman, 344. \n\nLeland William Sherman, 345. \n\nLeonard Daniel, 282. \n\nLeonard Oliver, 628. \n\nLeonard William H., 141. \n\nLesser J. N., 628. \n\nLetchford Thomas, 161. \n\nLeverett George V., 141. \n\nLeverett John, 163. \n\nLeverett John, 276. \n\nLewis Edwin C.. 628. \n\nLewis Frank W., 628. \n\nLewis Isaac Newton, 121. \n\nLewis John D., 628, \n\nLewis Samuel Parker, 195. \n\nLibby Phillip J., 195. \n\nLicks John, 628. \n\nLidget Charles, 604. \n\nLight Charles Franklin, 195. \n\nLight Robert W., 524. \n\nLincoln Albert Lamb, 240. \n\nLincoln Arthur, 240. \n\nLincoln Benjamin, 283. \n\nLincoln Charles F., 628 \n\nLincoln Charles Plimpton, 241. \n\nLincoln Charles Sprague, 241. \n\nLincoln Daniel Waldo, 524. \n\nLincoln George Taylor, 241. \n\nLincoln James Otis, 524 \n\nLincoln Levi, 240. \n\nLincoln Roland Crocker, 524. \n\nLincoln Solomon, 371, \n\nLinscott Daniel Clark, 371. \n\nLippitt Francis J., 628. \n\nLisle David, 542. \n\nLisle Henry M., 286. \n\nList Christopher Charles, 402. \n\nLitchfield Frederick E.. 371. \n\nLitchfield Walter, jr., 628. \n\nLittle George Coffin, 524. \n\nLittle Joseph J., 524. \n\nLittle William, jr., 425. \n\nLittlefield George Sherman, 371. \n\nLittlefield Nathan W., 628 \n\nLittleton William, 628. \n\nLitton John L., 628. \n\nLivermore Edward St. Loe, 225. \n\nLivermore Samuel, 501. \n\nLivermore Thomas Leonard, 569. \n\nLocke Jackson, 524. \n\nLocke John, 366. \nLocke John G., 561. \n\nLocke P. Webster. 611. \n\nLockhart Benjamin A., 179. \n\n\nINDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n66 1 \n\n\nLodge Henry Cabot, 205. \nLomax William, jr., 560. \nLombard Josiah Lewis, S24. \nLombard R. T„ 628. \nLon, or Lun, William, 628. \nLong John Davis, 314. \nLongley Samuel H., 315. \nLoois or Lovis, Francis, 628. \nLoomis Elihu G., 524. \nLord Arthur, 333. \nLord F. H., 525. \nLord James Brown, 366. \nLord Henrv C, 628. \nLord Henry D., 628. \nLord Joseph L., 628. \nLord Otis Phillips, 420. \nLord Thomas, 628. \nLoring Alden P., 525. \nLoring Augustus P., 366. \nLoring Caleb W., 371. \nLoring Charles Francis, 366. \nLoring Charles Greeley, 443. \nLoring E. D., 628. \nLoring Edward, 628. \nLoring Edward Gray, 424. \nLoring Edward Greeley, 428. \nLoring Edward G., jr., 628. \nLoring Edward P., 121, \nLoring Eleazer B., 628, \nLoring Ellis Gray, 424. \nLoring Francis Caleb, 424. \nLoring H. Selden, 372. \nLoring John Alderi, 365. \nLoring Joseph D., 628. \nLoring Victor Joseph, 357. \nLoring William Caleb, 372. \nLothrop Arthur P., 615. \nLothrop Thornton Kirkland, \n\n121. \n\nLoud Clarence B., 525. \n\nLoud John Jacob, 615. \n\nLoud Marcus M., 628. \n\nLougee Hayes, 357. \n\nLoughran James, 628. \n\nLovell George W., 628. \n\nLovell John\"628. \n\nLovell Michael, 628 \n\nLovering Charles T., 615. \n\nLovett Charles W., 525. \n\nLovis, or Loois, Francis, 628. \n\nLow John W., 438. \n\nLow Obed B., 628. \n\nLowell Abbott Lawrence, 525. \n\nLowell Charles Russell, 121. \n\nLowell Edward Jackson, 428. \n\nLowell Edward Jackson 2d, 525. \n\nLowell Francis Cabot, 525 \n\nLowell Francis Cabot, jr., 525. \n\nLowell James Russell, 315. \n\nLowell John', 271. \n\nLowell John, 271. \n\nLowell John, 577 \n\nLowell John, 525. \n\nLowell Sidney V., 628. \n\nLucas Clinton William, 525. \n\nLuce Edmund R., 628. \n\nLuce Enos Thompson, 348. \n\nLuce Thomas D.. 628. \n\nLudden Charles Mandeville, 349. \n\nLudlow Roger, 180. \n\nLun, or Lon, William, 628. \n\nLund Clarence B., 628. \n\nLund Rodney, 349. \n\nLunt George, 387. \n\nLunt Henry, 251. \n\nLusher Eleazer, 208. \n\nLyde Edward, 260. \n\nLyman Anson M., 525. \n\n\nLyman Arthur, 349. \nLyman David Brainard, 525. \nLyman David Hinckley, 525. \nLyman Edward E., 628. \nLyman George Hinckley, 349. \nLyman Joseph, 133. \nLyman Joseph, 560. \nLyman Theodore, 241. \nLyman William, 285. \nLynch John F., 628. \nLynch Robert A., 628. \nLynde A. Selwyn, 628. \nLynde Alonzo V., 349. \nLynde Benjamin, 214. \nLynde Benjamin, jr., 214. \nLynde Simon, 263. \nLyons John Plumer, 615. \n\nMacDonald William E., 628. \nMackintosh Charles A., 628. \nMackintosh Frank, 628. \nMackintosh Frank H., 628. \nMacleod W. A., 628. \nMacomber F. G., 525. \nMagee D. B., 1 \nMagee Frank P., 366. \nMahan John W., 328. \nMaher Peter S., 372- \nMagenesker C. L., 628. \nMaginnes Michael, 628. \nMaine Sebeus C , 561. \nMajor T E , 628. \nMalone J. J , 629. \nMaloney Jeremiah J,, 628. \nManchester Forrest C., 399. \nMann Charles H , 569. \nMann Horace, 120 \nManning Jerome F., 439. \nManning John P., 372. \nMansfield Ex-Sumner, 525. \nMansfield M. B , 628. \nManson George F., 525. \nMarcy James Warren, 457. \nMarden James M., 364. \nMarden Oscar A , 363. \nMarsh J. J., 628. \nMarshall E. M., 628. \nMarshall Elmer E.. 525. \nMarshall John Murray, 365. \nMarston (jeorge, 332. \nMarston Gilman, 249. \nMartin Alexander, 525. \nMartin Alpheus A., 629. \nMartin Austin Agnew, 615. \nMartin Francis. 628. \nMartin John F., 525. \nMartin William H., 628. \nMartin William P., 525. \nMarsters John Marshall, 525. \nMarvin John G., 455. \nMason Albert, 205. \nMason Alverdo, 620. \nMason Charles, 428. \nMason David Haven, 545. \nMason Edward Haven, 365. \nMason Frank Atlee, 372. \nMason George C, 6.8. \nMason George M., 629. \nMason Harry White, 372. \nMason Jeremiah, 541. \nMason John, 560 \nMason John Rogers, 457. \nMason John W., 390. \nMason Jonathan, 541. \nMason Lyman, 553. \nMason Robert, 264. \nMason Rufus W.. 629. \nMason W. N., 456. \n\n\nMason William Powell, 241. \nMasters Giles, 264. \nMather Edwin H., 629. \nMather Henry H., 457. \nMather Louis K., 457. \nMatthews Nathan, jr., 387. \nMaverick Samuel, 263. \nMaxwell Arthur, 629.\" \nMaxwell Arthur A., 629. \nMaxwell James A., 591. \nMay Henry Farnham, 615. \nMay John W., 449. \nMay Joseph, 629. \nMayberry Cyrus C, 526. \nMaybury George Lowell, 615. \nMaynard Elisha Burr, 205. \nMaynard Laurens, 526. \nMaynadier [ames E., 377. \nMayo Charles, 41S. \nMayo John B., 629 \nMcAllister C. C, 629. \nMcAnarney J. W., 526. \nMeCafferty Mathew James, 214. \nMcCall Samuel Walker, 133. \nMcCarthy Charles J., 629. \nMcCarthy Thomas J., 629. \nMcCartney William H., 629. \nMcCleary Samuel Foster, 222. \nMcCleary Samuel Foster, jr., \n\n43'-'- \nMcClellan Arthur'D., 538. \nMcClellan George F., 526. \nMcClellan Isaac, jr., 576. \nMcClure E. W., 629. \nMcConnell George W., 629. \nMcDaniel Samuel W., 377. \nMcDavitt Samuel W., 629. \nMcDonald James W., 377. \nMcDonough John H., 296. \nMcDonough Timothy F., 346. \nMcFarlan Flavius J., 629. \nMcFarland Edward, 629 \nMcFarland William S., 628. \nMcGeough James A , 328. \nMcGrath Thomas W., 615. \nMcGrew George Harrison, 615. \nMcGuire P. J., 629. \nMeGuire Thomas F., 628. \nMcllroy, Daniel, 526. \nMclnnes Edwin Guthrie, 387. \nMclnnes William M., 526. \nMclntire Charles John, 220. \nMclntire Frederick, 526. \nMclntire William, 629. \nMclntire William J., 629. \nMcKay J. F., 629. \nMcKean John G., 457. \nMcKeever Henry F., 526. \nMcKilleget Richard J., 387. \nMcKim John W., 120. \nMcLaren Irvine G., 457. \nMcLaughlin Edward A., 333. \nMcLaughlin John D., 388. \nMcLeod Arthur James, 159. \nMcLeod William A., 629. \nMcManus Edward L., 629. \nMcNamara H. M., 639. \nMcNamara Michael, 628. \nMead Clarence F., 629. \nMeade Michael, 629. \nMeans Arthur F., 159. \nMeans G. F., 629. \nMeek Almon R., 629. \nMellen Charles C, 526. \nMellen Edward, 213. \nMellen Grenville, 276. \nMenzies John, 269. \nMerriam John McKinstry, 160. \n\n\n662 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nMerrick John, 284. \n\nMerrick Pliny, 160. \n\nMerrill Abel, 569. \n\nMerrill Amos B., 419. \n\nMerrill Annis, 419. \n\nMerrill Charles A., 526. \n\nMerrill Elijah Hedding, 615. \n\nMerrill George, 629. \n\nMerrill James Cushing, 160. \n\nMerrill James Cushing, 429. \n\nMerrill Moody, 160. \n\nMerritt Nehemiah Thomas, jr., \n\n160. \nMerritt William F., 161. \nMerwin Elias, 155. \nMerwin Henry C, 378 \nMeserve Clement, 629. \nMeserve Henry Clifford, 161. \nMesser Asa, 629. \nMetcalf George T., 629. \nMetcalf Theron, 177. \nMetcalf William F., 629. \nMeyer Joseph, 449. \nMiles Jonas M., 629. \nMiles William, 629. \nMidgley John, 526. \nMildram Francis B., 526. \nMiller Ephraim Flint, 526. \nMiller Bzekiel L., 629. \nMiller George H., 526. \nMiller Seth, 324.- \nMiller Thompson, 419. \nMiller William Henry, 120. \nMillett Joshua Howard 101, \nMilliken Arthur N., 161. \nMillin Leon, 629. \nMills Elijah H., 561. \nMills John, 561. \nMills John C, 629. \nMilton Henry Slade, 388. \nMinns George W., 452. \nMinot George, 120. \nMinot George R., 639. \nMinot Robert Sedgwick, 526. \nMinot William, 316. \nMinot William, 388. \nMinot William, jr., 580. \nMitchell E. C, 629. \nMitchell Nahum, 140. \nMitchell William Howard, 603. \nMoll John J. A., 629. \nMompesson Roger, 269. \nMonroe William Ingalls, 388. \nMontague George P., 561. \nMontague Russell Wortley, 526. \nMontague William P., 526. \nMontgomery Hugh, 423. \nMoody George Barrell, 388. \nMoody George Theodore, 526. \nMoore Abraham, 218. \nMoore Beverly K., 526. \nMoore Eugene H., 388. \nMoore George B., 629. \nMoore George W., 388. \nMoore Howard Dudley, 388. \nMoore James Baker, 455. \nMoore Jonathan F., 629. \nMoore Joseph E., 629. \nMoore Mark, 629. \nMoore Michael J., 389. \nMoran Alonzo D., 526. \nMoran John B., 526. \nMorey B., 629. \nMorey George, 343. \nMorgan C. C 389. \nMorgan David, 550. \nMorgan Frank E., 629. \nMorgan John L., 629. \n\n\nMorgan William M., 389. \nMorison Frank, 527 \nMorison John H., 389 \nMorrell Edward, 127. \nMorrill Ashley C 629. \nMorrill Frank J., 629. \nMorrill George, 527. \nMorrill William F., 629. \nMorris Henry, 173. \nMorris Robert, 527. \nMorris Robert, jr., 527. \nMorris William G., 527. \nMorris William W., 629. \nMorrison T. J.. 527. \nMorse Albert G., 389. \nMorse Bushrod, 206. \nMorse C. Osgood, 629. \nMorse Charles R., 527. \nMorse Elisha M., 629. \nMorse George A., 629. \nMorse George W., 629. \nMorse George W., 430. \nMorse Godfrey, 539. \nMorse Horace E., 527. \nMorse Isaac S , 389. \nMorse Jacob C, 629. \nMorse John Torrey, 206. \nMorse John Wells, 629. \nMorse Moses L , 629. \nMorse Nathan, 496 \nMorse Nathan 2d, 527. \nMorse Robert M.. 562. \nMorse Sidney B., 629. \nMorse T. S., 62g. \nMorse William A., 527. \nMorton Edwin, 433. \nMorton Ellis Wesley, 323. \nMorton Frank T., 436. \nMorton James Madison, 422. \nMorton Marcus, 206. \nMorton Marcus, jr., 661. \nMorten Marcus 3d, 207. \nMorton Nathaniel, 452. \nMorton Perez, 497. \nMorton Thomas, 161. \nMorton William Saxton, 259. \nMosback Frederic G., 629. \nMoseley Ebenezer, 497. \nMotley John Lothrop, 176. \nMotte Ellis Loring, 389. \nMoulton Barron C., 527. \nMoulton Daniel Smith, 527. \nMoulton Ferdinand, 629. \nMoulton George W., 527. \nMoulton Olaus Caecifius, 453. \nMowry Oscar W., 390. \nMulaoon Patrick E., 629. \nMulligan Henry C, 390. \nMullin George Hill, 344. \nMulvey James S., 629. \nMulvey P E., 629. \nMunroe E. V., 527. \nMunroe Francis J., 527. \nMunroe Israel, 288. \nMunroe William Adams, 390. \nMunroe William J., 629. \nMurdoch Charles T., 391 \nMurphy Frederick W., 629. \nMurphy James R., 545. \nMurray Albert L., 629. \nMurray William F., 346. \nMuzzey Daniel P., 629. \nMuzzey Henry W.. 479. \nMyers James J., 391. \nMyles William F., 629. \nMyrick N. Sumner, 527. \n\nNaphen Henry F., 191. \n\n\nNash Frank Philip, 527. \nNash F. C, 527. \nNash Howard D., 527. \nNash Joseph, 629. \nNash Joseph, 629. \nNash Lonson, 629. \nNash Stephen G., 191. \nNason James B., 629. \nNason John, 629. \nNason Rufus W., 527. \nNason William A., 629. \nNay Frank N., iq2. \nNeedham Daniel, 505. \nNelson Albert Hobart, 192. \nNelson Job, 416. \nNelson Thomas L., 297. \nNettleton Edward P., 249. \nNewcomb Daniel, 283. \nNewcomb Richard E., 620. \nNewell Charles Stark, 230. \nNewell Robert Balston, 527. \nNewell Samuel, 527. \nNewhall James R , 630. \nNewhall John Breed, 191. \nNewman Henry, 191. \nNewman William, 629 \nNewmark Nathan, 615. \nNewton Harry H., 231. \nNewton Jeremiah L., 449. \nNewton Thomas, 264. \nNichols Benjamin Ropes, 231. \nNichols Benjamin White, 231. \nNichols Charles C, 231. \nNichols Frank A., 629. \nNichols Henry Oilman, 527. \nNichols J. L., 629. \nNichols Richard, 263. \nNichols William, jr., 630. \nXickerson F. S., 527. \nNickerson John Albert, 453. \nXickerson Joseph, 604. \nNickerson Melville P., 629. \nNickerson Sereno Dwight, 528. \nNickerson S. W., 527. \nNickerson William P., 630. \nNiles Samuel, 497. \nNiles Thomas H., 629. \nNiles William Henrv, 297. \nNoble Daniel, 629. \nNoble Frank T., 630. \nNoble John, 231. \nNoble William Mark, 233. \nNoonan John Andrew, 233. \nNoonan T. Frank, 233. \nNorcross Grenville Howland, \n\n528. \nNorcross Otis, 528. \nNorman John A., 630. \nNorris A. F., 630. \nNorris G. W., 234 \nNorton Frederick L., 234. \nNorton M. P., 630. \nNowell Increase, 167. \nNowell Samuel, 167. \nNoyes Amos, 630. \nNoyes Bartholomew, 630 \nNoyes Charles Johnson, 510. \nNoyes Frank n., 630. \nNoyes George Dana, 242. \nNoyes George F., 630. \nNoyes Isaac B., 630. \nNoyes Samuel Bradley, 369. \nNutter Charles Copeland, 184. \nNutter George Read, 243. \nNutter Thomas F., 134. \n\nOak F. Clarendon, 630. \nOak George, 528. \n\n\nINDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n663 \n\n\nO'Brien Eugene, 630. \n\nO'Brien James W., 244. \n\nO'Connell Maurice, 528. \n\nO'Connor E. B., 630. \n\nO'Connor Timothy, 639. \n\nO'Gorman J. S., 630. \n\nOliver Andrew, 528. \n\nOliver Nathaniel K. G., 528. \n\nOliver Peter, 214. \n\nOliver Peter, 214. \n\nOliver Peter, 456. \n\n< (lmstead James Monroe, 2 \\ \n\nOlney Richard, 491. \n\nOlney Peter B., 528. \n\nO'Laughlin Patrick, 242. \n\nOrcutt William Byron, 32. \n\nOrcutt William Hunter, 528. \n\nOrmsby George F., 630. \n\nOrne Henry, 42. \n\nOsborne Theodore Moody, 528. \n\nOsborne William H., 253. \n\nOsborne William McKinley, 198 \n\nOsgood Isaac, 630. \n\nOsgood Isaac Peabody, 231. \n\nt )sgood J. B. F., 312. \n\nOsgood Lewis W., 630. \n\nOsgood William N., 297. \n\n( >tis Albert Boyd, 231.' \n\nOtis Barney, 429. \n\nOtis Edmund Burke, 419. \n\nOtis George, 560. \n\nOtis George Alexander. 419. \n\nOtis George Alexander, 429. \n\nOtis George Edmund, 528. \n\nOtis Harrison Gray, 284. \n\nOtis Harrison Gray, jr., 425. \n\nOtis James, 271. \n\nOtis James, 270. \n\nOtis Joseph Russell, 528. \n\nOtis Samuel Allyne, 281. \n\nOtis Theodore, 428. \n\nOtis William Foster, 228. \n\nOtis William Sigourney, 435. \n\nOvering John, 270. \n\nOwen Charles Hunter, 528. \n\nOwen Roscoe Palmer, 528. \n\nOwen W. Barry, 630. \n\nOxnard Henry E., 615. \n\nPackard Eliot L., 252. \n\nPackard John H., 630. \n\nPage John Augustus, 616. \n\nPage William, 251. \n\nPage William R., 528. \n\nPaige Charles F., 630. \n\nPaine A. Warren, 630. \n\nPaine Asa W., 630. \n\nPaine Charles, 286. \n\nPaine Charles Cushing, 528. \n\nPaine Charles Frederick, 529. \n\nPaine Charles Jackson, 516. \n\nPaine Elijah, 528. \n\nPaine Henry Williams, 255. \n\nPaine John J., 630. \n\nPaine John T., 450. \n\nPaine Robert, 285. \n\nPaine Robert Treat, 566. \n\nPaine Robert Treat, jr., 567. \n\nPaine Robert Treat, 3d, 567. \n\nPaine Robert Treat, 4th, 567. \n\nPaine Robert Treat, 5th, 567. \n\nPaine Thomas, 287. \n\nPaine William Cushing, 630. \n\nPalfrey Francis Winthrop, 250. \n\nPalmer Bradley Webster, 391. \n\nPalmer George H., 630. \n\nPalmer Grant M., 391. \n\nPalmer John, 264. \n\n\nPalmer Joseph Merrill, 616. \nPalmer Thomas, 260. \nParish Moses P., 630. \nPark John Cochran, 219. \nParke George Winter, 228. \nParker Alice, 228. \nParker Aurelius D., 426. \nParker Bowdoin Strong, 391. \nParker Charles Albert, 529. \nParker Ctiarles E., 630. \nParker Charles Henry, 425. \nParker Charles T., 630. \nParker Daniel, 529. \nParker Edmund M., 229. \nParker Edward Griffin', 281. \nParker Francis Edward, 173. \nParker George W., 529. \nParker Henry Melville, 229. \nPaiker Henry Tuke, 452. \nParker Horatio G., 268. \nParker Isaac, 244. \nParker Joel, 177. \nParker Jonathan Mason, 453. \nParker Nathaniel A., 639. \nParker Samuel, 288. \nParker Samuel Dunn, 429. \nParker William, 630. \nParker William Colvard 268. \nParker William McCaine, 630. \nParkinson George B., 630. \nParkman Daniel, 399. \nParkman George Francis, 452. \nParkman Henry, 278. -^ \nParks Clarence A., 63^. \nParks Gorham, 529. \nParks Nathaniel Austin, 529. \nParmemter James Parker, 391. \nParmenter William Ellison, 391. \nParsons Benjamin, 560. \nParsons Ebenezer, jr., 630. \nParsons Frank, 392. \nParsons Myron Curtis, 529. \nParsons Samuel, 229. \nParsons Solomon, 630. \nParsons Theophilus, 244. \nParsons Theophilus, jr., 244. \nPastine Joseph Nicholas, 392. \nPatoh F. C, 630. \nPatch John, 630. \nPattee Charles H., 392. \nPattee William G. A., 392. \nPatten Daniel D., 630. \nPatten Francis Bartlett, 251. \nPatten Jacob C, 639. \nPatterson George Herbert, 529. \nPatton John Sidney, 230. \nPaul Isaac F., 346. \nPaul John F., 630, \nPaul Joseph Frank, 395. \nPayne Arthur L., 630. \nPayne Charles F., 639 \nPayne William E., 630. \nPayson Edward Pay son, 229. \nPayson Thomas E., 630. \nPayson William M., 63 \nPeabody Asa, 630. \nPeabody Augustus, 558 \nPeabody Daniel W., 559. \nPeabody Francis, jr., 229. \nPeadody James C, 630 \nPeabody Oliver, 529. \nPeabody Oliver W. B., 427 \nPeabody Philip Glendower, 229. \nPeabody Owen Glendower, 553. \nPeabody William E., 529. \nPearl Isaac E., 630. \nPearse Thomas H., 529, \nPearson Eliphalet, 450. \n\n\nPearson Henry Bromfield, 229. \nPearson Robert W., 630. \nPearsons Timothy, 630. \nPeck William Ware, 529. \nPeiree Roger N., 630. \nPeirce William H., 639. \nPelham Herbert, 543. \nPellew William G., 616. \nPelton F. Alaric, 392, \nPember Thomas, 630. \nPemberton Samuel, 501. \nPendergast Frank H., 630. \nPendleton Frank K., 529. \nPerham Joel, 630. \nPerkins Augustus T., 529. \nPerkins Benjamin C.,630. \nPerkins Charles Carroll, 529. \nPerkins Charles T., 43c. \nPerkins Daniel A. W., 630. \nPerkins David, 501. \nPerkins Edward Cranch, 529. \nPerkins George Arthur, 282. \nPerkins Henry G., 282. \nPerkins Horatio N., 501. \nPerkins Israel, 630. \nPerkins Jacob L., 630. \nPerkins J. M., 630. \nPerkins Jonathan Cogswell, 281. \nPerkins Joseph, 529. \nPerkins William Edward, 454. \nPerley George E., 630. \nPerley Sidney, 392. \nPerrin W. H., 630. \nPerrins J jr., 529. \nPerry Baxter E , 474. \nPerry Chester M., 630. \nPerry Francis A , 529. \nPerry George Brown, 454. \nPerry George Hough, 392. \nPerry Luther, 439. \nPerry San ford Barnum, 530. \nPeters Edward Gould, 529. \nPeters Lemuel W., 392. \nPeterson Arthur Porter, 489. \nPettee Edward E., 630. \nPettengill John Ward, 603. \nPettmgell Noah B. K., 630. \nPevy Gilbert A. A., 393. \nPhelps Charles Porter, 286. \nPhelps Edwin Alexander, 393. \nPhelps John, 530. \nPhilbrick Edward W., 630. \nPhillips Charles Appleton, 530. \nPhillips Edward K., 630. \nPhillips George William, 427. \nPhillips Grenville Tudor, 280. \nPhillips John, 280. \nPhillips John, 281. \nPhillips Stephen Henry, 281. \nPhillips Thomas Walley, 280. \nPhillips Wendell, 280. \nPhillips Willard, 281. \nPhillips Willard Quincy, 530. \nPhipps David W., 630. \nPickering Charles W , 630. \nPickering Edward, 423. \nPickering Henry, 616. \nPickering Henry Goddard, 530. \nPickering James F , 530. \nPickering James Winthrop, 280. \nPickering John, 279. \nPickering John, jr., 427. \nPickering Octavius, 280. \nPierce Charles H., 630. \nPierce Edward Henry, 232. \nPierce Edward Lilhe, 298. \nPierce George Winslow, 530. \nPierce Quincy, 630. \n\n\n66+ \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nPierce Orestes, 630. \nPierce Richard A., 644. \nPierce Richard N., 561. \nPierce William A., 630. \nPigeon Edward P., 630. \nPike Charles E., 630. \nPike John .E, 630. \nPike Robert, 200. \nPilkin Walter S.,630. \nPillsbury Albert E , 565. \nPillsbury Carroll E., 630. \nPillsbury Ebenezer F., 630. \nPindell Charles E., 630. \nPinkerton John M., 530. \nPinkham Walter Samuel, 140. \nPiper George Frederick, 530. \nPitman Robert Carter, 198. \nPitts Charles Coffin, 135 \nPiatt John Tuttle, 530 \nPlimpton Silas Fisher, 451. \nPlumer William, 530. \nPlummer Cliffo d H., 530. \nPlummer Sedgwick L., 530. \nPlunkett Christopher G., 140. \nPollock Robert H., 530. \nPonce John H., 139. \nPond Benjamin, 250. \nPond George E., 530. \nPond Joseph E., jr., 630. \nPoole Benjamin, 630. \nPoole Benjamin, jr., 631. \n\nPoor Albert, 530. \n\nPoor George H., 530. \n\nPope Charles Greenwood, 298. \n\nPope James W., 631. \n\nPope Thomas Butler, 139. \n\nPorter Elam, 51 o. \n\nPorter George Doane, 139. \n\nPorter Jerome B., 631. \n\nPorter John Yv\" ., 631. \n\nPorter Jonathan, 232 \n\nPorter Jonathan Edwards, 530. \n\nPorter Josiah, 530. \n\nPorter Nathaniel, 631. \n\nPorter Thomas W., 530. \n\nPotter Orlando B.. 570 \n\nPoucher Charles E., 631. \n\nPower Thomas, 424. \n\nPowers Cassius Clay, 393. \n\nPowers Charles Edward, 354. \n\nPowers Edmund P., 631. \n\nPowers Edmund W., 393. \n\nPowers Erastus Barton. 393. \n\nPowers James Loren, 393. \n\nPowers James R , 631. \n\nPowers Llewellyn, 611. \n\nPowers Samuel Leland, 643 \n\nPowers Wilbur H., 544. \n\nPratt Albert Jerome, 400. \n\nPratt Benjamin, 242. \n\nPratt Charles E., 400. \n\nPratt Charles H., 531. \n\nPratt Edward B., 531. \n\nPratt Edward Ellerton, 413. \n\nPratt E. Grenville, 531. \n\nPratt George Greenleaf, 249. \n\nPratt Harvey H., 509. \n\nPratt Nathan H., 400 \n\nPratt Sidney P.. 631. \n\nPratt William, 440. \n\nPreble Edward, 399. \n\nPreble William Henry, 400. \n\nPreble William Pitt, 531. \n\nPrentiss John, 631. \n\nPrentiss John, 531. \n\nPrentiss J. W., 631. \n\nPrescott A. A., 631. \n\nPrescott Benjamin, 265. \n\n\nPrescott Edward G., 279. \nPrescott F. A., 631. \nPrescott George, 631. \nPrescott James, jr., 574. \nPrescott Samuel, 531. \nPrescott Samuel J., 400. \nPrescott William, 279, \nPrescott William G., 452. \nPrescott William H., 426. \nPrest William Morton, 400. \nPres'on George Henry, 401. \nPreston James W., 631. \nPreston John, 400. \nPrime Winfield Forrest, 401. \nPrince B. L., 631. \nPrince Charles Albert, 333. \nPrince Frederick Octavius, 198 \nPrince Gordon, 631. \nPrince James P., 401. \nPrince Joseph Hardy, 401. \nPrince William H.. 630. \nProctor Frank W., 531. \nProctor Joseph, 557. \nProctor Redfield, 550. \nProctor Thomas P., 473. \nProctor Thomas W., 401. \nPurchase Oliver, 209. \nPnrnam William J., 581. \nPutnam Aaron Hall, 287. \nPutnam Francis E., 418. \nPutnam George, 401. \nPutnam George F., 631. \nPutnam Henry Ware, 401. \nPutnam James, 271 \nPutnam John Phelps, 299. \nPutnam J. S., 428. \nPutnam Samuel, 247. \nPutnam Solon A., 631. \nPutnam William Le Baron, 588. \nPutnam William Lowell, 402. \nPynchon John, 208. \nPynchon John, 631. \nPynchon Joseph, 265. \nPynchon Stephen, 631. \nPynchon William, 168. \n\nQuimby J. P., 631. \nQuincy Edmund, 215. \nQuincy Edmund, 266. \nQuincy Josiah, 265. \nQuincy Josiah, 265. \nOuincy Josiah, 266. \n(Juincy Josiah, 267. \nQuincy Josiah H., 267. \nQuincy Josiah P., 266. \nQuincy Samuel, 269. \nQuincy Samuel, jr., 284. \nQuincy Samuel Miller, 266. \nQuincy William J., 631. \n\nRackerman Charles Sedgwick, \n\n183. \nRackerman Felix, 183. \nRand Arnold A., 151. \nRand Benjamin, 366. \nRand Charles W., 631. \nRand Edward L.. 531. \nRand Edward Sprague, 428. \nRand Edward Sprague, jr., 429. \nRandall C. F., 631. \nRandall James M., 631. \nRandall Otis G., 631. \nRandall Samuel Haskell, 45-. \nRandolph Edward, 264. \nRanlett Daniel Dodge, 531. \nRanlett Frederick J., 196. \nRanney Ambrose Arnold, 369. \nRanney Fletcher, 451. \n\n\nRantoul Robert, 279. \n\nRantoul Robert Samuel, 299. \n\nRatigan John B., 439. \n\nRaymond Edward F., 531. \n\nRaymond F. F., 531. \n\nRaymond John M , 631. \n\nRead Benjamin, 631. \n\nRead Charles C, 616. \n\nRead Edward, 631. \n\nRead John, 270. \n\nReardon D. W, 631. \n\nReddington J., 631. \n\nRedfield Isaac F., 456. \n\nRedfield Luther C, 456. \n\nReddy Thomas F., 183. \n\nReed Charles, 631. \n\nReed Charles A., 631. \n\nReed Charles C, 631. \n\nReed Charles Montgomery, 183. \n\nReed Chester A., 531. \n\nReed Chester Isham, 363. \n\nReed Dexter W., 631 \n\nHeed Elias Sipple, 531. \n\nReed Frederick, 631 \n\nReed George Hammond, 183. \n\nReed George M., 63r. \n\nReed Isaac G., 560. \n\nReed James Russell, 154. \n\nReed Joseph Wheeler. 531 \n\nReed Samuel Willard, 155. \n\nReed Warren Augustus, 531. \n\nReed William, 269. \n\nReed William, 245 \n\nReed William Gardner, 155. \n\nRemele George H., 631. \n\nRemick Charles F., 631. \n\nRemick Frank C, 6^1. \n\nRemington Jonathan, 216. \n\nReno Conrad, 196. \n\nReuben Moses I., 631. \n\nRevno ds John P., 367. \n\nReynolds Walter H., 63 r. \n\nRice Bushrod F., 457. \n\nRice Charles Damon, 454. \n\nRice David Hall, 276. \n\nRice Fitz H.. 631. \n\nRice George Edward, 196. \n\nRice James H.,631. \n\nRice John L., 631. \n\nRice Merrick, 196. \n\nRice Thomas, 196. \n\nRich Edgar Judson, 616. \n\nRich Giles Hopkins, 616. \n\nRich Silas H., 631. \n\nRich Wilfred B., 195. \n\nRichards Francis G., 53r. \n\nRichards George H., 196. \n\nRichards John, 208. \n\nRichards William R., 196. \n\nRichardson Abijah, 631. \n\nRichardson Amos, 263. \n\nRichardson Charles P., 531. \n\nRichardson Daniel E., 532. \n\nRichardson Daniel S., 341. \n\nRichardson George F., 341. \n\nRichardson Henry A., 531. \n\nRichardson Henry E., 631. \n\nRichardson Ivory N., 639. \n\nRichardson Ivory W., 196. \n\nRichardson James, 531. \n\nRichardson James Bailey, 197. \n\nRichardson James P., 531. \n\nRichardson John S., 531. \n\nRichardson Luther, 287. \n\nRichardson Nathaniel, 631. \n\nRichardson Sanford H., 631. \n\nRichardson Thomas F., 532. \n\nRichardson William, 197. \n\n\n> \n\n\nINDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n665 \n\n\nRichardson William A., 631. \n\nRichardson William Adams, 580. \n\nRichardson William K., 532. \n\nRichardson William M., 197. \n\nRideout Elmer E., 197. \n\nKiddle William Quincy, 532. \n\nRiley H. S., 631. \n\nRiley Patrick, 427. \n\nRiley Thomas, 450. \n\nRingrose H. A., 631. \n\nRipley Daniel B., 343. \n\nRipley Christopher G., 221. \n\nRipley Ezra, 367. \n\nRippey, C. H., 631. \n\nRisley John E., 631. \n\nRitchie Andrew, 212. \n\nRitchie Harrison, 532. \n\nRitchie James, 616. \n\nRitchie William K., 631. \n\nRivers George R., 631 \n\nRobb James B., 500. \n\nRobbins Edward Hutchinson, \n\n429. \nRoberts A. W., 631. \nRoberts David, 631. \nRoberts Dudley, 631. \nRoberts Ernest W., 532 \nRoberts Frank T., 631. \nRoberts Frank W., 631. \nRoberts George Litch, 220. \nRoberts John L. S , 631. \nRoberts Leonard G., 631. \nRoberts Odin B., 639. \nRoberts Reuben Litch, 2.0. \nRoberts Richard Brook, 284 \nRoberts Walter Hill, 200. \nRobeson William R., 532. \nRobins Richard, 424. \nRobinson Albert J., 631. \nRobinson Alphonso J., 631 \nRobinson Charles, 299. \nRobinson Daniel, 631. \nRobinson Daniel C, 631. \nRobinson Frederick, 639. \nRobinson George Dexter, 328. \nRobinson George M., 532. \nRobinson Henry W., 631. \nRobinson John C, 631. \nRobinson John Gerry, 210. \nRobinson John Paul, 210. \nRobinson j. T., 631. \nRobinson Joseph H., 631. \nRobinson L. J., 632. \nRobinson Lelia B.,631. \nRobinson Nelson, 631. \nRobinson Sawtelle L., 631. \nRobinson Sumner, 210. \nRobinson Sylvanus W., 631. \nRock John S., 631. \nRockwell Julius, 331. \nRockwood Daniel, 631, \nRockwood Ebenezer, 532. \nRodman Alfred, 436. \nRogers Edward, 440. \nRogers Francis P. H., 632. \nRogers Frank R., 532. \nRogers Frederick W., 632, \nRogers John Gray, 426. \nRogers Henry B., 251. \nRogers Henry M., 532. \nRogers Jonathan P., 251. \nRogers Joseph P., 632. \nRogers Willard, 449. \nRogers Williaim, 449. \nRogers William E., 210. \nRogers William S., 532. \nRolker Bernard, 435. \nRollins Daniel, 632. \n\n85 \n\n\nRollins Harry L., 532. \n\nRollins James W., 632. \n\nRombauer Frederick Emil, 532. \n\nRopes John Codman, 292. \n\nRopes Nathaniel, 217. \n\nRosenthal Marcus, 532. \n\nRosling Eric E., 632. \n\nRoss John A., 632. \n\nRoss Samuel J., 632. \n\nRossa John O'Donnovan, 632. \n\nRossiter Edward, 192. \n\nRowan Thomas, 502. \n\nRowe John, 532. \n\nRowe John, 284. \n\nRowe Joseph, 632. \n\nRowe Joseph, 286. \n\nRowe J N., 632. \n\nRowe William Henry, 290. \n\nRowell James E., 632. \n\nRuddell Thomas E., 632. \n\nRueter Conrad J., 532. \n\nRuffin George L., 250. \n\nRuffin Herbert S. P., 632. \n\nRugg Arthur P., 440. \n\nRumney John, 632. \n\nRunyan Preston B., 532. \n\nRusk Jefferson S., 532. \n\nRuss Augustus, 368. \n\nRuss George H , 367. \n\nRussell Arthur Hastings, 293. \n\nRussell B. F., 611. \n\nRussell Chambers, 216. \n\nRussell Charles, 269. \n\nRussell Charles Theodore, 292. \n\nRussell Charles Theodore, jr., \n\n293- \nRussell James, 193. \nRussell James Dutton, 292. \nRussell John J., 423. \nRussell J. R., 632. \nRussell Richard, 193. \nRussell Thomas, 284. \nRussell Thomas, 292. \nRussell Thomas, 390. \nRussell Thomas Hastings, 292. \nRussell William Eustis, 299. \nRussell William Goodwin, 482. \nRust Philip Sidney, 402. \nRutter Josiah, 532. \nRyan Henry James, 632. \nRyther George Holton, 402. \n\nSaffin John, 215. \nSafford Nathaniel Foster, 207. \nSafford Nathaniel M., 533. \nSaltmarsh E. C, 632. \nSaltmarsh George Abbott, 402. \nSaltonstall Leverett, 181. \nSaltonstall Leverett, 180. \nSaltonstall Nathaniel, 180. \nSaltonstall Richard, 180. \nSaltonstall Richard, 180. \nSaltonstall Richard Middlecott, \n\n181. \nSaltonstall Sir Richard, 180. \nSampson Calvin Proctor, 533. \nSampson Ezra Weston. 181 \nSanborn Edward W., 639. \nSanborn Franklin Benjamin, \n\n4°3- \nSanborn M. Lendsley, 403. \nSanderson Edward, 454. \nSanderson Edward W., 632 \nSanderson George Augustus, \n\n200. \nSanderson George W., 632. \nSanford Alpheus, 299. \nSanford Austin, 632. \n\n\nSanford B., 632. \nSanford Joseph B., 632. \nSanford Joseph H., 632. \nSanford .Stephen, 632 \nSanger Chester F., 300. \nSanger George Partridge, 546. \nSanger George Partridge, jr., \n\n3°4- \nSargeant Nathaniel Peaslee, 243. \nSargeant Peter, 491. \nSargent Henry, 533. \nSargent Henry J., 424 \nSargent Henry Winthrop, 173. \nSargent Horace Binney, 452. \nSargent Horace Binney, jr . \n\nig7. \nSargent James O., 632. \nSargent John Osborne, 241. \nSargent Lucius Manlius, 173. \nSargent Lucius Manlius, 533. \nSargent William A., 533. \nSaunders Caleb, 403. \nSaunders Charles Gurley, 403. \nSaunders Charles Robertson, \n\n212. \nSaunders Daniel. 213. \nSavage Edward Hosmer, 210. \nSavage James, 176. \nSavage James F., 632. \nSavage Thomas, 209. \nSavage Thomas, 403. \nSavage Thomas, 632. \nSavary Edward H., 210. \nSavier William, 533. \nSawin George Lane, 454. \nSawyer Artemas, 287. \nSawyer Benjamin F.. 632. \nSawyer Frederick William, 242. \nSawyer George Augustus, 533. \nSawyer Isaac F., 533. \nSawyer Jabez A., 533. \nSawyer Luther D., 632. \nSawyer Nathaniel, 632. \nSayles F. O., 632. \nScaife Laureston L., 533. \nScales Stephen, 343. \nScammon George S., 632. \nSchofield William, 403. \nSchouler James, 404. \nSchuz Robert H. O., 212. \nScott Augustus E., 212. \nScott F., 632. \nScott John B., 632. \nScoville Nathaniel C, 616. \nScudder Henry A., 248. \nSeaman Frank, 632. \nSeaman James M., 632. \nSearle Charles P., 404. \nSearle George W., 240. \nSears Frederick Baker, 533. \nSears Philip Howes, 422. \nSears Russell A., 533. \nSeaver Horace Nelson, 533. \nSeaver Norman, 404. \nSeavey William M., 632. \nSeaward Addison J., 632. \nSedgwick Arthur George, 533. \nSedgwick Charles, 491. \nSedgwick Henry D., 632. \nSedgwick Henry D., jr., 632. \nSedgwick Theodore, 246. \nSelfredge Arthur J., 533. \nSelfredge Thomas Oliver, 241. \nSennott George, 449. \nSever William, 439. \nSewall David, 237. \nSewall Jonathan, 242. \nSewall Samuel, 209. \n\n\n666 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nSewall Samuel, 244. \nSewall Samuel Edmund, 427. \nSewall, Stephen, 214. \nSeymour Frederick Z., 632. \nSeymour George F., 632. \nShackford Charles B., 632. \nSharkey Joseph C, 533. \nSharp Thomas, 192. \nShattuck Charles E., 533. \nShattuck George Otis, 514. \nShattucK John N., 632. \nShaw Elliott, 632. \nShaw George H. P., 404. \nShaw John Oakes, 405. \nShaw Lemuel, 244. \nShaw Lemuel, jr., 639. \nShaw Mason, 6^2. \nShaw Otis Madison, 210. \nShaw Roland Crocker, 533. \nShaw Samuel Parkman, 134. \nShaw Samuel Savage, 410. \nSnaw William Smith, 178. \nShea Daniel J.. 185. \nShea John F., 405. \nShea Patrick F.,632. \nShea R. W , 185. \nShedd J. B., 632 \nSheeran Joseph W., 405. \nSheffield George, 533. \nSheldon Henry N., 533. \nSheltsei J. George, 632. \nShennon Orlando B.,633. \nShepard Edward O., 300. \nShepard Harvey N., 579. \nSheppard John H., 500. \nSherburne John H., 329. \nSheridan Dennis R., 632. \nSherman Edgar J., 300. \nSherman Edward Lowell, 533. \nShimmin Charles F., 435. \nShipley George Foster, 581. \nShipley Horatio, 426. \nShirley William, 270. \nShorey Daniel L., 632. \nShorey Frank Howard, 184. \nShorey George Langdon, 184. \nShrimpton Samuel, 264. \nSibley Edwin Day, 405. \nSibley J. P , 632. \nSilsbee William C, 632. \nSim Arthur W., 616. \nSimes Robert F., 534. \n\nSimmons Charles F., 221. \n\nSimmons Charles L., 534. \n\nSimmons David Alleni 345. \n\nSimmons John F., 491. \n\nSimmons Samuel, 632. \n\nSimmons William, 399. \n\nSimmons William A., 632. \n\nSimonds Henry C, 399. \n\nSimpson William H., 632. \n\nSinclair Albert T., 534. \n\nSisk Henry M., 632. \n\nSisk James M., 632. \n\nSkilton A, H., 491. \n\nSkinner Henry R., 405. \n\nSkinner Thomas, 632. \n\nSleeper George L., 632. \n\nSleeper Herbert, 534. \n\nSleeper John W., 632. \n\nSlocum E. T., 632. \n\nSlocum Holden, jr., 287. \n\nSlocum William F., 405. \n\nSlocum Winfield S., 406. \n\nSmalley George W., 4go. \n\nSmith Charles E , 632. \n\nSmith Charles F., 632. \n\nSmith Charles G., 632. \n\n\nSmith Charles W., 560. \n\nSmith Chauncey, 406. \n\nSmith Clarence Cheney, 407. \n\nSmith Daniel E , 611. \n\nSmith David A., 632. \n\nSmith Ebenezer, jr., 425. \n\nSmith Edward Irving, 407. \n\nSmith Edwin, 534. \n\nSmith Emery B., 632. \n\nSmith Francis P., 632. \n\nSmith Frederick, 428. \n\nSmith George A., 534. \n\nSmith George Edwin, 406. \n\nSmith George H., 632. \n\nSmith George M., 632. \n\nSmith Henry A., 534. \n\nSmith Henry Barney, 406. \n\nSmith Henry F., 534. \n\nSmith Henry Hyde, 406. \n\nSmith Horace E., 534. \n\nSmith John, 209. \n\nSmith John W , 633. \n\nSmith John W., 633. \n\nSmith Joseph E., 534. \n\nSmith Joseph R., 406. \n\nSmith Manasses, 534. \n\nSmith Matthew Hale. 242 \n\nSmith Matthew W., 633. \n\n.Smith Phineas B., 534. \n\nSmith Robert Dickson, 407 \n\nSmith Samuel Emerson, 410. \n\nSmith Samuel Herbert, 410 \n\nSmith Seth P , 410. \n\nSmith Theophilus Oilman, 410. \n\nSmith Thomas P., 633. \n\nSmith William, 534. \n\nSmith Wip,iam, 633. \n\nS'mith William C, 409 \n\nSmith William H., 633. \n\nSmith Uzziel Putnam, 534. \n\nSmith Ypsilanti A., 534. \n\nSmyth William E. P., 633. \n\nSmythe George A., 534. \n\nSnelling George H., 428. \n\nSnow Charles A., 409. \n\nSnow Elmer A., 534. \n\nSnow Frederick E., 534. \n\nSnow Samuel, 409. \n\nSohier Edward. 211, \n\nSohier Edward D., 211. \n\nSohier William, 212. \n\nSohier William Davies, 211. \n\nSohier William Davies, 212. \n\nSumerby Gustavus A., 562. \n\nS 1 en George W., 534. \n\nSoren Walter W., 534. \n\nSoule Augustus L., 331. \n\nSouthard Charles B., 534. \n\nSouthard Louis C 213. \n\nSouthgate L. W., 633. \n\nSouth worth Robert A , 20/. \n\nSpalding Alfred B., 633. \n\nSparhnwk George. 425. \n\nSparhawk Nathaniel, 287. \n\nSpaulding Asa, 561. \n\nSpaulding John, 340. \n\nSpear Charles F., 535. \n\nSpear William E., 409. \n\nSpelman Henry M., 616. \n-Spencer A..F., 633 \n\nSpofford Joseph H., 633. \n\nSpofford Richard S , 497. \n\nSpooner Allen Crocker, 386. \n\nSpooner Lysander, 490. \n\nSpooner William Jones, 409. \n\nSprague Charles Franklin, 4og. \n\nSprague Charles H , 409. \n\nSprague Francis William, 422. \n\n\nSprague Henry Harrison, 152. \nSprague Henry W., 535. \nSprague Peleg, 563. \nSprague Seth Edward, 127. \nSprague W. G., 561. \nSprague W. G., 633. \nSpring Arthur Langdon, 408. \nSpringer Charles C, 633. \nSproat James, 633. \nSquire James C, 633. \nSquire James R. M., 611. \nStacy G. G.. 633. \nStacy Melville, 535. \nStackpole Andrew J., 633. \nStackpole Joseph Lewis, 426. \nStackpole Joseph Lewis, 408. \nStackpole William, 535. \nStanchfield A. G., 633. \nStandish W., 633. \nStanley William J., 535. \nStanton Henry B., 561. \nStan wood William G., 633. \nStaples Hamilton B., 207. \nStaples John H., 633 \nStark John, 633. \nStark Robert M., 633. \nStarkweather George C, 633. \nStarr Charles R., 633. \nStearns Asahel, 561. \nStearns George H., 535. \nStearns Richard S., 633. \nStearns William G., 142. \nStearns William H., 535. \nStearns William St. Agnan, 576. \nStedman William, 535. \nSteele Thomas L., 633. \nSteere Charles, 535. \nStephens Henry C, 633. \nStetson George W., 633. \nStetson John Glidden, 142. \nStetson Thomas M., 207. \nStevens Charles G., 142. \nStevens D K., 633 \nStevens Edwin F., 535. \nStevens Elisha M., 633. \nStevens Hazard, 142 \nStevens Henry A., 633. \nStevens Henry B., 453. \nStevens Henry J., 535 \nStevens Homer B., 208 \nStevens James M., 535. \nStevens Milan F., 535. \nStevens Oliver, 143. \nStevens Oliver C, 143. \nStevens Solon, 633. \nStevens William B., 143. \nStevens William H., 633. \nStevens W. J., 633. \nStevenson Thomas, 633. \nStewart Enos, 535. \nStewart John, 633. \nStewart Philip J., 639. \nStickney John, 535 \nStickney William B , 633. \nStillwell Elias M., 633. \nStimpson L. L., 535. \nStimson Caleb Morton, 143. \nStimson E. C, 633. \nStimson Frederick J., 143. \nSt. Lawrence Joseph, 557. \nStockbridge William M., 144. \nStockton Howard, 535 \nStockwell James Alden, 144. \nStoddard Amos, 633. \nStoddard Anthony, 262. \nStoddard S., 633. \nStoddard S., jr., 633. \nStone Charles B., 144. \n\n\nINDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n667 \n\n\nStone Eben F., 329. \nStone Ethan, 633. \nStone Frederick M , 640. \nStone George Fisher, 144. \nStone Joshua C , 362. \nStone Philip S., 535- \nStone Richard, 535. \nStorer John H , 616. \nStorey Charles W., 413. \nStorey Moorfield, 413. \nStorrow J. J., 535. \nStorrow J. J., jr., 535 \nStory Augustus, 535 \nStory Isaac, 286 \nStory Isaac, jr.. 504 \nStory Jacob, 536 \nStory Joseph, 488. \nStory William W., 341. \nStoughton Israel, 192 \nStoughton William, 144. \nStrange Thomas F., 146 \nStratton Charles E., 531. \nStrong Frederick W., 640. \nStrong Simeon, 246. \nStrong Solomon, 422 \nStrong Theodore, 633. \nStrong William C, 633 \nStrong Wright, 633. \nStrout Almon A,, 144. \nStrout William G , t.33 \nStubbs William H.. 633 \nSturgis Nathaniel R., 43s. \nSturgis Roger F , 536. \nSturtevant Thomas L , 536. \nSturtevant William T. , 633. \nSughrue Michael J , 144. \nSullivan B., 633. \nSullivan Cornelius J , 633. \nSullivan Cornelius P., 145. \n\nSullivan C S., 633. \n\nSullivan Edward, 536 \nSullivan George, 145 \n\nSullivan George S., 633 \n\nSullivan James, 145. \n\nSullivan James, 561. \n\nSullivan James, jr., 284 \n\nSullivan James Barry, 536. \n\nSullivan James P , 633 \n\nSullivan Jeremiah H.. 536. \n\n.Sullivan Jeremiah J., X45. \n\nSul;ivan John T. S., 286. \n\nSullivan Lynde, 610. \n\nSullivan M. E , 633. \n\nSullivan Richard, 145. \n\nSullivan Richard, 146. \n\nSullivan William, 536. \n\nSullivan William, 281. \n\nSullivan William H., 536. \n\nSumner Bradford, 440. \n\nSumner Charles, 278. \n\nSumner Charles P., 278. \n\nSurnner Charles W., 208. \n\nSumner Increase, 246. \n\nSumner James, 536. \n\nSumner William H., 640. \n\nSundstrom John E., 633. \n\nSuter Hales W., 408. \n\nSwan Charles H. 540. \n\nSwan Charles L., 454. \n\nSwan Isaac W., 633. \n\nSwan W. N., 663. \n\nSwan William W., 554. \n\nSwan William W., 554, \n\nSwasy George R., 408. \n\nSwazey Horatio E., 250. \n\nSwazey J B., 633. \n\nSweeney Charles E., 633. \n\nSweeney James F., 408. \n\n\nSweetser Edwin, 633. \nSweetser Francis K., 408. \nSweetser Isaac Homer, 369, \nSweetser Theodore H., 219. \nSwett E. M., 633. \nSwett M. H., 536. \nSwett Samuel, 408. \nSwift Erdix T., 407. \nSwift Francis Crosby, 407. \nSwift Henry \\V., 576. \nSwift John L., 410. \nSwift Samuel, 270. \nSylvester Herbert M., 407. \nSymmes William, 536. \nSymonds Samuel, 193. \n\nTaber C. A., 633. \nTaber George R., 633. \nTaff John Henry, 181. \nTaft Edgar Sidney, 198. \nTaft George J., 633. \nTaft William J., 633. \nTaggart Alfred, 617. \nTalbot Arthur E., 633. \nTalbot Edmund H.,536. \nTalbot Thomas H.,536. \nTallman Peleg, 455. \nTanner William B., 633. \nTappan Eugene, 181. \nTarbell William C. 419. \nTasker A. B., 633. \nTasker John T., 633. \nTaylor Arthur, 536. \nTaylor Charles J., 633. \nTaylor George H., 633. \nTaylor John, 536. \nTaylor John Doe, 536. \nTaylor John Henry, 181. \nTaylor Lawrence, 633. \nTaylor Marvin M., 440. \nTaylor Nathan A., 633. \nTaylor Thomas J'\"-. 617- \nTenbetts George W., 633. \nTeele John O., 182 \nTemple Frederick H., 536. \nTemple James, 343. \nTemple Thomas French, 378. \nTemple William, 617. \nTennev William, 633. \nTerry Frederick C, 633. \nTerry H. B., 633. \nThacher Benjamin B., 182. \nThacher George, 182. \nThacher George C, 633. \nThacher Joseph S. B., 182. \nThacher Oxenbridge, 182. \nThacher Peter, 484. \nThacher Peter, 561. \nThacher Peter O., 277 \nThacher Samuel, 182. \nThacher Stephen, 484. \nThacher Theodo e U., 562. \nThaxter David, 413. \nThaxter John, 284.' \nThaxter Levi, 634. \nThaxter Samuel, 264. \nThayer Charles M.. 611. \nThayer Ebenezer F., 345. \nThayer Elisha, 282. \nThayer Enoch W., 633. \nThayer Ezra R., 634. \nThayer Frank H., 634. \nThayer Gideon L., 288. \nThayer James B., 587. \nThayer Samuel P., 633. \nThomas Benjamin F., 422. \nThomas Charles G., 397. \nThomas Eugene D., 633. \n\n\nThomas J B. F., 449. \nThomas Joseph, 574. \nThomas Joshua, 283. \nThomas Miner R., 634. \nThomas Nathaniel, 215. \nThomas Seth J., 448. \nThomas Svlvanus M., 182. \nThomas Thomas, 634. \nThompson Charles P., 199. \nThompson Lucien B., 472. \nThompson Robert M., 611. \nThompson Roscoe H., 184. \nThompson Samuel, 504. \nThompson Thomas M.. 634. \nThompson Thomas W., 543, \nThompson William A., 4^4. \nThompson William G., 617. \nThompson William \\\\, 634. \nThomson James D., 634. \nThorndike Charles, 536. \nThorndike Charles J ,617. \nThorndike Henry. 634. \nThorndike James S., 536. \nThorndike John L., 536. \nThorndike Larkin, 634. \nThorndike Samuel L., 184. \nThornton John W., 241. \n\nThorp Joseph G., 185. \nThorpe Walter H., 277. \nThreshie John W , 277. \n\nThrokay John M., 634. \n\nThurston William, 286. \n\nTicknor George, 277. \n\nTiernan W. H. J., 537. \n\nTiffany Thomas B., 634. \n\nTiffany Walter C, 617. \n\nTighe John, 634. \n\nTilden Calvin, 634. \n\nTilden Charles B., 634. \n\nTilden William D., 617. \n\nTillinghast Nicholas, 617. \n\nTilton Peter, 208. \n\nTilton Warren, 453. \n\nTimmins George Henry, 453. \n\nTimmoney J. P., 634. \n\nTirrell Charles Q., 300. \n\nTirrell James E., 365. \n\nTirrell Minot, jr , sco. \n\nTitcomb William S., 537. \n\nTitus John W., 343. \n\nTitus William N., 343. \n\nTobey Gerard C, 377. \n\nTobey Seth, 449. \n\nTodd Charles E., 343. \n\nTodd John, 440. \n\nTodd Paul Potter, 551. \n\nTodhunter John, 453. \n\nTolman Thomas, 295. \n\nTompson E. W. E., 617. \n\nTompson Samuel, 504. \n\nToomey Thomas, 634. \n\nTorrens William H., 283. \n\nTorrey Calvin, 634. \n\nTorrey George A., 344. \n\nTout James R., 537 \n\nTower B. L. M., 378. \n\nTower Gideon E., 634. \n\nTower James A., 634. \n\nTower J. E., 634. \n\nTowle Charles B., 634. \n\nTowle George H., 600. \n\nTowle George M., 609. \n\nTowle Joseph W., 537. \n\nTowle William W., 344. \n\nTowne Truman B. 537. \n\nTowne W. H., 537. \n\nTownsend Alexander, 285. \n\nTownsend Alexander, 634. \n\n\n668 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nTownsend Charles, 640. \nTownsend David, 634. \nTownsend Horatio, 285. \nTownsend Penn, 490. \nTownsend Samuel R., 643. \nTracy E. F., 634. \nTracy Frederick W., 634. \nTrain Charles R., 341. \nTrain Henry J., 634. \nTrask, William R., 344. \nTravis George C, 301. \nTreadwell James P., 453. \nTreadwell, John P., 301. \nTreanor Bernard S., 611. \nTrevett Robert W., 399. \nTripp George H., 537. \nTrowbridge Edmund, 216. \nTrowbridge Stephen W., 360. \nTrumbull, John, 282. \nTucker Alanson, 435. \nTucker George F., 502. \nTucker Ichabod, 537. \nTucker John, 284. \nTucker Josiah P., 537. \nTucker P. E., 301. \nTucker William L., 634. \nTuckerman Frederick G., 277. \nTuckerman Leverett S., 276. \nTudor Henry J., 136. \nTudor William, 136. \nTufts Francis, 640. \nTufts George J., 136. \nTufts Joseph, 634. \nTukey Francis, 435. \nTuohay John M., 136. \nTurner Charles H., 634. \nTnrner Charles W., 634. \nTurner William B., 634. \nTurner William D., 136. \nTuttle Calvin B., 537. \nTuttle Charles W., 543. \nTuttle Frank J., 537. \nTuttle John L., 537. \nTuttle William H. H., 137. \nTuxbury George W., 504. \nTweed Charles A., 634. \nTyler Charles H., 137. \nTyler George W., 537. \nTyler John C, 634. \nTyler John F., 634. \nTyler J Kendall, 611. \nTyler Nathan, 441. \nTyler Othmiel, 634. \nTyler Royall, 276. \nTyler Royall 2d, 537. \nTyndale Theodore H., 537. \nTyng Dudley Atkins, 137. \nTyng Edward, 208. \nTyng James A., 617. \nTyng Stephen H., 135. \n\nUnderwood Adin B., 117. \nUnderwood Francis H., 135. \nUnderwood William O., 135. \nUpham Edward. 634. \nUpham Francis W., 634. \nUpham George Baxter, 135. \nUpham Jacob, 634. \nUpham Toshua, 138. \nUpham Samuel, 416. \nUpham William P., 537. \nUpton Edward A., 596. \nUpton Eugene C, 139. \nUsher Edward P., 139 \nUsher John, 264. \nUsher John L., 441. \n\nValentine John, 270. \n\n\nVambn Joseph, 634. \nVan Buren M.. 634. \nVanderlip W. C, 634. \nVandervoort William, 634. \nVandeutsch G., 634. \nVan Duzee Ira D., 435. \nVane Henry, 163. \nVassall William, 192. \nVaughan Ernest H., 440. \nVaughan Francis W., 634. \nVaughan Francis Wales, 301. \nVaughan George E., 634. \nVaughan John, 634 \nVaughan John W., 537. \nVaughan William W., 540 \nVerdenal Dominique F., 537. \nVerdenal John M., 537. \nVernon Fortescue, 284. \nVinton Alfred C, 359. \nVinton Warren H., 634. \nVollman Herman, 634. \nVose Henry, 356. \nVose Solomon, 537. \n\nWade John, 537. \nWade Levi C, 605. \nWade Winthrop H.. 301. \nWadleigh Bainbridge, 611. \nWadsworth Alexander F., 186. \nWagner Samuel W., 634. \nWait John C, 634. \nWait Thomas B., 634. \nWait William Cushing, 186. \nWaitt William G., 634. \nWakefield John F., 186. \nWakefield John H., 634. \nWakefield John L., 359. \nWakefield Thomas H., 359. \nWakefield '1 homas L., 416. \nWalbach George G , 537. \nWalbridge Percy E., 554. \nWalcott Charles F., 251. \nWalcott Charles H., 360. \nWald Gustavus H., 617. \nWaldo Calvin, 634. \nWaldo Francis W, 640. \nWaldron Henry C, 640. \nWales Jonathan, 634. \nWalker A. M., 634. \n\nWalker Edward, 282. \nWalker Edward G., 278. \n\nWalker Henry, 199. \n\nWalker Henry A., 634. \n\nWalker Henry W., 554. \n\nWalker Joseph, 278. \n\nWalker Nathaniel U.,278. \n\nWalker William L., 634. \n\nWallace Edgar A., 554. \n\nWalley John, 215. \n\nWalley Samuel H., 424. \n\nWalley William P., 554. \n\nWalsh James L., 277. \n\nWalsh John, 574. \n\nWalsh John W., 634. \n\nWalsh Joseph L , 634. \n\nWalsh Thomas J., 634. \n\nWalsh Walter J . 634. \n\nWalter Arthur M., 288. \n\nWard Artemas, 276. \n\nWard Clarence S., 277. \n\nWard John C. B.,640. \n\nWard John F., 640. \n\nWard John P J., 183. \n\nWard Joshua H., 398. \n\nWard Samuel D., 421. \n\nWardwell Henry, 184. \n\nWardwell J Otis, 183. \n\nWare Asher, 226. \n\n\nWare Darwin E., 360. \nWare George M., 634. \nWare George W., jr., 248. \nWare Henry, 441 \nWare Horace E., 329. \nWare Jairus C, 634. \nWare Nabur, 634 \nWare-Thornton K., 441. \nWarland Owen, 554. \nWarner Aaron E., 554. \nWarner Francis F., 634. \nWarner Henry E., 554. \nWarner Herman J., 554. \nWarner Joseph B., 370. \nWarner Levi, 634. \nWarner Milton B , 634. \nWarner Samuel L., 634. \nWarner William A., 426. \nWarren Bentley W., 344. \nWarren Charles H., 174. \nWarren George, 285 \nWarren George W., 226. \nWarren Henry, 360. \nWarren James, 174. \nWarren Joseph W., 441. \nWarren Lucius H., 554. \nWarren Samuel, jr., 634. \nWarren Samuel D., 361. \nWarren Webster F., 555. \nWarren William W., 641 \nWarren Winslow, 434. \nWashburn Alexander C, 370. \nWashburn Benjamin D , 617. \nWashburn Charles E , 370. \nWashburn C. E., 555. \nWashburn Charles G., 634. \nWashburn Edward L., 634. \nWashburn Emory, 370 \nWashburn Frank L., 370. \nWashburn Frederick L., 455. \nWashburn Henry L., 634. \nWashburn John D., 434. \nWashburn Nathan, 634. \nWashburn Reuben, 634. \nWashburn William R. P , 427. \nWashbm-n William T., 555. \nWashington G. W., 634. \nWasson Milton, 635. \nWaterhouse Andrew O., 555. \nWaterhouse Asa, 634. \nWaterhouse Isaac, 634. \nWaterhouse Isaiah, 635. \nWaterman Andrew J., 297. \nWaterman Foster, 287. \nWaterman Jesse F., 635. \nWaterman Richard, 555. \nWaters George B., 635. \nWatson Benjamin F , 378. \nWatson Benjamin M., 288. \nWatson C. L., 640. \nWatson David T., 555. \nWatson John, 263. \nWatson Paul B., 378. \nWatson Thomas A., 213. \nWatts Frances O., 378. \nWatts Samuel, 262. \nWay Clarence, 635. \nWay John M., 590. \nWayland Francis, 348. \nWead Leslie C, 379. \nWearley Sylvanus M., 635. \nWeaver Archibald J., 635. \nWebb Charles H., 635. \nWebb Christopher, 264. \nWebb Samuel F., 617. \nWebb Seth, 380. \nWebster Daniel, 474. \nWebster Daniel Fletcher, 380. \n\n\nINDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. \n\n\n669 \n\n\nWebster Edward, 635. \nWebster Kdward E., 635. \nWebster Franklin, 559. \nWebster Henry S., 555. \nWebster Prentiss, 380. \nWebster Sidney, 555. \nWebster William, 635. \nWedgewood E. VV., 635. \nWeed Alonzo K ., 381. \nWeed George M., 381. \nWeil George L., 381. \nWelch Charles A., 593. \nWelch Charles H., 381. \nWelch Francis C, 555. \nWelch John H., 555. \nWelch Joseph A., 635. \nWelch Thomas, jr., 635. \nWelch William E., 555. \nWelch Wilson Jarvis, 4 14 \nWeld Abraham, jr., 635 \nWeld Benjamin L., 381. \nWeld S. P., 635. \n\nw eldon , 271. \n\nWelles Arnold F., 424. \nWelles Benjamin, 381. \nWelles Henry C, 454. \nWellington Ambrose, 221. \nWellington Asa, 248. \nWellington Hiram, 425. \nWellman Arthur H., 381. \nWell man F. H., 635. \nWells Charles W., 635 \nWells Daniel, 398. \nWells George D., 452. \nWells Henry J., 327. \nWells John, 585. \nWells Samuel, 573. \nWells Samuel, 263. \nWells Samuel, jr., 573. \nWells Stiles G., 617. \nWelsh Edward J., 635. \nWelsh Thomas, 288 \nWendell Edward, 283. \nWentworth Alonzo B., 382. \nWent worth George L., 382. \nWentworth Samuel, 635. \nWentworth Samuel H., 382. \nWest Augustus L.,635. \nWest Edward B., 635. \nWest John, 264. \nWest Paul, 635. \nWest Thomas, 635. \nWeston Clarence P., 382. \nWeston Ezra, 418. \nWeston Melville M., 540. \nWeston Nathan, 635. \nWeston Thomas, jr. 397. \nWeston-Smith Robert D., 411. \nWetherbee John E., 635. \nWetmore Sidney, 617. \nWetmore Thomas, 382. \nWetmore Thomas, 555. \nWetmore Thomas, 617. \nWetmore William, 283. \nWhall William B. F„ 382.. \nWharton Richard, 264. \nWharton William F., 297. \nWheatland Benjamin, 555. \nWheaton Daniel, 555. \nWheaton George C., 635. \nWheaton Laban, 641. \nWheaton Robert, 455. \nWheehen A. M., 635. \nWheeler Alexander S., 430. \nWheeler Charles, 383. \nWheeler D. L„ 635. \nWheeler Henry, 441. \nWheeler Jesse F., 555. \n\n\nWfheeler John H., 635. \nWheeler Samuel G, 635. \nWheeler S. H., 635. \nWheeler Thomas M., 635. \nWheelock George R., 555. \nWheelock Peter S., 429. \nWheelwright Andrew C, 555. \nWlu/elwright Edward, 555. \nWheelwright G. A., 6 \nWheelwright John T.', 382. \nWhipple Sherman L , 139. \nWhitcomb Charles W , 296. \nWhitcomb George H., 635. \nWhite Dewitt C, 635. \nWhite Edwin M., 635. \nWhite George, 549. \nWhite George W., 564. \nWhite Guilford, 635. \nWhite Henry, 635. \nWhite Jonathan, 323. \nWhite Luther L., 635. \nWhite Moses P., 555 \nWhite Naaman L., 555. \nWhite Thomas L., 635. \nWhite Willard, 635. \nWhite William, 635. \nWhite William A., 383. \nWhite William A., 635. \nWhite William H., 364. \nWhite William N., 641. \nWhithead Hamilton L., 635. \nWrhiting C. L , 635. \nWhiting Daniel, 635. \nWhiting James .C, 635. \nWhiting John, 635. \nWhiting .Martin,' 556. \nWhiting Mason. 635. \nWhiting William, 226. \nWhiting William, 635. \nWhiting William A., 617. \nWhiting William P , 635. \nWhitman Benjamin, 324. \nWhitman Edmund A., 383. \nWhitman George H., 424. \nWhitman James H., 453, \nWhitman John WTinslow, 402. \nWhitman Kilborn, 287. \nWhitman William D. A., 635. \nWhitman William H., 328. \nWhitman Zechariah G., 556. \nWhitney Abel, 635. \nWhitney Alexander, 618. \nWhitnev Charles L. B., 135 \nWhitney Edson L , 618. \nWhitney James C, 304. \nWhitney J. H., 635. \nWhitney Manassah H., 635. \nWhittemore Charles A., 618. \nWhittemore Charles H., 383. \nWhittemore Eben S., 394. \nWhittemore George, 394. \nWhittemore Henry L., 635. \nWhittemore Horace O., 617. \nWhitten William C-, 636. \nWhittier J. A. L., 635. \nWhittier R. S., 635. \nWhittle D. F., 635. \nWhittle James, 635. \nWhittlesey Henry L., 394. \nWhittlesey Hugh L., 635. \nWhitwell Benjamin, 394. \nWhitwell Frederick S., 556. \nWhoriskey Hugh V., 635. \nWiener Robert, 635. \nWier F. N., 635. \nWiggin Andrew, 364. \nWiggin E. R., 635, \nWiggin George W., 363. \n\n\nWiggin John H., 635. \nWiggin Joseph F., 153. \nWiggin Thomas, 193. \nWigglesworth Edward, 153. \nWieglesworth George, 394. \nWightman Joseph M., 636. \nWigmore John H., 618. \nWilde George C, 370. \nWilde Samuel S., 153. \nWilder Daniel W., 556. \nWilder Kdward B., 636- \nWilder John, 454. \nWildes George Dudley, 618. \nWilkie Edward A., 556. \nWilkins W. \\V., 635. \nWilkinson Ezia, 339. \nWillard Abel, 271. \nWillard Ashton R., 635. \nWillard Jacob, 441. \nWillard Joseph, 153. \nWillard Joseph, 556. \nWillard Joseph A., 485. \nWillard Josiah, 487. \nWillard Paul, 154. \nW^lard Paul. 556. \nWillard Sidney, 394. \nWillard Sidney A , 635. \nWillard Simon, 193 \nWilley Tolman, 379. \nWilley W. T., 556. \nWilliams A. Nathan, 142. \nWilliams Benjamin P., 395. \nWilliams Charles, 636. \nWilliams Charles A., 635. \nWilliams Charles F., 556. \nWilliams Charles H. S., 636. \nWilliams Charles M , 635. \nWilliams Daniel, 635 \nWilliams David W., 556. \nWilliams Elijah D., 428. \nWilliams Ephraim, 636. \nWilliams Francis B., 636. \nWilliams Francis H., 556. \nWilliams Frederick H., 395. \nWilliams George P., 395. \nWilliams George G., 398. \nWilliams George W., 590. \nWilliams Gorham D., 395. \nWilliams Henry M., 556. \nWilliams Henry W., 395. \nWilliams John, 286. \nWilliams John M., 363. \nWilliams John S.,'348. \nWilliams Jonathan, 282. \nWilliams Joseph O., 363. \nWilliams Moses, 296. \nWilliams Samuel K., 424. \nWilliams Thomas, 285. \nWilliams Thomas H., 556. \nWilliams William J., 395. \nWilliamson William C , 556 \nWillis Horatio M., 636. \nWillis Ma- a, 636. \nWillis William, 151. \nWilliston Samuel, 396. \nWilloughby Francis, 193. \nWillson Alexander E , 556. \nWilson Archelaus, 636. \nWilson Arthur P , 556. \nWilson Butler R., 396. \nWilson Charles S., 636. \nWilson John T., 556. \nWilson Samuel S., 636. \nWilson Thomas, 636. \nWilson Thomas S., 556 \nWilson William H , 560. \nWilson William M., 636. \nWilson William P., 3g6. \n\n\n670 \n\n\nHISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. \n\n\nWing Henry, 557. \nWinn Abel T., 556. \nWinn Henry, 636. \nWinn John J., 636. \nWinslow Kdward, 262 \nWinslow Henry H., 618. \nWinslow John, 357. \nWinslow James A., 213. \nWinter William, 489. \nWinthrop Adam, 260. \nWinthrop Adam, 288. \nWinthrop George E., 425. \nWinthrop Grenville T., 424. \nWinthrop John, 161. \nWinthrop John, jr., sq6. \nWinthrop John T., 426. \nWinthrop Robert C., 162. \nWinthrop Robert C, jr., 557. \nWinthrop Thomas L., 557. \nWinthrop Waitstill. 162. \nWinthrop William W., 636. \nWithington G. R. M., 141. \nWithington O. W., 425. \nWolcott Benjamin, 636. \nWolcott Charles F , 636. \nWolcott Roger, 133. \nWolcott Samuel B., 296. \nWolff James H., 417. \nWood Benjamin, 287. \nWood Courtland, 636. \nWood David W., 636. \nWood George W., 636. \n\n\nWood Henry C, 636. \nWood Nathaniel, 422. \nWood S'ephen B., 139. \nWood Will. am H., 324. \nWood Wilkes, 325. \nWoodbridge John, 209. \nWoodbridge Jonathan, 636. \nWoodbridge Joseph, 636. \nWoodbury Charles H., 636. \nWoodbury Charles Levi, 515. \nWoodbury Prank G., 636. \nWoodbury Jesse R., 636. \nWoodbury John, 141. \nWoodbury T.evi 141. \nWoodbury William H., 636. \nWoodman A., 636. \nWoodman Charles 636 \nWoodman Charles C, 636. \nWoodman Cyrus, 415. \nWoodman E. H., i;8. \nWoodman George H., 587. \nWoodman Horatio, 451. \nWoodman John S., 636. \nWoodruff Henry, 557. \nWoodruff Thomas T , 138. \nWoods Andrew, 618 \nWoods George H., 618. \nWoods George H., 557. \nWoods John S., 636. \nWoodside Franklin, 636. \nWooster Benjamin W., 636. \n\n\nWorcester John R., 636. \nWorthen Albert P., 138. \nWorthen H. N., 636. \nWorth ington Charles, 398. \nWorthington Erastus, 138. \nWorthington Erastus, jr., 296. \nWorthington Francis W., 456. \nWright Albert J., jr , 636. \nWright Carroll D., ■38. \nWright Edward C, 618. \nWright Edwin, 321. \nWright Frederick, 456, \nWright Isaac H., 250. \nWright James J., 557. \nWright Robert W., 636. \nWright Smith, 557. \nWright Winslow W., 557. \nWyer David, 137. \nWyman Alphonzo A., 134. \nWyman Ferdinand A.v 636. \nWyman Henry A., 134. \nWyman Isaac C 134. \nWyman John P., 448. \n\nYamada Eneas, 636. \nYearly S. M., 640. \nYeaton George C. 636. \nYoung Alexander, 489 \nYoung Edward, 420. \nYoung Ephraim W., 618. \nYoung James H., 557. \n\n\nADDENDUM TO INDEX. \n\n\nColby John F„ 644. \n\n\nERRATA. \n\nPage 89, 10th line, \" Bolstor\" should be \" Bolster/' \n\nPage 90, 24th line, \" Joseph Willard \" should be \"Josiah.\" \n\nPage 193, 31st line, \" Simond Willard\" should be \"Simon.\" \n\nPage 197, 6th line, \" Oxford \" should be \" Orford.\" \n\nPage 226, 25th line, In the sketch of William Whiting the date of birth should be \n1813, not 1818. \n\nPage 233, 7th line, In the sketch of John T. Hassam \"monthly\" should be \n\" quarterly.\" \n\nPage 258, Judge Abbott was a member of the Electoral Commission. \n\nPage 485, 17th line, Simon Willard was also of Concord. \n\nPage 498, Henry F. Durant also attended Mrs. Ripley's school in Waltham. His \nfather was a partner of B. F. Butler. Col. John Fowle, U.S.A., the father of his \nwife, was of Watertown, Mass., and not of Alexandria, Va. Wellesley College re- \nceives no annuity, but is a residuary legatee after the death of his wife. \n\nPage 517, 20th line, John E. Hudson resides in Marlboro' street, Boston, and not \nin Marlboro', Mass. \n\nPage 577, William S. Stearns attended also the Harvard Law School. In the last \nline of his sketch, \" John Sprague \" should be \"Joseph.\" \n\nPage 587, In the sketch of Edward Bangs, Margaret, the first wife of Mr. Hicks, \nwas the mother of Lydia Bangs. The children of Rebecca, his second wife, were \nBethia, and Mercy and Apphia, twins. Mr. Bangs married Anne Outram Hodgkin- \nson, daughter of William Gill Hodgkinson, of England, and Anne Outram, daughter \nof David Hinckley, of Boston. \n\nJohn F. Colby should have been indexed page 644 instead of page 249. \n\n\nqppHPHP^^P^pmMjuv- '\".V/./,-. \n\n\n•Mi! \n\n\n.(••',;< >;