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Hon. John Henry Clifford, one of the eminent lawyers of his day, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, January 16, 1809, and graduated at Brown University in 1827. He was admitted to the bar in 1830, and January 16, 1832, he married Sarah P. Allen, descendant of Captain Myles Standish of the "Mayflower." Judge Clifford practised law at New Bed- ford until the day of his death, as partner with Hon. Timothy G. Coffin, Harrison G. O. Colby, and Lionel F. Brigham, later Chief Justice of the Superior Court. He represented New Bedford in the Legislature in 1835, and in 1836 he was appointed an aide to Governor Everett, who conferred upon Mr. Clifford the appointment of district attorney for the southern district of the State. In 1845 he was elected Senator; and in 1849 he was appointed by Governor Briggs attorney general of the State. Eventu- ally he was inaugurated Governor of the State, January 14, 1853, and was thrice elected. In 1862 he was elected to the State Senate; in 1867 he was elected president of the Boston and Providence Railroad corporation; and in 1868 he was an elector-at-large for the election of President Grant. Governor Clifford was a member of many learned societies, and he received the degree of LL.D. from Brown and Harvard universities. His death occurred January 2, 1876.
John Ricketson Williams was born at New Bedford, November 14, 1808, son of Richard and Rebecca Williams. He graduated at Harvard. in 1831, and completed his studies for practise at the law office of Hon. John Davis, at Worcester. In 1835 he relinquished his profession and went into business in Ohio and Michigan. In 1850 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention of Michigan, and in 1853 he bought out
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the "Toledo Blade," which nominated Salmon Chase for Governor of the State. The Michigan Legislature elected him president of the Agricultural College of Michigan at Lansing; and in 1860 he was elected president of the Michigan Senate. He married, in Buffalo, in 1844, Sarah R. Langdon, daughter of John Langdon. He died June 15, 1861.
Hon. Joshua Clapp Stone was born in Boston, August 28, 1825, son of Henry B. and Elizabeth Stone. He graduated at Harvard College in 1844, and entered the Dane Law School. He entered into partnership with Hon. William W. Crapo, in New Bedford, in 1862. He was at one time justice of the Court of Insolvency for the county, and in 1866 and 1867 he repre- sented the Eleventh Representative District in the State Legislature. He married, September 17, 1850, Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Anna Hathaway, of New Bedford, and he died in that city, January 2, 1869.
Oliver Prescott was born in Middlesex county, November 25, 1806, and received his education at Harvard. He taught at the Friends' Academy at New Bedford, studied law in the office of Lemuel Williams, and was admitted to the bar in New Bedford in June, 1832. He was appointed judge of probate in 1835, and held the office until the court was abolished in 1858. He was appointed judge of the police court in New Bedford in 1846, and resigned in 1858.
Hon. George Marston was born in Barnstable, October 15, 1821. He received his education at Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1845. While a resident of Barnstable he was register of probate from March, 1853, to December, 1854; and he was judge of probate from 1854 to 1858. From 1860 to 1879 he was district attorney for the Southern District; and he was three times elected attorney-general of the State. He was president of the Nantucket & Cape Cod Steamboat Company, and a member of the boards of directors of financial and insur- ance companies.
Lincoln F. Brigham was born at Cambridge, October 4, 1819, son of Lincoln and Lucy Forbes Brigham. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842, and after two years at the Dane Law School entered the office of Clifford & Colby, at New Bedford, and was admitted to the bar in the Court of Common Pleas in June, 1845. For a time he was in partnership with Judge Clifford, who as Governor appointed Mr. Brigham district at- torney of the Southern District of the State. He held that office under the original appointment until 1856, when he was elected to the office and continued therein until 1869, when he was appointed to the chief justice- ship of the Superior Court.
Alanson Borden was born at Tiverton, Rhode Island, in 1823. He studied in the law office of Eliot & Kasson in New Bedford, and was ad- mitted to the bar in June, 1849. He was a member of the New Bedford school committee a number of years, a member of the House of Representa- tives, judge of the police court, and judge of the Third District Court of Bristol. He was mayor of New Bedford in 1877.
Edwin Luther Barney, son of Captain Edward Barney, was born in Swansea, April 1, 1827. He received his education at Brown University, and from March, 1849, resided at New Bedford. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1850, and went into partnership with Timothy G. Coffin, under the firm name of Coffin & Barney.
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Robert C. Pitman, a native of New Bedford, was admitted to the bar in 1847, and was partner a number of years with Hon. Thomas D. Eliot. He was judge of the New Bedford police court, and later was elected Sen- ator. He also served as a judge of the Supreme Court.
Hon. William W. Crapo is the oldest active lawyer in the State, now being ninety-three years of age. He was born in Dartmouth, May 16, 1830, and graduated at Yale College in 1852. He studied law in the office of Governor Clifford, and at the Dane Law School. He was admitted to the bar in February, 1855, and commencing practice in New Bedford, was appointed city solicitor in April, 1855. In 1856 he was elected to the Mas- sachusetts House of Representatives. He was elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses, and took a prominent position in Congress. He has been honored by New Bedford in many ways; and he was president of the Mechanics National Bank, and director in mills corporations. He married, January 22, 1857, Sarah A. D. Tappan.
Thomas D. Stetson was born in Medford, Massachusetts, June 15, 1830, son of Rev. Caleb Stetson. He graduated at Harvard in 1849, and studied law at the Dane Law School, and at New Bedford. He was admitted to the bar in 1854. He then joined the law office of Williams & Warren, whose style was changed to Warren & Eliot, and in 1854 to Eliot & Pitman, then Eliot, Pitman & Stetson, and Eliot & Stetson; and, in 1870, Stetson & Greene. Mr. Stetson was married to Caroline Dawes Eliot, daughter of Hon. Thomas Dawes Eliot, in 1856.
Lemuel T. Wilson was born in Fairhaven, August 1835, and was graduated at Yale College in 1860.
Adam Mackie and A. L. West were prominent lawyers in partnership in the middle of the last century.
Charles W. Clifford was born at New Bedford, August 19, 1844, son of John H. and Sarah Parker Clifford. He graduated at Harvard in 1865, and was admitted to the bar at New Bedford in June, 1868. Until February, 1869, he practiced in the office of his father, when the firm of Marston & Crapo was formed, of which he continued a member until its dissolution in April, 1878, when he became an active member of the firm of Crapo, Clifford & Clifford. He has been chairman of the New Bedford City Republican Committee, delegate and assistant secretary to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, and a member of the Republican State Central Committee of Massachusetts. He married, May 5, 1869, Frances L., daugh- ter of Charles L. and Elizabeth T. Wood.
Wendell H. Cobb was born at Sandwich, in 1838, son of Rev. Asahel Cobb. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1861, and was admitted to the bar in 1865.
Fall River-Looking back to the beginnings of the bar in Fall River, we find the first name of prominence to be that of James Ford, who was born in Milton, Massachusetts, August 3, 1774. He received his education at Brown University, and studied law with Judge Metcalf, of Dedham. He was admitted to the bar in Taunton in 1818, and became a partner with Judge Morton. In 1819 he opened an office in Fall River. He was a member of the Legislature in 1825. He was postmaster of Fall River four years; one of the founders of the Franklin Savings Bank; special justice for twenty years; for twelve years one of the inspectors of the State Alms-
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house; and twenty-five years editor of the "Weekly Monitor". He died July 27, 1873.
Eliab Williams was born at Raynham in 1803, graduated at Brown University in 1821, and began to study law. He went to Virginia to teach, and continuing law studies was there admitted to the bar. Returning north, he entered the law office of Judge Morton; afterwards he entered the office of David G. Cobb, and in September, 1825, was admitted to the bar. He settled at first in practice at Dighton, and in 1827 went to Swan- sea. It was through the influence of Hezekiah Battelle, a lawyer in Fall River, that Mr. Williams was led to go to Fall River, in 1833, and their partnership lasted more than twenty years. He was identified with the Fall River Savings Bank almost from the time of its organization. He was married three times. He died April 4, 1880.
Frederick A. Boomer was born in Tiverton, Rhode Island, April 8, 1821, and he married Elizabeth M., daughter of John Earle, July 8, 1857. He graduated at the Normal School at Bridgewater, and for a while taught school. He then studied law in the office of David Perkins and with Judge Lapham, and was admitted to the bar. While at Tiverton he was elected to the General Assembly. In Fall River he was three times elected to the office of city solicitor. In the fall of 1870 he was again elected to the General Court, and served on important committees. He was a director in the Pocasset National Bank from its organization until his death, which occurred July 2, 1871.
Hezekiah Battelle was a graduate of Brown University with the class of 1816. He read law in the office of Hercules Cushman in Free- town. When admitted to the bar he became a partner with Mr. Cushman; he then removed to Swansea, where he practiced until 1827, when he located at Fall River. He represented Fall River in the Legislature of 1838 and 1848 and he died January 2, 1872.
Cyrus Alden, a descendant of John Alden, of the "Mayflower", was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, May 20, 1785. He graduated at Brown University in 1807, and studying law at Litchfield, Connecticut, also read with Judge Whitman of Marshfield and Judge Baylies of Taunton. He began practice in Wrentham, where he married Mary M. Jones, daughter of Alexander Jones of Providence. After a short residence at Wrentham and Roxbury he returned to Fall River in 1827, and served in the Legis- lature. He was author of "Abridgement of Law, with Practical Forms". He died in March, 1855.
Louis Lapham was born in Burrillville, Rhode Island, in 1810. He settled in Fall River, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He was appointed judge of the police court of Fall River in 1852, which office he held until the court was abolished and the district court established in 1873. He was a prominent Free Soiler, and was several times a candidate for mayor of Fall River. He died at Fall River in March, 1881.
One of the leading lawyers here at this time was Charles Holmes, father of Hon. Charles Holmes, a man of excellent legal mind.
James Madison Morton, son of Job Morton, was a native of Fair- haven, Massachusetts, where he was born April 28, 1803. In the winter of 1840 he removed to Fall River, where he died May 2, 1881. He was one of the foremost lawyers in this part of the State. He served one term as
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postmaster of Fall River, and was assessor and selectman there. He mar- ried, May 30, 1830, Sarah M. A. Tobey and they had four children.
Hon. Josiah C. Blaisdell was born in Hampton, New Hampshire, October 22, 1820. While a young man he removed to Methuen, and thence in 1843 to Fall River. From the law office of James Ford, Esq., he entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1858 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1864 and 1868 he was ap- pointed a member of the State Board of Charities; in 1865 he was elected a State Senator, and in 1866 a member of the House. He served twice as mayor of Fall River, in 1858 and 1859; and in 1874 he was appointed judge of the Second District Court of Bristol.
Nicholas Hatheway, son of Elnathan P. and Salome (Cushman) Hathe- way, was born in Freetown, Massachusetts, September 3, 1824, the eldest of seven children. He graduated at Brown University in 1847, studied law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1849. He practised in Freetown up to 1857, and was twice elected justice. He held a leading position in the Boston Custom House and in the Boston Stock Exchange, but later removed to Fall River for the practice of law. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts Legislature from Fall River in 1875, and was alderman in 1874 and 1875. He was delegate to State and National Demo- cratic conventions, and received a flattering vote when nominated for Con- gress in 1882. He was prominent in Masonic circles. He married Fanny P. Dean, of Freetown, January 1, 1851.
Hon. Henry K. Braley was born in Rochester, Massachusetts, March 17, 1850, son of Samuel and Mary O. Braley. He was mayor of Fall River in 1882 and 1883. He was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in 1873. He is now Justice of the Supreme Bench.
Attleboro-John Daggett was born in Attleboro, son of Thomas and Hannah Mayhew Daggett. He graduated at Brown University with the class of 1826, and, studying law at the office of Joseph L. Tillinghast, in Providence, Hon. J. J. Fiske of Wrentham, and Judge Theron Metcalf of Dedham, he was admitted to the bar at Dedham in January, 1830, and commenced to practice at Attleboro. He was elected to the Legislature in 1836, and continued four years in succession, and in 1850 he was elected to the Senate, serving on important committees. He was a member of the House in 1866. In 1872 he was appointed by the Governor register of probate for Bristol county, and afterwards elected to the same office for two terms, holding the office for the period of eleven years. He was the second president of the Old Colony Historical Society.
Hon. David Daggett, who was born in Attleboro, December 31, 1764, became Kent Professor of Law at Yale College, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut.
Freetown-Among the first of the men of law who were born at Free- town or made the town their home were the following-named: William A. Leonard, Washington Hathaway, George B. N. Holmes, Hercules Cush- man, Rufus Bacon, Elnathan P. Hathaway, Ezra Wilkinson, William H. Eddy, Joseph Hathaway.
Admitted to Bar-The following is a record of admissions to the Bar of attorneys-at-law in Bristol County, under the provisions of the Acts of
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1919. In this list the reader will understand that "Supreme Judicial" stands for Supreme Judicial Court; "Common Pleas" for Court of Common Pleas; and "Superior" for Superior Court.
William G. Shaw, Oct. 1802; Supreme Judicial.
John G. Dean, Sept. . 1809; 'Common Pleas.
Joseph Bennett, Sept. 1809.
Elnathan P. Hathaway, Dec. 1821; Com- mon Pleas; Oct. 1824, Supreme Ju- dicial; leading member Bristol bar; native of Freetown; personal friend of President Buchanan; member Con- stitutional Convention; State Senator; member of National Convention that nominated President Buchanan.
Benjamin F. Hallett, June 1821; Common Pleas.
Charles H. Warren, Oct. 1822; Supreme Judicial; District Attorney; Judge Common Pleas; president Boston & Providence Railroad.
Peter S. Hunt, Oct. 1822; Supreme Ju- dicial.
William Bates, Dec. 1822; Common Pleas. Henry H. Gilbert, Dec. 1822.
Ezra Bassett, March 1822; Common Pleas; native Rochester, Mass .; law offices in Attleboro, Taunton and New Bedford; had large admiralty practice.
Joseph Hathaway (2nd), March 1824; Common Pleas.
Jacob Chapin, Oct. 1824; Supreme Ju- dicial.
Philip Ammidon, June 1828; Common Pleas.
Joseph Hathaway, Oct. 1828; Supreme Judicial. Andrew A. Locke, Oct. 1828; Supreme Judicial.
William L. A. Bradford, Oct. 1829; Su- preme Judicial.
John Burrage, Sept. 1830; Common Pleas; 1832, Supreme Judicial.
Harry Williams, Nov. 1831; Supreme Ju- dicial.
Peter R. Minard, June 1831; Common Pleas.
Theodore L. Lincoln, Oct. 1832; Supreme Judicial.
Ezra Wilkinson, Oct. 1832; Supreme Ju- dicial.
Sidney Williams, Oct. 1832; Supreme Ju- dicial.
Samuel B. Ellis, Dec. 1833; Common Pleas.
Charles I. H. Barrett, April 1835; Su- preme Judicial.
William P. Doggett, April 1836; Supreme Judicial.
Daniel Ricketson, Oct. 1836; Supreme Judicial.
Henry W. Torrey, June 1840; Common Pleas.
Timothy D. Lincoln, June 1840; Common Pleas.
John C. Dearborn, Sept. 1842; Common Pleas.
Charles C. Shrape, Dec. 1842; Common Pleas.
Claudius B. Farnsworth, March 1844; Common Pleas.
George W. Towle, June 1846; Common Pleas.
Milton Andros, Sept. 1847; Common Pleas.
Judicial. John A. Hawes, Nov. 1848; Supreme Benjamin T. Presbrey, April 1848; Su- preme Judicial.
George H. Palmer, Sept. 1848; Common Pleas.
Charles W. French, Dec. 1848; Common Pleas.
J. George Lawton, jr., Dec. 1848; Com- mon Pleas.
Walter Mitchell, Sept. 1849; Common Pleas.
George H. Lawton, March 1850; Com- mon Pleas. E. Maltby Reed, April 1850; Supreme Ju- dicial.
Joseph P. Deane, March 1851; Common Pleas.
Francis L. Porter, April 1851; Supreme Judicial.
Baalis Sanford, Sept. 1851; Common Pleas.
Thomas D. Robinson, Sept. 1852; Com- mon Pleas.
George E. Williams, Sept. 1853; Common Pleas.
Joseph B. Sanford, Sept. 1853; Common Pleas.
Edward Fales, Sept. 1853; Common Pleas. John G. Locke, June 1856; Common Pleas.
Charles W. Thrasher, April 1857; Su- preme Judicial.
Charles Russell, Nov. 1857; Supreme Ju- dicial.
George A. King, March 15, 1858; Com- mon Pleas.
Richard A. Peirce, April 20, 1858; Su- preme Judicial.
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Charles H. Deans, June 1858; Common Pleas.
Thomas J. Lothrop, Sept. 1858; Common Pleas.
Charles W. Sproat, April 1859; Common Pleas.
Daniel Sullivan, June 1859; Common Pleas.
Willard Q. Phillips, Oct. 1859; Superior Court.
Edmund T. Allen, Nov. 1859; Supreme Judicial.
George B. Merrill, Sept. 1851; Superior. James M. Morton, Jr., Sept. 1861; Su- perior; Judge Supreme Court, Fall River; now retired.
Jonathan M. Wood, Oct. 1861; Superior. John H. Ricketson, Nov. 1861; Supreme Judicial.
James R. Husband, March 1862; Superior. James E. Vickery, March 1863; Superior. Philip A. Pierce, April 1864; Supreme Ju- dicial.
Charles E. Briggs, Sept. 1864; Superior. William Henry Johnson; March 1865; Superior.
Benjamin K. Lovatt, May 1865; Supreme Judicial.
George O. Fairbanks, Jr., June 1869; Su- perior.
Thomas E. Grover, Sept. 1867.
T. Frank Brownell.
Francis B. Greene, Nov. 1869; Supreme Judicial.
Hosea M. Knowlton, June 1870; Superior; a leading attorney of a past genera- tion; was District Attorney for New Bedford District, and Attorney-Gen- eral for Massachusetts.
Fred B. Byram, though not originally of Bristol County bar, was the first judge of Fourth Bristol District at Attleboro.
Henry Baylies, April 1871; Superior.
Charles F. Perkins, April 1871; Supreme Judicial.
Albert Alonzo Austin, Dec. 1871; Su- perior.
William T. Gilbert, March 1872; Superior. Emanuel Sullavou, June 1872; Superior. Henry F. Burt, June 1872; Superior.
Patrick H. Wallace, Oct. 1872; Superior. Milton Reed, Dec. 1872; Superior; a lead- ing practising lawyer and noted as an orator and writer; newspaper pub- lisher in Fall River and Taunton.
Samuel W. Reed, Sept. 1873; Superior.
Laurens N. Francis, Oct. 1873; Superior. Sylvanus Martin Thomas, Jan. 1874; Su- perior; was a prominent trial lawyer
in Taunton; practised extensively in United States Admiralty . throughout United States; in later years identi- fied with street railway business in Taunton.
Albert Edwin Clarke, Jan. 1874; Superior. Adolphus Henry Levi, Jan. 1874; Su- perior.
Luther J. Drake, Jan. 1874; Superior.
George H. Brown, June 1874; Superior. Francis W. Tappan, Oct. 1874; Superior. Marcus G. B. Swift, was very prominent lawyer of Fall River; firm of Braley & Swift.
Lloyd Frederick Jackson, July 1875; Su- perior.
Lemuel LeBaron Holmes, Sept. 1875; Su- perior; New Bedford trial lawyer; was appointed judge of Superior, and died while in that office.
Samuel Keniston, Sept. 1875; Superior. John H. Galligan, Oct. 1875; Superior; Registrar of .Probate nearly twelve years; died while holding that office. Frank A. Milliken, Jan. 1876; Superior; prominent New Bedford attorney; justice of Third District many years. George Fox Tucker, March 1876; Su- perior.
George Leonard, March 1876; Superior. William Crowell Parker, March 1876; Su- perior; prominent trial lawyer in New Bedford many years.
Andrew J. Jennings, May 1875; Supreme Judicial; member of firm of Morton & Jennings, Fall River; District At- torney for Southeastern Massachu- setts District; prominent politically; retired.
John William Cummings, Sept. 1876; Su- perior; was one of most celebrated practising lawyers in this part of State.
James Joseph Galligan, Sept. 1876; Su- perior.
Henry Nelson West, Dec. 1876; Superior. Albert B. Collins, Dec. 1876; Superior; was elected Registrar of Deeds at Fall River; died in 1922.
Isaac Albert Barnes, at Fall River July 1877; Superior.
Thomas White Barrell, at Fall River July 1877; Superior.
Hugo Adelard Dubuque, Nov. 1877; Su- preme Judicial; judge of Massachu- setts Superior.
Louis Carver Southard, at Fall River Nov. 1877; Superior.
Dennis V. Sullivan, at Fall River Jan. 1878; Superior. Henry Alden Clark, March 1878; Superior.
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Arthur Philip French, June 1878; Su- perior.
William Cummings, Sept. 1878; Superior. Waldo Reed, at Fall River Oct. 1878; Su- perior.
Frederick C. S. Bartlett, Dec. 1878; Su- perior.
Hugh Campbell Macfarlane, Jan. 1879; Superior.
Robert Orr Harris, March 1879 (record in Plymouth); Superior; United States District Attorney.
Aaron Hobart Lathan, March 1879 (rec- ord in Plymouth); Superior.
Ira Allen Leach, March 1879 (record in Plymouth); Superior.
Ezra Scott Whitmarsh, March 1879 (rec- ord in Plymouth); Superior.
Howard David Nash, Fall River April 1879; Superior.
William Wildman Campbell, Fall River April 1879; Superior.
John Nehemiah Pierce, April 1879; Su- preme Judicial.
Arthur E. Perry, Fall River July 1879; Superior.
David Francis Lingane, Fall River Oct. 1879; Superior.
Ernest Cummings, Nov. 1879; Supreme Judicial.
Alexander McLellan Goodspeed, March 1880; Superior; United States Com- missioner at New Bedford.
Edgar Herbert Aldrich, March 1880; Su- perior.
George R. R. Rivers, April 1880; Supreme Judicial.
James L. Gillingham, April 1890; Su- preme Judicial.
Joseph Fennes Bonham, New Bedford June 1880; Superior.
Edward Jewett Luce, June 1880; Superior. Daniel T. Devoll, June 1880; Superior.
Austin Barclay Fletcher, June 1880; Su- perior.
William Almon Copeland, Nov. 1880; Su- preme Judicial; practised in Boston.
Thomas Anderson Codd, New Bedford June 1881; Superior.
Harry Herbert Webster; New Bedford June 1881; Superior.
Frederic Wright Bliss, New Bedford June 1881; Superior; practises in Boston.
James Henry Leonard, Taunton Sept. 1881; Superior.
Charles Hiram Blood, Taunton Sept. 1881; Superior.
. Edwin Arthur Douglass, Taunton Sept. 1881; Superior.
Edward Clark Almy, Taunton Sept. 1881; Superior.
Samuel W. Ashton, Fall River Jan. 1882; Superior.
William Waldo Robinson, Fall River Jan. 1882; Superior.
William Boulay Smith, Fall River Jan. 1882; Superior.
John Dewey Fiske, Taunton March 1882; Superior.
Benjamin Edward Walcott, Taunton March 1882; Superior.
Edward Higginson, Fall River March 1882; Superior; prominent practising lawyer at Fall River and partner of John W. Cummings.
David Kilburn Stevens, Taunton April 1882; Supreme Judicial.
Frederic Stone Hopkins, Taunton Sept. 1882; Superior.
Fred Homer Williams, Taunton Sept. 1882; Superior; first sprang into noto- riety concerning the division of the town of Beverly; lives in Brookline and practises law in Boston.
Frank Gardner Macomber, Taunton March 1883; Superior.
David Foster Slade, New Bedford June 1883; Superior; prominent in Fall River; was member of both branches of State Legislature; member of Gov- ernor's council.
James Smith, New Bedford June 1883; Superior.
Frank Luscombe Tinkham, New Bedford June 1883; Superior; president Old Colony Historical Society.
Alfred Howland Hood, New Bedford June 1883; Superior.
Robert Fulton Raymond, New Bedford June 1883; Superior; practises in New Bedford; judge of Superior.
Frederic Valentine Brown, Taunton Sept. 1883; Superior.
William Morgan Butler, Taunton Sept. 1883; Superior; very prominent in New Bedford business; member of House of Representatives and of Governor's council; resides in Boston. Lewis Roger Wentworth; Taunton March 1884; Superior.
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