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THE SECOND COURT HOUSE, BUILT 1821.
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saw, at different times, the rising of its walls, and I rejoiced at its magnificence, at its completion. From the year 1825 to the short period that will complete the half century, I have been almost a constant attendant at the sitting of the courts ; and for forty-six years I have been an actor in its forensic controver- sies. It has been to me my professional home, and connected with all the associations of my life. It has been the scene of my first professional hopes, my earliest efforts, my matured exertions. It has been the place where I expected to unclasp and hang up, upon its resounding walls, the controversial har- ness, when its weight should be too cumbersome for the infirm- ities of age. No wonder its old halls are dear to me, and that I leave them with regret. A thousand memories crowd upon me, as I utter this last tribute. I seem to see the venerable clerk, a man that no one could look upon but with respect, or approach without reverence. There, also, was the abrupt and loud-voiced Sheriff Phelps, prompt and energetic in the maintenance of order, but always kind, polite and courteous. There, too, was the burly crier, Mr. Brewer, watching with an eager eye each motion of the judge, and shouting forth to all people who need- ed the aid of the court to approach and they should be heard ; and at the adjournment thereof, proclaiming, in tones more of a command than a petition, "God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts !" I seem to see, also, the court-room, crowded to its utmost capacity with an appreciative audience, listening with an unrestrained delight to the classic eloquence which was poured forth from never-failing sources, not more dazzling fron its brilliancy, than constraining and swaying the reason by its strength and power. But, alas ! all those voices are now hushed. Of all the members of the bar, prior to the period of which I have spoken, there are but two survivors who can appropriate the language of the poet,-
" What is the worst of woes that wait on age ? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow ? To see each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now ! "
My brethren of the bar,-Though I have already invaded so long the time of this audience, you will permit me,-indeed you will expect it of me,-to address a few words to you, personally. I venture the more freely upon your indulgence, because I have
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so often witnessed your own readiness to invoke the patience of the jurors. I have spoken of the characters of our predeces- sors at this bar, and of the bar of the old county of Hampshire, but I have studiously refrained from speaking of our own repu- tations. Each one of us well knows, by a more certain knowl- edge than the public can ever possess, what his own reputation should be, and that reputation is, of course, according to his own deservings. Each lawyer stands, as it were, upon a pinna- cle,-an epistle "known and read of all men." A thousand eyes are upon him, and if he yields to the temptations that assail him,-temptations greater and more numerous than lie in wait for the weaknesses of any other men,-he finds himself in the presence of a community that scans his conduct with an unsparing criticism, and visits his transgression with a relent- less censure.
During the past few years, it must be confessed, the charac- ter of the legal profession in some parts of our country, has suffered much of obloquy, in the estimation of the world. The moral sense of a large portion of the community has been blunted ; and many of our profession have sunk with it into the slough of national immorality. They have turned aside from the narrow path of professional honor, to wander into the by- ways of fraud and corruption. They have departed from the temple of the law, or rather have entered into it, as money changers and extortioners, from which they should be driven by "a scourge of small cords." They have brought into the mar- ket not only their legal services and their professional skill, but have sold themselves also to the purposes of peculation and crime, and when the popular indignation has at last become aroused, and exposure and punishment have demanded a victim, they have loaded, as upon a scapegoat, the burdens of their own sins upon one of their number,-perhaps the most innocent, but probably the most unskillful,-and driven him forth into the wilderness ; while, with their pockets filled with the choses of corruption, they have gone up into the temple, and, with a sol- emn mien, thanked God that they are not, "as other men are, extortioners, unjust, or even as this publican."
Thank God, this professional demoralization has as yet made no lodgment in the western part of the Commonwealth. The counties that once constituted the parent-county of Hampshire,
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are still loyal to the influences of those great and pure men, who bequeathed their precepts, their conduct, and the history of their whole lives, as examples for us to follow; and if there shall, hereafter, arise within our borders those unprincipled men, whose chicanery and fraud disgrace the fair fame of the American bar, we owe it to ourselves, to the character of the profession, to the welfare of the public, whose reliance is upon the aid of honest and honorable lawyers, to OUR COUN- TRY,-that comprehensive phrase, which embraces the being, the permanence, the "eternity of the State," and has depended and still depends, upon the fidelity and fealty of a virtuous legal profession,-we owe it to all these objects of our duty and regard, to cause their names to be expunged from the roll of honorable men.
It was said by Mr. Burke, in describing the character of an eminent statesman : " He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all other kinds of learning put together ; but is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportions."
We are far from supposing that either blood or birth can aid in liberalizing the mind of a lawyer. We should place more reliance upon the zealous pursuit of classical studies, and the cultivation of those social qualities which do so much to invig- orate and sweeten life. He who confines himself exclusively to the consideration of one subject, either law, medicine, theology, or any one of those reformatory measures, that engross so en- tirely the minds of so many men, is apt to settle down as a man of one idea, and can never aspire to the honors of an Erskine, a Curran, or a Stowell, a Jeffrey, a Brougham, or a Talfourd ; or, in our own country, a Marshall, a Shaw, or a Story, a Web- ster, a Pinckney, or a Choate. Let no one say that the prac- tice of the law is too engrossing to allow him to devote his time to the cultivation of his mind in classical literature. Not to refer to those distinguished men whose times of recreation have shed such a halo upon the polite learning of England, or to that great chancellor, whose learned treatise was composed while he was waiting for his dinner ; let us refer to the biography of our own Choate, who, for a long course of years, never failed to
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devote at least one hour each day to the ancient and modern classics, whatever may have been the engrossment of his pro- fessional avocations.
There is one thing for which all of us have time enough. Each one of us can deepen his respect for the law, and cultivate those social affections that should unite the members of the legal association into one brotherhood. We should have but one interest, and the same object ; and, while our struggle should be to make our lives useful to the community, by our respectful treatment of each other, we shall thereby render them more pleasant to ourselves.
We do not, I apprehend, sufficiently realize the relation that our profession sustains to the State, and our consequent obliga- tions to each other. It is a relation, the importance of which cannot be overestimated. The legal profession has ever been, and, of necessity, must ever be, a fundamental social organiza- tion, commencing at the birth of civilization, and keeping pace with its advancing progress. The very first cry of man, as he emerges from savagism, is for protection. He does not call for favoritism, but for security. He asks not for the property of others, but for the protection of his own. " Secure to me," is his cry, "the sacredness of the family relation, protect me in the enjoyment of my own property, and the fruits of my own labor, and my own industry shall accumulate my own wealth. So organize the social force of the community, that it shall be able to punish fraud, and repress violence ; so arrange the instru- mentalities of the law, that its strong arm shall allow me to sit under my own 'vine,' and my own 'fig tree, with none to molest or to make me afraid,' and then I shall truly feel, that the ac- cumulations of my industry are not merely transient acquisi- tions, but are, in truth, parts of my permanent possessions, to minister to me, in the enjoyments of the family, during my life- time, and, when I shall cease to live, to descend to a succeeding generation."
It is this confidence of the people in the power of the law,- as the great conservator of the public peace,-and a reliance upon an honorable and learned profession to direct its enforce- ment, that gives the stimulus to individual industry, and is the source of national wealth ; and I think it will be found true, in the history of the world, that the degree of wisdom of a nation's
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laws, and the efficiency of their enforcement, is, to a great ex- tent, the true measure of its national wealth.
The legal profession has ever been true to the appeal of the people. Not to refer to those distinguished lawyers, who led the advance of civilization in our mother-country, and who were denounced by arbitrary power, as " popular lawyers," a class of men who had "most affrontedly trodden upon the royal preroga- tive," let us look to the early history of our own country, and listen to the voice of its own recent traditions.
What a bright roll of honorable names adorns the annals of our own brief history! How distinguished have been those self-educated statesmen, who moulded the minds of the people, and imbued them with a knowledge of the doctrines of the revo- lution ! How confidently did that people follow their lead, in the discussions of the ante-revolutionary period ! And, when the slogan cry of John Adams, "Sink or swim," was sounded in the convention, with what a joyful,-with what universal acclaim did they hail the declaration of American independence !
The sanguinary war, that at last culminated in triumph, was succeeded by a period of a higher wisdom, and a loftier public virtue. A government was to be organized upon untried princi- ples, between peoples of strongly antagonistic interests. But there were found men equal to the novel emergency ; and the persuasive eloquence of three lawyers united the people of thir- teen colonies in one harmonious union.
Those who have gone before you, my brethren, in our Country, our Commonwealth, and in the old County of Hamp- shire, have left a bright example for you to follow. If you may not exceed, it should be your aim not to fall below them. The realization of your future success will never exceed your present aspirations. You have embarked in a profession, in which suc- cess is dependent upon ceaseless toil. The aphorism of "action," as applied to eloquence, may be substituted for "study," as con- stituting the capacity of a good lawyer. No genius can take the place of "study" in conducting you to that high eminence. Genius can marshal and arrange the materials of thought and action, that study has prepared, but it cannot be a substitute for that refinement of thought and wisdom, that has been the result of the experience of so many ages. You have chosen a pro- fession that is honorable. The numerous persons that have
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crowded into it, to procure its endorsement to official place and power, cannot degrade the character of those professional men, who, having an object to pursue it, for its own sake, labor for it, with all the forces of their being.
It is also a remuncrating profession. You may not gather the golden showers, that sometimes rain down upon the efforts,- often hazardous,-of commercial adventure ; but there is such a relation between the talents and character of a capable and an honest lawyer, and the wants and necessities of the community, for whose purposes the legal profession was created, that the impelling energies of an honest and a devoted life will conduct you to success ; and, in due time, you may rest assured that "you will reap, if you faint not."
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THE sketch of the Hon. George Ashmun was prepared and deliv- ered as a part of the original address, and was intended to be inserted herein, next to that of the late Chief Justice Chapman. But, in chang- ing, to some extent, the order of the names of the members of the bar, the sketch was wholly omitted, by an accident. As the mistake was not discovered, until the whole had been put in type, the only way to repair the error was to do the only thing which remained to be done. This is a matter of the most sincere regret. Mr. Ashmun was so well- known as one of the leaders of the bar ; so highly distinguished as a man of talent and influence in the Legislature, as the Speaker of the House, and as a member of the House of Representatives in Con- gress, and, as he so well emulated the intellectual talent of his distin- guished brother, Prof. John H. Ashmun, who possessed one of the purest and keenest legal minds in the Commonwealth,-and of his illustrious father, Hon. Eli P. Ashmun,-it is doubly unfortunate that his name should be left out of its proper place among his professional brethren.
HON. GEORGE ASHMUN
was graduated at Yale College in 1823; studied law with his brother, the late Prof. John Hooker Ashmun, at Northampton ; was admitted to the bar in Hampshire County, in 1830, as coun- selor ; settled for a time in Enfield, in that county ; in a few years removed to Springfield, and formed a co-partnership with Reuben A. Chapman, the late chief justice, which continued for many years. Mr. Ashmun spent many years in Congress, as a member of the House of Representatives, and many years in Washington city in a private capacity. His political offices interfered with the practice of the law ; and his foreign employ- ments called off his mind from the duties of his profession.
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But he was, when in practice, an eminent lawyer, and a suc- cessful advocate. It has been the opinion of the public, and also of many of the profession, that he gave little heed to the preparation of his causes for trial. But this is a mistake. There is little of what is commonly called genius in the arrange- ment of a case for trial, when an able and shrewd counselor is employed on the other side. In the long practice which I have had with him at the same bar, at times associated with him, and again opposed, I have known few persons in practice who pre- pared themselves with more assiduity than Mr. Ashmun. He died in Springfield in the year 1870.
APPENDIX.
I DESIRED to append a complete list, as far as possible, of all the members of the bar, of the old county of Hampshire, prior to the organization of the county of Hampden, and I have made considerable effort for that purpose ; but, I regret to find, from time to time, that there is still great uncertainty and doubt in relation to the dates and names. The Hon. George Bliss, in his address, in 1826, has appended a catalogue of the attorneys and counselors, either admitted, or prac- ticing in that county, from 1786 to 1826 ; and he also speaks of many of those who were in practice before the earlier of those two periods. Relying upon his well-known accuracy, I have accordingly concluded to insert his list, and also the names of the persons to whom he refers, as members of the bar, or as practicing at it, from the earliest periods ; and I also add to the list the names of those I have ascertained from other sources. In many cases, I cannot fix the date of their admission to the bar by any records ; but, in some, if not most of cases, the members of the bar were graduates of colleges, and it is safe to assume their admission as dating three years from their graduation.
Mr. Bliss says, "That at the county court, or court of pleas and ses- sions of the peace, September, 1686, holden under the authority of the President and council, is the following entry : 'John King of North- ampton, Samuel Marshfield and Jona. Burt, Sen., of Springfield, were allowed of by this court, to be attornies for this county's court, and they took the oath of attornies.'" It appears from the same address, that John Ashley, in 1732, was admitted as an attorney. He was the per- son who contracted with twenty-one Indian Sachems, in April 25, 1724, for the purchase of the south part of what is now the county of Berk- shire, in consideration of his bond of £460, three barrels of cider and thirty quarts of rum ; and, subsequently, in 1735, by a like authority from the General Court, for a strip of land, two miles in width, and twenty-six miles in length, from Westfield to Housatonic. He removed from Westfield to the lower Housatonic, now Sheffield, and after a
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short professional practice, was appointed a judge of the common pleas. A copy of the deed of the Sachems is to be found in the ap- pendix of the Westfield Bi-centennial Celebration.
John Huggins and Christopher J. Lawton were in extensive practice in Springfield. Huggins removed to Sheffield, and Lawton to Suffield. Timothy Dwight, of Northampton, was admitted in 1721, and in 1773, Joseph Dwight and Oliver Patridge, also.
Cornelius Jones was an astute pettifogger, from 1732 to 1752, when he was admitted as an attorney.
Gen. Phineas Lyman, of Suffield, a graduate of Yale College in 1738, commenced practice in this county in 1743, but when Suffield revolted, and renounced allegiance to this Commonwealth, he followed her fortunes, and ceased to practice here. Mr. Bliss eulogizes Col. John Worthington and Joseph Hawley, barristers, as eminent men, who were the leaders of the bar, and who introduced many beneficial changes in its practice.
In an able address before the bar of Worcester county, Joseph Wil- lard, Esq., in speaking of the members of it, mentions that Levi Lin- coln, Sen., was admitted in Hampshire county.
The late Hon. Increase Sumner, of Berkshire county, a few years ago, and shortly before his decease, delivered an address before the bar of that county, which contained much historical information, and which, like the historical address of Mr. Taft, at the dedication of the Berkshire county court-house, should be published in a permanent form, and not entrusted to the ephemeral columns of a newspaper.
A list of the attorneys and counsellors, either admitted to the bar in the county of Hampshire, or practicing in that county, from 1786 to 1826, as furnished in the appendix of Hon. George Bliss :
Elihu Lyman,
Alexander Wolcott, Samuel Lyman,
Moses Bliss,
Pliny Mirrick,
Simeon Strong, Theodore Sedgwick, Caleb Strong,
Samuel Hinckely,
John Hooker,
Justin Ely, John Phelps,
Ephraim Williams,
Samuel Fowler,
John Barrett, Samuel Mather,
William Billings,
George Bliss,
John Chester Williams,
Joseph Lyman, John Taylor,
Abner Morgan,
Edward Walker, John Chandler Williams,
William Coleman, Jona. E. Porter,
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Simeon Strong, William Ely, John Phelps, Eli P. Ashmun, Jona. Leavitt,
Elijah Paine, Stephen Pynchon, John Ingersoll, Solomon Stoddard,
William M. Bliss, Richard E. Newcomb,
Jonathan Grout,
Hezekiah W. Strong,
Charles P. Phelps,
Samuel Lathrop,
Elijah Bates,
Deodatus Dutton,
Solomon Vose,
Apollos Cushman,
Rodolphus Dickinson,
Jotham Cushman,
Edward Bliss,
Daniel Shearer,
Calvin Pepper,
William Blair,
John H. Henshaw,
Samuel F. Dickinson,
James Stebbins,
William Ward,
George Grennell,
David Willard,
Horace W. Taft,
John Drury,
Franklin Ripley,
Thomas Powar, Augustus Collins,
Dyer Bancroft,
Warren A. Field,
Patrick Boise,
John Mills, John Hooker, Jr.,
Samuel Johnson, William Knight, John Howard,
Benjamin Day,
Joshua N. Upham, George Bliss, Jr.,
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Isaac C. Bates, Jonathan H. Lyman, John M. Gannett, Lewis Strong,
Alanson Knox, Asahel Wright, Mark Doolittle, Samuel Orne,
Hooker Leavitt, Samuel Howe,
Phinehas Blair,
Samuel Cutting,
Isaac B. Barber,
Laban Marcy, Israel Billings,
Jonathan Dwight, Jr.,
Benjamin Parsons,
Edward Upham,
Jonathan Woodbridge, Joseph Proctor,
Phinehas Ashmun, Joseph Bridgman,
Sylvester Maxwell, William Billings, Elijah H. Mills, Pliny Arms, Elijah Alvord. Samuel C. Allen,
Theodore Strong, Edmund Dwight, Oliver E. Morris, Henry Barnard, Giles E. Kellogg, Charles Shepard, John Nevers, James M. Cooley, Solomon Strong, Alvin Coe, Noah D. Mattoon,
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Justice Willard, Charles F. Bates, Solomon Lathrop, William Bowdoin, Hophni Judd, Ithamar Conkey, Norman Smith,
Horace Smith, Joshua Leavitt, Mason Shaw, Elisha Mack,
John H. Ashmun, Samuel F. Lyman, Justin W. Clark.
James Fowler,
Horatio Byington.
Elisha Hubbard.
Eli B Hamilton,
Daniel Wells.
William B. Calhoun,
Samuel Wells,
Josiah Hooker,
Alfred Stearns,
William Bliss,
Caleb Rice,
Erasmus Norcross,
Jonathan A. Saxton,
Daniel N. Dewey,
Frederick A. Packard
Myron Lawrence,
Lucius Boltwood.
James W. Crooks.
Jonathan Eastman,
Richard D. Morris,
Waldo Flint,
Dan Parish,
Charles E. Forbes,
Homer Bartlett,
Cyrus Joy,
Osmyn Baker,
David Brigham,
Elijah Williams,
Aaron Arms,
Francis B. Stebbins,
Joseph P. Allen.
Norman T. Leonard,
Benjamin Brainard,
Reuben A. Chapman,
Jonathan Hartwell,
George Ashmun,
David A. Gregg,
Henry Chapman,
Epaphers Clark,
Stephen Emory,
Benjamin Mills,
Field,
Timothy C. Cooley,
Edward Dickinson,
John B. Cooley,
Andrew A. Locke.
MEMBERS OF THE BAR FROM 1812 TO 1874.
ADMITTED TO THE BAR.
ADMITTED TO THE BAR-
*Patrick Boise, 1812
*John Hooker, Jr., 1813
*Gorham Parks, 1816
+George Hinckley, 1813
* Alfred Stearns, 1817
*John Howard, 1813
*Caleb Rice, 1817
*Solomon Lathrop, 1814
*William B. Calhoun, 1818
*Charles F. Bates, 1815
*John B. Cooley, 1818
*Benjamin Day, 1815
*Epaphras Clark, 1819
*Erasmus Norcross, 1819
*George Bliss, Jr .. 1815
* Eli B. Hamilton, 1815
Asa Olmstead,
Emory Washburn, Horatio G. Newcomb,
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ADMITTED TO THE BAR.
* Heman Stebbins, 1819
*Asa Olmstead, 1819
*Josiah Hooker, 1820
*William Bliss, 1822
tJoel Miller, 1822
*Richard D. Morris, 1822
*Warham Crooks, 1824
Norman T. Leonard, 1824
*Reuben A. Chapman, 1825
*Matthew Ives. Jr., 1827
William G. Bates, 1828
+William M. Lathrop,
1828
*Fayette Smith, 1848
Charles R. Ladd, 1848
¡George L. Squier, 1848
tReuben P. Boies, 1848
¡Charles H. Branscomb, 1848 *Joseph M. Cavis, 1849
*William Hyde, 1830
*Joseph Huntington, 1831
+William Bliss, 1832
*William C. Dwight, 1832
*E. D. Beach,
1833
¡ Richard Bliss,
1834
Henry Morris, 1835
*H. H. Buckland, 1836
*George Baylies Upham, 1836 ¡Franklin Crosby, 1850
¿Russell E. Dewey, 1837
+William W. Blair, 1839
*George B. Morris, 1840
*Henry Vose, 1841
Edward Bates Gillett, 1842
*Otis A. Seamans, 1843
*Lorenzo Norton, 1843 +William O. Gorham, 1843
¡Lorenzo D. Brown, 1843
*Allen Bangs, Jr., 1845
*Wellington Thompson, 1845
Ephraim W. Bond, 1845
+Lester E. Newell, 18.45
tAlbert Clarke, IS45
+William Allen, Jr., 1845
+P. Emory Aldrich, 1846
ADMITTED TO THE BAK.
*Thomas B. Munn, 1846 George Walker, 1846
¿Bernard B. Whittemore, 1846 ¡Lester Williams, Jr., 1846
¡Charles C. Hayward, 1846
¡Samuel L. Fleming, 1847
¡Elbridge G. Bowdoin, 1847
James H. Morton, 1847
Samuel Fowler, 1847
¡Edwin M. Bigelow, 1847
¡Charles K. Wetherell, 1847
tJoseph Knox, 1828
*George Ashmun, 1828
*Chauncey B. Rising, 1829
¡William Dwight,
1829
*Francis Dwight, 1830
William B. C. Pearsons, 1849 Aug. L. Soule, 1849
Henry Fuller, 1849
tJohn Munn, 1849
¡Edward P. Burnham, 1849
Timothy G. Pelton, 1850
*Charles A. Winchester, 1850
¡Asahel Bush, 1850
*Charles T. Arthur, 1851
John M. Stebbins, 1851 ¡William Howland, 185I
¡Oramel S. Senter, 1851
N. A. Leonard, 1851
James C. Hinsdale, 1851 George M. Stearns, 1852
Martin J. Severance, 1852
¡James F. Dwight, 1852
+William C. Greene, 1852
*George L. Frost, 1852 Milton B. Whitney, 1853 William L. Smitlı, 1853 James G. Allen, 1853
tJohn H. Thompson, 1853
*John M. Emerson, 1854
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ADMITTED TO THE BAR.
ADMITTED TO THE BAR.
Henry B. Lewis, 1854
William S. Greene, 1864
¡George O. Ide, 1854
Edward Morris, 1864
*James K. Mills, 1854
+Charles A. Beach, 1865
+Norman L. Johnson, 1855
tJames C. Greenough, 1865
James E. McIntire, 1855
J. P. Buckland, 1865
¡Samuel J. Ross, 1855
E. W. Chapin, 1865
A. M. Copeland, 1855
Joseph Morgan, 1865
tJoel T. Rice,
1856
George D. Robinson, I866
William S. Shurtleff,
1856
*George B. Morris, Jr., 1867 Hugh Donnelly, 1867
George H. Knapp,
1856
+Charles A. Birnie, 1867
tAmbrose N. Merrick,
1857
*J. Porter, Jr., 1867
+S. B. Woolworth,
1857
C. L. Gardner, 1867
+E. A. Warriner, 1857
Charles C. Spellman, 1868
+Edw. D. Hayden, 1857
Elisha B. Maynard, 1868
+Liberty B. Dennett, 1858
Luther White, 1868
Stephen E. Seymour, 1858
William B. Rogers, 1869
+Frank E. Merriman, 1858
*Jno. W. Burgess, 1869
*Moses W. Chapin,
1859
¡Elbridge W. Merrill, 1870
+Henry E. Daniels, 1859
Joseph W. Browne, 1870
Porter Underwood, 1859
tJohn M. Cochran, 1870
+William C. Ide, 1859
Albert A. Tyler, 187I
William H. Haile,
1859
Edward Bellamy, 1871
*Benton W. Cole, 1859
John P. Wall, 1872
E. Howard Lathrop, 1859
¡Thomas F. Riley, 1872
Homer B. Stevens, 1859
Harris L. Sherman, 1872
Gideon Wells, 1860
John W. Converse, 1872
James A. Rumrill, 1861
Charles L. Long, 1872
+Jno W. Moore,
1861
William Slattery, Jr., 1872
tOtis P. Abercrombie, 1861
S. S. Taft, 1872
Timothy M. Brown, 1862
Robert O. Morris, 1873
Marcus P. Knowlton, 1862
Jonathan Allen, 1873
tJoseph H. Blair, 1862
+Luther Emerson Barnes, 1873
¡Sidney Sanders, 1863
F. E. Carpenter, 1873
*Reuben Chapman, 1863
James R. Dunbar, 1874
¡Samuel G. Loring,
1863
Loranus E. Hitchcock, 1874
+Irving Allen,
1856
* Deceased. t Removed from the county.
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JUDGES OF PROBATE.
Samuel Fowler, Westfield, 1812. John Hooker, Springfield, 1813. Oliver B. Morris, Springfield, 1829.
JUDGES OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY. John Wells, Chicopee, 1858. William S. Shurtleff, Springfield, 1863.
JUDGE OF INSOLVENCY. John M. Stebbins, 1856 to 1859.
REGISTERS OF PROBATE.
William, Blair, Westfield, 1812.
Oliver B. Morris, Springfield, 1813.
Justice Willard, Springfield, 1829. William L. Smith, Springfield, 1851. Henry Smith, Springfield, 1853. Charles A. Winchester, Springfield, 1855.
Charles R. Ladd, Springfield, 1857.
REGISTERS OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY.
William S. Shurtleff, Springfield, 1859. Samuel B. Spooner, Springfield, 1863.
REGISTERS OF INSOLVENCY.
C. A. Winchester, 1856 to 1857. William S. Shurtleff, 1857 to 1859.
COUNTY ATTORNEYS.
Oliver B. Morris, Springfield, 1812. George Bliss, Springfield, 1812. Samuel Lathrop, West Springfield, 1817. Oliver B. Morris, Springfield, 1821.
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
Charles A. Dewey. Northampton, 1832. Daniel Wells, Greenfield, 1837. William Porter, Jr., Lee, 1844. Increase Sumner, Great Barrington, 185 1.
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William G. Bates, Westfield. 1853. Henry L. Dawes, Adams, 1854. Edward B. Gillett, Westfield, 1857. George M. Stearns, Chicopee, 1872. N. A. Leonard, Springfield, 1874.
JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF SESSION.
Samuel Fowler, Westfield, 1812 to 1813. Gideon Burt, Longmeadow, 1812 to 1813. Isaac Coit, Southwick, 1812 to 1813. Joshua Frost, Springfield. 1812 to 1813. Abel Bliss, Wilbraham, 1812 to 1813. Abner Brown, Monson, 1813 to 1819. Heman Day, West Springfield, 1813 to 1828. Ethan Ely, Longmeadow, 1813 to 1814. William Ely, Springfield, 1814 to 1818. Amos Hamilton, Palmer, 1819 to 1820. Stephen Pynchon, Brimfield, 1819 to 1823. Sylvester Emmons, Chester, 1819 to 1825. James Stebbins, Palmer, 1823 to 1828. Joseph Forward, Southwick, 1826 to 1828.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Caleb Rice, West Springfield, 1828 to 1831. Joel Norcross, Monson, 1828 to 1835. Reuben Boies, Jr., Blandford, 1828 to 1835. William Bliss, Springfield, 1831 to 1835. James W. Crooks, Springfield, 1835 to 1838. Gideon Stiles, Southwick, 1835 to 1838. Cyrus Knox, Palmer, 1835 to 1838. John Ward, Palmer, 1838 to 1844. Patrick Boise, Westfield. 1841 to 1844. Forbes Kyle, Chester, 1841 to 1844. Willis Phelps, Springfield. 1844 to 1847. Samuel Root, Granville, 1844 to 1850. Austin Fuller, Monson, 1844 to 1847. Benning Leavitt, Chicopee, 1847 to 1850. John McCray, Wilbraham. 1847 to 1850. Norman T. Leonard, Westfield, 1850 to 1853. William V. Sessions, Wilbraham, 1850 to 1853. Melvin Copeland, Chester, 1850 to 1853. William B. Calhoun, Springfield, 1853 to 1855.
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Alured Homer, Brimfield, 1853 to 1857. George C. Gibbs, Blandford, 1853 to 1856. Francis Brewer, Springfield, 1855 to 1858. Henry Fuller, Westfield, 1856 to 1859. Henry F. Brown, Brimfield, 1857 to 1860. Nelson D. Parks, Russell, 1858 to 1864. Henry Charles, Ludlow, 1859 to 1862. Henry Fuller, Westfield, 1860 to 1863. Benning Leavitt, Chicopee, 1862 to 1865. Daniel G. Potter, Monson, 1863 to 1869. Charles C. Wright, Agawam, 1864 to 1867. Ambrose N. Merrick, Springfield, 1865 to 1868. William M. Lewis, Blandford, 1867. Phineas Stedman, Chicopee, 1868 to 1871. Randolph Stebbins, Longmeadow, 1869 to 1871. George R. Townsley, Springfield, 1871 to 1874. James S. Loomis, Palmer, 1871. Lawson Sibley, Springfield, 1874.
COUNTY TREASURERS.
Edward Pynchon, Springfield, 1812. David Paine, Springfield, 1830. George Colton, Springfield, 1835. William Rice, Springfield, 1838. Norman Norton, Springfield, 1856. Charles R. Ladd, Springfield, 1859. M. Wells Bridge, Springfield. 1867.
REGISTERS OF DEEDS.
Edward Pynchon, Springfield, 1812. David Paine, Springfield. 1830. William Rice, Springfield, 1831. James E. Russell, Springfield, 185S.
SHERIFFS.
Jonathan Smith, Jr., Springfield, 1812. John Phelps, Granville, 1814. Caleb Rice, Springfield, 1831. Justin Wilson, Blandford, 1851. Patrick Boise, Westfield, 1853. Nathaniel Cutler, Chicopee, 1855. Robert G. Marsh, Holyoke, 1857.
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Frederick Bush, Westfield, 1860. A. M. Bradley, Springfield, 1869.
CLERKS OF THE COURT.
John Ingersoll, Springfield, 1812. Richard Bliss, Springfield, 1841. George B. Morris, Springfield, 1852. Robert O. Morris, Springfield, 1872.
ERRATA.
Page 19, ninth line from bottom, for " Impulert : tanta ne," read " Impulerit : tan- tane."
Page 24, insert " same " before oath, in the eighth line from top.
Page 34, for " only " read " duly," seventeenth line from top.
Page 47, add " nor worth " to seventh line from top, and in eighth line, for " utter- ances," read " utterance."
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