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Great Britain, France and Germany, and returning taught in high school and academy, till entering the Boston University Law School, he was graduated with an LL. B. in 1876. He had, on examination, been admitted to the Suffolk bar at Boston on January 31, preceding. Again he went abroad, and on his return, on examination, received the degree of A. M. from the Boston University, the first person on whom this degree was ever conferred by that institution. In 1876 he opened an office in Boston, and has continued it to the present time. He was one of the original members of the Nor- folk Bar Association, and besides contributing to magazines and the press, is the author of several books from " In Memoriam," while in Harvard, to " Pleasant Hours in Sun- ny Lands," written after his return from a tour around the world in 1888.
JOHN LATHROP, son of John P. and Maria M. Lathrop, was born in Boston, February 8, 1835. He graduated at Burlington College, New Jersey, in 1853, and at the Har- vard Law School in 1855. After further pursuing his studies in the office of Charles G., Francis C., and Caleb William Loring in Boston, he was admitted to the bar of Suf- folk in 1856, and to the bar of the U. S. Supreme Court in 1872. In the war of 1861 he was captain in the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts regiment in 1862 and 1863, was reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1874 to 1888, associate justice of Superior Court from 1888 to 1891, and was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, January 28, 1891, which position he now holds. Besides his general practice, he has been a lecturer at the Harvard and Boston Law Schools, and the ed- itor of several law books, and a contributor to various legal periodicals. He married in Boston, June 24, 1875, Eliza D., daughter of Richard G. Parker, and resides in Boston.
WILLIAM BRADBURY KINGSBURY, son of Aaron Kingsbury, was born in Roxbury, December 14, 1806. He fitted for college at Mr. Greene's school, Jamaica Plain, and graduated at Harvard in 1827. After a short time spent in reading law, he en- tered into commercial life in Boston, in the firm of Kendall & Kingsbury, on Liver- pool Wharf, and is thought by the editor to have never been admitted to the bar. In 1831 he married his cousin, Frances F. Fenner, of Providence, R. I. The firm of Ken- dall & Kingsbury was unfortunate in business, and was dissolved in 1836. He was afterwards employed in managing trusts, and became treasurer of the Roxbury Gas Company, which office he retained till his death. He was also alderman of Roxbury in 1846. He died at Roxbury, April 6, 1872.
PRESCOTT KEYES, son of John S. and Martha L. (Prescott) Keyes, was born in Con- cord, Mass., March 26, 1858. He fitted for college at the Concord High School and with a private tutor, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law in the Har- vard Law School and in the office of Charles R. Train, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He has held the office of chairman of the Selectmen, and other offices in Concord, where he lives, and was married July 6, 1881, to Alice Reynolds, of Concord.
ALBERT H. HOPKINS, son of Henry S. and Phoebe E. Hopkins, was born in Foster, R. I., November 10, 1845, and educated at public and private schools. He was ad-
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mitted to the bar in Suffolk, January 30, 1875, and the Minnesota District Court, March 26, 1880, He was for a number of years a member of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee and two years chairman of the Committee of Ward Fifteen, in Boston. Fle married, August 8, 1879, Emily L. Randolph, of Providence, R. I., and resides in the Allston district of Boston.
GEORGE M. IlOBBS, son of William and Maria (Miller) Hobbs, was born in Waltham, April 11, 1827, and after attending the public schools entered Harvard and graduated in 1850. After leaving college he was a private tutor in Upper Marlborough, Md., and taught school in Alexandria, Va. After a short period in the Harvard Law School he was admitted to the bar in Suffolk, March 6, 1857, and became an associate with Edward Avery, of Boston, in business. He was a representative in 1868, has been a member of the School Boards of Roxbury and Boston twenty-three years, two years the president of the Boston board and two years a member of the Board of Water Commissioners. In connection with Mr. Avery, his partner, he has published a work on "Bankruptcy." He married, October 26, 1859, Annie M. Morrill.
DAVID BLAKELY HOAR, son of John Emory and Ann Borodale (Blakely) Hoar, was born in Pawlet, Vt., August 19, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law with Alfred Hemenway and James P. Farley and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Suffolk in May, 1879. His place of residence is Brookline.
EBENEZER ROCKWOOD HOAR, son of Samuel and Sarah (Sherman) Hoar, was born in Concord, Mass., February 21, 1816. He received his early education at the Concord Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He studied law with his father, with Emory Washburn, of Worcester, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester, September 3, 1839. He was a justice of the Court of Common Pleas from 1849 to 1853, a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1859 to 1869, attorney-general of the United States under President Grant, a member of the joint high commission which made the treaty of Washington with Great Britain, and has been State senator, representative in Congress, regent of the Smithsonian Institution, fellow of Harvard College and member and president of the Board of Overseers. Among the important cases in which he has been counsel has been the "Andover case," in which he was of counsel for the " Visitors." He married at Concord, Novem- ber 26, 1840, Caroline Downes Brooks, of that town, and he has always made Concord his place of residence.
CALVIN P. HINDS was born in Barre, September 1, 1817, and died in Boston, April 18, 1892. He studied law in the office of Fisher A. Kingsbury, of Weymouth, and was admitted to the bar at Dedham in 1844. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1853 and 1854, and a representative in 1856.
WILLIAM ALLEN HAYES, son of John Lord and Caroline Sarah (Ladd) Hayes, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1866. He studied law with George Partridge Sanger, at the Harvard Law School, from which he received the de- gree of LL.B., and in the offices of Abbott & Jones and others, and was admitted
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to the bar in Boston, August 16, 1868. He was assistant United States district at- torney under George P. Sanger. His residence is in Cambridge.
CHARLES PELHAM GREENOUGH, son of William Whitwell and Catherine Scollay (Cur- tis) Greenough, was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 29, 1844. He was fitted for col- lege at the Boston Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1864. He attended the Harvard Law School and pursued his law studies further in the office of Ropes & Gray, in Boston. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in December, 1869, and has been secretary, treasurer and member of the council of the Suffolk Bar Association. He has been counsel for the Boston Gas Light Company and other large corporations. He has published an edition of "Story on Agency " and a " Digest of Gas Cases." He married in Boston, June 11, 1874, Mary, daughter of Judge Henry Vose and resides in Brook- line.
EBENEZER GAY, son of Ebenezer and Mary Allyne (Otis) Gay, of Hingham, was born in that town March 27, 1818. He received his education at the Derby Academy and Willard School in Hingham, and studied law with his father, in the Harvard Law School and in the office of William Brigham in Boston. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, April 14, 1840, and was in the State Senate in 1862. He married in Worces- ter, in 1852, Ellen Blake Blood, and lives in Boston.
THOMAS FLATLEY was born in Ireland and died in Boston February 25, 1892, at the age of forty-one years. He was educated at a private classical school and the Queen's University, and came to America a young man to engage in mercantile pursuits. He entered, however, the university at Georgetown, D. C., from which he graduated, and then taught for a time at Worcester College. After a visit to Europe he studied law in Washington and served as private tutor in the families of General Erving, General Vincent, and Senator Carpenter. He then came to Boston and entered the practice of law, making Malden his residence. He was appointed deputy collector under Mr. Saltonstall, the collector of Boston.
JOHN MINOT FISKE, son of John Minot and Eliza Maria (Winn) Fiske, was born in Boston, August 17, 1834. He fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy and grad- uated at Yale in 1856. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Seth J. Thomas, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 23, 1858. He was a mem- ber of the Boston Common Council in 1862-3. He was appointed deputy naval officer under Amos Tuck in the Boston custom house. In November, 1863, he was appointed deputy collector by John Z. Goodrich, collector, and on the 1st of June, 1864, married at Stockbridge, Isabella Landon, a daughter of Mr. Goodrich. He is still deputy col- lector and resides at Cambridge.
JOSEPH JAMES FEELY, son of James and Catherine Feely, was born in Boston, May 7, 1862, and educated at the public schools of Walpole, Mass., and at the Boston Latin School. He took a three years' course in the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1884. Living in Norwood, he is also a member of the Norfolk Bar Association. He has been a member of the School Board of Norwood
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and is now assistant district attorney for the southeastern district of Massachusetts, including Norfolk and Plymouth counties.
RICHARD SULLIVAN FAY, son of Samuel Phillips Prescott and Harriet (Howard) Fay, was born in Cambridge June 16, 1806. He was fitted for college by Rev. Mr. Put- nam, of Andover, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He studied law with his father and at the law school at Northampton, and after his admission to the bar was associated in practice at different times with Jonathan Chapman and Franklin Dexter. ' After a visit to Europe in 1835, he abandoned law and devoted himself to the management and care of manufacturing corporations, indulging himself in the recreation of agri- culture. He married, May 30, 1832, Catherine, daughter of Dudley L. Pickman, of Salem, and died in Liverpool, England, July 6, 1865.
ALEXANDER HILL EVERETT, son of Rev. Oliver Everett, was born in Boston, March 19, 1790, and died in Canton, China, June 29, 1847. He was fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1806. Ile studied law with John Quincy Adams and was admitted to the bar in Boston in March, 1815. While a law student he went in 1809 to St. Petersburg as attaché under John Quincy Adams, minister to Russia, and resided there three years. In 1811 he went to England, and in 1812 returned home. At the close of the war after his admission to the bar he spent a year at the Netherlands as secretary of legation under William Eustis, of Massa- chusetts, the American minister. He succeeded Mr. Eustis in 1818 with the rank of charge d'affaires and remained at the Netherlands until 1824. In 1825 he was ap- pointed minister to Spain and was accompanied by Washington Irving as his attaché. Returning from Spain in 1829 he was for a time proprietor and editor of the North American Review, and from 1830 to 1835 was a member of the lower branch of the Legislature. In 1840 he was sent on a confidential mission to Cuba, and in 1845 United States commissioner to China, holding office until his death. Mr. Everett's literary career was too prolific to trace. Besides contributing largely to magazines and peri- odicals he published in 1821 " Europe, etc."; in 1822 " New Ideas on Population, etc."; in 1827 " America, etc." ; in 1845 a volume of essays, and in the same year a volume of poems and memories of Joseph Warren and Patrick Henry as contributions to Sparks's American Biography.
GEORGE B. ENGLISH, son of Thomas and Penelope (Bethune) English, was born in Cambridge, March 7, 1787, and died in Washington, September 20, 1828. He graduated at Harvard in 1807 and was admitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1811. He aban- doned practice and devoted himself for a time to the study of theology, publishing in 1813 "The grounds of Christianity examined " and a response to his critics entitled "Five Smooth Stones out of the Brook." He was afterwards a newspaper editor, lieutenant of marines in the United States service and an officer of artillery under Ismail Pacha in Egypt. In 1827 he returned to Washington and remained there until his death.
JOHN HARVARD ELLIS, son of George E. and Elizabeth Bruce (Eager) Ellis, was born in Charlestown, January 9, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1862. He studied law
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at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Francis E. Parker, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 4, 1865. He contributed to the "Law Maga- zine " articles on Lord Brougham and James Otis and others, and in 1867 edited a vol- ume entitled " The works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse," with notes and an able introduction. He married, March 25, 1869, Grace Atkinson, daughter of James L. Little, of Boston, and died May 3, 1870.
FREDERICK D. ELY, son of Nathan and Amelia Maria (Partridge) Ely, was born in Wrentham, Mass., September 24, 1838. He was fitted for college at Day's Academy in Wrentham and graduated at Brown University in 1859. He studied law in the office of Waldo Colburn, at Dedham, and was admitted to the bar in Dedham in October, 1862. He has held the offices of grand marshal and deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts, trustee of the Dedham Institution for Savings, director in the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company, warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Dedham, and chairmanship of the Dedham School Committee. He was in the Massa- chusetts House of Representatives in 1873, in the Senate in 1878-79, and a member of the Forty-ninth Congress. He was appointed associate justice of the " Municipal Court of the City of Boston," October 10, 1888, and is now on the bench. He married first in Boston, December 6, 1866, Eliza, daughter of Seth and Harriet E. (Rice) Whit- tin, and second at Dedham, August 10, 1885, Anna, daughter of Lyman and Olive Emerson. His residence is in Dedham.
CHARLES RONELLO ELDER, son of Charles L. and Roxanna Elder, was born in Sabatus, Me., October 21, 1850, and was educated in the public schools and at the Hebron Acad- emy. He studied law with Alvah Black, in Paris, Me., and at the Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1876. He was admitted to the bar in Paris in 1875, and in Boston in June, 1876. He married first, June 15, 1881, at Bellows Falls, Vt., Mary Gertrude Flint, and second at New Bedford, February 28, 1888, Marie T. Wood. His residence is in Malden.
THOMAS STETSON HARLOW, son of Bradford and Nancy (Stetson) Harlow, was born in Castine, Me., November 15, 1812, and after the usual course of study at the public schools and academy, graduated at Bowdoin College in 1836. He studied law in the office of Kent & Cutting, of Bangor, and afterwards in Louisville, Ky., where he was admitted to the bar in 1839. In 1842 he was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county and since that time he has practiced in both Middlesex and Suffolk counties. He was associated with John A. Bolles in the defence of James Hawkins indicted for murder, in which the court reversed the ruling in the famous Peter York case. In the Peter York case the court decided, Justice Wilde dissenting, that the homicide being proved, and nothing further shown, the presumption of law is that it is malicious and an act of murder. The burden of proof is on the accused to show excuse or extenuation. (See 9th of Met- calf, page 93.) In the Hawkins case the court held that the murder charged must be proved and that the burden is on the Commonwealth to prove the whole case. At the time of this decision York was in prison under sentence of death and in consequence of it his punishment was commuted by the governor to imprisonment for life. (See
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3d of Gray, page 464.) Mr. Harlow has been police justice in Paducah, Ky., special justice of the first eastern Middlesex District Court, and ten years a member of the School Committee of Medford. He married Lucy J. Hall, November 7, 1843, and resides in Medford.
NATHAN HALE, son of Nathan and Sarah Preston (Everett) Hale, was born in Boston, November 18, 1818, and died in Boston, January 9, 1871. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and the English High School, and graduated at Harvard in 1838. After leaving college he was occupied for a time as assistant topographical en- gineer on the State map of Massachusetts. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles Pelham Curtis, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, July 14, 1841. For many years he was associated with his father, Nathan Hale, in editing the Boston Daily Idvertiser, and in 1868 was appointed professor in Union College, Schenectady, which position he held until the appointment of Dr. Alden as president. At his death he left nearly ready for the press a "General Survey of the History and Progress of English Literature from the Earliest Days."
GEORGE FRANCIS CHEEVER, son of James W. and Lydia (Dean) Cheever, was born in Salem, Mass., November 30, 1819, and fitted for college at the Salem Latin School. He graduated at Harvard in 1836, and after a study of law in the Harvard Law School was admitted to the bar in Salem, and also in Boston, September 2, 1843. With poor health he moved to Natchez, and after a visit to the Azores, began practice in Salem. He died in Pepperell, Mass., April 5, 1871.
SETH EDWARD SPRAGUE, son of Peleg and Sarah (Deming) Sprague, was born in Hallowell, Me., April 12, 1821, and died in Boston June 26, 1869. He was educated partly at Hallowell and partly at the school of Stephen Minot Weld, at Jamaica Plain, near Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and at the Harvard Law School in 1844, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, September 3, 1844. While a student at law he was appointed clerk of the United States District Court, which position he held until a few months before his death. He married in Boston, September 11, 1848, Har- riet Bordman, daughter of William and Susan Ruggles (Bordman) Lawrence.
EDWARD MORRELL, was a son of Dr. Robert Morrell, who served with Andrew Jack- son in Louisiana during the war of 1812, and of his wife Laurette (Toussard) Morrell, daughter of General Toussard, an artillery officer of Napoleon's army, who emigrated to this country and was employed on our coast fortifications. The subject of this sketch lived on his father's plantation in San Marcos, Cuba, until about 1835, when he was fitted for college by M. L. Hurlbut, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He stud- ied law in the Harvard Law School, in the office of George T. Davis, of Greenfield, Mass., and in that of Sohier & Welch, in Boston. He was admitted to the bar in Bos- ton in July, 1847, and practiced in Boston until 1852, when he moved to Philadelphia. He married in 1860, Ida, daughter of John Hare Powell, of Philadelphia, and died at Newport, September 3, 1871.
EDWARD AUGUSTUS CROWNINSHIELD, son of Benjamin William and Mary (Boardman) Crowninshield, was born in Salem, February 25, 1817, and died in Boston February
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20, 1859. He fitted for college at the Round Hill School and graduated at Harvard in 1836. He studied law in the office of Franklin Dexter and William Howard Gardi- ner, and after admission to the bar, devoted himself to bibliography. He married, Jan- mary 15, 1840, Caroline Maria, daughter of Francis Welch, and resided in Boston.
ADDINGTON DAVENPORT, son of Eleazer and Rebecca (Addington) Davenport, was born August 3, 1670, and was graduated at Harvard in 1689. He was clerk of the first House of Representatives under the charter of 1692, and in 1695 was appointed clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature. He was afterwards appointed clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Suffolk and register of deeds. In 1714 he was elected a member of the Council, and was a Representative in 1711, '12, '13. In 1715 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, and remained on the bench till his death in 1736, at the age of sixty six. He does not appear to have been a trained lawyer, but as a member of the judiciary he is entitled to a place in this register. He married, November 10, 1698, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Norton) Wainwright, of Ipswich.
FRANCIS CALLEY GRAY, son of William Gray, was born in Salem, Mass., September 19, 1790, and died in Boston December 29, 1856. He graduated at Harvard in 1809, and was admitted to the bar in the Court of Common Pleas, November 11, 1814, and in the Supreme Judicial Court in December, 1816, after a course of study in the office of Will- iam Prescott. His life was chiefly devoted to literary pursuits. He was the private secretary of John Quincy Adams, American minister at Russia, a contributor to the North American Review, and the orator of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1816. In 1840 he was the poet of the society. In 1818 he delivered an oration on the 4th of July before the authorities of the town of Boston. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, presi- dent of the Atheneum, trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, fellow of Harvard from 1826 to 1836, representative in 1822,'23,'26,'28,'29,'31,'43, a member of the Council in 1839, vice-president of the Prison Discipline Society, chairman of the direc- tors of the State Prison, and a recipient of a degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1841. Ile resided in Boston and was unmarried.
SAMUEL ELIOT GUILD, son of Benjamin Guild, was born in Boston, October 8, 1819, and died at Nahant, July 16, 1862. He fitted for college at the private school of Henry Russell Cleveland, and graduated at Ilarvard in 1839. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of William Gray and Theophilus Parsons, and was ad- mitted to the bar in Boston, July 7, 1842. He married, February 9, 1847, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Gardner Rice, of Boston.
ROBERT ROBERTS BISHOP, son of Jonathan Parker and Eliza Harding Bishop, was born in Medfield, Mass., March 31, 1834, and received his early education at Phillips Academy, Andover. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in the offices of Peleg W. Chandler, and Brooks & Ball in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston November 24, 1857. He was a representative in 1874, and a member of the
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Senate from 1878 to 1882, the last three years of which period he was president. He was of counsel in the reorganization of the New York and New England Railroad Com- pany, and in the Andover case, and was the Republican candidate for governor of Mas- sachusetts in 1882. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court March 7, 1888, and is now on the bench. He married, December 24, 1857, at Holliston, Mass., Mary Helen Bullard, and resides in Newton.
EVERETT WATSON BURDETT, son of Augustus P. and Marian (Newman) Burdett, was born in Olive Branch, Miss., April 5, 1854, and was educated at private schools and at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. He studied law with Charles Allen, now justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and at the Boston University Law School, and was ad- mitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1878. He was assistant U. S. attorney for Massa- chusetts from 1878 to 1880, and since that time his practice has been specially connected with the subject of electric lighting. He married, April 15, 1885, Maud Warren, of Boston, where he now resides.
SELWYN Z. BOWMAN, son of Zadock and Rosetta (Cram) Bowman, was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 11, 1840. He fitted for college at the Charlestown High School and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He studied law with David H. Mason in Boston and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1862. He has been three years State representative ; two years senator; four years in Congress, and seven years city solicitor in Somerville. He married in Lexington, June 20, 1866, Martha E. Tufts, and lives in Somerville.
CHESTER WARD CLARK, son of Amasa F. and Belinda Clark, was born in Glover, Vt., August 9, 1851, and was educated at Phillips Academy, Exeter, and in the Glover Academy. He studied law with Barron C. Moulton in Boston, where he was admitted to the bar March 12, 1878. His practice is confined chiefly to commercial and probate law in the counties of Suffolk and Middlesex.
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