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DAVID H. COOLIDGE, son of Charles and Elizabeth (Hill) Coolidge, was born in Boston, February 7, 1833, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, where he gradu- ated in 1854. He studied law in the office of Peleg W. Chandler and at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, September 15, 1857. He has been commissioner of insolvency fifteen years, a trustee of the City Hospital, and was a member of the Common Council in 1863-4 and a representative in 1865. He married in Brookline, January 6, 1858, Isabella Shurtleff, and lives in Boston.
CHARLES PELHAM CURTIS, son of Thomas and Helen (Pelham) Curtis, was born in Boston, June 22, 1792, and died in Boston, October 4, 1864. He fitted for Harvard at the Boston Latin School and graduated in the class of 1811. He studied law with William Sullivan and was admitted to the bar in Boston in September, 1814, in the Court of Common Pleas, and in December, 1816, in the Supreme Judicial Court. He was a member of the Common Council in 1823, '24, '25, '26, and a representative in 1842. He married first, March 5, 1816, Anna Whroe, daughter of Wm. Scollay, of Boston, and second, November 12, 1846, Margaret Mckean, daughter of Thomas Stevenson, of Boston, and widow of Dr. Joseph William McKean, of the same city.
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CHARLES PELHAM CURTIS, JR., son of Charles Pelham and Anna Whroe (Scollay) Curtis, was born in Boston, July 29, 1824, and graduated at Harvard in 1845. He studied law in the office of Charles P. and Benjamin R. Curtis, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 16, 1849. He has been United States commissioner. He married in Boston, April 25, 1852, Caroline G. Cary, and lives in Swampscott, Mass.
JAMES DANA, son of Samuel and Rebecca (Barrett) Dana, was born in Charlestown, Mass., November 8, 1811, and was educated at the Groton Acadmey and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1830. He studied law with his father and with George F. Farley in Groton, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex in December, 1833. He practiced in Groton first and then Charlestown, of which city he was mayor in 1858-9- 60. He was colonel of the Fourth Regiment, First Brigade, Second Division of Massachu- setts militia and afterwards brigadier-general of the Third Brigade. He moved to the Dorchester district of Boston in 1875, and there died, June 4, 1890. He married first, June 1, 1837, Susan Harriet, daughter of Paul and Susan (Morrill) Moody, of Lowell ; second, Margaret Lance, daughter of Levi Tower, of Newport, R. I., and third, Julia, daughter of William and Mary (Parks) Hurd, of Charlestown.
WILLIAM WHITTON DWYER, son of Henry Law and Jane (Whitton) Dwyer, was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at the Dublin High School. He was admitted to prac- tice on certificate of qualification from the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, and the Superior Courts of Common Pleas. After coming to Boston he was admitted to the bar there in October, 1875, and has been an associate justice of the East Boston Munici- pal Court. He married in 1870, in Dublin, Maud Christina Walsh, and now resides in Somerville.
MICAH DYER, JR., son of Micali and Sally Dyer, was born in Boston in 1829, and studied law with Stephen G. Nash, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, May 13, 1850. He has been a representative two years. He mar- ried in Manchester, N. H., Julia K. Dyer, and resides in Boston.
BENJAMIN WINSLOW HARRIS, son of William and Mary Winslow (Thomas) Harris, was born in East Bridgewater, Mass., November 10, 1823, and was educated at the public schools and at the Andover Phillips Academy. He prosecuted his law studies at the Harvard Law School, and in the offices of Welcome Young, of East Bridgewater, and John P. Putnam, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, April 12, 1850. He was senator from Plymouth county in 1857, the last year of the old county senatorial system, and a representative in 1858. He was district attorney for the southeastern dis- trict of Massachusetts from 1858 to 1866, and collector of internal revenue from 1866 to 1872. He was a representative in Congress for the second Massachusetts district from 1873 to 1883, and as chairman of the committee on naval affairs rendered a valuable service to the country. He was appointed September 7, 1887, judge of Probate and Insolvency for Suffolk county, which office he still holds, while engaged in general prac- tice in Suffolk and Plymouth counties. He married, June 3, 1850, Julia Anne Orr, and lives in East Bridgewater.
THOMAS GREAVES CARY, son of Samuel and Sarah (Gray) Cary, was born in Chelsea, Mass., September 7, 1791, and died at Nahant, Mass. July 3, 1859. He graduated at
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Harvard in 1811, and after studying law with Peter Oxenbridge Thacher, was admitted to the bar in Boston, in the Court of Common Pleas, July 26, 1814, and in the Supreme Judicial Court, July, 1816. He married, May 30, 1820, Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas H. Perkins, and moved to Brattleboro, Vt., where after one year's practice he moved to New York and engaged in the Canton trade as a partner in the house of T. G. & W. F. Cary. In 1830 he returned to Boston and joined the house of J. & T. H. Perkins, and after the dissolution of the firm was appointed treasurer of the Hamilton and Appleton Manufacturing Companies. In 1838 he became a special partner in the house of Fay & Farwells, and so continued until the dissolution of the firm in 1851. He was a senator from Suffolk in 1846, '47, '52, '53, director of the Hamilton Bank, trustee of the Institu- tion for the Blind, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and fourth of July orator in Boston in 1847.
ELIJAH GEORGE, son of William E. and Elizabeth (Deveau) George, was born in New Rochelle, N. Y., September 6, 1850. The father was born in England, and the mother was a descendant of one of the Huguenot families, who settled New Rochelle and named it from the French town. He was educated at the schools in New York and studied law in the office of Uriel H. & George G. Crocker, of Boston, and in the Boston University Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Boston November 28, 1874, and to prac- tice in the United States Supreme Court in 1886. He was appointed assistant register of Probate and Insolvency for Suffolk county by Judge Isaac Ames in 1875. On the death of P. R. Guiney he was appointed, April 3, 1877, by Governor Rice register of Probate and Insolvency, and has held that office by election to the present time. He married at Washington, D. C., in 1876, Susan Virginia Howard, and lives in Boston.
WILLARD HOWLAND, son of Jairus and Deborah L. (Fish) Howland, was born in Pem- broke, Mass., December 3, 1852, and received his early education in the public schools of Woburn and Kingston, and at the Boston University. He studied law in the office of Josiah W. Hubbard, of Boston, and in the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston November 11, 1878. He was a member of the Massa- chusetts House of Representatives, in which as a member of the judiciary committee and chairman of the committee on street railways he rendered intelligent and impor- tant service. He married, August 24, 1874, Lottie A. S. Barry, and resides in Chelsea.
FRANCIS WILLIS ADAMS, son of William and Mary M. Adams, was born in Boston, July 23, 1855, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard College. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of D. W. Gooch, and was ad- initted to the bar in Boston, January 31, 1882. He married in Boston, October 5, 1885, M. Elizabeth Morse.
CURTIS ABBOTT, son of Daniel and Sarah Abbott, was born in Randolph, Vt., No- vember 4, 1841, and was educated at East Bethel, Randolph, Royalston and South Woodstock, Vt. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of E. K. Burnham, Wayne county, N. Y., and James M. Keith, Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1867. He was first lieutenant in Company H, Second U. S. Sharpshooters, in the war, and wrote a sketch of the company for the report of the adjutant-general of Vermont. He married, August 31, 1883, at Newton, Maria Lorriaux.
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WALTTR IRVING BADGER, son of Erastus B. and Fanny B. Badger, was born in Bos- ton, January 15, 1859, and graduated at Yale in 1882. He studied law in the office of Solomou Lincoln and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in September, 1885. His business has been chiefly connected with cases in which the Boston and Maine Railroad was concerned. He married, at New Haven, October 6, 1887, Elizabeth Hand Wilcox.
ANDREAS BLUME, son of Joseph and Katharine Blume, was born in Weil, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, December 8, 1837, and was educated at Miami University, Oxford, O. He studied law in the office of William S. Leland in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, December 4, 1866. He was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1883 to 1887, and in 1888-89 a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He married Sibyl T. Blume, October 1, 1875.
ROBERT TILLINGHAST BABSON, son of William and Mary Isabel Babson, was born in Gloucester, Mass., February 3, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar in Essex county in October, 1885.
JOHN KING BERRY, son of Nehemiah Chase and Hannah Howe (King) Berry, was born in Randolph, Mass., November 8, 1854, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law with his father and at the Boston Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, 1880. He married Ellen M. Brown in Providence, R. I., March 4, 1884.
H. EUGENE BOLLES, son of William and Cornelia C. (Palmer) Bolles, was born in Waterford, Conn., January 6. 1853, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1874. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 20, 1874. Prior to 1888 he was counsel for the New York and New England Railroad for several years. He married Elizabeth C. Howe at Boston, September 9, 1882.
ELISHA BASSETT, son of Thomas and Fannie (Sears) Bassett, was born in Ashfield, Mass., June 6, 1818, and was educated in the schools and academies of that town. He studied law with Charles L. Woodbury, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, April 12, 1847. In 1840 he entered the office of Francis Bassett, clerk of the United States District Court, as an assistant. During the incumbencies of Seth E. Sprague, Edward Dexter and Clement Hugh Hill, successors of Francis Bassett, he continued in the office as assistant, and on the resignation of Mr. Hill was appointed clerk. He resigned March 19, 1890, and died October 4, 1891. He married, first, in 1842, Mary Ann Joy, of Plainfield, and second, in 1860, in Boston, Mary Elizabeth Cox.
BENJAMIN EDWARD BATES, son of Benjamin E. and Sarah C. (Gilbert) Bates, was born in Boston, December 27, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at the Ilarvard Law School and in the office of Warren & Brandeis, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, February 2, 1887.
WARREN ALLDS, son of Isaac N. and Abigail Allds, was born in Antrim, Hillsboro county, N. H., and was educated in the public schools. He studied law with James H. Bancroft and Jerome F. Manning in Worcester, and was admitted to the bar in Val- paraiso, Ind., September 1, 1880, in'Madison, Wis., to the State courts and the United
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States Court for the Western District of Wisconsin in November, 1881, and in Boston, February 23, 1882. He married in Dover, N. H., October 6, 1884, Nellie K. Hoity.
GERARD BEMENT, son of Samuel and Sarah Emerson (Kent) Bement, was born in Lowell, July 17, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at the Har- vard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex in 1882. He married Katherine B. Pfaff in Boston, January 12, 1.887.
SAMUEL WALKER MCCALL, son of Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall, was born in East Providence, Penn., February 28, 1851, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1874. He studied law in the office of Staples & Golding, in Worcester, where he was admitted to the bar. He came to Boston in 1876, and in 1888-89 was editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and a member of the House of Representatives. He married Ella Esther, daughter of Sumner S. Thompson, in Lyndonville, Vt., May 23, 1881, and lives in Winchester.
LEONARD AUGUSTUS JONES, son of Augustus Appleton and Mary Partridge Jones, was born in Templeton, Mass., January 13, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1855, having fitted at the Lawrence Academy in Groton. He studied law with Caleb W. Loring in Boston, and graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, February 1, 1858. Previous to his study of the law he taught in the High School in St. Louis one year. In his early practice in Boston he was a partner of John Lathrop, now a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and of Edwin Hale Ab- bott. He has been a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, the North American Review, the Christian Examiner, the Monthly Law Reporter, the Southern Law Review, the Cen- tral Law Journal and the American Law Review, of the last of which he has been one of the editors. He has published the following legal works : Two volumes of " Mort- gages of Real Property," one volume of "Mortgages of Personal Property," one vol- ume of "Corporate Bonds and Mortgages," one volume of " Pledges, including Collat- eral Securities," two volumes of "Liens, Common Law, Statutory, Equitable and Mar- itime," one volume of " Forms in Conveyancing," and one volume of "Index to Legal Periodical Literature," and has edited Volumes IX and XXI of " Myer's Federal De- cisions." In 1891 he was appointed Commissioner for Massachusetts on uniform laws between the States. He married Josephine, daughter of ยท Artemas Lee, at Templeton, December 14, 1867, and lives in Boston.
ROGER WOLCOTT, son of J. Huntington Wolcott, was born in Boston, July 13, 1847, and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He is a descendant of Roger Wolcott, who, in 1745, commanded the New England forces in the capture of Louisburg, and who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. After his admission to the bar he served in the Boston Common Council in 1877, '78, '79, and from 1882 to 1884 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and is an overseer of Harvard College. At present he is the candidate of the Republican party of Massachusetts for lieutenant- governor.
JOSEPH LYMAN, son of Joseph and Anne Jean (Robbins) Lyman, was born in North- hampton, Mass., August 17. 1812, and was fitted for college at the Round Hill School in that town. He graduated at Harvard in 1830, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1833. He gave up the law and after studying engineering was engaged in im-
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portant mining and railroad operations, which severe injuries, the result of an accident, obliged him to abandon for literary pursuits. He married Susan Bulfinch, daughter of Joseph Coolidge, of Boston, and died at Jamaica Plain, near Boston, August 14, 1871.
SAMUEL PARKMAN SHAW, son of Robert G. Shaw, was born in Boston, November 19, 1813, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. After completing his law studies he re- moved to Parkman, Me., and subsequently to Waterville and Portland. In 1863 he removed to Cambridge, and died in Paris, France, December 7, 1869. He married Hannah Buck in 1841.
CHARLES JACKSON, son of Charles and Fanny (Cabot) Jackson, was born in Boston, March 4, 1815. He fitted for college at the schools of Daniel Greenleaf Ingraham and William Wells, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He studied law with Charles G. Loring in Boston and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1836. He however abandoned the profession and after studying engineering turned his attention to the manufacture of iron and called himself an iron master. He married Susan C., daugh- ter of Dr. James Jackson, of Boston, February 16, 1842, and died in Boston July 30, 1871.
ISAAC CHAUNCEY WYMAN, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Ingalls) Wyman, was born in Marblehead, January 31, 1830, and graduated at Princeton College in 1848. He grad- uated at the Harvard Law School in 1850 and concluded his law studies in the offices of Benjamin F. Hallett and Charles Grandison Thomas in Boston and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 6, 1851. He has been many years president of the Marblehead National Bank and Savings Bank, and lives in Salem, unmarried, with his law office in Boston.
HENRY AUGUSTUS WYMAN, son of Henry A. and Fanny F. Wyman, was born in Skowhegan, Me., February 3, 1861, and was educated in the schools of that town. He studied law in the office of Edward H. Bennett, in Boston, and in the law school of the Boston University, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1885. He has been second assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts, first assistant United States attorney, and lecturer on criminal law in the Boston University Law School. He mar- ried Anne C. Southworth at West Stoughton, February 13, 1891, and resides in Bos- ton.
ALPHONZO ADELBERT WYMAN, son of Oliver C. and Caroline Mitchell (Chandler) Wyman, was born in West Acton, Mass., January 29, 1862. He was fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 1883. He studied law with Henry W. Paine and W. W. Vaughan, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- ton in July, 1885. He has been engaged on Gould & Tucker's Notes on the United States Revised Statutes. He married Laura Aldrich in West Acton, July 28, 1886, and resides in that town.
THOMAS F. NUTTER, son of Ichabod and Sarah (Copeland) Nutter, was born in Hallo- well, Me., March 6, 1823, and was educated at the Hallowell High School. He studied law with his brother, Charles C. Nutter, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, December 31, 1851. He married Adelaide Read at Portland, Me., February, 18, 1862, and lives in Boston.
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CHARLES COFFIN PITTS, son of Coffin and Louisa Pitts, was born in Boston, June 7, 1865, and was educated at the North Easton High School. He studied law at the Bos- ton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, Angust 2, 1887, and to the Circuit Court of the United States, December 21, 1891. His residence is in Boston.
GEORGE BAXTER UPHAM, was born in Claremont, N. H., April 9, 1855, and graduated at Cornell University. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, February 8, 1877, and has made a specialty of corporation law. His residence is in Boston.
WILLIAM ORISON UNDERWOOD, son of Adin Ballou and Jane L. (Walker) Underwood, was born in Newton, Mass., May 5, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law in the office of Hyde, Dickinson & Howe, in the Boston University Law School, and the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1886. He has been a lecturer in Harvard College. He married Bessie Shoemaker in Phila- delphia, November 18, 1886, and lives in Lynn.
FRANCIS HENRY UNDERWOOD, was born in Enfield, January 12, 1825, and was educated partly at Amherst. He taught school in Kentucky, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He returned to Massachusetts in 1850 and was closely indentified with the anti-slavery movement. He was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate in 1852, and sub- sequently, after eleven years' service as clerk of the Superior Court in Boston, he re- signed to engage in literary pursuits. He was thirteen years a member of the School Board, and in 1885 was appointed consul at Glasgow, from whose University he received the degree of LL.D. in 1888.
STEPHEN H. TYNG, son of Dudley Atkins and Catherine M. (Stevens) Tyng, was born in Hoboken, N. J., August 2, 1851, and was educated at Kenyon College and the University of Michigan. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex, in September, 1875. Besides his active business in the courts he has made frequent contributions to the press. He married Lizzie Wal- worth in Boston, September 8, 1880, and lives in Lexington.
CHARLES L. B. WHITNEY was born in Springfield, Mass., October 21, 1850, and fitted for college in the High School of that city. He graduated at Harvard in 1871 and after a year's study at Leipsic, in Germany, studied law in the office of Jewell, Field & Shep- ard, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1876 and was admitted to the bar in Boston, May 11, 1877. Soon after his admission he became a partner of William Gaston, and so continued until the condition of his health compelled him to abandon legal work. He married, in 1882, Lottie J. Byam, daughter of E. G. Byam, of Charlestown, and died at his residence in Brookline, September 14, 1892.
LEWIS W. HOWES, son of Samuel and Sarah (Abbot) Howes, was born in Sidney, Me., where he spent his boyhood and youth attending the public schools and in occu- pation on a farm, and finally at the University at Kent's Hill in Maine. He then went to Belfast where he studied law with his uncles, Nehemiah and Howard B. Abbot, and was admitted to the Waldo County Bar, and to a partnership with his uncle Nehemiah.
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He afterwards moved to Rockland and held the office of county attorney of Knox county eight or nine years, until he moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, May 25, 1867. He married, first, Clementine E., daughter of Rev. John Allen, and second, in June, 1887, Delia A. Varney, of Boston, where he now lives.
WILLIAM TUDOR was born in Boston, March 28, 1750, fitted for college at the public schools, and under Master Lovell, graduating at Harvard in 1769. He studied law with John Adams in Boston, and was admitted to practice in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, July 27, 1772. At a meeting of the Suffolk bar, on the 26th of July, 1774, it was voted to recommend him for admission to the Superior Court. He served on the staff of Washington as judge advocate, with the rank of colonel, served in both branches of the Massachusetts General Court, and 1809-10 was secretary of the Com- monwealth. Among the students in his office at various times were Henry Goodwin, Fisher Ames, George Richards Minot and John Rowe. He married Delia Jarvis, March 5, 1778, and lived in Boston, where he died, July 8, 1819. A memoir of Mr. Tudor may be found in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of which he was one of the founders.
HENRY JAMES TUDOR, son of the above, was born in Boston, April 8, 1791, and died in that city, Nov. 27, 1864. He was fitted for college by Rev. John S. J. Gardiner, of Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law with James Savage and Charles Jackson and was admitted to practice in the Common Pleas Court in Boston, in April, 1816. He married Fannie H., daughter of William Foster, of Boston, August 6, 1844.
GEORGE JULIAN TUFTS, son of Henry and Clarissa H. Tufts, was born in Eden, Mt. Desert Island, Me., and was educated at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Tuft's College in 1874. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, December 27, 1875. He has been engaged as counsel in many important cases, among which may be mentioned Westcott vs. N. Y. & N. E. R. R., reported in 152 Massachusetts Reports; Commonwealth vs. Conners and others, conductors of Met. Railroad Company, indicted for issuing counterfeit horse car tick- ets, and Commonwealth vs. Abby A. Conner, christian scientist, charged with man- slaughter. He married Isabella L. Parker in Medford, September 3, 1876, and lives in the Roxbury district of Boston.
JOHN MOORE TUOHAY was educated at the Boston University and admitted to the bar in 1881, in Boston, where he now lives.
WILLIAM DALL TURNER, son of John B. and Ellen A. Turner, was born in Brookline, Mass., November 15, 1863, and was fitted for college at the Adams Academy at Quincy, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1884, and after studying law at the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1886. After admission he went to Pa- latka, Florida, and practiced law there one year with Sumner C. Chandler, now of New York, and then returned to Boston, where he has since lived and practiced. In March, 1890, he was appointed solicitor for the Metropolitan Sewage Commissioners in a case involving the constitutionality of the statute under which they were appointed, reported.
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in 153 Massachusetts Reports; and later he was counsel for heirs-at-law in Greece, in the case of the will of Photius Fisk. He lives in Boston and has interested himself in introducing the Torrens or Australian system of registration of titles to land.
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