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WILLIAM H. H. TUTTLE graduated at Williams College and studied law at the Har- vard Law School, and in the office of Chandler, Ware & Hudson. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex in October, 1877, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1890-91. His home is in Arlington.
CHARLES HITCHCOCK TYLER, son of Joseph R. and Abbie L. Tyler, was born in Cam- bridge, October 11, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Shattuck & Munroe, and was ad- mitted to the bar in Boston, January 1, 1889. He lives in Winchester.
ROYALL TYLER was born in Boston, July 18, 1757, and died in Brattleboro, Vt., August 16, 1826. He studied law with John Adams and was admitted to practice in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in 1780. He served with General Benjamin Lin- coln in Shay's Rebellion and in 1790 settled in Guilford, Vt., where he became, in 1794, a justice of the Supreme Court, and in 1800, chief justice. He was a voluminous writer as well as lawyer and judge.
DUDLEY ATKINS TYNG, son of Dudley Atkins, was born in that part of Newbury which is now Newburyport, September 3, 1760, and died in Newburyport, Angust 1, 1829. He was educated at Dummer Academy under Master Moody and graduated at Harvard in 1781, receiving a degree of LL. D. in 1823. In 1780, while in college, he was selected with John Davis, of Plymouth, to assist Dr. Williams in observing, on Penobscot Bay, an eclipse of the sun. After leaving college he was private tutor in the family of Mrs. Selden, in Virginia, and while there studied law with Judge Mercer and was admitted to the bar in Virginia. In 1784 he returned to Massachusetts and was admitted to the bar in Essex and afterwards had an office in Boston. He changed his name to Tyng, as the inheritor of the estate of James Tyng, of Tyngsboro, Mass. He was collector of Newburyport for a time and in 1805 was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. His reports are con- tained in the volumes two to seventeen inclusive of the Massachusetts Reports and cover the period from the March term in Suffolk in 1806 to the March term in Suffolk in 1822. He was the father of Rev. Stephen Higginson Tyng, rector of St. George's Church in New York more than thirty years.
DAVID WYER, a native of Charlestown, graduated at Harvard in 1758, studied law with James Otis in Boston, where he was admitted to the bar in 1762. The maiden name of his wife was Russell.
EDWIN WRIGHT, son of Jesse Wright, of Lebanon, Conn., was born March 7, 1821, and graduated at Yale in 1844. After leaving college he came to Boston and was mas- ter of the Eliot Grammar School from 1845 to 1848. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, and in 1857 and 1867 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- sentatives. On the 9th of July, 1861, he was appointed special justice of the Boston Police Court, and January 7, 1862, a justice of the same court. In 1877-9 he was 18
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lecturer in the Boston University Law School, on medical jurisprudence, and married, October 29, 1850, Helen Maria, daughter of Paul and Almira (James) Curtis, of Boston, where he now resides.
CARROLL DAVIDSON WRIGHT was born in Dunbarton, N. H., July 25, 1840, and was educated at Washington, Alstead and Chester, Vt. He studied law with Will- iam P. Wheeler, of Keene, N. H., and with Worthington & Willey in Boston. Early in the war he enlisted in Company C, Fourteenth N. H. Regiment, of which he became colonel in December, 1864. He resigned in 1865 and was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in the same year. He afterwards moved to Boston and was in the Massa- chusetts Senate in 1871-2, and chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor from 1873 to 1888. In 1880 he was the Massachusetts supervisor of the United States census, and in 1885 was appointed to investigate the public records of towns, parishes, counties and courts. In the same year he was made first commissioner of the Bureau of Labor in the Department of the Interior at Washington. In 1876 he was presidential elector on the Republican ticket and in 1875 and 1885 had charge of the Massachusetts State census. He was a lecturer in the Lowell Institute in 1879 on labor questions, and in 1881 university lecturer at Harvard on the factory system. He received the degree of A. M. from Tufts College in 1883.
ERASTUS WORTHINGTON was born in Belchertown, Mass., October 8, 1779, and died at Dedham, June 27, 1842. He graduated at Williams College in 1804 and was ad- mitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1807. He moved to Dedham, where he prac- ticed law from 1809 to 1825, was a representative from that town in 1814-15, and wrote the history of Dedham from its settlement in 1635 to May, 1827, the year of its publication.
ALBERT PARKER WORTHIEN, son of Samuel K. and Sarah F. Worthen, was born in Bridgewater, N. H., September 8, 1861, and was educated at the New Hampshire In- stitution. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1885. He lives unmarried in Weymouth, Mass.
THOMAS TYSON WOODRUFF, son of Isaac O. and Arethusa H. Woodrouff, was born in Quincy, Ill., January 7, 1839, and was educated at St. Paul's College at Palmyra, Mo. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, August 13, 1886. His home is in Boston, and he is unmarried.
E. H. WOODMAN was born in Gilmanton, N. H., July 6, 1847, and was educated at tho Gilmanton Academy and at Boscawen. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1873, and was admitted to the bar. He went to Concord, N. H., in 1878, and was the mayor of that city in 1882 and several succeeding years. He was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, treasurer of the Peterboro and Hillsboro, and the Franklin and Tilton Railroads, clerk of the Concord and Claremont Railroad, treasurer of the Concord Gas Light Company, and president of the Mechanics' National Bank. He died at Concord, March 21, 1892.
JOSHUA UPHAM Was born in Brookfield, November 14, 1741, and graduated at Har- vard in 1763. He practiced law in New York and Boston, and moving to New Bruns-
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wick became judge of the Supreme Court of that province. He was the father of the late Charles W. Upham, of Salem. He died in London in 1808.
EUGENE CHARLES UPTON, son of Charles and Anna C. Upton, was born in Gardner, Mass., August 23, 1859. He was fitted for college at the Gardner High School, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law in Boston with Oren S. Knapp and Heman W. Chaplin, and was admitted to the bar there January 25, 1885. He married Alice M. Hyde at Gardner, September 3, 1884, and has his home in Malden.
EDWARD PRESTON USHER, son of Roland Green and Caroline Mudge Usher, was born in Lynn, Mass., November 19, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1880, and was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1879. He is, or has been president of the Grafton and Upton Rail- road, of the Milford and Hopedale Street Railroad, and of the Hopedale Electric Car Co., and is the author of a book on "Sales of Personal Property." He married Adela L. Payson, and lives in Grafton, Mass.
SHERMAN LELAND WHIPPLE, son of Solomon Mason and Henrietta (Hersey) Whipple, was born in New London, N. H., March 4, 1862, and was educated at the Colby Acad- emy, New London, and at Yale, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at Con- cord, N. H., and graduated from the Yale College Law School in 1884. He was admitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1884, in New Hampshire in August, 1884, and in Boston in 1885. He resides in Brookline.
STEPHEN BLAKE WOOD, son of William T. and Sophia M. Wood, was born in West Cambridge, Mass., April 5, 1854, and was educated at the Arlington High School and Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1879. He studied law with Charles Allen and Jabez Fox, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 22, 1882. He mar- ried Amy Louise Blandy, June 27, 1885, and lives in Arlington.
JOHN H. PONCE, son of Phillip and Margaret Ponce, was born in Cambridge, Novem- ber I, 1857, and was educated at the public schools of that city and at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and Bos- ton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex, March 18, 1881. He has been a member of the Common Council in Cambridge, where he lives and where he married Nellie L. Kelley, July 7, 1885. He has been attorney for nine years of the Cambridge Co-operative Bank.
THOMAS BUTLER POPE, son of Lemuel and Sally Belknap (Russell) Pope, was born in Boston, January 22, 1814, and died in Roxbury, January 15, 1862. His father was many years president of the Boston Insurance Company. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1836, and for a time was associated in business with Charles Henry Parker. He married, June 3, 1846, Gertrude, daughter of John Binney, of Boston.
GEORGE DOANE PORTER, son of Jonathan and Catherine (Gray) Porter, was born in Medford, Mass., June 21, 1831. He was fitted for college by his father, and graduated
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at Harvard in IS51. He studied law with William Brigham and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1854. He practiced in both Boston and Medford for a time and afterwards in Medford alone. He married Lucretia A. Holland August 8, 1860.
NANUM MITCHELL, son of Cushing and Jennet (Orr) Mitchell, was born in East Bridge- water, February 12, 1769, and died in Plymouth, August 1, 1853. He fitted for college with Beza Hayward, of Bridgewater, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. During his college course he taught school in Weston and afterwards in Bridgewater and Plymouth. He studied law in Plymouth with Joshua Thomas, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- ton. He practiced in East Bridgewater, and among his students were Ezekiel Whit- man, afterwards chief justice of the Supreme Court of Maine, and Elijah Hayward, afterwards justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He was representative from 1798 to 1803 and in 1809 and 1812, senator in 1813, member of the Council from 1814 to 1820, State treasurer from 1822 to 1827, member of Congress from 1803 to 1805, one of the commission in 1800 to establish the Massachusetts and Rhode Island line, and in 1823 to establish the Massachusetts and Connecticut line. From 1811 to 1821 he was judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit and the last two years its chief justice. Ile published in 1840 a history of Bridgewater, and was the author of the Bridgewater Collection of Music, which has run through thirty editions. He married in 1794, Nabby, daughter of Sylvanus Lazell, of Bridgewater.
WILLIAM HOWARD MITCHELL, son of Azor and Sarah Jane (Shaw) Mitchell, was born in North Yarmouth, Me., August 14, 1861, and was educated at the Wesleyan Univer- sity at Middletown, Conn., from which he graduated in 1885. He studied law with Ed- win L. Dyer, of Portland, Me., and at the Boston University Law School, graduating in 1887, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in August, 1887. He married Har- riet Louise Orcutt at Melrose, Mass., October 2, 1889, and makes Melrose his home.
WALTER SAMUEL PINKHAM, son of George F. and Ellen J. Pinkhanı, was born in Cam- bridge, Mass., August 21, 1865, and fitted for college at the Adams Academy at Quincy, Mass., for Harvard, where he graduated in 1887. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1890. His home is in Wollas- ton, a part of Quincy.
CHRISTOPHER G. PLUNKETT Was born in Boston, August 29, 1859, and was educated in the public schools of Medford, to which town his father moved with his family after his return from the war. He studied law in the office of John F. Colby in Boston, and in the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Novem- ber, 1881. He has been auditor of the town of Medford.
ROSEWELL BIGELOW LAWRENCE, son of Daniel Warren and Mary Ellen (Wiley) Law- rence, was born in Medford, Mass., January 31, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Stearns & Butler, in Bos- ton, where he was admitted to the bar in February, 1882. He lives in Medford.
WILLIAM BAXTER LAWRENCE, son of Samuel Crocker and Carrie R. Lawrence, was born in Charlestown, Mass., November 15, 1856, and fitted for college at the Boston Latin
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School and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and after graduating, in 1882, traveled in Europe and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1883. He was a selectman of Medford in 1889-90, representative in the Legislature 1891-92, grand master of the Grand Council R. & S. Masters of Massachusetts 1891-92, is past D. D. grand master of Grand Lodge, F. & A. Masons, of Massachusetts, past master of Mt. Hermon Lodge, F. & A. Masons, past H. P. of Mystic R. A. Chapter, and trustee of the Medford Savings Bank. He married Alice May, danghter of J. Henry Sears, in Dorchester, October 2, 1883, and lives in Medford.
JOHN PATRICK LEAHY, son of John and Mary E. Leahy, was born in Boston, March 13, 1861. He was educated under private instruction, in the public schools and in the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1884. He married Josie C. Wilkinson at Boston, July 27, 1889, and lives in the Dorchester district of Boston. He has been engaged to some extent in lecturing and in writing for newspapers and magazines.
JOSEPH LEE, son of Henry and Elizabeth Perkins (Cabot) Lee, was born in Brook- line, Mass., March 8, 1862. He graduated at Harvard in 1883, was a student in the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in December, 1887. Besides his law practice he has engaged somewhat in literary pursuits in connection with newspapers and magazines. His residence is in Brookline.
WILLIAM H. LEONARD, son of Hartford P. and Lucy A. Leonard, was born at Man- hattan, Kans., Nov. 10, 1860, and after graduating at Amherst, studied law in the Bos- ton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1884. He married Charlotte A. Richardson at Raynham, Mass., May 5, 1886, and lives in Brain- tree, Mass.
GEORGE V. LEVERETT, son of Daniel and Charlotte Leverett, was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and finished his law studies in the office of Chandler, Thayer & Hudson, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, December 23, 1871. He is the official attorney of the American Bell Telephone Company. He married Mary E. L. Tebbetts at Cambridge in 1888, and now lives in that city.
JOHN WOODBURY, son of John P. and Sarah E. (Silsbee) Woodbury, was born in Lynn, Mass., January 26, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Shattuck & Munroe of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1884. He married Jennie R. Churchill in Boston, February 18, 1885, and lives in Lynn.
LEVI WOODBURY was born in Francestown, N. H., December 22, 1789, and died at Portsmouth, N. H., September 4, 1851. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1809, and studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the bar in Francestown in 1812, where he practiced until 1816. In 1817 he became judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. In 1819 he moved to Portsmouth, and in 1823-4 was governor of his native State. He was speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1825, and chosen United States senator, serving from 1825 to 1831,
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when he was appointed by Andrew Jackson secretary of the navy. Under Van Buren he served as secretary of the treasury, and was again chosen United States senator, serving from 1841 to 1845, when he was appointed justice of the United States Supreme Court, and remained on the bench until his death.
A. NATHAN WILLIAMS, son of James G. and Sarah N. Williams, was born in Bowdoin- ham, Me., October 26, 1857, and was educated in the Maine public schools and at St. Charles College in Maryland. He studied law with Charles W. Larrabe in Bath, Me., and was admitted to the bar in Bath, August 23, 1883, to the bar of the United States Supreme Court, January 10, 1889, and to the Suffolk bar, June 3, 1890. He lives in Boston.
WILLIAM GORDON STEARNS, son of Asahel and Frances Wentworth Stearns, was born in Chelmsford, Mass., November 22, 1804. He graduated at Harvard in 1824, and studied law in the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1827. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in March, 1830, and in 1834 became partner of Theophilus Parsons. In 1844 he was appointed steward of Harvard College and remained in office twenty-six years. He died January 31, 1872.
JOHN GLIDDEN STETSON, son of Joseph and Margaret Stetson, was born in Newcastle, Me., February 28, 1833, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1854. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 31, 1860. He practiced in Portland from June, 1860, to February, 1864. He was appointed clerk of the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District, October 1, 1866, and has been clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit since its organization, June 16, 1891. He has been also United States Commissioner for the District of Massachusetts since October 15, 1872. He has heard nearly all the cases re- ferred to a Master in Chancery by the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District, from 1873 to 1883, and a large number since. His reports as Master have been prepared with great care and many of them are in print. He married Delia H. Libby, in Portland, Me., January 26, 1865, and lives in Boston.
CHARLES GODFREY STEVENS, son of Godfrey and Hannah (Poole) Stevens, was born in Claremont, N. H., September 16, 1821, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1840. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 23, 1845, was a member of the Massachu- setts Convention for the revision of the Constitution in 1853, a member of the Senate in 1862, draft commissioner for Worcester in 1862-3, and made president of the First National Bank of Clinton in 1864, and appointed in 1874 judge of the Second Wor- cester District Court. He married Laura A., daughter of Eli and Hepzibah (Floyd) Russell.
HAZARD STEVENS, son of Isaac I. and Margaret L. Stevens, was born in Newport, R. I., June 9, 1842, and received his early education at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at Chauncey Hall School, Boston. He graduated at Harvard. He studied law with Edward Evans in Olympia, W. T., and was admitted to the bar in Olympia in 1872, and in Boston, March 13, 1875. He was, during the war, private, lieutenant and ad- jutant of the 79th New York Volunteers, in September and October, 1861, and after-
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wards captain, major, assistant adjutant-general, brevet lieutenant-colonel, colonel and brigadier-general. He was collector of internal revenue for Washington Territory from 1867 to 1871. After coming to Boston he was representative from the Dorchester district in 1885-86. His residence is in Dorchester.
OLIVER STEVENS, son of Isaac and Hannah (Cummings) Stevens, was born in North Andover, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1848. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of H. H. Fuller in Boston, and was adinitted to the bar in 1850, and is now district attorney of Suffolk county. He married Catherine Stevens at North Andover in 1855, and lives in Boston.
OLIVER CROCKER STEVENS, son of Calvin and Sophia Tappan (Crocker) Stevens, was born in Boston, June 3, 1855, and was educated at the Dwight and Latin Schools in Boston, and Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1876. He studied law with Albert E. Pillsbury in Boston, and at the Boston University Law School, from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1879. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, July 8, 1879, to the United States Circuit Court, July 26, 1880, and to the United States Supreme Court, March 4, 1884. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College. He married Julia Burnett, daughter of John Gregory and Ann Eliza (Brainard) Smith, of St. Albans, Vt., and lives in Boston.
WILLIAM BURNHAM STEVENS, son of William F. and Mary J. G. (Burnham) Stevens, was born in Stoneham, Mass., March 23, 1843, and fitted at Phillips Academy., Ando- ver, for Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1865. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Sweetser & Gardner in Boston, and was ad- mitted to the bar in Boston, July 3, 1867. He was district attorney for the Northern District of Massachusetts from 1880 to 1890, and is president of the Stoneham Five Cent Savings Bank. He has written a historical sketch of Stoneham, and lives in that town. He married A. Josie Hill, October 20, 1868, and Mary W. Green, September 30, 1873.
CALEB MORTON STIMSON, son of Samuel and Susanna Stimson, was born in Newton, Mass., April 13, 1804 .. He fitted at the Milton Academy for Harvard, where he grad- uated in 1824. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Lemuel Shaw in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, April 1, 1828. He lived in Newton and died at Newton Lower Falls, July 6, 1860.
FREDERICK JESUP STIMSON, son of Edward S. and Sarah Tufts (Richardson) Stimson, was born in Dedham, Mass., July 20, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He stud- ied law with Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1879, to the New York Supreme Court in June, 1886, and later to the United States Circuit Courts. He has been assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts, was appointed by Mayor Grace of New York, in 1887, on a committee to revise the New York constitution, and in 1891, by Governor Russell of Massachusetts, on the commission on the unification of laws. He has published " American Statute Law " and "Stimson's Law Glossary," etc. He lives in Dedham.
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WILLIAM MAURAN STOCKBRIDGE, son of John C. and Mary T. N. Stockbridge, was born in Boston, July 9, 1856, and studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of B. F. Brooks, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1882. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.
JAMES ALDEN STOCKWELL, son of Albert Samuel and Fannie E. (Bryant) Stockwell, was born in Stoneham, September 16, 1860, and was educated at the Wilbraham Acad- emy and Boston University, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1888.
CHARLES B. STONE, son of Bradley and Clarisa Hosmer Stone, was born in West Ac- ton, Mass., July 17, 1848. He studied law in New York and Boston, and was admit- ted to the bar in Boston in 1890. He has been a selectman and member of the School Board in West Acton, where he resides. He married Marietta C. Wetherbee at Box- boro, Mass., December 25, 1870, and Isabella D. Lewis at Stow, Mass., May 18, 1881, and lives in West Acton.
FREDERIC MATHER STONE, son of Joshua C. and Elizabeth (Hathaway) Stone, was born in Brookline, Mass., October 19, 1861, and fitted at the Friends' Academy in New Bedford for Harvard, where he graduated in 1882. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Chicago in February, 1886, and in Boston n 1887. He lives in Boston.
GEORGE FISHER STONE, son of Warren Fay and Mary (Williams) Stone, was born in Groton, Mass., December 25, 1850, and studied law with George Stevens in Lowell, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in February, 1874. He practiced four years in Hudson, had an office in Boston in 1876, moved to Bradford, Penn., and was superin- tendent of schools there prior to 1888, after which he spent three years in Pittsburg and Harrisburg and in North Carolina. In 1891 he moved to Olympia, Wash. He married Emma Cecilia Branch, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (Hosmer) Aldrich, of Groton, Mass.
WILLIAM STOUGHTON was born in Dorchester in 1631 or 1632, and graduated at Har- vard in 1650. He was first a clergyman in 1671, a magistrate or assistant from 1671 to 1676, an agent of the Massachusetts colony to England in 1677, chief justice of the Superior Court from 1692 to 1701, a member of the Council from 1693 to 1701, lieuten- ant-governor from 1692 to 1701. He was at various times a selectman of Dorchester, and died there July 7, 1701. He was never married.
ALMON A. STROUT, son of Elisha and Mary Strout, was born in Lemington, York county, Me., and was educated in the public schools and at the Bridgton and Fryburg Academies. He studied law with Joel Eastman, of New Hampshire, and with Howard & Strout in Portland, and was admitted to the bar in Portland in April, 1859, and later became a member of the Suffolk bar. Before moving to Boston he was a member of the Maine Legislature. He married Mary R. Sumner at Grand Rapids, Mich., Decem- ber 23, 1862, and lives in Boston.
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