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MICHAL J. SUGHRUE, son of John and Julia Sughrue, was born in Nashua, N. H., August 27, 1857, and was educated at the Boston public schools and the Boston Uni-
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versity. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1888. He has been assistant district attorney for Suffolk, and lives in the Dorchester district of Boston.
CORNELIUS P. SULLIVAN was born in Boston, April 22, 1861. He was educated at the Quincy Grammar School, the English High and Latin School, and graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1885, and the same year was admitted to the bar in Boston.
JAMES SULLIVAN, son of John and Margery (Brown) Sullivan, was born in Berwick, Me., April 22, 1744, and was educated chiefly by his father. He studied law with his brother John at Durham, N. H., and before 1782 was a member of the Suffolk bar. Before coming to Boston he practiced ten years in Biddeford. He was a member of Provincial Congress from Biddeford in 1774-5, and a member of the General Court in 1775-6. On the 20th of March, 1776, he was appointed a justice in the Superior Court of Judicature and resigned in 1782. In 1778 he moved from Biddeford to Groton, and in 1779 was a delegate from Groton to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. In 1782 he was a delegate to Continental Congress, in 1787 a member of the Executive Council, in 1788 judge of probate, in 1790 attorney-general, in 1807 he was chosen gov- ernor, and died while in office in Boston, December 10, 1808.
GEORGE SULLIVAN, son of James and Mehitable (Odiorne) Sullivan, was born in Boston, February 22, 1783, and died at Pau, France, December 14, 1866. He attended the Boston Latin School, studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1804. He was secretary of James Bowdoin, minister to Spain. He practiced law in Boston and was a member of the State Senate. He moved to New York and continued in practice there. He married, January 26, 1809, Sarah, daughter of Thomas L. Winthrop and had two sons, George R. J. and James, both of whom took the name of Bowdoin in accordance with the will of Sarah, daughter of William and niece of James Bowdoin.
JEREMIAH J. SULLIVAN, son of John and Mary (Donohue) Sullivan, was born in Water- town, Mass., September 16, 1850, and fitted at the public schools for Harvard, where he graduated in 1872. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of George S. Hale, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 27, 1874. He has been a selectman, member of the School Board and Board of Health in Watertown, where he lives.
RICHARD SULLIVAN, son of James and Mehitable (Odiorne) Sullivan, was born in Gro- ton, July 17, 1779, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard where he gradu- ated in 1798. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1801. He was senator from Suffolk in 1815 to '17, a member from Brookline of the State Convention of 1820, a member of the Executive Council in 1820-21 and was the candidate of the Federal party in 1823 for lieutenant-governor with Harrison Gray Otis for governor, and was defeated. He was an overseer of Harvard from 1821 to 1852. He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Sever) Russell, of Boston, May 22, 1804, and died in Cambridge, December 11, 1861.
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RICHARD SULLIVAN, son of Jeremiah O. and Joanna (Morrison) Sullivan, was born in Durham, Conn., February 24, 1856, and came with his father, an infant, to Boston. He attended the Comins Grammar School in Roxbury, the Boston College, and grad- uated from the Boston University Law School in 1882. He was admitted to the bar in 1883. He also studied at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles T. & Thomas H. Russell in Boston. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1887, '88, '89, '90 and twice the Democratic candidate for the presidency of the board. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.
THOMAS FRANCIS STRANGE, son of Pierce and Anne Strange, was born in Manchester, N. H., December 24, 1859. In his infancy his parents moved to Boston where he was educated in the public schools, and graduated at the Boston University Law School, with the degree of LL. B., in 1883, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in the same year. He began practice with the law firm of Gargan, Adams & Swasey, and in Octo- ber, 1884, opened an office alone. He has been commissioner of insolvency by both ap- pointment and election, a member of the Boston School Board and an active member of the Democratic party in State and city politics. He resides in Boston.
ANTHONY C. DALY was born in Boston, October 4, 1853, and was educated in the pub- lic schools. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in April, 1875, was a representative in 1878, and moved to the west.
RICHARD DANA, son of Daniel, who was son of Richard, the ancestor who settled in Cambridge in 1640, was born in Cambridge, July 7, 1699, and died in Cambridge, May 17, 1772. He graduated at Harvard in 1718 and began practice in Marblehead, con- tinuing it in Charletsown and Boston. He married a sister of Judge Edmund Trow- bridge.
FRANCIS DANA, son of Richard, was born in Charlestown, June 13, 1743. He grad- uated at Harvard in 1762, and after studying law with Edmund Trowbridge was ad- mitted to the bar in 1767, and practiced in Boston. He was a delegate to the Provin- cial Congress in 1774, and in 1776 a member of the Executive Council. In the same year he was a delegate to the Continental Congress, and again in 1778. He was sec- retary to John Adams, appointed in 1779 to negotiate peace, and in 1781 was ap- pointed minister to St. Petersburg where he remained two years. In 1783 he returned to Boston and was chosen, in 1784, a delegate to Congress. On the 18th of January, 1785, he was appointed by Governor Hancock judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and on the 29th of November, 1791, was appointed chief justice. He retired from the Bench in 1806 and died in Cambridge, April 25, 1811.
RICHARD H. DANA, son of Francis Dana, was born in Cambridge, November 15, 1787, and died in Boston, February 2, 1879. Entering Harvard College in the class of 1808, he did not finish his course but received a degree fifty-eight years later, in 1866, and a degree of LL. D. from Williams College, in 1867. He studied law in the office of his cousin, Francis Dana Channing in Boston, and in the office of Robert Goodloe Harper, of Baltimore, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1811. He practiced for a time in Sutton, but finally settled in Cambridge and through life devoted himself
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chiefly to literature. He was a frequent contributor to the North American Review and published his first poem, "The Dying Raven," about 1825. His first volume of poems was published in 1827, and in 1856 a revised edition of his poetical and prose writings was issued. At an earlier date, in 1839-40, he delivered a course of lectures on Shakespeare, in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. He was the father of Richard H. Dana, jr., and Edmund Trowbridge Dana.
RICHARD H. DANA, JR., son of Richard H. Dana, was born in Cambridge, August 1, 1815, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. His "Two Years before the Mast" was pub- lished in 1840, and had a very large circulation. He studied law with Joseph Story and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1840. In 1841 he published "The Sea- man's Friend," and later, "To Cuba and Back." His contributions to reviews and other periodicals were numerous. In 1859-60 he went round the world, and in 1866 re- ceived from Harvard the degree of LL. D. In 1866 he published a new edition of Wheaton's "International Law," and about that time was a lecturer on international law at the Harvard Law School. In 1876 he was nominated by President Grant min- ister to England, but his nomination was not confirmed. He was at one time United States district attorney for Massachusetts District. He went to Europe in 1878, and died in Rome, January 7, 1882.
EDMUND TROWBRIDGE DANA, son of Richard H. Dana, was born in Cambridge, August 29, 1818, and died in Cambridge, May 18, 1869. He graduated at the University of Vermont in 1839, and at the Harvard Law School in 1841. He began practice with his brother, Richard H. Dana, jr., went to Europe where he continued his studies, giving special attention to Roman civil law. In 1854 he received a degree from the Univer- sity of Heidleberg, and returned home in 1856 and continued in practice until his death.
RICHARD H. DANA 3d, son of Richard H., jr., and Sarah (Watson) Dana, was born in Cambridge, January 3, 1851, and received his early education in the public schools of Cambridge, and at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H. He graduated at Harvard in 1874, and at the Harvard Law School in 1877, and after a time spent in the office of Brooks, Ball & Storey in Boston, was admitted to the bar there in November, 1877. He has been interested in the purity of elections, and has contributed many articles to- magazines and newspapers, chiefly on the civil service, the Australian Ballot Law, and Election Expenses Law. He married Edith, daughter of Henry W. Longfellow, the poet, at Cambridge, January 10, 1878.
SAMUEL DANA, son of William and Mary (Green) Dana, was born in that part of Cam- bridge which is now the Brighton District of Boston, January 14, 1738-9, and gradu- ated at Harvard in 1755. He studied divinity, and June 3, 1761, was settled as the minister of Groton. On account of his loyal sentiments on the approach of the Revo- lution he was dismissed, and moved to Amherst, N. H., where he studied law with Joshua Atherton, and was admitted to the bar of Hillsboro county in New Hampshire in 1781 and at a later date in Suffolk county, Mass. In 1785 he was appointed register of probate for Middlesex, afterwards judge of probate, and resigned December 21, 1792.
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In 1793 he was a member of the Senate. His name is on the roll of admission to the bar of Suffolk by the Supreme Court without date. He died at Amherst, April 2, 1798.
EDWIN H. DARLING, son of Timothy and Lucy Darling, was born in Calais, Me., Jan- uary 28, 1838, and was educated in Nassau, N. P., and New York and at Williams Col- lege. He studied law with George F. Shipley, of Portland, and with Doolittle, Davis & Crittenden in New York, and was admitted to the bar in New York in April, 1861, and in Boston, January, 5 1872. He is or has been a member of the Boston School Board. He married Georgie A. Smith, at New Market, N. H., February 7, 1882, and lives in Boston.
GEORGE A. DARY, son of George L. and Rebekah G. Dary, was born in Taunton, Mass., November 30, 1842, and was educated at the Taunton High School. He studied law with Samuel E. Sewall in Boston, and was admitted to the bar there December 14, 1872. He married Susan Elizabeth, daughter of Erastus S. Tuttle, and lives in Boston.
WILLIAM NATHANIEL DAVENPORT, son of William J. and Almira (Howard) Davenport, was born in Boylston, Mass., November 3, 1856, and was early educated in the public schools of that town. He studied law in the Law School of the University of Michigan and in the office of James T. Joslin, of Hudson, Mass., and Edward F. Johnson, of Marl- boro, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex, June 30, 1883. He has been clerk of the Police Court of Marlboro, was a representative in 1885-86, and senator in 1889-90. He married Lizzie M. Kendall at Boylston, January 1, 1887, and makes Marlboro his home, with an office in Boston.
CHARLES FRANCIS DAVIS, son of Francis W. and Anna Finney (Houlton) Davis, was born in Boston, September 6, 1830, and died in Boston, October 16, 1867. In early life he spent ten years in Antwerp, and studied law with Edward F. Hodges in Boston. He was as one time alderman in Boston, and a member of the Executive Council.
CHARLES THORNTON DAVIS, son of Charles A. and Mary (Thornton) Davis, was born in Concord, N. H., January 12, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hopkins & Bacon, of Worcester, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester, December 31, 1886. He married Frances P. An- derson at Portland, Me., September 12, 1888, and lives in Boston.
HASBROUCK DAVIS, son of John and Elizabeth (Bancroft) Davis, was born in Worces- ter, April 19, 1827, and graduated at Williams College in 1845. He first studied divin- ity and was settled in Watertown over the Unitarian parish in that town. He after- wards studied law and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 9, 1854, and went to Chicago in 1855. During the war he passed through the several grades, and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He was drowned at sea on his way to Europe in the steamship Cambria, October 19, 1870.
EVERETT ALLEN DAVIS, son of Lewis W. and Sarah Nickerson Davis, was born in Pawtucket, R. I., October 11, 1857, and was educated at Columbia College, and studied law in the law school connected with that institution, and in the office of Judge Daly, of New York, and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1878, and in Boston,
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February 2, 1887. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1884-85 and 1890. He married Georgiana Whiting in Tisbury, Mass., December 26, 1878, and lives in Boston.
JAMES CLARKE DAVIS, son of George T. and Harriet T. (Russell) Davis, was born in Greenfield, Mass., January 19, 1838, and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Har- vard, where he graduated in 1858. He studied law in Greenfield with Davis & Allen, and in the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston January 16, 1861. He was assistant attorney-general under Charles Allen, and member of the Boston School Board from 1882 to 1887. He married Alice W. Paine, at Worcester, June 3, 1873, and resides at Jamaica Plain.
JOHN DAVIS, son of Thomas and Mercy (Hedge) Davis, was born in Plymouth, Mass., January 25, 1761, and died in Boston, January 14, 1847. He graduated at Harvard in 1781, and in 1788 was the youngest member of the convention which adopted the con- stitution. He was a member of both House and Senate in Massachusetts, and in 1795 was appointed by Washington comptroller of the currency. He was afterwards United States attorney, and in 1801 was appointed by John Adams judge of the United States District Court, which position he held forty years. In 1802 he received the degree of LL. D. from Dartmouth, and in 1842 the same degree from Harvard. He was presi- dent of the Massachusetts Historical Society from 1818 to 1835, and many years a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosoph- ical Society. He was the author of many published works, of which his edition of Morton's New England Memorial, with elaborate notes, and the Pilgrim ode, "Sons of Renowned Sires," are the best known. He married in 1786 Ellen, daughter of William Watson, of Plymouth.
SIMON DAVIS, son of Silas and Mercy E. Davis, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Sep- tember 25, 1854, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of George V. Leverett, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1880. He is a member of the Boston School Board and special justice of the Municipal Court in the Charlestown District of Boston. He mar- ried Helen M. Goldthwait at Boston, November 12, 1884, and lives in Boston.
STANTON DAY, son of J. S. and E. P. (Young) Day, was born in Downeville, Cal., and was educated in Chauncey Hall School, Boston, and at Harvard, where he gradu- ated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Edward W. Cate, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1885. He lives in Brook- line, Mass.
THOMAS KEMPER DAVIS, son of Isaac P. and Susan (Jackson) Davis, was born in Bos- ton, June 20, 1808, and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He studied law with Daniel Webster and was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, 1830. He was a man of superior scholastic attainments, and entered the profession with the promise of a bril- liant career. An unfortunate accident, however, inflicted injuries on his brain which precluded further advancement. After a number of 'years in retirement he died in Boston, October 13, 1853.
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WILLIAM DAVIS, son of Nathaniel Morton and Harriet Lazell (Mitchell) Davis, was born in Plymouth, Mass., May 12, 1818. He fitted at the Boston Latin School for Har- vard, from which he graduated in 1837. He studied law with his father in Plymouth and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 18, 1841. He settled in Plymouth where he became active as a Whig politician, and chair- man of the Board of Selectmen. He was also at one time president of the Pilgrim So- ciety. He married Helen, daughter of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell in Plymouth in 1850, and died in Boston, February 19, 1853.
WILLIAM NYE DAVIS, son of John Watson and Susan Holden (Tallman) Davis, was born in Boston, December 2, 1830, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1851. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Shattuck Hartwell and Wm. H. Gardiner, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in March, 1855. He married Mary C., daughter of William Howard Gardiner in Boston, March 24, 1856, and died in Nice, February 24, 1863.
GEORGE THOMAS DAVIS, at one time a member of the Suffolk bar, but more especially associated with Greenfield and the Franklin county bar, the son of Wendell and Caro- line (Smith) Davis, was born in Sandwich, Mass., January 12, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Dan- iel Wells and James C. Alvord in Greenfield. Benjamin R. Curtis and David Aiken were students at the same time in the office. After his admission to the bar he began prac- tice in Taunton in 1832, but in 1833 removed to Greenfield, where he became associated in business with his former instructors with a firm name of Wells, Alvord & Davis. Mr. Wells was appointed to the Common Pleas bench, and Mr. Alvord died in 1839, and Mr. Davis afterwards, until his retirement from business in 1865, had various associates. Among these were Charles Devens, late judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, Charles Allen, a judge at present on the same bench, Wendell Thornton Davis, a brother, James C. Davis, his son, David Aikin, and Samuel O. Lamb. Mr. Davis rose rapidly to a lead- ership of the bar in the river counties of Massachusetts. He was distinguished not alone for his legal abilities, but also for his remarkable conversational powers. Thack- eray on his visit to America, meeting him for the first time at a private dinner, laid down his knife and fork and paid tribute in exclamations of wonder at the brilliancy of his conversation. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1839-40, in 1861 a representative and represented the Franklin district in Congress from 1851 to 1853. He married Harriet T., daughter of Nathaniel P. Russell, of Boston, October 16, 1834, and Mrs. Abba I. Little, of Portland, and daughter of Daniel Chamberlain, of Boston, April 26, 1865. He died in Portland, June 17, 1877.
WILLIAM THOMAS DAVIS, son of William and Joanna (White) Davis, was born in Plym- outh, Mass., March 3, 1822, and was fitted by Isaac N. Stoddard, teacher of the Plym- outh High School, for Harvard, where he graduated in 1842. After studying medi- cine for a time he studied law in the office of his brother, Charles G. Davis in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, November 9, 1849. He retained an office and lived in Boston until 1853, when he returned to Plym- outh and became largely associated with its interests. He has served six years on the
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School Board of Plymouth, been chosen seventeen times as selectman, declining twice, and serving as chairman eleven years, and has presided as moderator at more than seventy meetings of the town. In 1858 and 1859 he was State senator, has been president of the Plymouth Bank, Plymouth Gas Company, Old Colony Insurance Company, direc- tor of the Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad Company, and president of the Pilgrim So- ciety. He was presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1872, and a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati in 1876. He is the author of "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth," of a "History of Plymouth," the editor of two volumes of the Plymouth town records with notes, and has contributed to county histories, histor- ies of Newburyport, Newbury, Marshfield, Plympton, and many other towns, as well as sketches of the bench and bar of Plymouth, Essex and Middlesex counties. He mar- ried Abby Burr, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Coffin (Goodwin) Hedge in Plymouth, Novomber 19, 1849, and makes Plymouth his home.
ANDREW CUNNINGHAM DAVISON, son of Henry and Mary Davison, was born in Boston, June 5, 1789, and graduated at Harvard in 1815. He studied law with George Blake and was admitted to the bar in Boston. From 1818 to 1828 he was assistant teache in the Adams School in Boston. He died in Lexington, January 27, 1856.
DELAVAN CALVIN DELANO, son of Eber Carpenter and Betsy Delano, was born in Hanover, N. H., February 1, 1869, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1884. He studied law in the office of William H. Colton at Lebanon, N. H., and Wilbur H. Pow- ers, of Boston, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1887, in which year in June he was admitted to the bar in Boston. He lives unmarried in West Somerville.
LOUIS EMIL DENFIELD, son of Frank and Margaret Denfield, was born in Westboro, Mass., September 26, 1854, and graduated at Amherst in 1878. He studied law with A. G. Biscoe in Westboro, Mass., and was admitted to the Worcester county bar in April, 1881. He was town clerk of Webster, Mass., two years, assessor in Westboro three years, and member of the School Board in the same town six years. He married Etta May Kelly in Westboro, where he now lives, October 26, 1887, and practices in Boston.
WILLIAM WILLIS, son of Benjamin and Mary (Mckinstry) Willis, was born in Haver- hill, Mass., August 31, 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law with Peter O. Thacher in Boston, and was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas, January 8, 1817, and to the Supreme Court, January, 1819. He practiced in Boston until April, 1819, when he moved to Portland and continued there alone in business until 1835, when he formed a partnership with William Pitt Fessenden which continued twenty years. In 1855 he was in the Maine Senate, in 1859 Mayor of Portland, in 1860 presi- dential elector, and in 1867 received the degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin. He devoted much time to historical pursuits, and was the author of a history of Portland and many other publications. He married Julia, daughter of Ezekiel Whiteman, of Portland, Sep- tember 1, 1823, and died in Portland, February 17, 1870.
ARNOLD A. RAND, son of Edward Sprague and Elizabeth Arnold Rand, was born in Boston, March 25, 1837, and was educated at the school of Epes S. Dixwell in Boston,
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in Vevay and in Paris. He studied law in the office of his father and at the Boston Uni- versity Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 6, 1874. He was commissioned, October 30, 1861, second lieutenant of the First Massachusetts Cavalry, and was afterwards captain and assistant adjutant-general, lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, and in 1864, colonel. In 1885, with N. J. Bradlee, he formed the Massachusetts Title Insurance Co. of which he is vice-president and mana- ger. He married, in 1877, Annie Eliza Brownell of New Bedford, and lives in Boston.
HENRY HARRISON SPRAGUE, son of George and Nancy (Knight) Sprague, was born in Athol, Mass., August 1, 1841, and received his early education at the Athol High School and at the Chauncey Hall School in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1864 and went to Champlain, N. Y., as a private tutor. In 1865 he entered the Harvard Law School and was at the same time a proctor of the college. In 1890 he was chosen a member of the Board of Overseers of the college. In the fall of 1866 he entered the law office of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith in Boston, and February 25, 1868, was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was chosen in 1873 to the Common Council of Bos- ton and served in 1874, 1875 and 1876, and in 1875 and 1876 was one of the trustees of the City Hospital on the part of the Council. In 1878 he was chosen one of the trustees at large and continued as such until the incorporation of the City Hospital in 1880, when he was appointed a trustee by the mayor. He has since held this position by successive reappointments, and since 1878 has also acted as secretary of the board. He was a member of the House of Representatives from Boston in 1881, 1882 and 1883. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts Senate for the Fifth Suffolk District for the year 1888, and drafted and introduced the new ballot act. He was elected again in 1889 and in 1890, and in 1890 was elected president of the Senate. He was again elected to that body for the year 1891, and was a second time its presiding officer. In 1884 he was a member of the executive committee of the Municipal Reform Associa- tion, and senior counsel of the association for the purpose of securing the passage by the Legislature of 1885 of the amendments to the charter of the city of Boston, by which the executive authority of the city was vested in the mayor. In 1867, in con- nection with a few others, he brought about a return to new and active operations of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, and has since continued as a member of the Board of Government, acting as secretary from 1867 to 1879, and since 1879 as vice- president of the society. In 1880 he engaged with others in the organization of the Boston Civil Service Reform Association, and served on the executive committee of that body until the year 1889, when he was elected president of the association, which office he still holds. He was for many years a manager of the Temporary Home for the Destitute, or Gwynne Home, and was one of the "Committee of Fifty " on the Museum of Fine Arts. He has been since 1879 one of the trustees of the Boston Lying-in Hospital, and recently has served upon the executive committee of the board. He has been since 1883 secretary of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, is a member of the Massachusetts Historic Genealogical Society, the Bostonian Society, the Bar Association and the Harvard Law School Association, and a member of the general committee of the Citizens' Association of Boston. He is also one of the trustees. appointed to hold the buildings recently purchased and improved for the Women's Ed-
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