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ucational and Industrial Union, and acts as treasurer of the trustees. In 1884 he pub- lished a treatise entitled, "Women Under the Law of Massachusetts; their Rights, Privileges and Disabilities," and in 1890 he published a pamphlet entitled, "City Gov- ernment in Boston; Its Rise and Development." He resides in Boston.
JOSEPH FERNALD WIGGIN, son of Joshua and Dorothy Wiggin, was born in Exeter, N. H., March 30, 1838, and was educated in the public schools and at Phillips Exeter Acad- emy. He studied law with W. W. Stickney, of Exeter, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar of Rockingham county, N. H., in October, 1862, and to the Suffolk bar November 4, 1891. He was judge of probate for Rockingham county from 1871 to 1876; one of the commissioners in 1877 to revise the general laws of New Hampshire; moved to Malden, Mass., in 1880, where he was a member of the School Board from 1885 to 1887, mayor from 1888 to 1891, and city solicitor in 1892. He married Ruth H. Hollis, at Milton, Mass., July 6, 1888, and lives in Malden.
EDWARD WIGGLESWORTH was born in Boston, January 14, 1804, and died there Octo- ber 14, 1876. He graduated at Harvard in 1822, and studied law with William Pres- cott, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1825, and was ad- mitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston in October, 1825, and to the Supreme Judicial Court, January 10, 1828. After practicing a short time he entered his father's counting room, and devoted himself to business, relieved by an active interest in lit- erary and charitable pursuits. He was a descendant of Michael Wigglesworth, who was born in England in 1631, and died in Malden, Mass., in 1705.
SAMUEL SUMNER WILDE Was born in Taunton, February 5, 1771, and died in Boston, June 22, 1855, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1789. He studied law in Taunton with Judge Paddleford, and was admitted to the bar in 1792, probably in Boston, as his name is on the roll of admissions by the Supreme Court in Suffolk before 1807. He began practice in Waldoboro, Me., but moved in 1794 to Warren, Me., and in 1799 to Hallowell. In 1815 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and in 1820, when Maine was set off as a State, he moved to Newburyport, and in 1831 to Boston, where the remainder of his life was spent. He was a member of the Hartford Convention, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, twice a presidential elector, and in 1844 a member of the Executive Council. He received the degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1817, Harvard in 1841, and Dartmouth in 1849. He resigned his seat on the bench in 1850 at the age of seventy- nine. He married Eunice, daughter of David Cobb, of Taunton.
JOSEPH WILLARD, son of Rev. Joseph and Mary (Sheafe) Willard, was born in Cam- bridge, March 14, 1798, and died in Boston, May 12, 1865. He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy under Mark Newman, and at Wm. Jennison's private classical and mercantile school, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He studied law with Charles Humphrey Atherton in Amherst, N. H., and was admitted to the bar in 1819. Prac- ticing first in Waltham and Lancaster, he moved to Boston in 1829. In 1839 he was appointed joint clerk with George C. Wilde of the Supreme Judicial and Common Pleas courts, and in 1856 clerk of the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk. Upon the
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organization of the Superior Court for the Commonwealth, he was appointed clerk and so continued until his death. He was the author of a history of Lancaster and the Life of Simon Willard. He married Susanna Hicklin, daughter of Capt. Isaiah Lewis, Feb- ruary 24, 1830.
JAMES THOMAS JOSLIN, son of Elias and Elizabeth (Stearns) Joslin, was born in Leominster, Mass., June 23, 1834, and was educated at the Leominster public schools and the Lawrence Academy at Groton. He read law with Charles H. Merriam in Leominster and Nathaniel Wood and Goldsmith F. Bailey in Fitchburg, and was ad- mitted to the bar at Fitchburg in June, 1859. He was in the Leominster School Board in 1856-7. He began the practice of law in North Marlboro', near Hudson, in August, 1860, and was postmaster in that town in 1863-4; he was grand master I. O. O. F., in Massachusetts, in 1880, and in 1866 council for petitioners for the incorporation of the town of Hudson. He married, at Leominster, October 14, 1861, Annie Catherine Burrage, and lives in Hudson.
PAUL WILLARD, son of Paul and Martha (Haskell) Willard, was born in Lancaster, Mass., and died in Charlestown, March 18, 1856. He fitted for College at Westford Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law in Worcester with Cal- vin Willard and was admitted to the bar in 1821. He began practice in Charlestown and in September, 1822, was appointed postmaster of that town, and in 1823 was cho- sen clerk of the Massachusetts Senate and was the incumbent of that office until 1829. He is believed to have had at one time an office in Boston and for that reason is in- cluded in this register.
AARON HOBART LATHAM, son of Eliab and Susan Adams Latham, was born in East Bridgewater, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar of Plymouth county March 4, 1879. He has been a member of the School Board in Brookline, where he lives. He married Minnie G. Bearce at North Livermore, Me., September 20, 1882.
THOMAS E. GROVER, son of Thomas and Roana Grover, was born in Mansfield, Mass., February 9, 1847, and was educated at private schools. He studied law with Ellis Ames, of Canton, and was admitted to the bar in Taunton, September 7, 1889. He has been engaged in editorial newspaper work, and was trial justice for several years. He married Frances L. Williams at Canton, Mass., September 17, 1871, and while prac- ticing in Boston resides in Canton.
LOREN ERSKINE GRISWOLD, son of Daniel C. and Adelaide E. (Griswold) Griswold, was born in Boston, January 3, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1886.
JAMES RUSSELL REED, son of James and Mary J. (Magee) Reed, was born in Boston, January 4, 1851. He was educated at the Phillips School, Latin School and at Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1871. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the offices in Boston of Edmund H. Bennett and T. L. Livermore and
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was admitted to the bar in Boston, July 5, 1876. He has been chairman of the School Committee of Lexington, and assistant district attorney. He married Eleanor Frances Prescott at Boston, February 16, 1892, and has a house in Boston and one in Burling- ton, Mass.
SAMUEL WILLARD REED, son of Samuel and Caroline Reed, was born in Weymouth, Mass., December 31, 1849, and was educated in the public schools of that town. He studied law with Charles A. Reed, of Taunton, and was admitted to the bar in Taunton, September 29, 1873. He has been on the School Board of Weymouth, and secretary of the Weymouth Historical Society.
WILLIAM GARDNER REED, son of Isaac and Lydia E. (McDonald) Reed, was born in Waldoboro, Me., May 4, 1858, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1882. He studied law in the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, 1885. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1888, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1889-90. He married Mary Lorine Hagar at Richmond, Me., October 18, 1882, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.
FLETCHER LADD, son of William Spencer and Mira Barnes Fletcher Ladd, was born in Lancaster, N. H., December 21, 1862, and fitted at Phillips Academy, Andover, for Dart- mouth College, from which he graduated in 1884, and also studied at the Heidelberg University in Germany. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1890, and was admitted to the bar in Concord, N. H., in March, 1889. He lives in Cambridge.
NATHANIEL WATSON LADD, son of Daniel and Lucy Ann Ladd, was born in Derry, N. H., January 7, 1848, and was educated at the Pinkerton Academy and in the Dart- mouth College class of 1873. He studied law in Boston in the office of Abbott, Jones & McFarlane, and at the Boston University Law School in the class of 1875, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, November 8, 1875. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1886-87, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Represent- atives in 1890-91. His residence is in Boston.
ELIAS MERWIN, son of Rev. Samuel and Sarah (Clark) Merwin, was born at New Haven, Conn., April 25, 1825. He received his early education at a boarding school in White Plains, N. Y., and at thirteen entered Wesleyan University, and graduated in 1841. He studied law in Lenox in the office of Henry Walker Bishop, and at the Harvard Law School. After leaving the law school he went to Pittsfield and was ad- ยท mitted to the Berkshire bar in 1843. In 1851 he came to Boston and was associated with Benjamin R. Curtis until the appointment of Mr. Curtis to the United States Su- preme Bench. The business of Mr. Merwin was chiefly in the Supreme and Circuit Courts, in both of which he was counsel in many important cases. Among these may be mentioned the suit of Abbott vs. the Essex Company, which he argued before the United States Supreme Court at the age of thirty. In 1854 he was appointed Profes- sor of Equity in the Boston University Law School. Ile married Anne, daughter of Dr. H. H. Childs, of Pittsfield, December 23, 1847, and died in Boston, March 27, 1891.
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NINIAN C. BETTON, son of Samuel and Ann (Ramsay) Betton, was born in New Boston, N. H., January 10, 1787, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1814. He studied law with Daniel Webster in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston October 7, 1817, and to the Middlesex bar in November, 1819. He was at one time State representative and member of the Boston Common Council. He married Wealthy Johnson, daughter of Silas and Mary (Thornton) Betton, in January, 1821. His wife was his cousin and granddaughter of Dr. Matthias Thornton, a signer of the Declar- ation, chief justice of the Common Pleas Court and justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Mr. Betton died in Boston November 19, 1856.
GEORGE E. BETTON, son of Ninian C. and Wealthy Johnson (Betton) Betton, was born in Hanover, N. H., November 28, 1921, and was educated at Dartmouth. He studied law in Boston with his father, and was admitted to the bar in Boston October 6, 1846. He is chiefly engaged in patent cases. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.
JAMES L. ENGLISH, son of Thomas and Penelope (Bethune) English, was born in that part of Cambridge which is now Brighton, November 6, 1806. He was educated at the school of George Ripley in Waltham, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1827. After leaving college he was for a time private secretary of William H. Pres- cott, the historian, and studied law with Judge William Prescott. He was admitted to the bar in Suffolk in 1830, and in Middlesex in October, 1833, and was many years a partner of William Howard Gardiner. After admission to the bar he lived in Boston till 1863, then in Cambridge till 1868, and then at Jamaica Plain, where he died February 9, 1883. He married, September 13, 1841, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of David Steele of Goffstown, N. H.
JAMES S. ENGLISH, son of James L. and Elizabeth (Steele) English, was born in Boston March 6, 1844, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, where he now lives, September 11, 1870.
PATRICK H. COONEY, son of Lawrence and Catherine Cooney, was born in Stock- bridge, Mass., December 20, 1845, and was educated at the Natick High School and the West Newton English and Classical School. He studied law with John W. Bacon, of Natick, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, November 24, 1868. He lives un- married in Natick.
FRANCIS (. DORR Was born in Boston September 21, 1805, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1825. After graduation he taught a private school in Plymouth two years, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in April, 1830. He began practice in Boston, soon moved to Pittsfield, thence in 1833 to Troy, and finally to New York, where he continued in practice until 1856, when he moved to Fort Madison, (). In 1871 he returned to Troy and continued in practice until 1886. He died at Lansingburg, N. Y., in March, 1892.
JOSIAH W. HUBBARD Was born in Springfield, Vt., and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Governor Colby of Newport, N. H., and O. P. Chan- dler of Woodstock, Vt. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in December, 1850, and for a time was associated in business with Isaac Story. He continued in prac- tice in Boston until his vacation in the summer of 1892, when he died in his native town on the 16th of September, in that year.
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FREDERICK AUGUSTUS FARLEY was born in Boston June 25, 1800, and graduated at Harvard in 1818. He studied law and was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas Court October 19, 1821, and to the Supreme Court in 1824. After practicing law a year or two in Boston he entered the Harvard Theological School, from which he graduated in 1818. In 1818 he was settled over one of the Unitarian churches in Provi- dence, R. I., immediately after leaving the Divinity school, and in 1841 was installed over the Church of Our Saviour in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he remained twenty-two years. After his retirement from clerical service he engaged in literary work and was the author of "Unitarianism in the United States," "Unitarianism Defined" and a "History of the Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair of 1864." He married Jane Sigourney in Boston in 1830.
SAMUEL W. CLIFFORD, son of Samuel W. and Mary A. Clifford, was born in Boston July 29, 1845. He received his early education at the Boston Latin School and from Dr. E. R. Humphreys as a private tutor, and graduated at Trinity College, Hart- ford, Conn., in 1868. He studied law with Robert S. Hart, Mount Kisco, N. Y., and
was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, N. Y., in December, 1869, in Boston in October,
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1870, to the United States Supreme Court May 3, 1878, and to the United States Circuit Court, Mass. Dist., December 2, 1878. Among the important cases in which he has been counsel may be mentioned the Commonwealth vs. Thomas R. Smith for murder in 1886. He married Myra A. Fiske, of Cleveland, O., August 10, 1889, and lives in Boston.
SAMUEL ADAMS DORR, son of Ebenezer Dorr, was born in Medfield, July 1, 1775, and graduated at Harvard in 1795. He studied law with James Sullivan, and at a meet- ing of the Suffolk bar July 9, 1798, on motion of William Sullivan, it was voted to recommend him for admission to the Court of Common Pleas, and he was admitted accordingly. He abandoned the law and engaged in business, and died in Boston February 25, 1855.
WILLIAM HENRY CLIFFORD, son of Nathan and Hannah (Ayer) Clifford, was born in Newfield, Me., in 1839, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1858. He studied law with George F. Shepley in Portland, and with Benjamin R. Curtis in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Portland and Boston. He has been United States com- missioner in the Maine district, and is the author of four volumes of Clifford's Reports for the First United States Circuit. He married Ellen E. Brown at Portland in 1866, and practices in Portland where he resides, and also in Boston.
WILLIAM CHOATE, son of Frederick W. Choate, was born in Beverly and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He read law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1885. In 1888 he became associated with William F. Dana in Boston un- der the firm name of Choate & Dana. He was several years a member of the Beverly School Board, and the founder of the Beverly Co-operative Bank. While on his way to the Bermudas he was taken sick in New York and died at St. Luke's Hospital, in that city, in the early part of February, 1892.
ASAPII CHURCHILL, a descendant of John Churchill, who settled in Plymouth in 1643, and a son of Zebidee and Sarah (Cushman) Churchill, was born in Middleboro, Mass., May 5, 1765, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. He studied law in Boston with John Davis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793. He was a member of
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the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1810 to 1812. He married Mary, daughter of Dr. Edward and Mehitable (Blodgett) Gardner, of Charlestown, and died in Milton June 30, 1841.
ASAPH CHURCHILL, son of the above, was born in Milton April 20, 1814, and grad- uated at Harvard in 1831. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Norfolk county in 1834. He was a member of the Senate from Norfolk county in 1857. He married first Mary Buckminster, daughter of Darius and Harriet (Buckminster) Brewer in Dorchester, May 1, 1838, and second, June 2, 1862, Mary Anne Ware, of Milton. He died in Milton, November 29, 1892.
JOSEPH GREEN COGSWELL, son of Francis and Anstiss (Manning) Cogswell, was born in Ipswich, Mass., September 27, 1786. He was fitted for college at the Atkinson Academy, N. H., and at Exeter, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1806. He studied law in Dedham and Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Jan- uary, 1812. He removed to Belfast, Me., and in 1813 was appointed Latin tutor at Harvard, where he remained two years. From 1821 to 1823 he was instructor in mineralogy at Harvard, and librarian, and from 1823 to 1834 was associated with George Bancroft in the management of the Round Hill School at Northampton. From 1834 to 1836 he was principal of a Seminary in Raleigh, N. C., and in 1854 was appointed librarian of the Astor Library in New York, which position he held until 1863, when he removed to Cambridge, and there died November 26, 1871. He mar- ried Mary, daughter of Governor John T. Gilman, of New Hampshire, April 17, 1812.
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS BROOKS, son of Aaron and Abby Bradshaw (Morgan) Brooks, was born in Petersham, Mass., May 23, 1824. He fitted for college at the Leicester Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1842, the youngest member of his class. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of his father in Petersham, and of Aylwin & Paine in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester county in 1845. He remained in Petersham until 1848, when he removed to Boston and soon entered upon an active and lucrative practice. He has been president of the Vermont and Canada and the Nashua and Lowell Railroads, and has been of counsel in important railroad suits, among which are those with the Vermont Central Railroad in Vermont, and the Boston and Lowell Railroad, which, after ten years' litigation in the Massachusetts and United States Courts, are still unfinished. Together with his legal pursuits he studies and investigates the various questions which from time to time occupy the public mind, and has found time to elaborate and publish his views. In 1890 he published a pam- phlet, entitled "Political and Financial Errors of our Recent Monetary Legis- lation," and in 1891 another in criticism of the Legal Tender decisions of the Su- preme Court. Ilis contributions to the daily journals have been numerous, and those especially on the Force Bill have attracted attention. As a lawyer he is keen, skill- ful and persistent, and as a writer, clear, forcible and convincing. He married at Groton, Mass., September 14, 1847, Frances, daughter of Caleb and Clarissa (Var- num) Butler. Aaron Brooks, the father of Mr. Brooks, was a graduate of Brown University in 1817, a leading lawyer of Worcester county, and a representative to the General Court in 1834-35. Mr. Butler, the father of Mrs. Brooks, was a gradu- ate at Dartmouth in 1800, a lawyer by profession, principal of the Groton Academy eleven years, postmaster thirteen years, and the author of a history of Groton.
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ALBERT D. BOSSON, son of George C. and Mary Jane (Hood) Bosson, was born in Chelsea, November 8, 1853. He was fitted for college at the Chelsea High School and at Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated at Brown University in 1875. He studied law in Boston in the office of Brooks, Ball & Storey and at the Boston Uni- versity Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 18, 1878. He was special justice of the Chelsea Police Court from 1882 until he was appointed justice in September, 1892. He was mayor of Chelsea in 1891 and has been, or is now, presi- dent of the County Savings Bank of Chelsea, vice-president of the Winnisimmet Na- tional Bank, and treasurer of the Gloucester Street Railway Company. He married at Chelsea, where he lives, Alice Lavinia, daughter of C. A. Campbell, May 18, 1887.
JOHN MCLEAN BETHUNE was born in Boston September 12, 1815, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1835, and died in Boston in February, 1873.
JOSIAH HENRY BENTON, jr., son of Josiah Henry and Martha Ellen (Danforth) Ben- ton, was born in Addison, Vt., August 4, 1843. He was educated at the academy in Bradford, Vt., and at the Literary and Scientific Institution of New London, N. H. During the war of 1861 he served in the Twelfth Vermont Regiment of Volunteers. He studied law with Roswell Farnham, of Bradford, Vt., and at the Albany Law School, from which he graduated in 1866. He was admitted to the bar in Albany, May 5, 1866, and afterwards in Massachusetts. He was assistant clerk and clerk of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1868 to 1871, and has been di- rector of the Northern Railroad in New Hampshire from 1878 to the present time. He has been general counsel of the Old Colony Railroad since 1878 and connected with all the important railroad litigation in New Hampshire for the past ten years; also counsel for the Western Union Telegraph Company in its suits against the Bell Tele- phone Company, and engaged in other important corporation suits. He has made constitutional arguments before the Supreme Court of New Hampshire on the char- acter and limitations of the Executive Veto Power, and before the governor of Massachusetts on the question of what constitutes a fugitive from justice under the extradition clause of the United States Constitution. During the last six years he has lectured in the Boston University Law School on "Corporation and Railroad Law," and is the author of pamphlets on "Inequality of Tax Valuation in Massa- chusetts," the "British Post-office," " Points in Vermont History," and " The Veto Power-What is it ?" He married Mary Elizabeth Abbot at Concord, N. H., Sep- tember 3, 1875, and lives in Boston.
ARTHUR JAMES MCLEOD, son of James B. and Ann (Smith) McLeod, was born in Brookfield, Queen's county, Nova Scotia, and was educated at Goreham College. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- ton in May of that year. He has been commissioner of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia and is engaged in Boston, where he lives, in general practice. He married in Nova Scotia, Eunice Waterman.
ARTHUR F. MEANS, son of John W. and Sophia Romney (Wells) Means, was born in Boston September 17, 1857, and studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Charles T. Gallagher. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in September, 1879. He was in the Boston Common Council in 1881, representative in
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1882-3, and is president of the Alumni of the Boston University Law School. He is engaged in equity, insolveney and general practice. He married Katie A. Snow, April 13, 1881, in Boston, where he resides.
JOHN MCKINSTRY MERRIAM, son of Adolphus and Caroline (Mckinstry) Merriam, was born in Southbridge, Mass., September 20, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of George F. Hoar, of Worcester, and in that of Shattuck & Munroe, of Boston, and was admit- ted to the bar in Boston in July, 1890. He has been clerk of the committee of the United States Senate on Privileges and Elections. He married Annie Chapman Davenport, February 4, 1888, and has his home in South Framingham.
PLINY MERRICK, son of Pliny and Ruth (Cutter) Merrick, was born in Brookfield, August 2, 1794. He fitted for college at Leicester and Monson academies and gradu- ated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law with Levi Lincoln in Worcester, and was admitted to the Worcester county bar in September, 1817. He practiced in Swan- sea and in Taunton, where he was a partner of Marcus Morton, senior, and in 1824 went to Worcester and was district attorney there until 1843. He was appointed in 1850 judge on the bench of the Common Pleas Court, and in 1853 an associate justice on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court. While on the bench he removed to Boston, and in 1864 resigned his seat. In 1853 he received the degree of LL.I). from Harvard and was an overseer of that college from 1852 to 1856. He was senior counsel, with Edward D. Sohier his junior, for John W. Webster, in his trial for murder. He married Mary Rebecca, daughter of Isaiah Thomas, and died in Boston February 1, 1867.
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