USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > Professional and industrial history of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Volume I > Part 19
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87
INCREASE NOWELL was born in England and came to Massachusetts in 1630. He was an assistant from the time of his appointment in England in 1629 to 1655, secretary of the Colony from 1639 to 1649, and at one time ruling elder of the church in Charlestown. He died in Boston, November 1, 1655.
SAMUEL NOWELL, son of the above, was born in Boston November 12, 1634, and graduated at Harvard in 1653. He was an assistant from 1680 to 1686, treasurer of Harvard from 1682 to 1686, and went to England as an agent of the Colony in 1688, and died in London in September of that year.
I68
HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.
WILLIAM PYNCHON Was born in Springfield, England, in 1590, and was one of the assistants appointed by the crown. He continued in office until 1636, and served again from 1642 to 1650. In 1652 he went to England and died in Wraysbury, October 29, 1662.
CHARLES EUSTIS HUBBARD, Son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Coit) Hubbard, was born in Boston, August 7, 1842, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Vale College, where he graduated in 1862. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Dwight Foster and Henry W. Paine in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 27, 1866. Ile married Caroline D. Tracy in Boston in 1872, and lives in Cambridge.
JAMES HUMPHREY, son of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Jones) Humphrey, was born in Weymouth, Mass., January 20, 1819, and was educated at the Derby Academy, at Hingham and Phillips Andover Academy. He studied law in Boston with D. W. Gooch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1855. He was a representative in 1852 and 1869, senator in 1872, county commissioner from 1875 to 1882, and has been jus- tice since 1882 of the East Norfolk District Court. He married at Hingham, Decem- ber 23, 1860, Susan Humphrey Cushing, and has his residence in Weymouth.
CHARLES PHELPS HUNTINGTON, son of Rev. Dana and Elizabeth W. (Phelps) Hunt- ington, was born in Litchfield, Conn., May 24, 1802, and was fitted at the Hopkins Academy in Hadley for Harvard, where he graduated in 1822. He studied law at the law school in Northampton, and was admitted to the bar in Hampshire county; he began practice in Northampton, but removed to Boston and was appointed in 1855 a justice of the Superior Court of Suffolk county, which office he held until the court was abolished in 1859. He married first Helen Sophia Mills, who died March 3, 1844, and second, January 2, 1847, Ellen, daughter of David Greenough.
WINFIELD SCOTT HUTCHINSON, son of Stephen D. and Mary (Atkinson) Hutchinson, was born in Buckfield, Me., May 27, 1845, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 186. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Peleg W. Chandler, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1873. He mar- ried Adelaide S. Berry, of Brunswick, Me., January 1, 1870, and lives in Newton.
HENRY DWIGHT HVDE, son of Benjamin D. and Eveline (Wright) Hyde, was born in Southbridge, Mass., April 27, 1838, and graduated at Amherst in 1861. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of George S. Hillard, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar January 4, 1864. He married Luran Charles at Brimfield, October 9, 1866, and lives in Boston.
LOUIS FISKE HYDE, son of Alvin and Josephine (Manning) Hyde, was born in War- ren, Mass., June 20, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of H. D. Hyde, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He lives in Boston.
GEORGE WEST JACKSON, son of William F. and Abby C. (West) Jackson, was born in Roxbury, Mass., January 8, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.
CHARLES WALTER JANES, son of Walter and Catherine C. (Guild) Janes, was born in Medfield, Mass., April 2, 1858, and was educated in the English High and other
Marcellus boggan
169
BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.
schools in Boston. He read law with Augustus Russ and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1888. He makes mercantile law a specialty. His residence is in Boston.
HARRY JAMES JAQUITH, son of Benjamin F. and Harriet A. Jaquith, was born in Boston, April 14, 1855, and was educated at the Institute of Technology in Boston. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He married Mary A. H. Taylor at Greenfield Hill, Conn., in 1882, and resides at Wellesley.
EUGENE M. JOHNSON, son of George L. and Sarah (Osgood) Johnson, was born in Boston, June 4, 1845, and was educated in the Lynn public schools for Harvard, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law at the Albany Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 11, 1871. He married Miss Nora J. Brown.
HENRY AUGUSTUS JOHNSON, son of John and Harriet Johnson, was born in Fair- haven, Mass., February 17, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1849 or 1850. He has held various offices of trust, and contributed frequently to magazines and daily journals. He married Elizabeth S. Hitch and lives in Braintree.
MOSES G. HOWE, son of Moses and Frances D. Howe, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., August 13, 1826, and was educated at the Phillips Andover Academy. He read law with Ithamer H. Beard in Lowell and was admitted to the bar there July 18, 1851. He has been an alderman in Cambridge, where he lives, and married in 1857, at Lowell, Lydia W. Varnum.
WILLIAM RUSSELL HOWLAND, son of William and Caroline G. (Russell) Howland, was born in Lynn, Mass., February 19, 1863, and attended the Lynn High School. He entered Harvard, but left college on account of sickness and did not graduate. He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1885, and read law also in the office of Morse & Allen in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1886. He has been two years a member of the Common Council in Cambridge, where he lives, and is now a member of the School Board.
EDWARD F. HAYNES Was born in Boston, February 14, 1858, and attended the pub- lic schools and Boston College. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and Bos- ton University Law School, graduating from the last in 1882. He was a representa- tive in 1884.
HENRY BLATCHFORD HUBBARD, son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Coit) Hubbard, was born in Boston, January 8, 1833, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1854. He read law with his brother, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and at the Harvard Law School, but may not have been admitted to the bar. He was clerk, engineer and treasurer of the Cambridge Water Works until 1859, when he was attached to the coast survey as magnetic and astronomic assistant. While visiting his brother in Chicago he died there February 13, 1862.
SAMUEL HUBBARD, born in Boston, June 2, 1785, graduated at Yale in 1802. He first practiced in Biddeford, Me., but came to Boston in 1810, and was associated in busi- ness with Charles Jackson. In 1842 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and continued on the bench until his death in Boston, Deceniber 24, 1847.
NATHANIEL DEAN HUBBARD, son of Henry and Sally (Dean) Hubbard, was born in Charlestown, N. H., January 14, 1821, and fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Acad-
22
170
HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.
emy and Leicester Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1840, and after a course of study in the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the bar May 10, 1844. In 1852 he abandoned the law and joined his brother, Aaron D. Hubbard, in the banking business in Boston, with the firm name of Hubbard Brothers. He married, April 23, 1863, Anne B., daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, D. D., and died in Boston, October 7, 1865.
WOODWARD HUDSON, son of Frederic and Eliza Woodward Hudson, was born in New York city, January 25, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 22, 1882. 1 Fe married Bessie Van Mater Keyes at Concord, Mass., August 31, 1880, and lives in Concord.
GEORGE LEWIS HUNTRESS, son of James Lewis and Harriet Paige Huntress, was born in Lowell, Mass., April 4, 1848, and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy and Yale College, from which he graduated in 1870. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Ives & Lincoln in Boston, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1881 and 1882. He married Julia A. Poole at Metuchen, N. J., Sep- tember 30, 1875, and lives in Winchester.
FREDERICK ELLSWORTH HURD, son of George A. and Laura A. Hurd, was born in Wolfboro', N. H., February 25, 1861, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and the Boston University. He read law in Boston with John Hardy and Samuel J. Elder, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1884. He is assistant district attorney for Suffolk, and lives in Boston.
EDWARD J. JENKINS, son of John and Sabina Jenkins, was born in London, Eng- land, December 20, 1854, and coming to America an infant was educated in the Bos- ton public schools. He studied law in the Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1880, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 30, 1881, and to bar of the United States Court December 23, 1881. He has been a member of the Boston School Board and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa- tives in 1877-79; he was a commissioner of insolvency from 1879 to 1885, and in 1881 was the Democratic candidate for elerk of the Superior Civil Court. In 1885-6, '88, he was a member of the Boston Common Council, and was its president during the whole period of his membership. In 1885 he was trustee of the Public Library and in 1887 a member of the Massachusetts Senate. While in the Legislature he was a consistent and earnest friend of labor and the laboring man, and supported by speech and vote every measure calculated to promote in the highest degree the welfare of the Commonwealth. The abolition of the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting, the abandonment of the contract system of labor, the regulation of the liabilities of em- ployers for compensation for personal injuries of employees, the operation of the East Boston ferries by the city, the regulation of the observance of the Lord's day to conform to present social conditions, the establishment of Labor Day as a legal holi- day, the regulation of the hours of labor, the prevention of fraud at primary meet- ings and elections, the creation of a Board of Public Works for the city of Boston, the liberal construction of public parks, the preference of discharged soldiers and sailors in appointments to office, and generous appropriations for charitable purposes, all enlisted his sympathy and secured his support and vote. Mr. Jenkins is in the vigor of manhood with a promise of professional and political advancement.
I71
BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.
WILLIAM WHITTEM JENNESS, son of Joseph and Hannah Whittem, was born in Ports- month, N. H., August 25, 1861, and was educated at the Pittsfield, N. H., Academy, Bates College, Lewiston, Me, and the Boston University Law School. He con- tinued his law studies with Thomas Cogswell at Gilmanton, N. H., and was ad- mitted to the bar in Concord, N. H., July 19, 1888, and in Boston July 12, 1888. He lives in Quincy, Mass.
CHARLES FRANCIS JENNEY, son of Charles E. and Elvira F. (Clark) Jenney, was born in Middelboro', Mass., September 16, 1860, and was educated at the public schools and at the Boston University Law School. He further continued his law studies in the office of James E. Cotter at Hyde Park, and was admitted to the Nor- folk county bar October 4, 1882. He has been representative, trustee of the Public Library in Hyde Park, where he lives, and where he married Mary E. Bruce, October 12, 1886.
BYRON B. JOHNSON, son of Charles and Maria W. Johnson, was born in Needham, Mass., November 30, 1833, and was educated in the Weston public schools, the Law- rence Academy at Groton and the Boston Law School, being the oldest member of the first class of that school. Subsequently, while pursuing his law studies, he was employed for nearly six years as an agent of the State, in caring for all cases of juvenile offenders in the courts, and was admitted to the bar in Cambridge, June 25, 1873. From 1861 to '63 he was United States mail agent, and from 1863 to '66 chief examiner of returns in the Ordnance Bureau, United States War Department, assist- ant State visiting agent from 1869 to '14, town auditor of Waltham, Mass., two years, chief deputy United States marshal from 1879 to '83, first mayor of Waltham in 1885, member of the Waltham School Board from 1888 to '92, and rechosen in 1892 for three years. He is also a trustee of the Waltham Public Library. He married Louisa H. Cutter at Weston, Mass., May 4, 1856, and lives in Waltham.
EDWARD F. JOHNSON, son of Noah and Letitia Margaret (Claggett) Johnson, was born in Hollis, N. H., October 21, 1842, and was fitted by David Crosby for Dart- mouth, where he graduated in 1864. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, May 11, 1866. He is judge of the Police Court of Marlboro'. He married Belle G. Carleton at Lynn, Mass., June 1, 1870, and lives in Marlboro'.
RALPH EDGAR JOSLIN, son of James Thomas and Annie C. (Burrage) Joslin, was born in Marlboro', Mass., August 26, 1864. He fitted at the High and other schools of Hudson for Tufts College, from which he graduated in 1886. He read law in the office of James T. Joslin in Hudson and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1888. Ile has been a mem- ber of the Hudson School Board since 1890, and practices in Boston and Hudson, a member of the firm of J. T. & R. E. Joslin. He is the author of a historical sketch of Hudson and other sketches. He married at Hudson, where he lives, February S. 1892, Fanny Melissa, daughter of George W. and Melissa A. (Metcalf) Davis.
FRED JOY, son of Albion K. P. and Clara A. Joy, was born in Winchester, Mass., July 8, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law with Henry W. Paine in Boston and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 8, 1884. He resides in Winchester.
172
HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.
FRANK WARTON KAAN, son of George and Maria Warton Kaan, was born in Medford, September 11, 1861, and was educated in the Somerville public schools and at Har- vard in the class of 1883. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1887. He lives in Somerville.
PATRICK M. KEATING Was born in Springfield, Mass., March 15, 1860, and was edu- eated at the Houghton Grammar School and at Springfield High School, and at Har- vard in the class of 1883. He read law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Thomas J. Gargan in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885.
FRANK MERRIAM KEEZER, son of David and Henrietta Keezer, was born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., April 10, 1868, and was educated at the Boston public schools and the Boston University. He read law with Wilbur H. Powers in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1890. He has been assistant elerk of the West Roxbury Municipal Court and a contributor of legal artieles to magazines and the daily jour- nals. He married in West Roxbury, April 29, 1891, Martha M. Whittemore and lives in Dorchester.
EDWARD FRANCIS JOHNSON, son of John Johnson, was born in Woburn, October 22, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November 1881. He was the first mayor of Woburn and is justice of the Fourth Eastern Middlesex District Court. He has pub- lished a record of Woburn births, deaths and marriages from 1640 to 1872. He mar- ried, September 26, 1882, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Mary (Tidd) Simonds, and lives in Woburn.
GEORGE TYLER BIGELOW, son of Tyler and Clara, daughter of Colonel Timothy Bigelow, of Boston, was born in Watertown, October 6, 1810, and was fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1829. After leaving college he was nearly a year a private tutor in the family of Henry Vernon Somerville at Bloomsbury, Md., and then returned to Watertown, where he read law with his father, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1833, after a short further period of study in the office of Charles G. Loring, of Boston. He began prae- tice in Watertown with his father, and remained there eighteen months, moving to Boston in June, 1835. In Boston he acquired a fondness for military life, and in May, 1837, became ensign of the New England Guards, and afterwards eaptain and eol- onel in the Volunteer Militia, which last position he oceupied three years. In 1843 he associated himself in business with Manlius S. Clarke, and in 1844 defended Abner Rogers, indieted for the murder of the warden of the State Prison, and secured his acquittal on the ground of insanity. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives five years and senator in 1847-8. In 1848 he was appointed by Governor George N. Briggs judge of the Common Pleas Court, and in 1850 judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. In 1860, on the resignation of Lemuel Shaw, he was made chief justice by Governor Nathaniel P. Banks, and occupied that position until his resignation in 1868. After his resignation he was chosen aetuary of the Massa- chusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, and remained in that office until his death, April 12, 1878. He married, November 5, 1839, Anna, daughter of Edward Miller, of Quiney. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1853.
JOHN CHIPMAN GRAY, son of William and Elizabeth (Chipman) Gray, was born in Salem, December 26, 1793, and graduated from Harvard in 1811, receiving the degree
173
BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.
of LL. D. from his alma mater in 1856. He was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas Court July 6, 1815, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in December, 1818. IIe was the Phi Beta orator in 1821, the Fourth of July orator in Boston in 1822, a mem- ber of the Common Couneil from 1824 to 1828, representative in 1828-30, '34, '38-41,
- 43-44, '48, '52, a member of the Executive Couneil in 1832, a member of the Senate in 1835-36, 1845-46, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and an overseer of Harvard College from 1847 to 1854. He married Elizabeth Pickering, daughter of Samuel P. and Rebecca Russell (Lowell) Gardner, of Boston, and died in Boston March 3, 1881.
HENRY MORRIS, son of Oliver Bliss Morris, was born in Springfield, Mass., in 1814, and graduated at Amherst College in 1832. He was admitted to the bar in 1835, and after studying with his father settled in Springfield. In 1855 he was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court and remained on the bench until the court was abolished in 1859. He married Mary Wariner May 16, 1837, and died at his home in Springfield June 4, 1888.
FRANCIS EDWARD PARKER, son of Rev. Dr. Nathan Parker, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., July 23, 1821, and fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1841 and became usher in Boston Latin School. In 1845 he graduated at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1846, and associated himself with J. Eliot Cabot. He was a member of the Senate in 1865. He died January 18, 1886.
LUCIUS MANLIUS SARGENT, son of Daniel Sargent, was born in Boston June 25, 1786. He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy and entered Harvard in 1804. He did not graduate with his class, but received in 1842 the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He studied law with Samuel Dexter, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 14, 1815. He published a volume of verse in 1813, and was the author of a very interesting series of articles in the Boston Transcript entitled " Dealings with the dead, by a sexton of the old school." He married, April 3, 1816, Mary, daughter of Barnabas Binney, of Philadelphia, and for a second wife in 1825 Sarah Cutter, daughter of Samuel Dunn, of Boston. He died in West Roxbury June 6, 1867.
HENRY WINTHROP SARGENT, son of Henry Sargent, was born in Boston November 26, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law in Boston and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1833. He moved to New York and entered the banking business, retiring in 1839 to his estates on the Hudson, and dying in Fish- kill-on-the-Hudson November 10, 1882.
GEORGE DEXTER, son of Edmund and Mary Ann (Dellinger) Dexter, of Fulton, ()., was born in Fulton July 18, 1838, and graduated at Harvard in 1858. He graduated also from the Harvard Law School in 1860, and became a resident graduate at Cam- bridge. It is not known with certainty whether he became a member of the bar. In May, 1864, he enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Unattached Regiment, in 1869 was appointed tutor of modern languages at Harvard, and in 1870 steward of the college, resigning the next year. He married, September 17, 1868, Lucy Waterston, daughter of Charles Deane, of Cambridge, and died at Santa Barbara, December 18, 1883.
GEORGE STILLMAN HILLARD, son of John and Sarah (Stillman) Hillard, was born in Machias, Me., September 22, 1808, and received his early education at the Derby Acad- emy in Hingham, Mass., and the Boston Latin School. He graduated at Ilarvard in
174
HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.
1828, and studied law at Northampton and in the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles P. Curtis, of Boston. He was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in April, 1833, and to the Supreme Judicial Court April 3, 1835. He became early in his career editor of the Christian Register and of the Jurist. In 1835 he was repre- sentative, in the Common Council in 1845-47, and the last two years its president ; a member of the Senate in 1850, of the Constitutional Convention in 1853 and in that year appointed city solicitor, which office he held two years; in 1868 he was appointed United States attorney and served till 1871, when he became the senior member of the firm of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson. He was a trustee of the Boston Public Library from April 11, 1872, to November 23, 1876; the Boston Fourth of July orator in 1835, and the Phi Beta orator in 1843. He received the degree of LL. D from Trinity Col- lege in 1857. He married Susan Tracey, daughter of Judge Samuel Howe, of North- ampton, and died in Brookline January 21, 1879.
JAMES WARREN, son of James and Penelope (Winslow) Warren, was born in Plym- outh September 28,1726. He succeeded Dr. Joseph Warren as president of Provincial Congress, and was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Judieature in 1726, but never took his seat. He married in 1754 Mercy, daughter of James Otis, of Barn- stable, and sister of James Otis the orator. He died in Plymouth November 27, 1808.
CHARLES HENRY WARREN, son of Henry and Mary (Winslow) Warren, was born in Plymouth, September 29, 1798, and fitted for college at the Sandwich Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law with Joshua Thomas in Plymouth and Levi Lincoln, of Worcester, and was admitted to the Plymouth bar. He began practice in New Bedford with Lemuel Williams, continuing with Thomas Dawes Elliot, and from 1832 to 1839 was district attorney for the five southern counties of Massachusetts. In October, 1839, he was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court and resigned in 1844, when he moved to Boston and associated himself in the practice of law with Augustus H. Fiske and Benjamin Rand. He remained in practice only two years, being engaged during that time in a successful defense of Rev. Joy H. Fairchild, indicted and tried for adultery. In 1846 he was chosen president of the Boston and Providence Railroad, and resigned in 1867. He was a member of the Senate and its president in 1851, and president of the Pilgrim Society from 1845 to 1852. He married December 27, 1825, Abby, daughter of Barnabas and Eunice Dennie (Burr) Hedge, of Plymouth, and died in Plymouth, to which place he moved in July, 1871, on the 29th of June, 1874. The writer of this sketch was informed by Judge Warren that as a judge he took no notes, and as a lawyer never had a brief, and that as district attorney he never lost an indictment, and only in two instances failed to convict. His wonderfully retentive memory enabled him to recall with verbal accuracy the testimony of witnesses, and to build on it his argument or charge, with a readiness which repeated references to notes would have only served to check.
JOHN ALBION ANDREW, son of Jonathan and Nancy Green (Pierce) Andrew, was born in Windhanı, Me., May 31, 1818. He received his early education at the Gor- ham Academy, under Rev. Reuben Nason, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1837. He studied law in the office of Henry H. Fuller, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar October 26, 1840. He held no office until 1859, when he represented Boston in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Up to that time he had been devoted to his business, taking occasional interest in pelitics and closely identified with the
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.