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anti-slavery movement. In 1860 he was chosen governor of Massachusetts, being in- augurated January 5, 1861, and continuing in office until January 5, 1866, on which day he delivered a valedictory address to the Legislature. It would be superfluous to narrate the career of Governor Andrew through the war, as indelibly stamped as it is on the pages of our history. The magnitude of his labors may be approximately measured by the fact that, during his administration, he was the author of letters, which, public and private, fill thirty-five thousand pages. After his retirement from the State House he was offered the presidency of Antioch College, which he declined. He married December 25, 1848, Eliza Jane, daughter of Charles Hersey, of Hingham, and died in Boston, October 30, 1867. His body was deposited in the cemetery in Hingham.
NATHAN HALE, son of Rev. Enoch Hale, a native of Coventry, Conn., and Octavia Throop, daughter of Benjamin Throop, was born in Westhampton, Mass., August 16, 1784, and was a nephew of Nathan Hale, one of the Revolutionary martyrs. He was fitted for college by his father and graduated at Williams College in 1804. He studied law in Troy, N. Y., and in Boston in the office of Peter Oxenbridge Thacher, and was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas Court in July, 1810, and to the Su- preme Judicial Court in March, 1813. While studying law he was instructor in math- ematies in Phillips Exeter Academy, from 1805 to 1810. In the early days of his practice in Boston he was assistant editor of the Weekly Messenger, and in 1814 be- came the proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, which was at that time the only daily paper in Boston. In 1825 he published a map of New England, in 1828 a pamphlet on the Protection policy, in 1820 was a member of the Constitu- tional Convention, was the first president of the Western Railroad from Worcester to Albany, a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Massachusetts His- tory Society, representative from 1819 to 1822, a senator from 1828 to 1830, and re- ceived the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1853. He married, September 16, 1816, Sarah Prescott, daughter of Rev. Oliver Everett and sister of Alexander Hill, and Edward Everett. He died in Boston, February 9, 1863.
BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS, son of Benjamin and Lois (Robbins) Curtis, was born in Watertown, Mass., November 4, 1809, and attended the school of Samuel Worcester at Newton, and Mr. Angier's school at Medford, graduating at Harvard in 1829. He graduated at the Harvard Law School and read law in the offices of John Nevers at Northfield, and Wells & Alvord at Greenfield, and was admitted to the Franklin county bar in 1832. He first settled in Northfield, but moved to Boston in 1834. In 1846 he was made a Fellow of Harvard, was a representative in 1851, and in the same year was appointed a judge of the United States Supreme Court, resigning in 1857. In 1871, with William M. Evarts and Caleb Cushing, he was appointed counsel for the United States before the Board of Arbitration at Geneva and declined, and in 1873 one of five commissioners to revise the city charter. In 1868 he was one of the counsel for An- drew Johnson in his impeachment trial. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1852, and from Brown University in 1857. He married. May 8, 1833. Eliza M. Woodward, of Hanover, N. H., who died in 1844, and January 5, 1846, Anna Wroe, daughter of Charles Pelham Curtis, of Boston, and August 29, 1861, Maria daughter of Jonathan Allen, of Pittsfield. He died September 15, 1874.
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GEORGE BEMIS, son of Seth and Sarah (Wheeler) Bemis, was born in Watertown, Mass., October 13, 1816, and fitted for Harvard with Mrs. Samuel Ripley, in Walt- ham, graduating at Harvard in 1835. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1839, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1839. He was associated with George T. Bigelow in the defense of Abner Rogers, and with Attorney-General John H. Clifford, for the government, in the trial of John W. Webster. He was the author of the following pamphlets: "Precedents of American Neutrality," "Hasty Recognition of Rebel Belligerency and Our Right to Complain of It," "American Neutrality, its Honorable Past, its Expedient Future," "Mr. Reverdy Johnson, the Alabama Negotiations and Their Just Repudiation by the Senate of the United States." He died in Nice, January 5, 1878, and bequeathed $50,000 to Harvard for the establishment of a professorship of public and international law.
JAMES SAVAGE, son of Habijah Savage and Elizabeth, daughter of John Tudor, was born in Boston, July 13, 1784, and fitted for college at Washington Academy, Machias, Me., and at Derby Academy, Hingham, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1803, and received a degree of LL. D. from his alma mater in 1841. He studied law in the office of Isaac Parker in Portland, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Jan- uary, 1807, after further study in the offices of Samuel Dexter and William Sullivan in Boston. He delivered the Boston Fourth of July oration in 1811, the Phi Beta ora- tion in 1812, was a representative in 1812 and 1821, a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1820, a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and Executive Council, of the Boston Common Council and Board of Aldermen. He revised the volume of charters and general laws of the Massachusetts Colony and the Province of Massachu- setts Bay, was overseer of Harvard from 1838 to 1853, librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society from 1814 to 1818, its treasurer from 1820 to 1839, its president from 1841 to 1855, the founder of the Provident Institution for Savings in the town of Bos- ton in 1817, and its secretary, treasurer, vice-president and president through a period of forty-five years. He married in April, 1823, Elizabeth Otis, daughter of George Stillman, of Machias, Me., and widow of James Otis Lincoln, of Hingham, and died March 8, 1873.
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, son of Thomas Motley and Anna, daughter of Rev. John Lothrop, was born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814, and attended the Boston Latin School, Green's School at Jamaica Plain, and the Round Hill School at North- hampton. He graduated at Harvard in 1831, and afterwards studied at the Univer- sities of Berlin and Gottingen. In 1839 he published "Morton's Hope;" in 1841 he was secretary of legation with Mr. Todd, minister to Russia; in 1845-7-9 he wrote articles for the North American Review on Russia, on Balzac and on the polity of the Puritans, and in 1849 published " Merry Mount." The " History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic" followed, then the "History of the United Netherlands," and later the "Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland, with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War." He was appointed by President Lincoln minister to Austria in 1861, and in 1869 by President Grant minister to England. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1860, and honorary degrees from Cambridge and Oxford and other universities. He married March 2, 1837, Mary Elizabeth Benjamin, and died near Dorchester, England, May 29, 1877.
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PARK BENJAMIN Was born in Demerara, August 14, 1809. He entered Harvard, where he remained two years, and then entered Trinity College, where he graduated in 1829. He studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1834. In 1837 he removed to New York and devoted his time to literary pursuits. He was at vari- ous times associated editorially with the New England Magazine, the American Monthly Magazine, the New Yorker, the Brother Jonathan, the New World, the Western Continent, and the American Mail. He died in New York, Septem- ber 12, 1864.
JOEL PARKER Was born in Jaffrey, N. H., January 25, 1795, and graduated at Dart- mouth in 1811. He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in 1815, and in 1833 was appointed judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire. From 1838 to 1848 he was chief justice, and at a later date was appointed professor in the Harvard Law School. He resigned in 1868, and died August 17, 1875. He was representative two years in New Hampshire, and in both that State and Massachusetts was on a com- mission to revise the statutes. He was professor of medical jurisprudence at Dart- mouth from 1845 to 1857, and occupied the same position in the Columbia Law School in Washington. He received the degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth and Harvard in 1848. He married Mary M. Parker.
THERON METCALF, son of Hanan and Mary (Allen) Metcalf, was born in Franklin, Mass., October 16, 1784. He was educated at the public schools and at Brown Uni- versity, from which he graduated in 1805. He studied law with Mr. Bacon in Can- terbury, Conn., and at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., then the only law school in the United States, and established by Tappan Reeve, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut. He was admitted to the bar in Connecticut, and after a year's further study with Seth Hastings, of Mendon, he was admitted to the Norfolk bar in Dedham by the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in September, 1808, and by the Su- preme Judicial Court in 1811. After a year's practice in Franklin, Mass., he moved to Dedham in October, 1809, and on the 5th of November in that year married Julia, daughter of Uriah Tracey, late United States senator from Connecticut. In April, 1817, he was made county attorney for Norfolk, and held the office twelve years. He was representative in 1831, '33-4, and senator in 1835. He at one time edited the Dedham Gazette, and in October, 1828, opened a law school in Dedham, and among his students were John H. Clifford and Seth Ames. In December, 1839, he was ap- pointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, and moved to Bos- ton. His reports fill thirteen volumes and cover a period from the Suffolk March term, 1840, to the Essex November term, 1847. He was appointed judge of the Su- preme Judicial Court, February 25, 1848, and served until 1865, when he resigned. He received the degree of LL. D. from Brown in 1844, and from Harvard in 1848. He died in Boston, November 13, 1875.
NATHANIEL INGERSOLL BOWDITCH, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Ingersoll) Bowditch, was born in Salem, June 17, 1805, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He read law in the office of Benjamin R. Nichols, of Salem, and was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas Court in 1825, and to the Supreme Judicial Court January 12, 1828, after a further course of study in the office of William Prescott. After admission he was for a tinie associated with Franklin Dexter, but finally made conveyancing a specialty, and in that department won a notable reputation. He published Suffolk
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Surnames in 1857. He married, in 1835, Elizabeth, daughter of Ebenezer Francis, and died April 16, 1861.
WILLIAM SMITH SHAW, son of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Smith) Shaw, was born in Haverhill, August 12, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1798. After leaving col- lege he was private secretary of John Adams, and afterwards studied law in the office of William Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1804. He was the editor of The Monthly Anthology, which was issued from 1803 to 1811. In 1806 he was appointed clerk of the United States District Court for Massachusetts, and held the office twelve years. He died in Boston unmarried, April 25, 1826.
BORDMAN HALL, son of Joseph F. and Mary M. Hall, was born in Bangor, Me., April 18, 1856, and was educated at Colby University and the Boston University Law School. He continued his law studies with William H. Mclellan, attorney general of Maine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 15, 1880. He has been assistant United States attorney, and a member of the Boston School Board. He has been entrusted with the defense in many important criminal cases and has always conducted it with skill and almost unvaried success. Among these cases were the United States vs. Edward J. Reed, Commonwealth vs. Bostwick, Common- wealth vs. Nelson, Commonwealth vs. Wilson, which won for him a substantial repu- tation. He lives in East Boston.
CHARLES F. HALL, son of William M. and Ann Elizabeth Hall, was born in Sebago, Me., and was educated at Colby University, Waterville, Me. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of William Gaston in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He married Ellen C. Burgess August 12, 1884, and lives in Dorchester.
JAMES MILTON HALL, son of James Bartlett and Elvira (Clement) Hall, was born in Harverhill, Mass., December 29, 1861, and was educated at the public schools and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of Prince & Peabody in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886. He lives in Boston.
ABRAHAM S. COHEN, son of Mendell and Pauline Cohen, was born in Liverpool, England, March 25, 1863, and after attending the Boston University studied law in the offices of J. W. Pickering, John Herbert and John E. Wetherbee in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He married Minnie Levi in Boston.
WALTER CHANNING BURBANK, son of Robert I. and Elizabeth W. Burbank, was born in Boston June 9, 1865, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard College, graduating in 1887. He studied law in the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1889. He makes a specialty in his practice of real estate and probate cases. He married Louise V. Roche in New York October 23, 1890.
EDWARD FULLER HODGES, son of Harry and Anne Fuller Hodges, of Clarendon, Vt., was born January 3, 1816, and graduated at Middlebury College in 1835. He studied law with Judge Bennett in Vermont and afterwards in Maine, where he was admitted to the bar. He returned to Vermont in 1845 and practiced law in Rutland until 1846, when he moved to Boston and was there admitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1846. He remained in Boston until 1863, when he opened an office in New
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York city, retaining also his office in Boston. In November, 1866, he resumed his Boston practice and was council in many important cases connected with revolver, telegraph, sewing machine and Goodyear rubber patents, and with the Sudbury River flowage. He married at Bangor, Me., July 7, 1845, Anne Frances, daughter of Willian Hammatt, and died in Boston February 28, 1883.
HENRY M. AYERS, son of Charles W. and Amelia B. Ayers, was born in Philadel- phia April 3, 1864, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He studied law at the Har- vard Law School and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1888. He has been conspicuously connected with the oppo- sition to legislation against oleomargarine. He married Mary C. Warren, daughter of William F. Warren, president of Boston University, September 3, 1890, and lives at Wilbraham.
FRANK BREWSTER, a descendant of Elder William Brewster and son of Benjamin and Annie W. Brewster, was born in Montreal, Canada, November 28, 1857, and was edu- cated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of William C. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the summer of 1883. He is an instructor at the Harvard Law School on the peculiarities of Massachusetts Law and Practice.
ALFRED STEVENS HALL, son of Edward and Frances A. (Tuttle) Hall, was born in West Westminster, Vt., April 14, 1850, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1878. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the offices of Cross & Burnham in Man- chester, N. H., and of T. L. Livermore and Nehemiah C. Berry in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 20, 1875. He has held town offices in Winchester, where he resides, and has been connected with the Vermont Central Railroad litigation. He married Annette M. Hitchcock at Putney, Vt., October 18, 1876, who died September 26, 1887.
EDWIN B. HALE, son of Aaron and Mary Hale, was born in Orford, N. H., June 16, 1839, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H., and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1865. He attended the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1875. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1878-9, and was, for a few years, superintendent of public schools in Cambridge, where he resides. He is not married.
BENJAMIN A. LOCKHART, son of Ephraim and Lucy Lockhart, was born in Horton, Nova Scotia, and was educated at Acadia College and Dalhousie College, Nova Scotia, and at the Boston University Law School. He also studied in Boston in the office of Bennett & Burbank, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1890. He married Leonora M. Martin, widow of William H. Martin, at Cambridgeport, February 8, 1892, and makes Cambridgeport his home.
WILLIAM CODDINGTON Was born in England in 1601 and came to Massachusetts with Winthrop in 1630. He was an assistant from 1629 to 1636, and in 1638 went to Rhode Island, where, in 1640, he was chosen governor. After the incorporation of the Providence Plantations he was made president in 1648, but did not enter upon his duties. In 1649 he went to England and secured a commission to govern the islands
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of Rhode Island and Conanicut. He finally united with the Colony and died No- vember 1, 1678.
ROGER LUDLOW was born in England. He was deputy governor in 1634, and as- sistant from 1629 to 1633. He was a lawyer and in 1635 removed to Connectieut. In 1654 he moved to Virginia and died there not many years after.
SIR RICHARD SALTONSTALL, son of Samuel and Anne Ramsden Saltonstall, was bap- tized at Ilalifax, England, April 4, 1586, and was lord of the manor at Ledsham. Ile married three wives: Grace, daughter of Robert Kaye, of Woodsome; second, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas West, and third, Martha Wilford. He was one of the original patentees of the Massachusetts Colony and after his first wife died he came to New England with Winthrop in 1630, bringing his children. He was an as- sistant from 1629 to 1633. He began the settlement of Watertown, returned to Eng- land in 1631 and died about 1658 or 1659, giving in his will a legacy to Harvard College.
RICHARD SALTONSTALL, son of Sir Richard by his first wife, was born at Woodsome, county of York, England, in 1610, and came to New England with his father in 1630 and returned with him to England in 1631. He married in England about 1633 Mu- riel, daughter of Brampton and Muriel (Sedley) Gurdon, of Assington, Suffolk, and again came to New England in 1635 and settled in Ipswich. He was an assistant from 1637 to 1649 and again in 1664. He died on a visit to England at Huline, April 29, 1694.
NATHANIEL SALTONSTALL, son of Richard and Muriel Saltonstall, was born in Ips- wich in 1639. He was an assistant from 1679 to 1686. He was appointed by Gov- ernor William Phipps one of the judges of the Oyer and Terminer Court organized in 1692 to try the witches and refused to serve. He was named in the Provincial Charter as one of the Council and continued a member until 1694. He grad- uated at Harvard in 1659 and settled in Haverhill. In 1702 he was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Essex county and remained on the bench until his death, which occurred May 21, 1707. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Ward, of Haverhill.
RICHARD SALTONSTALL, son of Richard and Mehitable (Wainwright) Saltonstall, was born in Haverhill, June 24, 1703, and graduated at Harvard in 1722. He was a mem- ber of the Council from 1743 to 1745, and was a judge of the Superior Court of Judica- ture from December 29, 1736, till his death, October 20, 1756. He had three wives, the last of whom was Mary, daughter of Elisha Cooke.
LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, son of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall and Anna, his wife, who was the daughter of Samuel White, of Haverhill, was born in Haverhill, June 13, 1783. He was fitted at Phillips Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 1802, receiving from his Alma Mater a degree of LL. D. in 1838, a degree of A. B. from Yale in 1802, and of A. M. from Bowdoin in 1806. He studied law with Ichabod Tucker in Haverhill and with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1806 and to the Suffolk bar in the same year. He was a member of the Massachit- setts Senate and its president in 1831, and also a member of the House of Represent- atives. He was the first Mayor of Salem and in 1838 was chosen member of Congress, serving until 1843. He was president of the Bible Society, of the Essex Agricultural
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Society, of the Essex Bar Association, a member of the Massachusetts Historical Soci- ety, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Harvard Board of Over- seers. He married, March 7, 1811, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Sanders, of Salem, and died in Salem, May 8, 1845.
LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, son of Leverett and Mary Elizabeth (Sanders) Saltonstall, was born in Salem, March 16, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. In 1847 he graduated at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October 28, 1850. In 1854 he was on the staff of Governor Emory Washburn. In 1862 he re- tired from the law, but continued conspicuous in public affairs. From 1876 to 1889 he was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a portion of the time its presi- dent. In 1876 he was appointed a commissioner of Massachusetts to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and from December, 1885, to February, 1890, he was col- lector of the port of Boston. He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and has been president of the Unitarian Club. He married in Salem, October 19, 1854, Rose S., daughter of John Clarke and Harriet (Rose) Lee, and has his residence at Chestnut Hill near Boston.
RICHARD MIDDLECOTT SALTONSTALL, son of Leverett and Rose (Lee) Saltonstall, was born at Chestnut Hill near Boston, October 28, 1859. Among his distinguished ancestors was Elisha Cooke, whose wife, Jane Middlecott, was a great-grand- daughter of Governor Edward Winslow. She was also great-grand-daughter of Governor John Leverett. Thus it will be seen from whom his father and grandfather took their names and from whom he took his middle name. He graduated at Harvard in 1880 and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of William Caleb Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1884. He married at Medford, October 17, 1891, Eleanor, daughter of Peter C. Brooks, and lives at Chestnut Hill.
EZRA WESTON SAMPSON, son of Sylvanus and Sylvia (Church) Sampson, was born in Duxbury, December 1, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 29, 1836, and began practice in Braintree. On the death of Jairus Ware he was appointed clerk of the courts in Norfolk county and served till his death at Dedham, January 15, 1867. He married, October 8, 1820, Selina Wads- worth, of Duxbury.
JOHN HENRY TAFF, son of Thomas and Mary F. (Burke) Taff, was born in Boston August 20, 1857, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard Col- lege. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles F. Donnelly in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He married Sarah J. Welch in Boston August 20, 1884, and lives in Boston.
EUGENE TAPPAN, son of Daniel Dana and Abigail (Marsh) Tappan, was born in Marshfield, Mass., July 4, 1840, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H., and at Williams College. He read law with Bacon & Aldrich in Worcester, and was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1871. He married, Alice R. Crosby, at Centreville, in Barnstable, Mass., December 24, 1872, and lives in Win- chester.
JOHN HENRY TAYLOR, son of Hugh and Mary J. Taylor, was born in Boston October 13, 1853, and was educated in the public schools. He read law with Causten
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Browne and Jabez S. Holmes in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 6, 1875. He has been commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and examiner in equity for the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District. He married, Annie B. Middleby in Boston, September 1, 1874, and lives in Chelsea.
JOHN OSCAR TEELE, son of Samuel and Ellen Chase Teele, was born in Wilmot, N. H., July 18, 1839, and was educated at the New Hampton and New London Academies, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1878, receiving a degree later in conse- quence of his being in New Orleans when the war broke out. He studied law with George W. Nesmith, Austin F. Pike and Daniel Barnard in Franklin, N. H., and in New Orleans in 1861-2. He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in 1863, and in Massachusetts in the same year, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1886-7. He married, February 28, 1868, at Waltham, Mass., Mary P. Smith, and lives in Boston.
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