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GEORGE THACHER, son of Peter, was born in Yarmouth, Mass., April 12, 1754, and graduated at Harvard in 1776. He studied law with Shearjashub Bourne in Barn- stable, was admitted to the bar in 1778, and began practice in York, Me. In 1782 he moved to Biddeford. He was a member of Congress from 1788 to 1801, and a district judge in Maine. He was appointed in 1801 judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and continued on the bench until January, 1824, when he resigned. He was a member of the convention in 1819 which framed the constitution of Maine. He married Mary, daughter of Samuel Phillips Savage, of Weston, Mass., and died in Biddeford Me., April 6, 1824.
JOSEPH STEVENS BUCKMINSTER THACHER, son of Peter Oxenbridge and Charlotte I. (McDonough) Thacher, was born in Boston May 11, 1812, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He attended the Harvard Law School and began practice in Boston. In 1830 he moved to Natchez and became judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, hold- ing the office until his death at Natchez November 30, 1867,
OXENBRIDGE THIACHER, son of Oxenbridge Thacher, was born in Milton in 1720, and graduated in Harvard in 1738. He'first studied divinity and afterwards law, and became a leading lawyer of his town. He was a representative from 1763 to his death, which took place in Boston July 8, 1765.
SYLVANUS M. THOMAS, son of Sylvanus and Agnes Jackson Thomas, was born in New Bedford, March 23, 1850, and graduated at Brown University, 1871. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Taunton in January, 1874, where he has been city solicitor three years. He married at Taunton, where he lives, Emily Hayman, November 18, 1891.
SAMUEL THATCHER Was born in Boston July 1, 1776, and graduated at Harvard in 1793. He was admitted to the bar before the close of the last century, and was a member of Congress from 1803 to 1805. He was many years a representative and overseer at Harvard. He died in Boston July 18, 1872.
BENJAMIN BUSSEY THATCHER, Son of Samuel, was born in Warren, Me., October 8, 1809, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1826. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831, but devoted himself chiefly to literature. He published, besides fugitive poems and articles in the magazines, a " Biography of North American Indians," "Memoirs of
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Phillis Wheatley," " Memoir of S. Osgood Wright," " Tales of the American Revolu- tion," etc. He died in Boston July 14, 1840.
CHARLES SEDGWICK RACKERMAN, son of Frederick W. and Elizabeth D. Rackerman, was born in Lenox, Mass., June 21, 1857, and was educated at the Lenox High School, the Cambridge High School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied law with Francis V. Balch in Boston, at the Harvard Law School and the Boston Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881. He is a vice- president of the Conveyancer's Title Insurance Company and a director in the Water Company of Milton, where he lives. Mr. Rackerman is grandson of Charles Sedg- wick, the clerk of the courts in Berkshire county for thirty years, and great-grandson of Theodore Sedgwick, a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court and speaker of the National House of Representatives.
FELIX RACKERMAN, son of Frederick W. and Elizabeth D. Rackerman, was born in Lenox, Mass., June 17, 1861, and was educated at Cornell University in the class of 1882. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Robert T. Lincoln in Chicago and Francis V. Balch in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1885 and in Boston in 1886. He married Julia, daughter of Dr. Francis Minot, of Boston, in 1886, and lives in Milton.
THOMAS F. REDDY, son of Thomas and Catherine Reddy, was born in Boston Feb- ruary 22, 1865, and was educated at the Boston University. He read law in Boston in the office of F. V. Balch and at the Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1887. In prac- tice he makes a specialty of probate cases and conveyancing. He has been a writer for the American Law Review, and some of his articles have, by their thorough- ness and comprehensiveness, commended themselves to the profession. He lives in Boston.
CHARLES MONTGOMERY REED, son of Charles and Sophia Williams Reed, was born in Brookline, Mass., March 11, 1846, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1867. He read law with Latham & Kingman in Bridgewater and at the Harvard Law-School, from which he graduated in 1870. He was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in October, 1869. He married Maria Ames Carlisle, July 3, 1878, at Boston, where he lives.
GEORGE HAMMON REED, son of Hammon and Sylvia J. Reed, was born in Lexing- ton, Mass., January 31, 1858, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles Robinson in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1880. He has served on the School Committee in Lexington, where he lives. He married S. Augusta Adams at Lexington, Novem- ber 5, 1884.
JOHN P. J. WARD was born in Boston, August 5, 1857, and educated at the May- hew and English High School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1879.
J. OTIS WARDWELL, son of Zenas C. and Adriana S. (Pillsbury) Wardwell, was born in Lowell, March 14, 1857, and was educated at the Georgetown High School, New London Institution, and the Boston University. He studied law with J. P. and B. B. Jones in Haverhill, and with Samuel J. Elder in Boston, and was admitted to
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the Essex bar in September, 1879. He has been a member of the Haverhill Council and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1887 to '91 inclu- sive. He was married in Bristol, Vt., December 24, 1887, and lives in Haverhill.
HENRY WARDWELL, son of Moses and Amy Swasey (Farley) Wardwell, was born in Ipswich, Mass., April 28, 1840, and was educated at the Peabody public schools and at Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1866. He studied law in Boston with Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 1, 1870. He has been in the Salem Council and Board of Aldermen, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1879 and '81. He mar- ried Sarah Osborne Fitch at Peabody, October 6, 1875, and lives in Salem.
GEORGE LANGDON SHOREY, son of John L. and Sarah B. Shorey, was born in Lynn, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law in Boston with Augustine Jones, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June 1875. He married Mary F. Alley, June 15, 1875, and lives in Lynn. He was counsel in the somewhat notable case of Chester Snow, of Harwich, vs. John B. Alley, in which there were six trials - two disagreements, three verdicts for about one hundred thousand dollars each, and a final verdict for $58,000. There were in the case one reversal by the Stt- preme Court and two settings aside by the judge of the Superior Court. In the first three trials Mr. Shorey was alone, and in the last three junior with Colonel Ingersoll as senior counsel.
FRANK HOWARD SHOREY, son of John and Cornelia (Guild) Shorey, was born in Boston, November 2, 1837, and fitted at the High School in Dedham for Dartmouth College, where he remained two years, and finally graduated at Harvard in 1858. He studied law in Boston with Thomas Lafayette Wakefield, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 20, 1859. He died at Dedham, January 24, 1862.
ROSCOE HENRY THOMPSON, son of Oakes and Livinia (Banks) Thompson, was born in Hartford, Me., May 1, 1836, and was educated at the Hebron Academy and the Wesleyan Seminary. He studied law with Elbridge G. Harlow, of Canton, Me., and A. P. Gould, of Thomaston, Me., and was admitted to the bar of Paris, Me., and to the Suffolk bar, December 9, 1871. He was postmaster of Canton, Me., under the the administration of Buchanan, town clerk and treasurer three years, and first special justice of the Municipal Court of the East Boston District ten years. He mar- ried Helen Crafts at Craftsmont Farm, Jay, Me., June 27, 1872. He has a residence in New York city and in Jay, Me.
SAMUEL LOTHROP THORNDIKE, son of Albert and Joanna (Batchelder) Thorndike, was born in Beverly, Mass., December 28, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Sidney Bartlett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 11, 1855, and to the United States Supreme Court in 1867. He was register of bankruptcy under the law of 1867, and is a director in various railroad and manufacturing companies. He mar- ried Anna Lamb, daughter of Judge Daniel Wells, and lives in Cambridge.
CHARLES COPELAND NUTTER, son of Ichabod and Sarah (Copeland) Nutter, was born in Hallowell, Me., January 12, 1820, and fitted at the Hallowell Academy for Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1839, at the head of his class. He studied law at Hallowell in the office of Henry W. Paine, and in Boston in the offices of
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Sprague & Gray and of Sidney Bartlett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1841. He practiced some years as partner with William Hilliard, under the firm name of Hilliard & Nutter, and subsequently, from 1848 to 1871, with his brother, Thomas F. Nutter, under the style of C. C. & T. F. Nutter. He was commissioned as master in chancery by Governor John H. Clifford, and held a commission by re- newals until he retired from practice on account of ill health in 1871. He died in Boston in 1884.
DANIEL J. SHEA was born in Boston, March 31, 1857. He was educated at the Brimmer School, the English High School, the Latin School and the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and died September 3, 1888.
R. W. SIEA was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 14, 1851, and came with his parents an infant to Boston, where he was educated in the public schools. He gradu- ated at the Boston University Law School in 1877, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar in 1880. He was subsequently admitted to the bar in Chicago.
JOSEPH GILBERT THORP, son of Joseph Gilbert and Susan A. Thorp, was born in Oxford, Chenango county, N. Y., August 17, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Shattuck & Munroe in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He married Annie A. Longfellow, at Cambridge, October 14, 1885, and lives in Cambridge.
CHARLES GIDEON DAVIS, son of William and Joanna (White) Davis, was born in Plymouth, May 30, 1820. He was educated in his youth in the public schools of Plym- outh, at the private school of Samuel Willard, in Hingham, and under the direction of John A. Shaw of Bridgewater. He graduated at Harvard in 1840, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Jacob H. Loud in Plymouth, and Hub- bard & Watts in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in August, 1843. He opened an office in Boston and practiced alone until January 1844, when he be- came associated with William H. Whitman, late clerk of the courts of Plymouth county, and later with Seth Webb and George P. Sanger. In 1846 he identified him- self with the anti-slavery movement and aided in the election of Charles Sumner to Congress, and in the campaign of 1848 against the election of General Taylor to the presidency and in favor of Van Buren and Adams, whose nomination for president and vice-president he assisted as a delegate to the Buffalo convention in securing. In 1851 he was tried before Benjamin F. Hallet, United States commissioner, for assist- ing in the rescue of Shadrack, a fugitive slave, from the hands of the officers in the court-house in Boston. He was acquitted of the charge, but never denied that he rendered the assistance for which he was arrested. He was one of the organizers of the Free Soil party and later of the Republican party, and was a delegate to the na- tional convention in Philadelphia in 1856 which put John C. Fremont in nomination. During the Know-Nothing years 1854-5 he was chairman of the Republican State com- mittee. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1853 from Plymouth, to which place he moved in 1852, and in 1862 a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from that town, a trustee of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- lege many years, president of the Plymouth County Agricultural Society, and assessor of internal revenue from 1862 to 1869. In 1872, having abandoned the Republi- can party, he was a delegate to the Cincinnati convention, which nominated Horace
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Greeley for the presidency, and has been a Democratic candidate for Congress. In 1874 he was appointed by Governor Talbot judge of the Third District Court of of Plymouth county, and still holds that position. He married in Plymouth, where he now resides, November 19, 1845, Hannah Stevenson, daughter of John B. and Mary (Howland) Thomas.
DANIEL DAVIS, son of Daniel, was born in Barnstable, May 8, 1762. He studied law in Barnstable with Shearjashub Bourne, and was admitted to the bar in 1982. Im- mediately after admission he settled in Falmouth, now Portland, and was one of the five lawyers at that time practicing in the whole District of Maine. The other four were George Thacher, Roland Cushing, Timothy Langdon, and William Lithgow. He was six years in the House, six years in the Senate. From 1796 to 1801 he was United States attorney for Maine, and in 1800 was appointed by Governor Strong solicitor general, and held that office until 1832, when the office was abolished. In 1804 he removed to Boston, and after his retirement he became a resident in Cam- bridge, where he died October 27, 1835. He married in 1786 Louisa, daughter of Rev. James Freeman, D.D., of King's Chapel, Boston. He received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1797, and was for a time president of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College.
JOSIAH S. DEAN, son of Benjamin and Mary A. Dean, was born in Boston, May 11, 1860, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law at the Boston Uni- versity Law School, the Harvard Law School, and in the offices of his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1885. He was a member of the Boston Com- mon Council in 1891-2, and he was associated with L. S. Dabney as attorney for the South Boston Railroad, and with the late Judge Abbott in the overissued stock cases of the same road. He married at Bradford, England, August 2, 1888, May Lilian, daughter of Prof. Walter Smith, and lives in Boston.
ALEXANDER FAIRFIELD WADSWORTH, son of Alexander and Mary E. H. Wadsworth, was born in Boston, January 28, 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He studied law in the offices of John J. Clarke, Lemuel Shaw, jr., and William I. Bowditch in Boston, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 21, 1863, and was a common councilman in 1875. He married Lucy Goodwin in 1876 in Boston, where he lives.
WILLIAM CUSHING WAIT, son of Elijah Smith and Eliza Ann (Hadley) Wait, was born in Charlestown, Mass., December 18, 1860, and fitted at the Medford High School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1882. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1885, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1885, and to the United States Circuit Court May 15, 1888. He has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Law articles on "Representations as to Character, etc.," "Statute of Frauds," "Jettison," and "Marine Insurance." He married Edith Foote Wright, January 1, 1889, at Medford, where he lives.
JOHN F. WAKEFIELD, son of John H. and Minerva M. Wakefield, was born in Tay- lorsville, Penn., May 9, 1852, and was educated at the New London Institution in New Hampshire, the Franklin Academy, and the Malden High School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and in Boston in the office of John C. Crowley, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, 1875. He has made a specialty
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of marriage and divorce laws in Massachusetts. He married Laura A. Seaward in Chelsea December 14, 1876, and lives in Boston.
JONATHAN FAY BARRETT, son of Joseph and Sophia (Fay) Barrett, was born in Con- cord, Mass., January 28, 1817. He entered Harvard in 1834, and leaving college in the autumn of 1835, began to study law in the office of Jonathan Chapman and Rich- ard Sullivan Fay in Boston, and finished his studies at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in July, 1838, and practiced in Boston until his death, which occurred suddenly while in his office January 23, 1885. He married Lydia Ann Lor- ing, April 27, 1848, and he always retained his residence in Concord.
LEWIS S. DABNEY, son of Frederick and Roxana (Stackpole) Dabney, was born in Fayal, December 21, 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 1861. His father was vice- consul at Fayal and died there in 1857. He studied law with Horace Gray and Chas. F. Blake, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 10, 1863. He served in the war of 1861 in the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, from November 1862 to January 1865, and was mustered out as captain. Beginning practice in 1865 he was Assistant district attorney with Richard H. Dana, jr., in 1866, He married, April 22, 1867, Clara, daughter of George T. Bigelow.
TIMOTHY J. DACEY was born in Boston, October 11, 1849, and was educated at the Eliot Grammar School, the English High School, and at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 28, 1871. He was a member of the Boston Common Coun- cil in 1872-3, representative in 1814, a senator in 1875-6, a member of the Board of Trustees of the City Hospital, a delegate to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis in 1876, a member of the Boston School Board in 1880-1-3-5-6-6, and three years president of the Board. In January, 1877, he was appointed assistant district attorney for Suffolk. He died December 15, 1887.
FRANK ELLIOT DICKERMAN, son of Quincy E. and Rebecca M. Dickerman, was born in Charlestown, Mass., January 9, 1864, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He studied law in the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Richardson & Hale, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. In Somerville, where he lives, he has been president of the Common Council, and a member of the School Board. He married Minnie L. Despeaux at Somerville November 11, 1891.
ALBERT DICKERMAN, son of Wyat and Lois Dickerman, was born in Stoughton, Mass., February 21, 1831, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Brown University. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1854. He has been a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He married Mary Aborn Smith, May 31, 1864, in Boston, where he lives.
HENRY SWEETSER DEWEY, son of Israel Otis and Susan Augusta (Sweetser) Dewey, was born in Hanover, N. H., November 9, 1856, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1878. He studied law in the Boston University Law School, from which he grad- uated in 1882, and in Boston in the office of Ambrose A. Ranney, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1885 to 1887, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1889 to 1891, member of the First Corps of Cadets from 1880 to 1889, and was commis-
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sioned judge advocate on the staff of the First Massachusetts Brigade with the rank of captain, February 26, 1889. He lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.
JOHN JAMES DEVEREUX, son of James and Sarah (Crowninshield) Devereux, was born in Salem, June 12, 1796. His father was a native of Waterford, Ireland, where he was born in May, 1766, and coming to New England married, September 12, 1792, Sarah, daughter of John and Mary (Ives) Crowninshield. John James was educated at the private school of Robert Rogers in Salem and at the Branch School established by an association of gentlemen under the direction of Benjamin Tappan. He grad- uated at Harvard in 1816 and engaged in commercial pursuits until 1829, when he studied law with David Cummins, of Salem, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1831. After a few years practice in Boston he moved to New York and after three years residence there moved to Philadelphia, where he lived until his death, which occurred in Salem, March 16, 1856.
HENRY GARDNER DENNY, son of Daniel and Harriet Joanna (Gardner) Denny, was born in Boston, June 12, 1833, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of Francis O. Watts and Owen G. Peabody, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1856. He has been a useful and trusted citizen in many ways, having served as treasurer of the Ph. B. K. Society (Alpha of Massa- chusetts) twenty-three years, treasurer of the Society for Promoting Theological Ed- ucation thirteen years, treasurer of the Home for Aged Women eleven years, chair- man of the Dorchester School Board, auditor of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member and cabinet-keeper of the Massachusetts Historical Society, mem- ber of the committee to examine the Harvard College Library thirty years, member of the committee on rhetoric, logic and grammar at Harvard ten years, trustee of the Dorchester Atheneum, treasurer of the Harvard Musical Association and director of other institutions and societies. He lives in Boston unmarried.
SIDNEY BARTLETT, son of Dr. Zaccheus and Hannah (Jackson) Bartlett, was born in Plymouth, Mass., February 13, 1799. He was descended from Robert Bartlett, who came to Plymouth in the ship Ann in 1623 and who married in 1628, Mary, daughter of Richard Warren, one of the Mayflower passengers. He was educated at the pub- lic schools in Plymouth and graduated at Harvard in 1818. After leaving college he taught school in Scituate a short time and spent a year in Plymouth reading law in the office of Nathaniel Morton Davis. During that year he was a private in the Standish Guards, a military company organized in 1818. In 1820 he entered the office of Lemuel Shaw, late chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and was admitted in Boston, October 2, 1821, to practice in the Common Pleas Court, and in March, 1824, to practice in the Supreme Court. He wasassociated as partner with Mr. Shaw, his instructor, until the appointment of Mr. Shaw to the Supreme Bench in 1830. He advanced steadily, but surely, in his profession until he was recognized as the leader of the Massachusetts bar. He was never a ready and eloquent pleader before a jury, but the sphere in which he excelled was that of a shrewd, wise legal adviser, the results of whose study no man would dare to question and whose arguments before the courts were instructive to even the judges to whom they were addressed. His reputation was by no means confined within the limits of his own State, and in the judgment of the United States Supreme Court, it has been said, that no abler or more thorough
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or convincing presentation of legal principles and their application to the cases at bar has been made in his time than by him. He never sought nor would he accept office whose duties would call him from the profession to which he was wedded. Though importuned to accept appointments to the bench he always refused them, and it is not too much to say that for many years the highest judicial positions in the land were within his reach. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1851 and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1853, but with these ex- ceptions he serupulously avoided what may be called public life. He married in Bos- ton, October 8, 1828, Caroline, daughter of John and Mary (Tewksbury) Pratt, and from the time of his admission to the bar always lived in Boston, where he died March 6, 1889.
JOSEPH BARTLETT, son of Sylvanus and Martha (Wait) Bartlett, was born in Plym- outh, Mass., in 1761, and graduated at Harvard in 1782. He studied law in Salem and was a member of the Suffolk bar. He went to England and appeared on the stage in Edinburgh as "Maitland," returned to America and became a merchant in Boston and was a captain in Shays's Rebellion. He afterwards practiced in Woburn, and in 1799 delivered a poem before the Phi Beta called "Physiognomy." He pub- lished a book of Aphorisms in 1823, and in the same year he delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston. Shortly after he published a poem entitled, "The New Vicar of Bray." He went to Maine, where he was a representative and edited at Saco the Freeman's Friend. He also delivered a Fourth of July oration in Biddeford and practiced law in Portsmouth among other places. He married in Plymouth, Anna May, daughter of Thomas and Ann (May) Wetherell, and died in Boston, October 20, 1827.
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