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GRAFTON ST. LOE ABBOTT, son of Josiah G. and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was born in Lowell, Mass., November 14, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He studied law with his father in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879. He married Mary Adams at Quincy, Mass., September 29, 1890, and now resides at Lewiston, Me.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ABBOTT, son of Josiah G. and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was born in Lowell, Mass., May 6, 1852, and was educated at St. Mark's School. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1876 and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1878 and in Boston in 1885. Aside from his practice he is engaged in literary pursuits. He lives at Wellesley Hills, Mass.
CHIARLES ALLEN, son of Sylvester and Harriet (Ripley) Allen, was born in Green- field, Mass., April 27, 1827, and graduated at Harvard in 1847. He read law in Green- field in the office of George T. Davis and Charles Devens and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar at Northampton, September 30, 1850. He re- mained in Greenfield in the practice of law until 1862, when, having been appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, he moved to Boston. He held the office of reporter until 1867, and his reports are contained in fourteen volumes, covering a period from the Suffolk January term of 1861 to the Suffolk January term of 1867. From 1867 to 1872 he was attorney-general of the Commonwealth. In 1880 he was appointed one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of the Common- wealth, and in 1882 was appointed by Governor Long judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, which position he still holds. His residence is in Boston.
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CHARLES ALLEN, son of Joseph Allen, was born in Worcester, August 9, 1792. 1Ie entered Yale College in 1811, after a course of study at Leicester Academy, and re- mained one year. He then entered the office of Samuel M. Burnside and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1818. He practiced in New Braintree six years and in 1829 he returned to Worcester and became a partner with John Davis. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1829-34-36-40, and in the Senate in 1835-38-39,and in 1842 he was a member of the Northeastern Boundary Commission. In 1842 he was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court and re- signed in 1844, and was a member of Congress from 1844 to 1853. In 1858, on the resignation of Chief Justice Nelson of the Superior Court of Suffolk county, he was appointed in his place. The court was abolished in 1859 by the Act establishing the Superior Court and he was appointed in that year chief justice of the new court. He resigned his seat in 1867 and died in Worcester, August 6, 1869.
GEORGE B. BIGELOW, son of Samuel and Anna J. (Brooks) Bigelow, was born in Boston, April 25, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Charlestown in the office of James Dana and Moses Gill Cobb and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, December 31, 1859.
JOHN PRESCOTT BIGELOW, son of Timothy and Lucy (Prescott) Bigelow, was born in Groton, Mass., August 25, 1797, and was fitted at the Lawrence Academy in Gro- ton for Harvard, where he graduated in 1815. He studied law with Luther Lawrence and his father in Groton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1818. He was a mem- ber of the Boston Common Council from 1827 to '32, and two years its president, and in 1829-33, '35, a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. In 1836 he was chosen secretary of State, and served eight years, and was a member of the Executive Council from 1845 to '49. In 1848-50 he was chosen mayor of Boston, and made the first gift in money to the Boston Public Library, of which he was a trustee. While mayor he exhibited great efficiency and heroism during the cholera season of 1849. He married, March 8, 1824, Louisa Anne, daughter of David L. Brown, an English gentleman, and died in Boston, July 4, 1872.
MELVILLE MADISON BIGELOW, son of Rev. William E. and Daphne F. Bigelow, was born near Eaton Rapids, Mich., August 2, 1846, and was educated at the University of Michigan. He studied law in Michigan and Tennessee, and was admitted to the bar at Memphis in March, 1868, and later in Massachusetts. He has published several works on legal subjects, among which are "Law of Estoppel," "Law of Torts," "Law of Fraud," etc. He married in Cambridge two wives, one in 1869 and one in 1881, and lives in that city.
TIMOTHY BIGELOW, son of Timothy and Anna (Andrews) Bigelow, was born in Worcester, April 30, 1767, and fitted for college under Benjamin Lincoln and Samuel Dexter. He graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with Levi Lincoln. After admission to the bar he began practice in Groton and moved to Medford. He was a representative thirteen years from Groton and twelve years from Medford, and speaker of the House thirteen years. He was a delegate to the Hartford con- vention in 1814, a member of the Executive Council, and delivered the Phi Beta ora- tion in 1796. He married, September 3, 1791, Lucy, daughter of Doctor Oliver and Lydia (Baldwin) Prescott, and died May 18, 1821.
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TYLER BIGELOW, son of David and Deborah (Heywood) Bigelow, was born in Wor- cester, August 13, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1801. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow in Groton, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1804. He began practice in Leominster, but removed to Watertown in 1805. He married, November 26, 1806, Clara, daughter of Timothy Bigelow, of Worcester, who died March 13, 1846. He married second, December 15, 1847, Harriet L. Whitney, daughter of Abraham Lincoln, of Worcester, who died June 20, 1853. He died at Watertown, May 23, 1865, leaving a legacy of $10,000 to Harvard College for the benefit of indigent and meritorious students.
WILMON W. BLACKMAR, son of Joseph and Eliza J. (Philbrick) Blackmar, was born in Bristol, Penn., July 25, 1841, and was preparing for college at Exeter, N. H., when he enlisted in the army. He had previously attended the Brimmer School in Boston and the Bridgewater Normal School. He enlisted as private in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry and became orderly sergeant and lieutenant, and was trans- ferred to the First West Virginia Veteran Cavalry. He then became captain, was detailed as adjutant-general of his brigade, and fought at Antietam, Stone River, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga. He served through the whole war. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1867. He was a member of the Boston Common Couneil in 1872 and was judge ad- vocate general of Massachusetts twelve years. He married in Boston, November 17, 1880, Helen R. Brewer, and lives in Boston.
STEPHEN G. NASH, son of John and Abigail Ladd (Gordon) Nash, was born in New Hampton, N. H., April 4, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842. He studied law with George W. Nesmith in Franklin, N. H., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 16, 1846. He has been a representative from Boston, and from 1855 to 1859 was a judge on the bench of the Superior Court of Suffolk county. He mar- ried Mary Upton at Wakefield in 1866, and lives in Lynnfield.
HENRY F. NAPHEN, son of John and Jane (Henry) Naphen, was born in Ireland, August 14, 1852 and eame an infant with his parents to Lowell. He was educated at the public schools and took a course at Harvard as resident bachelor. He studied law at the Harvard and Boston University Law Schools, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879, after a further course of study in the office of Bur- bank & Lund in Boston. He has been a member of the State Senate and the Boston School Committee, and a member of the Democratic State' Committee. He married Margaret A. Drummey, daughter of Patrick Drummey, and lives in South Boston.
JOHN BREED NEWHALL, son of Charles and Hester C. (Moulton) Newhall, was born in Lynn, Mass., October 1, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Simmons & Pratt in Abington, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He has been president of the Common Council of Lynn, where he resides, and secretary of the Lynn Board of Trade.
HENRY NEWMAN, son of Henry and Deborah (Cushing) Newman, was born in Bos- ton, May 16, 1783. His father was a merchant and his mother a daughter of Liet- tenant-Governor Thomas Cushing. He studied law with Thomas Dawes and Will- iam Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1810. He gave up practice and moved to Washington, but died in Boston, July 28, 1861.
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FRANK N. NAV was born in Boston April 30, 1866, and fitted at the Roxbury Latin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1887. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of E. H. Bennett in Boston, and was admit- ted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He lives in Boston.
WILLIAM HILLIARD, son of William and Sarah Lovering Hilliard, was born in Can- bridge, Mass., October 15, 1803, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1824 and practiced in Boston. He married Elizabeth Newhall of Boston, and died there September 8, 1869.
THOMAS LEVERETT NELSON, son of John and Lois B. (Leverett) Nelson, was born in Haverhill, Mass., March 4, 1827. He was educated at Dartmouth College and at the University of Vermont. He studied law with Charles E. Thompson, of Haverhill, and Francis H. Dewey, of Worcester, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester in 1855. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1869, and in 1879 was appointed judge of the United States Court for Massachusetts District. He was city solicitor of Worcester from 1870 to 1874. He married, October 29, 1857, Anna H. Hayward at Mendon, Mass., and March 23, 1865, Louisa A. Small at Mill- bury, Mass. His home is in Worcester.
ALBERT HOBART NELSON, son of Dr. John and Lucinda (Parkhurst) Nelson, was born in Milford, Mass., March 12, 1812. He fitted for college at the Concord Acad- emy and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He studied law with Samuel Hoar, of Con- cord, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1837. He began practice in Concord, but in 1842 moved to Woburn and opened an office in Boston. In 1846 he was appointed district attorney for the Middlesex and Essex District, and in 1855 he was a member of the Executive Council. He was in the Senate in 1848-9. In 1855 he was appointed chief justice of the Superior Court of the county of Suffolk, . which was established in that year, and resigned on account of ill health in 1858. He married, in September, 1840, Elizabeth B., daughter of Elias Phinney, of Lexington, Mass., and died at the McLean Asylum June 27, 1858.
ISAAC JOHNSON was born in Clipsham, England, and came to Massachusetts with Winthrop in 1630. He was an assistant in 1630, and died in Boston September 30 in that year. He married, Arbella, daughter of Thomas, Fourteenth Earl of Lincoln, who came with her husband, and died in Salem, Mass., August 30, 1630.
THOMAS SHARP came over in 1630, and was an assistant in that year.
WILLIAM VASSEL was an assistant in 1630.
EDWARD ROSSITER Was an assistant in 1630. -
JOHN HUMPHREY was born in Dorchester, England, and was one of the original *associates of the Massachusetts Company. He was chosen the first deputy governor in England in 1629, and was an assistant from 1632 to 1641. He married Susan, daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, and returning with his wife to England died there October 21, 1641.
RICHARD DUMMER Was an assistant in 1635 to 1636.
ATHERTON HOUGH was an assistant in 1635.
ROGER HARLAKENDEN, was an assistant from 1635 to 1638.
ISRAEL STOUGHTON was an early settler in Dorchester, and a member of the General Court from 1635 to 1637. He was captain of the Artillery Company in 1642, and an
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assistant from 1637 to 1643. He died at Lincoln, England, in 1645, giving three hundred acres of land to Harvard College.
THOMAS FLINT was an assistant from 1642 to 1651, and again in 1653.
SAMUEL SYMONDS was an assistant from 1643 to 1673.
WILLIAM HIBBENS was an assistant from 1643 to 1654.
HERBERT PFLHAM Was a grandson of Edward Pelham, of Hastings, England, who was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland, and who chied in 1606. Herbert, of Michelham Priory, son of Edward, was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1588. Herbert, the son of Herbert, and the subject of this sketch, was born in 1601, and graduated at Oxford in 1619. He came to Massachusetts in 1638, and was the first treasurer of Harvard College. He was an assistant from 1645 to 1649, when he returned to England and died in 1673. His widow, Elizabeth, who had been his second wife, was the widow of Roger Harlakenden, already referred to.
FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY was deputy governor from 1665 to 1670, and an assistant in 1650-51 and 1664.
EDWARD GIBBONS came very early to Massachusetts, and was a representative from 1638 to 1647, an assistant in 1650-51, and captain of the Artillery Company. He died in Boston December 9, 1654.
THOMAS WIGGIN was an assistant from 1650 to 1664.
JOHN GLOVER Was an assistant in 1650 and 1653.
DANIEL GOOKIN came to Massachusetts in 1644, having lived many years in Virginia. He settled in Cambridge, and was a representative from that town in the House of Deputies, of which he was speaker in 1651. He was an assistant from 1652 to 1686, and in 1681 he was made major-general of the colony. He died in Cambridge March 19, 1687.
DANIEL DENISON, son of Willam, was born in England in 1613, and came to Massa- chusetts about 1631, and in 1635 moved to Ipswich from Cambridge, where he first settled. He was major-general of the colony, speaker of the House of Deputies, justice of the Quarterly Court, commissioner of the United Colonies, and an assistant from 1653 to 1682. He died at Ipswich September 20, 1682.
SIMOND WILLARD came to Massachusetts in 1634, and was born about 1605 in England. He settled in Concord, and afterwards lived in Lancaster, Groton and Salem. He was an assistant from 1654 to 1675, and died in Charlestown April 24, 1676.
HUMPHREY ATHERTON came to Massachusetts about 1636 and settled in Dorchester. He afterwards moved to Springfield, and from both Dorchester and Springfield he was a member of the House of Deputies, of which he was speaker in 1653. He was major-general of the colony, and an assistant from 1654 to 1661, and died in Boston September 12, 1661.
RICHARD RUSSELL came to Massachusetts from Herefordshire, England, in 1640, and settled in Charlestown. He was speaker of the House of Deputies in 1647-8-54-56- 58, and an assistant from 1659 to 1676. He died at Charlestown, May 14, 1616.
JAMES RUSSELL, son of Richard, was born in Charlestown, October 1, 1640. He was a Representative in 1679, and an assistant from 1680 to '86, and a member of the Counsel of Andros. He died April 28, 1709.
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THOMAS DANFORTH, Son of Nicholas, was born in England in 1622. He was an as- sistant from 1659 to 1678, deputy governor from 1679 to 1686. He was appointed, in 1692, judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, and served until his death, Novem- ber 5, 1699.
EUGENE BIGELOW HAGAR, son of Josiah B. and Mary Ann (Davis) Hagar, was born in Cambridge, Mass., September 23, 1850, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School, and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1871. He studied law in the Harvard Law School, and in the office of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1844. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1880-81, assistant solicitor in Boston from 1881 to 1884. He lives in Boston.
HENRY L. HALLETT, son of Benjamin F. and Laura Larned Hallett, was born in Providence, R. I., in 1826, and graduated at Harvard in 1847. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1850. In 1853 he was appointed by his father assistant United States attorney, and in 1857 was ap- pointed United States Commissioner by the Circuit Court. In 1879 he was appointed supervisor of elections for the district of Massachusetts. Previous to 1862 all busi- ness before the United States commissioners, of whom there were several in Boston, was taken to the nearest commissioner, but in that year Richard H. Dana, then United States attorney, made an arrangement with Mr. Hallett, by which the latter estab- lished a Commissioner's Court, at which all business of a criminal character has since been transacted. He married, February 17, 1858, Cora, daughter of George Lovell, of Barnstable, and died in Boston in 1892.
ROBERT SPRAGUE HALL, son of Gustavus Vasa and Susan Frances (Frothingham) Hall, was born in Charlestown, Mass., December 14, 1850, and was educated at the Chauncey Hall School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1812. After studying law he was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 2, 1887. He has published poems, stories, translations, and magazine articles. He is unmarried and lives in Charlestown.
THOMAS BARTLETT HALL, son of Joseph, jr., and Maria, daughter of Thomas Bart- lett, of Boston, was born in Springfield, Mass., July 26, 1824. His grandfather, Jo- seph Hall, was judge of probate for Suffolk county from 1825 to 1836. He was edu- cated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1843. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hubbard & Watts in "Boston, and was admitted on examination to the Suffolk bar in March, 1847. He was one of the Back Bay commissioners appointed by Governor Gardener, and for many years chairman of the Board of Assessors of Brookline. He has since 1860 engaged only to a small extent in the practice of law, and for the last thirteen years has been chiefly occupied as examiner of accounts. The most noted case in which he was coun- sel was that of the Commonwealth vs. Roxbury, to try the title to Back Bay Flats. He published in 1863 a work, entitled " Three Articles on Modern Spiritnalism by a Bible Spiritualist," and in 1883 another, entitled " Modern Spiritualism or the Open- ing Way." He married in Boston, May 29, 1851, Emily L., daughter of George M. Dexter, and for forty-one years has lived in Longwood, a part of Brookline.
ARTEMAS WARD LAMSON, son of Alvan and Frances Fidelia (Ward) Lamson, was born in Dedham, Mass., March 24, 1830, and graduated at Harvard College in 1849.
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He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of John J. & Manlius S. Clarke, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 1854. He married at Dedham, where he resides, Rebecca L. Prince, January 27, 1891.
JAMES M. LANE was born in South Boston, December 1, 1870, and was educated at the Lawrence School and at Boston College. He studied law with William II. Sulli- van, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 25, 1891.
JOHN C. LANE, Son of Jonathan A. and Sarah D. (Clarke) Lane, was born in Boston, November 8, 1852, and was educated at the Dwight School, the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard College in 1875. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the offices of Lyman Mason and George W. Morse in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1878. He married Harriet B. Winslow, September 11, 1883, and lives at Norwood, Mass.
JAMES H. LANGE, son of John and Martha E. Lange, was born in Washington, D. C., January 18, 1857, and was educated at the public schools of Washington and Phila- delphia. He studied law at the Columbian University, Washington, and was admitted to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, June 23, 1880, and to the Suffolk bar April 5, 1887. He makes a specialty of patent causes. He married at Stanstead, Canada, October 6, 1886, Edith A. Miller, and lives in Boston.
RUFUS BIGELOW LAWRENCE, son of Luther and Lucy (Bigelow) Lawrence, was born in Groton, Mass., July 13, 1814, and attended the Lawrence Aca lemy at Groton, the Stow Academy and a private school. He graduated at Harvard in 1834, and after studying law with his father was admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1837. In 1839 he opened an office in Boston, and shortly after, while on a visit to Europe, died at Pau, France, January 13, 1841.
SAMUEL PARKER LEWIS, son of James and Harriet (Parker) Lewis, was born in Pep- perell, Mass., November 16, 1824, and was educated at the Lawrence Academy at Groton and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1844. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 12, 1849. He began practice in Boston, but returned to Pepperell in 1852, In 1874 he opened an office in Ayer, and in 1815 moved to Groton, returning again to Pepperell in 1880. He married, October 4, 1870, Catharine, daughter of Jonas Haskins, and Catharine (Marshall) Ti- tus, a native of Detroit, Mich., and died in Pepperell, November 26, 1882.
PHILLIP J. LIBBY was born in Boston, February 22, 1861, and was educated at the Boston public schools and at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, from which he graduated in 1881. He studied law in the office of Crowley & Maxwell and in the Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1886, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885.
CHARLES FRANKLIN LIGHT, son of James and Ellen E. Light, was born in Dorches- ter, and was educated in the public schools of Dorchester and Boston. Ile attended the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, February 2, 1887. He married Jessie G. Cochran, at Natick, Mass., November 2, 1889, and lives in Hyde Park.
WILFRED B. RICH, son of Ransom and P. Laurette Rich, was born in Jackson, Me., April 21, 1855, and was educated at the Westbrook, Maine, Seminary, and the Maine Central Institute, Pittsfield, Me. He studied law with Albert W. Paine, of Bangor,
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and George E. Johnson, of Belfast, and was admitted to the bar in Bangor, January 5, 1880, and in Boston, September 15, 1885. He was for a time postmaster of Cam- den, Me., and for two years was assistant editor of the Camden Herald. He lives in Somerville.
THOMAS RICE was born in Wiseasset, Me., March 30, 1768, and graduated at Har- vard in 1791. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow, and was a member of the Suf- folk bar. He went to Winslow, Me., was a member of Congress from 1817 to 1819, and died in Winslow, August 24, 1854.
GEORGE EDWARD RICE, son of Henry and Maria (Burroughs) Rice, was born in Bos- ton, July 10, 1822, and received his early education at the Boston Latin School and at the school of Edmund Lambert Cushing. He graduated at Harvard in 1822, and studied law with Charles G. Loring and William Dehon, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 27, 1845. He contributed to the North American Review, and was the author of some attractive poems. He married, December 28, 1857, Tirzah Maria, daughter of George W. Crockett, of Boston, and died in Roxbury, August 10, 1861.
CONRAD RENO, son of Jesse L. and Mary C. Reno, was born at Mount Vernon Ar- senal, Ala., December 28, 1859, and was educated at Shortlidge's Media Academy, Media, Penn., and the Lehigh University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. The most noted cases in which he has been counsel were Eliot vs. McCormick, 144 Mass., 10, and Eustis vs. Bolles, 146 Mass. He has been a contributor to the American Law Review, and the American Law Register, and is now publishing a work on " Non-residents and For- eign Corporations." He married at Springfield, Mass., April 13, 1887, Susan M., daughter of Rev. Dr. William T. Eustis, and lives in Boston.
FREDERICK J. RANLETT, son of Charles E. and A. M. Ranlett, was born in Thomas- ton, Me., November 17, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Robert Dickson Smith, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1884. He has been a member of the Com- mon Couneil in Newton, where he resides, a representative to the General Court in 1890, and a member of the Newton Republican Ward and City Committee.
GEORGE H. RICHARDS, son of Franeis and Anne H. (Gardiner) Richards, was born in Gardiner, Me., and was educated at Rugby, England, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, England. He studied law with Horace Gray, and Chandler & Shattuck in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar De- eember 4, 1865, and lives in Boston.
WILLIAM REUBEN RICHARDS, son of William Boardman and Cornelia Wells (Walters) Richards, was born in Dedham, Mass., July 3, 1853, and was educated at the Boston Latin School, Dr. Krause's Institute, Dresden, Germany, and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1874. He studied law with Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 11, 1848. He was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1886 to'88, and is now one of the trustees of the Boston Library. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.
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