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IVORY W. RICHARDSON, son of Nathaniel and Mary Richardson, was born in Wes- ton, Vt., February 5, 1812, and was educated at the public schools. He studied
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law at Chester, Vt, with Aikin & Richardson, and was admitted to the bar in Woodstock, Vt., in June, 1842. After practicing six years in Vermont he moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 10, 1848. He married, at Andover, Vt., in 1832, Abigail Greeley, and at Keene, N. H., in 1851, Anne B. Dodge. He lives in Chelsea.
JAMES BAILEY RICHARDSON, Son of Joel Richardson, was born in Oxford, N. IL., December 9, 1832, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1857. He studied law with Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the bar in Boston February 27, 1859. He was early offered seats on the benches of the Boston Municipal Court and the Su- perior Court, but he declined both. In 1889 he was appointed by Mayor Hart cor- poration counsel of Boston, succeeding Edward P. Nettleton. He was appointed by Mayor Matthews a member of the Rapid Transit Commission. As corporation coun- sel he gave an important opinion concerning the respective rights of the State Legis- lature and Congress in the navigable waters of Charles River. In 1884 he was ap- pointed with ex-Mayor Cobb and James M. Bugbee to revise the city charter. He has been, if he is not now, president of the Alumni of Dartmouth College in Boston and vicinity, and is a trustee of the college. He was sixteen years master in chan- cery, and was a referee in the important case of the Tremont and Suffolk Mills of Lowell against the city of Lowell. He has been appointed during the present year (1892) judge of the Superior Court and now occupies a seat on the bench. He mar- ried in 1865 Lucy Cushing, daughter of A. A. Gould, M. D.
WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Son of Asa and Elizabeth (Bird) Richardson, was born in Boston, December 2, 1813, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har- vard, where he graduated in 1832. After leaving college he was for a year usher in the Mayhew School, and in 1833 attended the Divinity School six months. In 1834 he entered the office of Jeremiah Mason to study law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1837. He practiced in Boston until his death, which took place in Dorchester, June 6, 1856. He married in Walpole, Mass., June 30, 1836, Almira, daughter of Daniel Kingsbury.
WILLIAM MINARD RICHARDSON, son of Roswell Minard and Ann (Hapgood) Rich- ardson, was born in Portland, Me., December 10, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He married Sara J. Hanks at Cambridge, June 21, 1888, and lives in Cambridge.
ELMER ELLSWORTH RIDEOUT, son of Albert and Harriet S. Rideout, was born in Cumberland, Me., June 18, 1864, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1886. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, July 29, 1890. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.
HORACE BINNEY SARGENT, jr., son of Horace Binney and Elizabeth Little (Swett) Sargent, was born in Boston, April 2, 1847, and was educated at the public schools, at schools in Europe, and at the Harvard Scientific School. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Henry W. Paine in Boston, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar September 24, 1872, and to the United States Supreme Court, April 10, 1883. He was assistant city solicitor of Boston from 1879 to 1881, and has been active and prominent among the commissioned officers of the Massa- chusetts Volunteer Militia. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.
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WILLIAM MCKINLEY OSBORNE, son of Abner and Abigail (Allison) Osborne, was born in Girard, Ohio, April 26, 1842. He was educated at the Poland, Ohio, Academy and at Alleghany College in Meadville; Penn. He enlisted in the Twenty- third Ohio Regiment in the war of 1861 and was discharged on account of injuries received in the service. He studied law in the office of Sutliff, Tuttle & Stutt in Warren, Ohio, and in the law school in Ann Arbor, Mich., and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He began practice at Youngstown, Ohio, and was mayor of that city in 1844 and 1845. He removed to Boston in 1880 and was there admitted to the bar. Ile was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1884-5, and was appointed a member of the Metropolitan Board of Police and still holds that position. He mar- ried in Boston, April 24, 1878, Frances Clara, adopted daughter of Walter Hastings, of Boston.
ROBERT CARTER PITMAN, son of Benjamin and Mary Ann (Carter) Pitman, was born in Newport, R. I., March 16, 1825. He was educated at the public schools of New Bedford, at the Friends' Academy, and at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., where he graduated in 1845, receiving the degree of LL.D. in 1869. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in New Bedford in 1848, where he practiced until 1869, associated at different times as a partner with Thomas D. Eliot and Alan- son Borden. In 1869 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and remained on the bench until his death. He was a representative in 1858 and a senator in 1864-5, '68-9, and the last year was the president of the Senate. He married, in New Bed- ford, August 15, 1855, Frances R., daughter of Rev. M. G. Thomas, and died at New- ton, March 5, 1891.
FREDERICK OCTAVIUS PRINCE, son of Thomas and Caroline Prince, was born in Bos- ton, January 18, 1818, and was fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1836 as class poet and secretary. He studied law in the office of Franklin Dexter and William Howard Gardiner, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- ton in January, 1840. He early took up his residence in Winchester and was a rep- resentative from that town from 1851 to '53, and in 1853 was a member of the Con- stitutional Convention. In 1855 he was a member of the Senate, and in 1860, having joined the Democratic party on the dissolution of the Whig party, was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at South Carolina. He was secretary of the National Democratic Committee from that time until 1888. In 1876 he was chosen mayor of Boston and re-elected in 1878-81. He was the Democratic candidate for governor in 1885, and in 1888 was appointed a member of the board to erect a build- ing for the Boston Public Library. He married, in 1848, Helen, daughter of Bar- nard Henry, of Philadelphia, and November 27, 1889, he married for a second wife, at Cambridge, Kate H. Blanc. To him a full share of credit is due for the erection of the most notable structure in Boston, in spite of the cavils and criticisms of those who would measure the merit of public buildings by either the profusion of orna- mentation on the one hand, or the small amount of money expended in their con- struction on the other. Boston has been fortunate in having a Board of Trustees of the Public Library with good taste and artistic judgment and sufficient backbone to fearlessly exercise them.
EDGAR SIDNEY TAFT, Son of Bezaleel and Lucy M. (Bragg) Taft, was born in Keene, N. H., June 30, 1853, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law
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with Albert R. Hatch, of Portsmouth, N. H., and was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire, September 1, 1882, and to the bar in Massachusetts, October 30, 1882. He practiced law in Boston two years, and after a short time in the employ of the Pullman Car Company opened an office in Gloucester, Mass., in 1885.
CHARLES P. THOMPSON, son of Frederick M. and Susannah (Cheeseman) Thompson, was born in Braintree, Mass., July 30, 1827, and was educated in the public schools and in the Hollis Institute of Braintree. He studied law in the office of Benjamin F. Hallett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1854. In 1857 he removed to Gloucester from Boston, where he had practiced in association with Mr. Hallett, and has since that time made Gloucester his residence. In 1885 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court, and is now on the bench. He was a representative in 1871-2, and from 1874 to 1876 was a member of Congress. In 1880 and 1881 he was the Demo- cratic candidate for governor, and in 1877 received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Amherst College. He married in 1861 Abbie Herrick, of Gloucester.
LEVI CLIFFORD WADE, son of Levi and Abbie A. (Rogers) Wade, was born in Allegheny City, Penn., January 16, 1843, and received his early education in the pub- lic schools, in the Lewisburg Institute, and with private tutors. He graduated at Yale in 1866, and was admitted to the bar in 1873. During his practice in Boston he was for three years a partner with J. Q. A. Brackett. He married in Bath, Me., November 16, 1869, Margaret, daughter of William and Lydia H. (Elliott) Rogers. He was a representative from Newton from 1876 to 1879, and in the last year was speaker. He died March 21, 1891.
HENRY WALKER, son of Ezra and Maria A. Walker, was born in Boston, and re- ceived his early education in the public schools and the Boston Latin School. He graduated at Harvard in 1855, and studied law with Hutchins & Wheeler in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1858. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment and served three months as adjutant. In the autumn of 1861 he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Regiment, and in 1862 as colonel. He was discharged by reason of expiration of service in 1865, and resumed the practice of law. In 1877 he was appointed license commissioner, and served as police commissioner from 1879 to 1882. He was commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1887-88, and visited England to join in the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Honorable Artillery Company of London, and during his visit reflected credit, not only on the company under his command, but our country, of which he was to a certain extent, a representative.
CHARLES TILTON DUNCKLEE, son of Joseph and Betsey P. (Woodbury) Duncklee, was born in Brighton, Mass., Angust 29, 1841, and graduated at Harvard College in 1861. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of David II. Mason in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1863. He married Sarah J. Brown in Boston, December 26, 1866, and lives in Brookline.
R. AUGUSTUS DUGGAN, son of William Brazier and Eunice B. (Glover) Duggan, was born in Quincy, Mass., September 22, 1845, and was educated at the Middleboro' Academy and at Harvard. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was admitted to the bar in that year at Dedham. He is unmarried, and lives in Quincy, Mass.
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REUBEN LITCH ROBERTS, Son of Reuben and Jane L. Roberts, was born in Boston February 16, 1847, and was educated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. He studied law in Boston with George L. Roberts, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the autumn of 1871. He makes the management of patent law cases his spe- cialty. Ilis home is in Brookline.
GEORGE LITCH ROBERTS, son of Reuben and Jane (Litch) Roberts, was born in Bos- ton December 30, 1836, and graduated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Benjamin R. Curtis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 2, 1864. He has been counsel in many important patent cases, among which were the "Pebbling machine cases," affecting largely the interests of the leather trade; Woodman vs. Stimpson, 3 Fisher's Patent Cases 88; Stimpson vs. Woodward, 10 Wall, 117; Wood- man Pebbling Machine Company vs. Guild, 4 Clifford 185, and the "Spindle Cases"- Pearl vs. The Appleton Company, 3 Fed. Rep., 153, and various telephone suits. He married in Middletown, Conn., December 1, 1865, Hinda Barnes, and lives in Boston.
ODIN BARNES ROBERTS, son of the above, was born in Boston January 22, 1867, and was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1886, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, 1891, and lives in Boston.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SANDERSON, son of George W. and Charlotte E. Sanderson, was born in Littleton, Mass., July 1, 1863, and received his early education at the Law- rence Academy, Groton, Mass. He graduated at Yale College in 1885 and at the Boston University in 1887, and was admitted in 1887 to the Suffolk bar. He has been chairman and member of the School Committee of Littleton, where he resides, since 1888, and served repeatedly as moderator of meetings in that town. He is a trustee of the Lawrence Academy.
SANFORD HARRISON DUDLEY, son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, was born in China, Me., January 14, 1842. His parents removed in 1857 to New Bedford and in 1870 to Cambridge. He graduated at Harvard in 1867, and then taught the New Bedford High School three years. He studied law in New Bedford in the office of Eliot & Stetson and at the Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar J ly 21, 1871. He has in various ways been con- nected with the city government of Cambridge, where he resides, and is president of the Universalist Club and vice-president of the Universalist Sunday School Union. He married Laura Nye, daughter of John M. Howland, at Fairhaven, Mass., April 2, 1869.
WILLIAM H. DRURY, son of William E. and Martha K. Drury, was born in Worces- ter, Mass., January 12, 1842, and graduated at Yale College in 1865. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge, June 3, 1872. He married Mary Peters at Ellsworth, Me., September, 29, 1835, and lives in Walt- ham.
WALTER HILL. ROBERTS, Son of Jacob W. and Sophronia P. Roberts, was born in Charlestown, Mass., and graduated at Harvard College in 1811. He studied law in the offices of Levi C. Wade and J. Q. A. Brackett and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He married Alice S. Daniels, of Bos- ton, October 25, 1883, and lives in Melrose.
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JAMES WALKER AUSTIN, son of William and Lucy (Jones) Austin, was born in Charles- town, Mass., January 8, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 7, 1851. He has been justice of the Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Islands and member and speaker of the Hawaiian Parliament. He married, July 18, 1857, Ariana E., daughter of John Sherburne Sleeper, of Roxbury, and now lives in Boston.
AMBROSE EASTMAN, son of Philip and Mary (Ambrose) Eastman, was born in North Yarmouth, Me., April 18,1834, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1854. He stud- ied law with Philip Eastman in Saco, Me., and was admitted to the York county bar in Maine in 1858 and afterwards in Boston. He married Charlotte S. Haines in Bid- deford, Me., September 15, 1864, and lives in Boston.
GEORGE WARREN COPELAND, son of Daniel and Eliza (Coburn) Copeland, was born in Boston, April 4, 1833, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Amherst College in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 29, 1858. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1863 to 1865, and was president for some years of the Boston Butler Club. In law he has been con- nected with an important suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and in literature he has been a lecturer of note. He married in Melrose, May 8, 1860, Sarah A. Shelton, and in Boston in July, 1875, Annie Loring Harmon, and died in Malden, Mass., May 27, 1892.
WILLIAM FAXON, Jr., son of William and Henrietta B. (Cross) Faxon, was born in Cambridge, Mass., September 26, 1860, and graduated at Harvardin 1883. He stud- ied law in the Boston University Law School and in the office of A. A. Ranney and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1886. His home is in Boston.
GEORGE ZACCHEUS ADAMS, son of Charles and Nancy (Robbins) Adams, was born in Chelmsford, Mass., April 23, 1833, and received his early education in the public schools, at the Westford Academy and Phillips Andover Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1856 and studied law in the office of Oliver Stevens in Boston and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1858. He is special justice of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston. He married, September 16, 1861, Joanna F., daughter of Charles and Joan F. (Hagar) Davenport, and lives in Boston.
SAMUEL NELSON ALDRICH, son of Sylvanus Bucklin and Lucy Jane (Stoddard) Al- drich, was born in Upton, Mass., February 3, 1838, and was educated at the Worcester Academy, the academy at Southington, Conn., and Brown University. He taught school in Worcester, Upton and Holliston. He studied law in the office of Isaac Da- vis in Worcester and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Worcester county bar in 1863. He at once began business in Marlboro, opening an office in Bos- ton in 1874. He has been many years a member of the School Board of Marlboro, a member of the Board of Selectmen and its chairman, president of the Marlboro Board of Trade, president of the Framingham and Lowell Railroad and of the Central Mas- sachusetts Railroad. In 1879-80 he was a member of the Senate, in 1881 a Demo- cratic candidate for Congress and in 1883 a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1887 he was appointed United States assistant treasurer in Bos-
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ton and on his retirement from that position in 1889 he was chosen president of the State National Bank in Boston, which position he still holds. He married at Upton in 1865, Mary J., daughter of J. T. and Eliza A. (Colburn) Macfarland, and lives in Boston.
HENRY KING BRALEY, son of Samuel T. and Mary A. Braley, was born in Roches- ter, Mass., March 17, 1850, and was educated in the Rochester Academy and the Pierce Academy, Middleboro, Mass. He studied law in Bridgewater in the office of Hosea Kingman and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in October, 1813. He al- ways practiced in Fall River until in 1891 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He was city solicitor of Fall River in 1874 and mayor in 1882-83. He mar- ried in Bridgewater, April 29, 1875, Caroline W., daughter of Philander and Sarah T. Leach, and still lives in Fall River.
PHILLIP EDWARD BRADY, Son of Philip and Rose (Goodwin) Brady, was born in Attle- boro, Mass., August 16, 1859, and was educated in the public schools. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1882 and after studying in Attleboro in the office of Geo. A. Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. In 1885 he opened an office in North Attleboro and was appointed by President Cleveland postmaster of Attleboro.
HEMAN MERRICK BURR, son of Isaac Tucker and Ann Frances (Hardon) Burr, was born in Newton, Mass., July 28, 1856, and received his early education in the public schools. He graduated at Harvard in 1877 and studied law at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1884, and entered upon practice in Boston. He was a member of the Common Council of Newton in 1887 and 1888, and in 1889 mayor of the city. He married in Boston, November 29, 1881, Mary Fran- ces, daughter of Samuel T. and Mary Hartwell (Barr) Ames.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BRYANT, son of Jeremy Y. and Mercy P. Bryant, was born in Andover, N. H., February 25, 1825, and attended at various times the High School at Franklin, N. H., and the Boscawen, Concord, Claremont, Gilmanton, New London and New Hampton academies and Waterville College. At the age of twenty-two he began the study of law in Franklin in the office of Nesmith & Pike and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848. He wasadmitted to the bar at Plym- outh, N. H., in 1849 and opened an office in Bristol, where he remained until 1853, when he removed to Plymouth. He was county commissioner for Grafton county three years and afterwards county prosecuting attorney. In 1855 he removed to Con- cord, N. H., and became associated with Lyman T. Flint. He was city solicitor for Concord three years, member of the Legislature and two years speaker of the House of Representatives, and a delegate to the National Republican Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860. In 1860 he moved to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 17 in that year. Besides a practice in the courts he has engaged in literary pursuits involving much general and special study, and has been called upon to deliver lecturesin the Lyceum and historical addresses at centennial anniversaries of his native town and of Brandon, Vt. He married in May, 1849, Susan M., daughter of Abram Brown, of Northfield, N. H., and while living partly in Boston has his legal residence in Andover, N. H.
FRANCIS BROOKS, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Boot) Brooks, was born in Medford, Mass., November 1, 1824, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846. His
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name will be found in the Harvard Catalogue as Francis Boott Brooks, the name he bore until 1854, when he dropped his middle name. He was admitted to the bar Jan- tary 1, 1848. He married, first, May 6, 1850, Mary Jones, daughter of Ebenezer Chad- wick, of Boston, and second, November 29, 1854, Louise, daughter of Henry and Mary Ann (Davis) Winsor, of Boston. He died at Medford, October 27, 1891.
LINCOLN FLAGG BRIGHAM, Son of Lincoln and Lucy (Forbes) Brigham, was born in Cam- bridge, October 4, 1819, and fitted at the public schools for Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1842. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in New Bedford in the offices of John H. Clifford and Harrison G. (. Colby, and was admitted to the Bristol county bar in 1845. After his admission he associated himself with John H. Clifford, and the partnership continued until Mr. Clifford was inaugurated governor of the Commonwealth in January, 1853. He was appointed district attorney for the Southern District, and continued in office six years. In 1859 he was appointed asso- ciate justice of the Superior Court, established in that year, and in 1869, on the pro- motion of Seth Ames to the Superior Judicial Court, he was made chief justice. In 1890 he resigned and no man ever left the bench of a Massachusetts court more re- spected and beloved. He married, at New Bedford, October 20, 1847, Eliza Endicott, daughter of Thomas and Sylvia (Perry) Swain, and has many years lived in Salem.
JAMES MADISON BARKER, Son of John V. and Sarah (Apthorp) Barker, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., October 23, 1839, and was fitted at various schools and academies for Williams College, where he graduated in 1860. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 13, 1863. He at once opened an office in Pittsfield and continued in practice there, associated at different times with Charles N. Emerson and Thomas P. Pengree until 1889, when he was appointed judge on the bench of the Superior Court. In 1891 he was promoted to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court, which he still occupies. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1872-73, and a commissioner on the revision of the statutes in 1881. He married in Bath, N. Y., September 21, 1864. Helena, daughter of Levi Carter and Pamelia Nelson (Woods) Whiting.
CALEB BLODGETT, son of Caleb and Charlotte (Piper) Blodgett, was born in Dorehes- ter, N. H., June 3, 1832, and received his early education at the Canaan, N. H., Acad- emy, and the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1856 and afterwards taught for two years the Leominster, Mass., High School. He studied law in the office of Bacon & Aldrich in Worcester, and was ad- mitted to the bar in Worcester in February, 1860. He opened an office in Hopkin- ton, but afterwards removed to Boston, where he was associated in business with Halsey J. Boardman until 1882, when he was appointed judge of the Superior Court. In 1882 he received from Dartmouth the degree of LL. D. He married, December 14, 1865, at Canaan, N. H., Roxie B., daughter of Jesse and Emily A. (Green) Martin.
CHESTER W. EATON, son of Lilley and Eliza (Nichols) Eaton, was born in Wakefield, Mass., January 13, 1839, and was educated in the public schools and at Dartmouth College. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 16, 1864. He began to practice in South Reading, now Wakefield, and in 1868 opened an office in Boston, continuing to practice in both places. He served during the war as a private in the Fiftieth Massachusetts Regiment and has held in
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Wakefield the positions of town clerk, collector, and treasurer of the Wakefield Sav- ings Bank, and many others indicative of the confidence reposed in him by the citi- zens of his native town. He married Emma (., daughter of Rev. Giles and Eliza- beth ('l hompson) Leach in Rye, N. H., May 14, 1868.
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