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JUSTIN DEWEY, son of Justin and Melinda (Kelsey) Dewey, was born in Alford, Mass., June 12, 1836, and fitted in Alford and Great Barrington for Williams College, where he graduated in 1858. He studied law in Great Barrington in the office of Increase Sumner and was admitted to the Berkshire bar in November, 1860. He was a mem- ber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1862 and 1877, and a member of the Senate in 1879. In 1886 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and is still on the bench. He married Jane, daughter of George and Clara (Wadhams) Stan- ley in Great Barrington, February 8, 1865.
JAMES ROBERT DUNBAR, son of Henry W. and Elizabeth (Richards) Dunbar, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., December 23, 1847, and graduated at Williams College in 1871. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Westfield in the office of Henry M. Whitney, with whom he formed a partnership in 1874. He was in the Senate in 1885 and 1886, and his service and deportment there gave him a reputation which led to his appointment in 1888 to a seat on the bench of the Superior Court. He married, May 15, 1875, at Westfield, Harriet P., daughter of George A. and Electa N. (Lin- coln) Walton, and he now resides in Newton.
JOHN WILKES HAMMOND, son of John Wilkes and Maria Louisa (Southworth) Ham- mond, was born in Mattapoisett (then Rochester), December 16, 1837, and fitted at the public schools of his native town for Tufts College, where he graduated in 1861. After leaving college he taught school in Tisbury, Stoughton, Wakefield and Melrose, serving, during an interval, nine months in the Third Massachusetts Regiment. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Sweetser & Gardner, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1861. He practiced in Cambridge and was representative in 1872 and '73, city solicitor three years, and was appointed in 1886 to the seat he continues to occupy on the bench of the Superior Court. He married in Taunton, August 15, 1866, Clara Ellen, daughter of Benjamin F. and Clara (Foster) Tweed, and lives in Cambridge.
WILLIAM H. HART, son of William and Elizabeth (Bruce) Hart, was born in Lynn, Mass., December 22, 1836, and was educated in the public schools. He entered the army in 1862 as a private in the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery and was after- wards sergeant and second lieutenant in that regiment. In 1864 he joined the Thirty-sixth Regiment of United States Colored troops as captain and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and was for a time assistant adjutant-general and assistant in- spector-general in the Twenty-fifth Corps. He studied law in the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, June 20, 1874. He is a special justice of the Chelsea Police Court and resides in Chelsea. He married Susan J., daughter of Samuel and Susan (Waterman) Harris, in Springfield, February 1, 1866.
MARCUS P. KNOWLTON, son of Merrick and Fatima (Perrin) Knowlton, was born in Wilbraham, Mass., February 3, 1839, and received his early education at the public schools and at Monson Academy. He graduated at Yale in 1866, and after leaving college served a year as teacher of the Union School in Norwalk, Conn. He studied law in the office of James G. Allen, of Palmer, Mass., and in the office of John Wells
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and Augustus L. Soule, in Springfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1862, in Springfield, where he has since always lived. In 1881 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and in 1887 was promoted to the seat on the beneh of the Supreme Judicial Court which he still occupies. He married Sophia, daughter of William and Saba A. (Cushman) Ritchie at Springfield, July 18, 1867.
HENRY CABOT LODGE, son of John Ellerton and Anna (Cabot) Lodge, was born in Boston, May 12, 1850. He attended the schools of Thomas Russell Sullivan and Epes Sargent Dixwell, and after visiting Europe in 1866 he entered Harvard and graduated in 1871. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1845. He entered at once on a literary rather than a legal career, and at various times before 1881 edited the North American Review, the International Review, and was employed at Harvard as a lecturer on American History. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa- tives in 1880 and '81, and since that time, though engaged at intervals on literary work, has trod the paths of politics. He has published " Lives of Alexander Hamil- ton and George Washington and Daniel Webster" in the "American Statesmen Series," and edited the " Publie Life and Letters of George Cabot," and the "Works of Alexander Hamilton." In 1886 he was chosen member of Congress from the dis- trict which ineludes Nahant, the place of his residence, and has been chosen by the Legislature of 1893 United States senator for six years. In 1848 he was chosen a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1879 a trustee of the Boston Athene- um, in 1880 an honorary member of the Cobden Club, in 1879 delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston, and in 1880 delivered a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute on the English Colonies in America. He married in Cambridge, June 29, 1871, Anna Cabot Mills, daughter of Rear-Admiral Charles H. Davis.
ALBERT MASON, son of Albert T. and Arlina (Orcutt) Mason, was born in Middle- boro', Mass., November 7, 1836, and was educated in the publie schools and in the Pierce Academy in Middleboro'. After engaging for a time in the manufacturing business in Plymouth, he studied law in that town in the office of Edward L. Sher- man, and was admitted to the Plymouth bar February 15, 1860. Soon after begin- ning practice in Plymouth he enlisted as a private in one of two companies raised by William T. Davis at the request of Governor Andrew, for the Thirty-eighth Regi- ment of Massachusetts Volunteers, and was recommended by Mr. Davis for a com- mission as second lieutenant in Company F of that regiment. He received the com- mission and served until 1865 as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain and assis- tant quartermaster. On his return from the army he resumed his practice in Plymouth and later opened also an office in Boston and was associated in business in either Plymouth or Boston, or both, with Arthur Lord and Benjamin R. Curtis. He was a member and the chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Plymouth from 1866 to 1873 inclusive, and a representative from Plymouth in 1873 and '74. In 1814 he was ap- pointed a member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners and in that year moved from Plymouth to Brookline, where he still resides. In 1882 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and in 1890 was appointed to succeed Lincoln Flagg Brigham as chief justice of that Court. He married Lydia F., daughter of Nathan and Experi- enee (Finney) Whiting at Plymouth, November 25, 1857.
ELISHA BURR MAYNARD, son of Walter and Hannah (Burr) Maynard, was born in Wilbraham, Mass., November 21, 1842, and received his early education at the pub-
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lic schools. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1867, and studying law in Spring- field, Mass., in the office of George M. Stearns and Marcus P. Knowlton, was ad- mitted to the Hampden county bar in 1868. He always practiced in Springfield un- til 1891, when he was appointed judge of the Superior Court. In 1879 he was a mem- ber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and in 1887 and '88 was mayor of Springfield, where he still lives. He married Kate C., daughter of Calvin and Sarah (Townshend) Doty, of Springfield, Penn., August 25, 1870.
BUSHROD MORSE, son of Willard and Eliza (Glover) Morse, was born in Sharon, Mass., August 24, 1837, and received his early education in the public schools, the Providence Conference Seminary, and the Pierce Academy in Middleboro', Mass. He took part of a course at Amherst College in the class of 1860, leaving college on account of his health. He studied law in North Easton and Boston, and was ad- mitted to the bar in Boston November 5, 1864. He has been a member of the School Committee of Sharon, where, though practicing in Boston, he still resides, was a representative in 1870, '83 and '84, presidential elector in 1884, and Democratic candi- date for Congress in 1886 and 1890. He is now one of the special justices of the Southern Norfolk District Court. He married Gertie S., daughter of James and Sarah A. (Loomer) Gertridge, in Windsor, Nova Scotia, September 29, 1871.
JOHN TORREY MORSE, son of John Torrey and Lucy Cabot (Jackson) Morse, was born in Boston, January 9, 1840, and received his early education at private schools in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1860, and after reading law in the office of John Lowell in Boston was admitted to the Suffolk bar, August 4, 1862. After prac- ticing about eighteen years, during which his tastes were leading him into a literary career, he abandoned the law and has since that time devoted himself to more con- genial work in the field of literature. He has published many works, among which may be mentioned " The Law of Banks and Banking," "The Law of Arbitration and Award," the " Life of Alexander Hamilton," and biographies of Thomas Jeffer- son, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Benjamin Franklin, published in the Statesmen Series. He has been also a frequent and valuable contributor to the pages of law and other magazines and to the columns of the daily press. He married Fanny, daughter of George O. Hovey, of Boston, in 1865, and resides in Boston.
MARCUS MORTON, a descendant of George Morton, one of the early Plymouth colo- nists and son of Nathaniel and Mary (Cary) Morton, was born in Freetown, Mass., February 19, 1784, and graduated at Brown University in 1804. He studied law at the Law School in Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar about 1807, and settled in Taunton, Mass. He was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate in 1811, member of Congress from 1817 to 1821, member of the Executive Council in 1823, and lieutenant-governor in 1824. In 1825 he was appointed by Governor Levi Lincoln judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and resigned in 1840 to take his seat as governor of the Commonwealth, a position which he again held in 1843. In 1845 he was appointed by President Polk collector of the port of Boston, and continued in office until 1848. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1858. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1840. He married in 1807, Charlotte, daughter of James Hodges, of Taunton, and died in Taunton February 6, 1864.
MARCUS MORTON, jr., son of Marcus and Charlotte (Hodges) Morton, was born in Taunton April 8, 1819, and graduated at Brown University in 1838. He graduated
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also at the Harvard Law School in 1840, and after further pursuing his studies in Bos- ton in the office of Peleg Sprague and William Gray, was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1841. In 1850 he removed to Andover and represented that town in the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in the Legislature of 1858. In the latter year he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Suffolk county to succeed Josiah G. Abbott, who had resigned, and remained on the bench until the abolition of that court in 1859. In the organization of the Superior Court for the Common- wealth he was appointed one of the justices, and there he remained until 1869, when he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. In 1882 he was made chief justice to succeed Horace Gray, who had been appointed an associate judge of the United States Supreme Court, and served until 1890, when he resigned. He married Abby B., daughter of Henry and Amy (Harris) Hoppin at Providence, R. r., October 19, 1843, and died at Andover February 10, 1891.
MARCUS MORTON 3d, son of Marcus and Abby B. (Hoppin) Morton, was born in Andover, Mass., April 27, 1862, and was fitted at Phillips Andover Academy for Yale University, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1886. His residence is in Andover.
NATHANIEL FOSTER SAFFORD, son of Nathaniel Foster and Hannah (Woodbury) Saf- ford, was born in Salem, Mass., September 19, 1815, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1835. He studied law in Salem in the office of Asahel Huntington, and was ad- mitted to the Essex bar in 1838. He practiced law in Dorchester and Milton many years, but for thirty years before his death his office was in Boston. He was a rep- resentative from Dorchester in 1850-51, and was chairman of the Norfolk Board of County Commissioners twenty-one years. He married Josephine Eugenia, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Wheeler) Morton at Milton, February 10, 1845, and died at Mil- ton, April 22, 1891.
ROBERT ALEXANDER SOUTHWORTH, son of Alexander and Helen Southworth, was born in Medford, Mass., May 6, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied law in the office of Charles T. & Thomas H. Russell in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 25, 1876. He was assistant clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives four years, and a member of the Senate in 1888. He married Mary Eliza, daughter of William H. and Sarah A. B. Finney, and lives in Boston.
HAMILTON BARCLAY STAPLES, son of Welcome and Susan Staples, was born in Men- don, Mass., February 14, 1829, and graduated at Brown University in 1851. He studied law in Providence, R. I., and in Worcester, Mass., and was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1854. He practiced in Milford until 1869, associated at different times with Adin Ballou Underwood, and John C. Scaminell, and Charles A. Dewey, and William F. Slocum, and in that year moved to Worcester, where he was associ- ated with Francis P. Goulding until 1881, when he was appointed judge on the bench of the Superior Court. For eight years he was district attorney of the Middle District. In 1884 he received the degree of LL.D. from his alma mater. He married Elizabeth A. Godfrey in Mendon in 1858, and October 8, 1868, at Northampton, Mary Clinton, daughter of Charles A. Dewey. He died in 1891.
THOMAS M. STETSON, son of Rev. Caleb and Julia Ann (Meriam) Stetson, was born in Medford, Mass., June 15, 1830, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He studied
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law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 1854. He settled in New Bedford, where he has always continued to practice, associated at various times with Thomas D. Eliot, Robert C. Pitman, and later with his son, Eliot D. Stetson. He married Caroline Dawes, daughter of Thomas Dawes and Frances L. (Brock) Eliot, of New Bedford, where he still resides.
HOMER BEMIS STEVENS, son of Washington and Ruth Simons (Bemis) Stevens, was born in Norwich, now Huntington, Mass., September 9, 1835, and graduated at Will- iams College in 1857. He studied law in Westfield and after admission to the bar settled in Boston but finally connected himself in business with E. B. Gillett in West- field, where he is now standing justice of the Western Hampden District Court. He married Mariette, daughter of Moses and Juvenelia (Curtis) Hannum, of Huntington (formerly Norwich.)
CHARLES WARREN SUMNER, son of Charles C. and Clarissa (Lane) Sumner, was born in Foxboro', Mass., December 3, 1848, and graduated at Tufts College in 1869. He studied law in Boston in the office of Moorfield Storey, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar in April, 1872. He remained one year in Boston, and in August, 1873, removed to Brockton, where he continued in practice until his death, associated until 1881 with Jonathan White. In 1874 he was appointed a special justice of the First Plymouth District Court; and in 1885 he was appointed justice of the Brockton Police Court, which position he held until he was appointed district attorney for the Southeastern District, to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Hosea Kingman. In November, 1889, he was chosen to fill out the, unexpired term of his predecessor, and died in January, 1890. He married Clara G., daughter of Ellis and Abby (Heard) Packard in Brockton September 1, 1874.
WILLIAM HAWTHORNE, or Hathorne, was born in England in 1608, and settled in Dorchester, Mass., from whence he removed to Salem in 1636. He was a deputy to the General Court, and speaker from May 29, 1644, to October 2, 1645, and an assistant from 1662 to 1679. He died in Salem in 1681.
ELEAZER LUSHER Was an assistant from 1662 to 1672.
JOHN PYNCHON was born in England in 1625, and came to Massachusetts in 1648 and settled in Springfield. He was the son of William Pynchon already referred to. He was a deputy to the General Court in 1659-62-63, and an assistant from 1665 to 1686. He was one of the founders of Northampton, and died January 17, 1703.
EDWARD TYNG was an assistant from 1668 to 1680.
THOMAS CLARKE Was an assistant from 1673 to 1617.
PETER BULKLEY, son of Rev. Peter Bulkley, was born in Concord, Mass., August 12, 1643, and graduated at Harvard in 1660. He was representative many years and speaker of the House of Deputies from May 19, 1669, to May 31, 1671, and again from May 15, 1672, to May 7, 1673. He was an assistant from 1667 to 1684, and died at Concord in May, 1688.
HUMPHREY DAVY was an assistant from 1679 to 1686.
PETER TILTON was an assistant from 1680 to 1686.
JOHN RICHARDS, son of Thomas, was born in England, and came to Massachusetts with his father in 1630. He was treasurer of Harvard College from 1669 to 1682, and again from 1686 to 1693. He was a deputy from Newbury from 1671 to 1673, and
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afterwards from Hadley in 1675, and from Boston in 1679-80, and speaker of the House in the last two years. He was an assistant from 1680 to 1686, and a judge of the Superior Court of Judicature from 1692 to 1694. He died April 2, 1694.
JOHN HULL was an assistant from 1680 to 1683.
BARTHOLOMEW GEDNEY Was a physician and lived in Salem. He was born in 1640, and was an assistant from 1680 to 1683, and a member of the Councils of Dudley and Andros. He was one of the judges appointed in 1692 to try the witches, and in the same year was appointed judge of probate for Essex county, and one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for that county. He died February 28, 1698-9.
THOMAS SAVAGE Was an assistant in 1680 and 1681.
WILLIAM BROWN was born in Salem in 1639, and was the son of William. He was an assistant from 1680 to 1683, and died February 14, 1716.
SAMUEL APPLETON was an assistant from 1681 to 1686.
ROBERT PIKE Was an assistant from 1682 to 1686.
SAMUEL FISHER Was an assistant in 1683.
JOHN WOODBRIDGE was an assistant in 1683 and 1684.
WILLIAM JOHNSON Was an assistant from 1684 to 1686.
JOHN HAWTHORNE, or Hathorne, son of William, was born in Salem about 1641, was assistant from 1684 to 1686, and judge of the Superior Court of Judicature from August 14, 1702, to June, 1712, and died in Boston May 10, 1717.
ELISHA HUTCHINSON, son of Edward, was born in Boston in 1640 and was an assist- ant from 1684 to 1686. Though a merchant he was appointed, March 3, 1693, chief justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county and remained on the bench until his death, December 10, 1717.
SAMUEL SEWALL, son of Henry, came from England in 1661 at the age of nine years and graduated at Harvard in 1671. He studied divinity and occasionally preached, but probably had no settlement. He was an assistant from 1684 to 1686, and again after the deposition of Andros until 1692. Under the provincial government he was a member of the Council until 1725. In 1692 he was appointed one of the judges to try the witches, and on the organization of the Superior Court of Judicature he was made one of the associate justices. In 1718 he was appointed to succeed Wait Win- throp as chief justice, and served until 1728, when he resigned both that position and the office of judge of probate for Suffolk county, which he had held since 1715. He died in January, 1730.
ISAAC ADDINGTON, son of Isaac, was born in Boston January 22, 1645, and was edu- cated as a surgeon. He was a member of the House of Deputies and speaker in 1685. In 1686 he was an assistant, and after the deposition of Andros was made secretary of the colony, an office he continued to hold under the provincial charter until his death. He was judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county from March 3, 1693, to 1702, when he was appointed chief justice of the Su- perior Court of Judicature, and remained in office one year. He died March 19, 1715.
JOHN SMITH was an assistant in 1686.
OLIVER PURCHASE was chosen an assistant in 1685 and declined.
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OTIS MADISON SHAW, son of Charles A. and Sophia L. Shaw, was born in Biddeford, Me., December 7, 1857, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1881. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Allen, Long & Hemenway in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He makes patent law a specialty. His residence is in Boston.
EDWARD HOSMER SAVARY, son of Rey. William H. and Anna (Hosmer) Savary, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., July 22, 1864, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1888. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of Brooks & Nichols and Melville M. Weston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and to the Circuit Court of the United States January 23, 1892. He was the law editor of the Boston Real Estate Record from February to May, 1891. He resides in South Boston.
SUMNER ROBINSON, son of Charles and Rebecca T. (Ames) Robinson, was born in Charlestown, Mass., October 26, 1866, and graduated at Tufts College in 1888. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 21, 1891. He is a trustee of Tufts College and lives in Newton.
WILLIAM EVERETT ROGERS, son of Edward and Charlotte A. (Barron) Rogers, was born in Webster, Mass., July 16, 1854, and was educated at the Hartford, Conn., High School and Trinity College, from which he graduated in 1877. He graduated also at the Boston University Law School in 1880, and continued his law studies in Franklin, N. H., in the office of Daniel Barnard, and in Boston in the office of J. H. Benton. He was admitted to the bar at Concord, N. H., in August, 1880, and at Boston in November of the same year. He has been a member of the School Board in Wakefield, Mass., where he resides, since 1887, and the treasurer of the Beebe Town Library in that town since 1886. He married, July 6, 1881, at Tilton, N. H., Ellen S. Cate, of Franklin, N. H.
JOHN PAUL ROBINSON, son of Paul and Nancy (Gage) Robinson, was born in Dover, N. H., March 16, 1800, and after fitting at the Exeter Academy entered Harvard in 1819. He failed to finish his course, but in 1845 received a degree of Master of Arts. In August, 1823, he entered the office of Daniel Webster in Boston as a student, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 9, 1827. He established himself in Lowell and continued in business there, serving as a representative in 1829-31, 1833, '39, and as senator in 1835. He was an eminent Greek scholar and a man of high attainments in other fields of literature. He married, October 2, 1837, Nancy, daughter of Ezra and Mary (Lang) Worthen, of Lowell, and died at the Insane Asylum, Somerville, October 19, 1864.
JOHN GERRY ROBINSON, son of Joseph H. and Eliza H. Robinson, was born in Marblehead, Mass., November 24, 1860, and was educated chiefly by private tutors. He studied law at the Georgetown Law School, in the office of Merrick & Morris in Washington, D. C., at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Hyde, Dickinson & Howe, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886. His residence is in Melrose.
JOHN JONES CLARKE, son of Rev. Pitt Clarke, of Norton, Mass., and Rebecca (Jones) Clarke, of Hopkinton, Mass., was born in Norton, Mass., February 24, 1803. He was educated at the Norton, Framingham and Andover Academies, and entered
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Harvard in 1819. In consequence of the rebellion, which occurred during his senior years, he with a large majority of his class failed to receive a degree, but in 1841 the degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him. He studied law in the offices of Laban Wheaton, of Norton, and James Richardson, of Dedham, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June, 20, 1828. He had previously been admitted in either Norfolk or Bristol counties to the Court of Common Pleas in 1826. He established himself in Roxbury, and made that place his residence during the remainder of life. In 1848 he associated himself in business with his brother, Manlius Stimson Clarke in Boston, retaining, however, his office in Roxbury for some years. On the death of his brother in 1853 he was associated for a time with Elias Merwin, and in 1854 with Lemuel Shaw, jr., with whom he remained until 1863, soon after which time he retired from business. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Roxbury in 1836 and 1837, a senator in 1853, and when Roxbury was made a city in 1846 he was chosen its mayor, declining to serve more than one year. He married in 1830 Rebecca Cordis Haswell, and died in the Roxbury District of Boston Novem- ber 5, 1887.
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