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WILLIAM SEWALL GARDNER was born in Hallowell, Me., October 1, 1827, and gradu- ated at Bowdoin College in 1850. He studied law in Lowell and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1852. He began practice in Lowell, associated with Theodore H. Sweetser, and remained there until 1861, when he removed his office to Boston. In 1875 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court, and in 1885 he was promoted to the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court. He resigned on the 7th of September, 1887, and died at his home in Newton, April 4, 1888.
ABRAHAM MOORE was born in Bolton, Mass., January 5, 1785, and graduated at Harvard in 1806. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow in Groton, Mass., and after admission to the bar began to practice in that town. He was postmaster of Groton from 1812 to 1815, when he removed to Boston, where he remained until his death, January 3, 1854. He married first Mary (Mills), a double widow of a Mr. Barnard and a Mr. Woodham. She had been an actress, and in consequence of her husband's financial troubles, returned to the stage and appeared in Boston as Lady Teasle. Two of Mr. Moore's daughters by this wife married John Cockran Park, a distin-
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guished member of the Suffolk bar, and Grenville Mears, a well known merchant of Boston. Mr. Moore married second in 1819, Eliza, daughter of Isaac Durell.
THEODORE HARRISON SWEETSER Was born in Wardsboro', Vt., in 1821, and entered Amherst College, but did not finish his college course. He studied law with Tappan Wentworth in Lowell and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1843. He began to practice in Lowell, and continued there, associated at different times with Benjamin Poole and William Sewall Gardner until 1879, when he removed to Boston. He was a member of the Common Council of Lowell in 1851, city solicitor in 1853-54, '59-60 and 61, a member of the House of Representatives in 1870, and at one time the Democratic candidate for governor. He died in Boston, May 8, 1882.
GEORGE MERRICK BROOKS, son of Nathan and Mary (Merrick) Brooks, was born in Concord, Mass., in 1824, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He studied law with Hopkinson & Ames in Lowell and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1847. He has always lived in Concord, where he has been a selectman five years, and was in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1858 and in the Senate in 1859. From 1869 to 1872 he was a member of Congress, and in the latter year was appointed judge of probate for Middlesex county, which position he still holds. He married in 1851 Abba Prescott, and in 1869 Mary A. Dillingham, of Lowell.
ARTHUR P. CUSHING, son of Thomas and Elizabeth A. (Baldwin) Cushing, was born in Scituate, Mass., August 16, 1856, and received his early education at the Chauncy Hall School in Boston, and in Germany and Switzerland. He graduated at at Harvard in 1878 and prosecuted his law studies at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county in 1882. He has been the Mexican consul in Boston since 1887.
CLEMENT KELSEY FAY, son of Harrison and Sarah P. Fay, was born in Brookline, Mass., November 17, 1845, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He studied law with Ropes & Gray in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1869. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Brookline in 1885 and 1886; prison commissioner in 1886 and 1887, and has been, or is now, a trustee of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge; one of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary; trustee of the Brookline Public Library, and president of the Law Enforcement Association. His residence is in Brookline.
JOIN COCHRAN PARK was born in Boston, June 10, 1804, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. He was admitted to the bar in 1827. In 1851 he was appointed district attorney for the Suffolk district, and remained in office two years. In 1860 he re- moved his residence to Newton, continuing, however, his office in Boston. In 1881 he was appointed justice of the Newton Police Court, and held that office until his death. In early life he was an active member of the volunteer militia and at differ- ent periods commanded the City Guards, the Boston Light Infantry, and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. During the last three years of the Whig party he was one of its most prominent and efficient members, ready at all times with his rare oratorical powers to advocate its principles and promote its success. He mar- ried twice, his first wife being the daughter of Abraham Moore already mentioned. He died at Newton, April 21, 1889.
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CHARLES JOHN MCINTIRE was born in Cambridge, March 26, 1842. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1865. During the period of his law study he served nine months in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. He has been a member of the Common Council of Cambridge, a member of the Board of Aldermen, and was a member of the House of Representatives in 1869 and 1870. He has also been assistant district attorney for Middlesex and city solicitor of Cambridge, where he resides. He married in 1865 Maria Terese, daugh- ter of George B. Linegan, of Charlestown.
GEORGE HENRY GORDON Was born in Charlestown, July 19, 1825, and graduated at West Point in 1846. He served in the Mounted Rifles under General Scott in the Mexican War and was brevetted first lieutenant April 18, 1847, for gallant conduct in the field. He was made first lieutenant August 30, 1853, and resigned October 31, 1854. He then studied law at the Harvard Law School and after admission to the bar began practice in Boston. In 1861 he was commissioned colonel of the Second Massachusetts Regiment and was made brigadier general of volunteers June 9, 1862. He was engaged in the second battle of Bull Run and Antietam, and in the opera- tions about Charleston harbor and against Mobile in 1863 and 1864. He was bre- vetted major general of volunteers April 9, 1865, and mustered out August 20, 1865. After his discharge from the service he practiced law in Boston until his death, which took place at Framingham, August 30, 1866.
GEORGE HERBERT HARDING, son of George W. and Harriet M. Harding, was born in Burlington, Vt., April 30, 1854. He attended Phillips Exeter and Andover acad- emies and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881. He is chiefly engaged in trust business. He married Helen B. Hall at Bristol, R. I., May 25, 1887.
OTIS L. BONNEY was born in Hanson, Mass., December 2, 1838, and attended the public schools of that town until 1852, when his parents removed to Boston. He there attended the Phillips Grammar School, receiving the Franklin medal, and the Eng- lish High School. After attending Comer's Commercial College he engaged as a book-keeper in a business house until the autumn of 1861, when he enlisted for three years' service in Company E, Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment. After his re- turn from the war he taught school for five years in Halifax, Hanson, Weymouth and Charlestown, and studied law in Boston in the office of Ropes & Gray. He was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar on examination in March, 1874, and began practice in Bos- ton. In 1880, while holding as he still does his residence in Hanson, he opened an office in Whitman, Mass., and is now a practicing lawyer in that town. He married, November 26, 1867, Grace, daughter of Theodore Cobb, of Hanson.
JONATHAN DORR, son of Ralph Smith and Nancy (Williams) Dorr, was born in Louis- ville, Ky., January 1, 1842, and after attending the Roxbury, Mass., Latin School, entered Harvard and graduated in 1864. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1874. His business is chiefly connected with trusts and corporation affairs. He married Anne Isabella Kennedy in Roxbury, September 17, 1867, and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston.
EDWARD WARREN CATE, son of Hiram S. and Caroline P. Cate, was born in New- ton (Lower Falls), March 18, 1852, and fitted at the public schools for Harvard, where
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he graduated in 1874. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Middlesex bar July 8, 1878. He has been councilman, alderman, and president of the Water Board in Newton. He married Mary Louise Doty at Keene, N. H., October 25, 1883, and lives in Boston.
JOHN MELVILLE GOULD, son of John B. and Caroline E. Gould, was born in Marsh- field, Mass., July 4, 1848, and graduated at Brown University in 1871. He studied law in England and at the Harvard and Boston University Law Schools, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar December 12, 1874. He is the author of " The Law of Wa- ters " and associate author of Gould & Tucker's "Notes on United States Revised Statutes," and editor of the 9th and 10th volumes of Story's Equity Pleadings. His residence is in Newton.
NELSON M. GRAFFAM was an attorney in Boston in 1890, and died in December, 1891.
AMBROSE WELLINGTON, Son of Benjamin Oliver and Mary (Hastings) Wellington, was born in Lexington, Mass., April 11, 1819, and attended the Lexington public schools, the academy at Stow under the charge of Leonard Bliss, and the Fairmount Seminary in Watertown, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1841 and after teach- ing several years, a part of the time as master of the Smith School in Boston, he studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1857, confining his practice chiefly to conveyancing and real estate matters. He married Lucy Jane, daughter of William Kent, of Concord, N. H., May 27, 1845. With impaired healthi he retired some years since from practice and now lives with a daughter in the city of New York.
CHARLES FREDERICK SIMMONS, son of Judge William and Lucia (Hammatt) Simmons, was born in Boston, January 27, 1821. After receiving a common school education he was fitted for college in the Boston Latin School and under the direction of his brother, Rev. George Frederick Simmons, and entered Harvard in 1837. In his sen- ior year he was expelled from college as an alleged leader in a rebellion in which his entire class was involved, but received his degree in 1855. He studied law with Da- vid A. Simmons and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1845. Early in the war he was commissioned adjutant of the Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment, but ill health compelled him to resign. For expected benefits fronda warm climate he sailed from Boston for Santiago, Cuba, February 25, 1862, in the brig Gypsy, of which no tidings were ever heard.
CHRISTOPHER GORE RIPLEY, son of Rev. Samuel and Sarah Alden (Bradford) Ripley, was born in Waltham, Mass., September 6, 1822, and was educated for college by his father and mother, both of whom were accomplished educators. He entered the sophomore class at Harvard in 1838 and graduated in 1841. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Franklin Dexter and William H. Gardiner, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1844. In 1855 he removed to Brownsville, Minn., and in 1856 to Chatfield in the same State, and in 1870 was ap- pointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota. He resigned in 1874 and returned to Concord, Mass., where he remained in poor health until his death, which occurred October 15, 1881. He married, December 14, 1863, Mrs. Fanny Gage, a daughter of Gideon Horton, of New Orleans.
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SAMUEL FOSTER MCCLEARY, son of Samuel Foster and Maria Lynde (Walter) Mc- Cleary, was born in Boston, July 14, 1822, and received his early education at the public schools of Boston and the Boston Latin School, receiving the Franklin medal. He graduated at Ilarvard in 1841 and at the Harvard Law School in 1843, complet- ing his studies in Boston in the office of John A. Andrew, and being admitted to the Suffolk bar October 9. 1844. He succeeded his father as city clerk of Boston and held the office thirty-one years, his father having held it thirty years. In 1883, fail- ing a re-election, he was appointed manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of Boston, but resigned in 1888. He has been trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank, secretary of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, and is now treasurer of the Franklin Fund for the benefit of young mechanics. He married, February 1, 1855, Emily Thurston, daughter of Captain James Henry and Eliza Lawrence (Farris) Barnard, of Nantucket, Mass., and lives in Brookline.
ABRAHAM JACKSON, Son of Abraham and Harriet Otis (Goddard) Jackson, was born in Plymouth, Mass., January 31, 1821. He was fitted for college at the High School in Plymouth, and graduated at Harvard in 1841. He studied law in Baltimore and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1845. He died unmarried in Boston January 21, 1889.
WICKHAM HOFFMAN, son of Murray and Frances Amelia (Burrall) Hoffman, was born in the city of New York, April 6, 1821, and was fitted for college at private schools. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and after studying law was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 23, 1848, having previously spent a year or two in the business office of his uncle, L. M. Hoffman, in New York. During the war he held commis- sions as captain and major, and was appointed in February, 1862, on the staff of Brigadier-General Thomas Williams and in that capacity he served in the Hatteras campaign. He participated in the capture of New Orleans, in the battle of Baton Rouge and in the siege of Port Hudson. On returning to Washington with the brevet of colonel he was appointed in October, 1866, assistant secretary of legation at Paris under General John A. Dix, and in January, 1867, full secretary. He remained in Paris attached to the legation until January, 1875, when he was appointed secre- tary of legation to the court of St. James. Remaining in London two years he was transferred in May, 1877, as secretary of legation to St. Petersburg and remained there six years. In March, 1883, he was appointed Minister to Denmark, which post he held until 1885. He published in 1877 a volume entitled "Camp, Court and Siege: a narative of personal adventure during the wars, 1861-65 and 1870-71," and in 1883 " Leisure Hours in Russia." He married, May 14, 1844, Elizabeth Baylies, of Taunton, and resides in New York.
GEORGE WHITING HAY, son of Joseph and Bathsheba (Whiting) Hay, was born in Boston, June 29, 1820, and fitted for college at private schools. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Sidney Bartlett, and was admitted to the bar. He removed early to Ashburnham, Mass., and there lived until his death, August 24, 1879.
FRANKLIN HALL, son of Jesse and Sarah D. (Wiswall) Hall, was born in East Cam- bridge, Mass., August 8, 1822, and attended the Cambridge publie schools and the Framingham Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and graduated at the Har- vard Law School in 1844, and after a short time in the office of John C. Dodge in Bos-
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ton, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 6, 1845. He was a member of the Mas- sachusetts House of Representatives in 1854 and 1856, and a member of the Cam- bridge School Board in 1859 and 1860. He married Jane W. Morse, daughter of Sam- uel F. Morse, of Boston, October 15, 1863, and died in Dorchester August 6, 1868.
JAMES TRECOTHICK AUSTIN, son of Jonathan Loring and Hannah (Ivers) Austin, was born in Boston January 10, 1484, and was educated before entering college at the private school of Caleb Bingham, in the Boston Latin School and at Andover. He graduated in 1802 at Harvard, studied law with William Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1805. In 1807 he was appointed by Governor Sullivan attorney of the State for Suffolk county, and in 1809 town advocate. In 1811 he was reappointed attorney of the State, or county attorney. In 1816 he was appointed by President Madison to manage the business under the 41st article of the treaty of Ghent, and in 1820 he was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. He continued to act as county attorney until 1832, and in 1825-26 and 1831 he was a member of the State Senate. When the office of solicitor-general was abolished and the office of attorney-general created in 1832 he was appointed by Governor Lincoln to that office and held it until it was abolished in 1843. In 1831 he delivered the annual Phi Beta oration, and in 1835 re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from Harvard. He published the life of his father-in- law, Elbridge Gerry, two Fourth of July orations, one at Lexington in 1815 and one in Boston in 1829, and was a frequent contributor to the Christian Examiner, and the Law Reporter, and other magazines. He married, October 2, 1806, Catharine, daughter of Elbridge Gerry, of Boston, and died in Boston, where he had always re- sided, May 8, 1870.
IVERS JAMES AUSTIN, son of James Trecothick and Catharine (Gerry) Austin, was born in Boston, February 14, 1808, and graduated at West Point in 1828. He was brevetted second lieutenant of artillery, July 1, 1828, and resigned November 8, 1828. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the Common Pleas Court April 11, 1831, and in the Supreme Judicial Court April 3, 1833, having studied law in the office of his father. His military tastes led him into the volunteer militia and he passed through the sev- eral grades from adjutant to lieutenant-colonel. He was a member of the Massa- chusetts House of Representatives in 1838, a visitor at West Point in 1842, and he re- ceived from Harvard in 1852 the degree of Master of Arts. He published a memoir of Prof. Wm. W. Mather in 1883, and died at Newport, June 11, 1889.
ELBRIDGE GERRY AUSTIN, son of James Trecothick and Catharine (Gerry) Austin, was born in Boston, October 10, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1832 in the Common Pleas Court, and to the Middlesex bar in the Supreme Court in October, 1834. He practiced in Boston until 1850, when he removed to San Francisco. While on a visit to Massachusetts he died at Nahant, July 23, 1854.
JOHN DOWNES AUSTIN, son of William and Hepzibah (Downes) Austin, was born in Boston, February 10, 1827, and after living in Boston, Roxbury, Lowell, Dedham, Ravenwood, La., and Columbia, Tenn., he fitted for Harvard at the school of Stephen Minot Weld at Jamaica Plain, near Boston, and graduated in 1846. He studied law in the Harvard Law School, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1848, and in Boston in the
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office of Bradford Sumner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. In 1850 he removed to Taunton and was associated a short time in practice with Horatio Pratt. In 1853 he removed to New York, but returned to Boston in 1854 and continued in practice there until his death. On the 25th of February, 1861, he visited New York, and on the night of the 28th disappeared. On the 1st of March his hat was found in Bronx river, near Williamsbridge, and his shirt on the bank. On the 11th of April his body was found in a pond at White Plains. It may be inferred that his death occurred Feb- ruary 28, 1861.
GEORGE HOWARD FALL, son of George H. and Rebecca G. (Howard) Fall, was born in Malden, Mass., October 19, 1858. He attended the Malden High School and the Boston University, and studied law at the Boston University Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1887, and is, or has been, a lecturer in the Col- lege of Liberal Arts and in the Boston University Law School. He married, Septem- ber 17, 1884, Anna Christy, and lives in Malden.
ANNA CHRISTY FALL, daughter of William and Margaret Christy, was born in Chel- sea, Mass., April 23, 1855, and was educated at the Chelsea High School and the Bos- ton University. She graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1891, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. She married George Howard Fall, September 17, 1884, and lives in Malden, where she is now serving a three years term on the School Board.
CHARLES GERSHAM FALL, son of Gersham Lord and Rowena Powers Moody Fall, was born in Malden, Mass., June 22, 1845, and was fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 1868. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of W. A. Richardson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1869. He has been interested in the establishment of an arbitration board and the Employer's Liability Act, and has been engaged in various important suits for dam- ages against railroad companies. He has published two books of poems and " Fall on Employer's Liability." His residence is in Boston.
RUFUS G. FAIRBANKS, son of William and Mary P. (Hayward) Fairbanks, was born in Bellingham, Mass., July 11, 1859, and was educated at the Medway High School and the Wesleyan Academy. He studied law in the office of Thurston, Ripley & Company, of Providence, R. I., and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1884. He was admitted to the Norfolk county bar at Dedham in 1891, and prac- tices in Boston and West Medway. His residence is at Caryville.
JAMES HENRY FLINT, son of James and Almira Flint, was born in Middleton, Mass., June 25, 1852, and was fitted at Phillips Academy, Andover, for Harvard, where he graduated in 1876. He studied law in New York city with Stanley, Clark & Smith, and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He taught the High School in Marblehead, Mass., from 1876 to 1880, has been a member of the School Board of Weymouth, where he lives, and is a special justice of the East Norfolk District Court. He has published "Flint on Trusts and Trustees," and is engaged in preparing other works for the press. He married Abbie A. Pratt at Weymouth, November 19, 1889.
WILLIAM FRANKLIN GRIFFIN, son of James S. and Sarah E. Griffin, was born in Windsor, Me., June 13, 1838, and while attending school in Illinois he entered the army and served through the war. After his discharge he studied law at Bellows
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Falls, Vt., in the office of J. D. Bridgman and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1869. He married Abbie W. Spiller at Haver- hill, Mass., in 1872, and his home is in the West Roxbury District of Boston.
JOHN C. DODGE was born in Newcastle, Me., in 1810, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1834. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1842, and made a specialty of maritime law. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Rep- resentatives and a member of the Senate. He was president of the Board of Over- seers of Bowdoin and received from that college in 1875 a degree of LL.b. He married Lucy Sherman, of Edgecomb, Me., in 1843, and died at Cambridge, July 17, 1890.
EDWARD ST. LOE LIVERMORE, son of Samuel and Jane (Browne) Livermore, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., April 5, 1762. His father was chief justice of the Su- perior Court of New Hampshire. He was educated at Londonderry and Holder- ness, N. H., and studied law in Newburyport in the office of Theophilus Parsons. He began to practice in Concord, N. H., and afterwards removed to Portsmouth and was appointed United States district attorney and chief justice of the Superior Court. In 1802 he removed to Newburyport and was a member of Congress. In 1811 he removed to Boston, and in 1815 to Zanesville, Ohio, but returned to Boston and finally settled in Tewksbury, where he died September 15, 1832. He married in 1799 Sarah Crease, daughter of William Stackpole, of Boston.
EDWARD BROOKS, son of Peter C. Brooks, was born in Boston in 1793, and gradu- ated at Harvard in 1812. He studied law in Boston in the office of his uncle, Ben- jamin Gorham, and was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston in 1815 and to the Supreme Judicial Court December 23, 1818. He was a representative from Boston in 1834, '37, '42, and finally removed to Medford, where he died in 1878.
GORHAM BROOKS, son of Peter C. Brooks, was born in Medford, February 18, 1795, and fitted at Phillips Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 1814. He studied law in Northampton with Joseph Lyman, but the editor is not certain that he was ever admitted to the bar. He died in Medford, September 10, 1855. He married a daughter of R. D. Shepherd, of Shepherdstown, Va.
WILLIAM AUSTIN was born in Charlestown, Mass., March 2, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1798. He practiced in Suffolk county, but was probably admitted to the Middlesex bar. In 1805 he was wounded in a duel with James H. Elliott. He died in Charlestown, June 27, 1841.
JONATHAN WILLIAMS AUSTIN, son of Benjamin Austin, was born in Boston, April 18, 1751, and graduated at Harvard in 1769. He studied law with John Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 27, 1772. In 1773 he began practice in Chelms- ford. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, passing through the grades of captain, major and colonel, and died during a southern campaign in 1778.
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