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FRANCIS HILLIARD, son of William, was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Har- vard in 1823. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1830. He was judge of the Roxbury Police Court, judge of insolvency for Norfolk county, and the author of "Digest of Pickering's Reports," "Sales of Personal Property," "American Law of Real Property." "American Jurisprudence," "Law of Vendors and Purchasers," "Treatise on Torts," "Remedy for Torts," "New Trials," "Law of Injunctions," and "Hilliard on Mortgages." He died in 1878.
LEVI LINCOLN, son of Levi, was born in Worcester, October 25, 1782, and graduated at Harvard in 1802. He was admitted to the Worcester bar after studying with his father, and established himself in his native town. He was senator in 1812, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1822, lieutenant governor in 1823, judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1824, governor from 1825 to 1834, member of Congress from 1835 to 1841, collector of the port of Boston from 1841 to 1843, State senator again in 1844, and president of the Senate in 1845. He died in Worcester, May 29, 1868.
GEORGE W. SEARLE, son of Joseph and Mary Searle, was born in Salem, Mass., January 22, 1826, and was educated at the Boston schools and at Phillips Andover Academy. He studied law with Fuller & Andrew and with Richard Fletcher, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 11, 1847. He has written treatises with the following titles: "Of the Habeas Corpus," "Extraordinary Remedies, -Error, Cer- tiorari, Prohibition, Mandamus, Quo Warranto," "Legal Principles, their Exceptions and Limitations," " Patents," and " Hints on the Art of Advocacy." He has been a frequent contributor to the daily press as law critic and to the law reviews. He has been associated as counsel with Franklin Pierce and B. F. Butler in important crimi- nal trials. He married in December, 1849, Sarah F. Ball. He died in Boston, Octo- ber 18, 1892.
ALBERT LAMB LINCOLN, jr., son of Albert Lamb and Ann Eliza (Stoddard) Lincoln, was born in Boston, April 29, 1850, and after attending the public schools of Brook- line, graduated at Harvard in 1872. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 15, 1875. He has been a member of the Board of Selectmen since 1886 and its chairman since 1848, and was a special justice of the Brookline Police Court from 1882 until his resignation in 1889. He married Edith, daughter of Moses Williams, of Brookline, October 9, 1879, and still lives in Brookline.
ARTHUR LINCOLN, son of Solomon and Mehitable (Lincoln) Lincoln, was born in Hingham, Mass., February 16, 1842, and was fitted for college at private and public schools in Hingham, and graduated at Harvard in 1863. He graduated at the Har- vard Law School in 1865, and finishing his law studies in the office of Lathrop & Bishop, was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 16, 1865. He was a representative in
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1879-1880. He married Serafina, daughter of Joseph G. Loring, at Boston, Decem- ber 17, 1883, and has his residence in Hingham.
CHARLES SPRAGUE LINCOLN, son of Christopher and Elizabeth Lincoln, was born in Walpole, N. H., April 20, 1826, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1854. He has been selectman, overseer of the poor, member of the School Committee, trustee of the Public Library, and repre- sentative from Somerville, where he still lives, and married there Louise E. Plimp- ton, October 8, 1856.
CHARLES PLIMPTON LINCOLN, son of Charles Sprague and Louise E. (Plimpton) Lin- coln, was born in Somerville, Mass., May 7, 1859, and was educated at the Somerville High School. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889. He has been a member of the Common Council in Somerville, where he now lives. He married Mary Foote Lowe at Somerville, June 25, 1889.
GEORGE TAYLOR LINCOLN, son of George C. and Anna M. Lincoln, was born at Westboro, Mass., June 3, 1858, and was educated at the North Brookfield high and common schools. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1884. He is the Massachusetts editor of the Northeastern Reporter, and has been engaged on the "Complete Digest." He married Hattie E. Wilson at West Newton, in June, 1886, and lives in West Newton (Newton).
THEODORE LYMAN was born in Boston, February 19, 1792, and graduated at Har- vard in 1810. He studied law, but the editor is not certain as to his admission to the bar. He was mayor of Boston from 1832 to 1835, and died July 17, 1849.
WILLIAM POWELL MASON, son of Jonathan and Susannah (Powell) Mason, was born in Boston, December 9, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston in September, 1814, and to the Supreme Judi- cial Court in December, 1816. He married Hannah, daughter of Daniel Dennison Rogers, October 24, 1831, and died in Boston, December 4, 1867.
JOHN WINGATE THORNTON was born in Saco, Me., August 12, 1818, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13, 1840, and lived and practiced in Boston until his death, June 6, 1878. He was a dis- tinguished antiquary, one of the founders of the N. E. Historic Genealogical So- ciety, a vice-president of the American Statistical Society, and of the Prince Publica- tion Society. His historical papers and reviews and essays were too numerous to mention.
JOHN OSBORNE SARGENT was born in Gloucester in 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1834, and remained in Bos- ton until 1837, when he went to New York and became associate editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer. During his residence in Boston he was connected with the Boston Atlas, and in 1835 and 1836 was representative. Subsequently he edited the Republic newspaper in Washington, and practiced law in Washington and New York until his death in 1891.
THOMAS OLIVER SELFRIDGE, born probably in Boston about 1777, graduated at Harvard in 1797 and died in 1816. He studied law in Boston with Robert Treat
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Paine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1800. In 1806, as the result of a polit- ical quarrel, he shot Charles Austin in State street, Boston, and was tried for mur- der and acquitted. Samuel Dexter defended him and made one of those powerful and eloquent appeals to the jury for which he was distinguished. He was the father of Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver Selfridge of the United States navy.
MATTHEW HALE SMITH, son of Rev. Elias Smith, and well known to the last genera- tion as a correspondent of the Boston Journal under the name of " Burleigh," studied divinity and was successively a Universalist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Bap- tist. He was the author of many theological and other works, and finally studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1850.
FREDERICK WILLIAM SAWYER was born at Saco, Me., April 22, 1810, and in 1838 re- moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1840, and prac- ticed law until his death, September 6, 1875. He published " The Merchant's and Shipmaster's Guide," " Plea for Amusements," and was a frequent contributor to the daily press.
JONATHAN SEWALL, son of Jonathan, was born in Boston, August 24, 1728, and graduated at Harvard in 1748. He was appointed attorney-general of Massachusetts in 1767, and in the next year was made judge of the Nova Scotia Admiralty Court. In 1775 as a loyalist he went to England, and in 1788 settled in St. John, N. B., where he held the position of admiralty judge until his death in that place, Septem- ber 26, 1796.
BENJAMIN PRATT was born in Cohasset, Mass., March 13, 1710, and graduated at Harvard in 1737. He studied law with Robert Auchmuty and married his daughter. He was a representative from Boston from 1757 to 1759 and was one of the few eminent lawyers in Boston of that day. He was appointed in 1761 chief justice of New York, and died January 5, 1763.
GEORGE D. NOYES, son of Rev. George R. and Eliza (Buttrick) Noyes, was born in Brookfield, Mass., June 3, 1831, and graduated at Harvard in 1851. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, 1855. He married Susan P., daughter of John Wright, of Lowell, June 19, 1872, and lives in Brookline.
PATRICK O'LOUGHLIN, son of Patrick and Catherine O'Loughlin, was born in En- nistymore, County Clare, Ireland, July 16, 1849, and was educated in Ireland in the Christian Brothers' Schools. He came to Boston June 5, 1864, and finished his edu- cation in the Boston public schools. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Sumner Albee, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, May 20, 1878. He is now preparing a work on the Law of Fraternal, Social and Literary Societies. He married Catherine F. Kearns at Boston, June 5, 1884, and lives in Brookline.
JAMES MONROE OLMSTEAD, son of John W. and Mary (Livingston) Olmstead, was born in Framingham, Mass., February 6, 1852, and fitting for college at the Roxbury Latin School graduated at Harvard in 1873. He afterwards attended the University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1877, and finishing his law studies with Jewell, Field & Shepard, was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 7, 1877. He was a representative from Ward
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Eleven in Boston in 1891 and 1892. The special cases in which he has been engaged are Schmauz vs. Goos, 132 Mass., 141, Batchelder vs. Batchelder, 139 Mass., 1, and Fogg vs. Millis, 188 Mass., 443. He was instrumental in the introduction of the Australian ballot into the caucus system in Boston. He married Annie M. Batchel- der in Boston, May 29, 1879, and lives in Boston.
GEORGE READ NUTTER, son of Thomas F. and Adelaide R. Nutter, was born in Boston, August 9, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. He resides in Boston.
JOHN ADAMS, son of John and Susanna (Boylston) Adams, was born in Braintree, Mass., October 31, 1735, and graduated at Harvard in 1755. He studied law in Wor- cester and began practice in Boston in 1758, while retaining a residence in Braintree. He moved to Boston in 1768 and was soon after made a barrister. In 1770 he was one of the counsel defending Captain Preston and others for the Boston massacre, and in the same year was chosen representative. He was a delegate to the Congress of 1714 and 1775, and a member of the Provincial Congress. He was president of the Board of War in 1776-77, and in 1777 was appointed commissioner to France. He was appointed by Congress minister to treat with Great Britain for peace in 1779 and in 1980 was sent to Holland to negotiate a loan. With Franklin and Jay he negotiated a treaty of commerce with Great Britain and in 1785 was sent minister to the Court of St. James. In 1788 he was chosen vice-president of the United States and in 1796 president. In 1820 he was a delegate to the State Convention, and died at Quincy, Mass., July 4, 1826. He married in 1764 Abigail Smith, of Weymouth.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, son of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams, was born in Brain- tree, Mass., July 11, 1767. At eleven years of age (in 1778) he went with his father to France and returned in 1779, having attended school in France during his absence. He returned to France in 1719 and continued his studies there and at Amsterdam and in the Leyden University. In 1781 at the age of fourteen he went with Francis Dana, minister to Russia, as his secretary, and after several years at St. Petersburg and Stockholm, Copenhagen and Hamburg, returned to America in 1985. He studied law with Theophilus Parsons, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791. In 1794 he was appointed minister to Holland, and in 1796 minister to Portugal. In 1797 he was appointed minister to Prussia, but was recalled on the election of Jeffer- son and resumed practice in Boston. In 1802 he was chosen a member of the State Senate, and in 1803 United States senator. In 1806 he was appointed professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres at Harvard, and in 1809 he was appointed minister to Rus- sia. In 1815 he was appointed minister to England, and under President Monroe made secretary of state. In 1824 he was chosen president and served one term. In 1831 he was chosen by the anti-Masonic party member of Congress and he remained in Congress until his death, which occurred in the Capitol at Washington February 23, 1848. He married, July 27, 1797, Louisa, daughter of Joshua Johnson, of Mary- land, American consul at London.
NATHANIEL PEASLEE SARGEANT, son of Rev. Christopher Sargeant, was born in Methuen, November 2, 1731, and graduated at Harvard in 1750. He practiced law in Haverhill, was a delegate to Provincial Congress in 1775, and in 1775 was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, being promoted in 1790 to chief justice, and dying in October, 1791, at Haverhill.
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THEOPHILUS PARSONS, son of Rev. Moses Parsons, was born in Newbury, Mass., February 24, 1750, and graduated at Harvard in 1769. He was admitted to the bar in Portland in 1774, and after a practice of a year or two established himself in New- buryport in 1777. He removed to Boston in 1800 and was made chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1806, holding his seat until his death at Boston, October 30, 1813. Ile married a daughter of Benjamin Greenleaf.
THEOPHILUS PARSONS, jr., son of Theophilus, was born in Newburyport, May 17, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1815. He studied law with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 16, 1819, beginning practice in Taunton but soon settling in Boston. He was largely engaged in literary work, including contributions to reviews and the press and several law books, among which are "Law of Contracts," " Elements of Mercantile Law," " Laws of Business for Business Men," " Maritime Law," "Notes and Bills of Exchange," "Law of Partnership," " Marine Insurance and General Average," and "Shipping and Admiralty." He was also the author of a memoir of his father and several volumes of essays. He was appointed in 1847 Dane professor of law in the Harvard Law School, a position which he held until his death, which occurred in Cambridge, January 26, 1882.
SAMUEL SEWALL was born in Boston, December 11, 1757, and graduated at Harvard in 1776. He settled in Marblehead, was at one time representative, was a member of Congress from 1797 to 1800, and made judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1800. He was made chief justice in 1813 and served until his death at Wiscasset, Me., June 8, 1814.
ISAAC PARKER Was descended from John, who came from Biddeford, England, to Saco, Me., and in 1650 bought the island in the Kennebec River, called Parker's Island, and there died in 1661. He was born in Boston, June 17, 1768, and graduated at Harvard in 1786. He studied law in Boston with William Tudor, and was admit- ted to the Suffolk bar in 1789. He settled in Castine, Me., was representative in 1791-93-94-95, member of Congress from 1797 to 1799, and United States marshal from 1797 to 1801. He removed to Portland, was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in January, 1806, and made chief justice in 1814, serv- ing until his death, May 26, 1830. He was eleven years trustee of Bowdoin College, twenty years an overseer of Harvard, and Royal professor of law at the Harvard Law School from 1816 to 1827. He received a degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1814. He married Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Hall, of Medford.
JAMES W. O'BRIEN was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 1, 1846, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1867. He was a member of the Charlestown City Council in 1870-71, and trustee of the Public Library. He practiced in Charlestown until its an- nexation to Boston in 1874, when he removed to Boston proper.
LEMUEL SHAW, son of Oakes and Susannah (Hayward) Shaw, was born in Barn- stable, Mass., January 9, 1781. His father, born in Bridgewater, Mass., June 10, 1736, was ordained over the First Church in Barnstable, October 1, 1760, and died February 11, 1807, and his mother was a native of Braintree. He was fitted for col-' lege by his father and by Rev. Wm. Salisbury, of Braintree, and graduated at Har. vard in 1800. After leaving college he was usher in the Franklin (Brimmer) School under Dr. Asa Bullard, principal, and assistant editor of the Boston Gazette. In 1801 he entered the law office of David Everett in Boston, and after a regular course
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of study in Boston and Amherst, N. H., was admitted to the bar in Hopkinton, N. H., in September, 1804. He was afterwards admitted to the Massachusetts bar at Plymouth in November, 1804, and established himself at Boston. He was a repre- sentative in 1811-12-13-14-15, a member of the Convention of 1820, a Senator in 1821-22 and 1828-29, and wrote the act incorporating the city of Boston with the ex- ception of the section relating to public theatres and exhibitions, and the section establishing the Police Court of the city of Boston, which were drafted by William Sullivan. He was a member of the Boston Library Society, the Humane Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians in North America, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences, a mem- ber of the Board of Overseers of Harvard twelve years, and one of the corporation of Harvard twenty-seven years. On the 23d of August, 1830, he was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court and resigned August 31, 1860. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1831 and from Brown in 1850, and died in Bos- ton, March 30, 1861. He married first Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Knapp, of Boston, January 6, 1818, and second Hope, daughter of Dr. Samuel Savage, of Barn- stable, in August, 1827.
REUBEN ATWATER CHAPMAN was the son of a farmer and born in Russell, Mass., September 20, 1801. At first clerk in a store in Blanford, he studied law there and after admission to the bar practiced successively in Westfield, Monson, Ware, and Springfield, being in the last place a partner with George Ashmun. He was ap- pointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1860, and chief justice in 1868, hold- ing his seat until his death, which occurred in Fluellen, Switzerland, June 28, 1873. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Williams in 1836, and Amherst in 1841, and the degree of LL.D. from Amherst in 1861, and Harvard in 1864.
HORACE GRAY, son of Horace, was born in Boston in 1828, and graduated at Har- vard in 1845, and from the Harvard Law School in 1849. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 14, 1851. In 1854 he was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, and his reports are contained in sixteen volumes, cover- ing the period from the Suffolk and Nantucket term of 1854 to the Suffolk term of November, 1860. In 1864 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and in 1873 chief justice. In 1882 he was made associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and is still on the bench.
THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN was born in Walpole, N. H., April 22, 1771, and grad- uated at Dartmouth in 1796. He studied law, and after admission to the bar wrote a poem, entitled " Jonathan's Courtship," which attracted some attention. In London, in 1803, he published another poem "Terrible Tractoration," and in Boston, in 1806, published "Democracy Unveiled." In 1812 he practiced law at Bellows Falls, and in 1815 in Brattleboro, where he edited the Intelligencer. In 1822 he came to Bos- ton and published the New England Farmer until his death, November 11, 1837.
WILLIAM REED was a Boston man, and was deputy judge of admiralty in 1766. He was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1770, and held that office untit the Revolution. He was a barrister in 1768. In 1725 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature and was superseded in 1776. He died in 1780.
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JEDEDIAH FOSTER was born in Andover, October 10, 1726, and graduated at Har- vard in 1744. He settled in Brookfield, and was a delegate to the Provincial Con- gress in 1774-5. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature and served till his death, October 17, 1779.
INCREASE SUMNER, son of Increase, a farmer in Roxbury, was born in that town No- vember 27, 1746, and graduated at Harvard in 1767. After graduation he taught school, and after studying law in Boston with Samuel Quincy was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1770, and settled in Roxbury. He was representative from 1776 to 1780, senator from 1780 to 1782, and in 1782 was appointed judge of the Supreme Ju- dicial Court, holding the seat until he was chosen governor in 1797, and died in office, June 7, 1799. He married, September 30, 1779, a daughter of William Hyslop, of Brookline, Mass.
NATHAN CUSHING was born in Scituate, September 24, 1742, and graduated at Har- vard in 1763. He was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1790 and resigned in 1800. He died at Scituate, November 2, 1812.
THOMAS DAWES, son of Col. Thomas, was born in Boston, July 8, 1758, and grad- uated at Harvard in 1777. He studied law in the office of John Lowell in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1780. He was appointed in 1790 judge of probate for Suffolk county and in 1792 judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. He re- mained on the bench till his resignation in 1802, when he was again appointed judge of probate and held the office until his death, July 22, 1825. He was also appointed in 1802 judge of the Municipal Court in the town of Boston to succeed George Rich- ards Minot, who was appointed on the establishment of the court in 1800. He held this office until he was succeeded on his resignation by Josiah Quincy, who was ap- pointed January 16, 1822.
THEOPHILUS BRADBURY was born in Newbury, Mass., November 13, 1739, and grad- uated at Harvard in 1757. He taught school in Falmouth, now Portland, and after studying law established himself in Falmouth, where he remained until 1779, when he removed to Newbury. He was a representative and senator, and also a member of Congress from 1795 to 1797, and judge of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1797 to 1803. He died at Newbury, September 6, 1803.
SIMEON STRONG Was born in Northampton, March 6, 1736, and graduated at Yale College in 1756. He was admitted to the bar in 1761. He was representative from 1767 to 1769, senator in 1793, and in 1801 was appointed judge of the Supreme Ju- dicial Court, remaining on the bench until his death at Amherst, December 14, 1805.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, son of Benjamin, was born in Hartford, Conn., in May, 1746, and graduated at Yale in 1765. In April, 1766, he was admitted to the bar and prac- ticed in Great Barrington and Sheffield. In the Revolution he was on the staff of Gen. John Thomas in the expedition to Canada. He was a representative from Shef- field, delegate to the Continental Congress, and in 1788 to 1797 a member of Con- gress. He was speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1788-9, United States senator from 1796 to 1799, and in 1802 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, serving until his death, which occurred in Boston, June 24, 1813.
DANIEL DEWEY was born in Sheffield, Mass., January 29, 1766. He studied law with Theodore Sedgwick, and settled in Williamstown in 1787; was a member of the
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Executive Council, member of Congress in 1813-14, and appointed judge of the Su- preme Judicial Court in 1814, serving till his death, May 26, 1815.
SAMUEL PUTNAM was born in Danvers, Mass., April 13, 1768, and graduated at Har- vard in 1787. After admission to the bar he began practice in Salem in 1790. He was State senator in 1808-9-13-14, representative in 1812, and a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1814 to 1842. He died at Somerville, July 3, 1853.
LEON MARTIN ABBOTT, son of Joseph B. and Lydia C. Abbott, born in Richmond, N. H., August 28, 1867, was educated at the High School in Keene, N. H., and grad- uated at Harvard. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. Residence at Keene, N. H.
SAMUEL APPLETON BROWNE ABBOTT, son of Josiah Gardner and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was born in Lowell, March 6, 1846. He graduated at Harvard in 1866, and studied law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1868, and to the United States Supreme Court in 1875. He married at Providence, R. 1., October 15, 1873, Abby Frances Woods. Residence in Boston.
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